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IK Multimedia is a computer music technology company that offers a diverse range of software and hardware

Hardware

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production tools for musicians. Founded in Modena

Modena

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, Italy

Italy

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in 1996, it now operates worldwide with offices in Italy

Italy

, the US and the UK. With millions of users and installations worldwide, IK Multimedia is a leading company that has influenced the past and present decade of music making technology. IK Multimedia's product range includes amps & effects for guitar/bass, guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

& bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

hardware, mix/mastering software, sound workstations, virtual instruments and more recently taking these exact same high quality sounds and fx you expect from IK Multimedia to iOS.

1998-1999

IK released its first product GrooveMaker, a loop-remixing software package, in 1998. 1999 saw the release of T-RackS, an analog-modelled desktop mastering solution.

2000-2004

SampleTank, a multi-timbral, sample-based virtual instrument workstation plug-in, was released in 2001.
AmpliTube, a guitar amp and fx plug-in modelling the entire rig for all platforms, is released in 2002. A new version of SampleTank was released, including a resampling engine enabling the user to independently modify the time/pitch/formant parameters of the sound samples.

2005-2008

AmpliTube 2 is released in 2005, with several enhancements to the previous version, both in terms of modeling methods and the number of modeled amps and effects. AmpliTube 2 was the basis for subsequent products, such as Ampeg SVX modelling Ampeg

Ampeg

Ampeg is primarily a musical instrument amplifier manufacturer headquartered in Woodinville, Washington, though they also manufacture guitars to a small extent...

bass amplifiers, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

modeling vintage amps and FX pedals used by the famous guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

and AmpliTube Metal dedicated entirely to heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

gear.
Looking for a way to expand into the hardware market, IK releases StealthPlug, a USB adapter for guitar/bass, in 2006. ARC System, the first acoustic room correction system in a plug-in, follows in 2007 and StompIO, a pedal board capable of controlling the full range of the "Powered by AmpliTube" products, in 2008. X-GEAR followed as the first expandable Guitar/Bass fx system and a preview to the future Custom Shop now found in AmpliTube.

2009

AmpliTube Fender, the first official Fender

Fender

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, commonly referred to as simply Fender, of Scottsdale, Arizona is a manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers, such as solid-body electric guitars, including the Stratocaster and the Telecaster...

licensed and approved software simulation of its amps and FX was released. StealthPedal, the first interface/controller in a wah stompbox enclosure with full integration with the AmpliTube range of products for live and real time use.

2010

iRig was the first guitar/bass interface and AmpliTube for iPhone/iPod Touch the first amp/fx system for iOS quickly exceeding a million downloads. It was soon followed by AmpliTube for iPad, AmpliTube Fender for iPhone/iPod Touch and AmpliTube Fender iPad.

2011

iRig Mic started 2011 off as the first handheld microphone

Microphone

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

for iOS

IOS

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devices followed with VocaLive, the first professional vocalist app for iOS

IOS

iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

. AmpliTube Custom Shop, the first tone shop integrated into a plug-in, also launched to world wide acclaim. The Custom Shop allowed people the opportunity to buy new gear models from inside of AmpliTube, À la carte.

Guitar

Guitar/Bass controllers and interfaces

Mix/Mastering

Sound workstations & Virtual Instruments

SampleTank FREE
SampleTank 2 L
SampleTank 2.5 XL
SampleMoog
SampleTron
Sonik Synth 2 (Released on 20 November 2004)
Miroslav Philharmonik (based on the sounds of Miroslav Vitous
Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...

orchestral and vocal samples)
Miroslav Philharmonik Classik Edition
NOTION SLE for Miroslav Philharmonik
Xpansion Tank 2 for SampleTank

iOS

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