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  • Page 1 AmpliTube TONEX Pedal USER MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Table of Contents Contents TONEX Ecosystem But what’s a TONE MODEL? What if I have no amplifier to capture? PRESETs TONEX Pedal Overview Features Front panel Sub display labeling and color coding AMP label CAB label ALT label...
  • Page 3 AmpliTube TONEX Pedal External control setup Creating macros: expression pedal & single switch Expression pedal calibration Double switch Interface mode ASIO Drivers MIDI specifications TONEX Librarian Included applications System requirements TONEX for Mac/PC AmpliTube 5 TONEX Pedal as audio interface...

  • Page 4: Tonex Ecosystem

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal TONEX Ecosystem Welcome to TONEX, a new ecosystem aimed at capturing, playing and sharing the best-sounding amplifiers on earth. This ecosystem comprises these parts: • TONEX Pedal: a guitar and bass stomp box to play TONE MODELs live.

  • Page 5: But What's A Tone Model

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal But what’s a TONE MODEL? A TONE MODEL is the capture of a real guitar or bass rig with all its nuances and non-linearities. It aims to provide the same sound characteristics inside a computer so you no longer need the real rig itself for performing and recording.
  • Page 6 AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Inside a PRESET, a TONE MODEL is divided in two parts: AMP and CAB. Doing so lets us swap any AMP/CAB module with another TONE MODEL’s AMP/CAB module to create new combinations of rigs. If a STOMP is paired with an AMP creating a STOMP+AMP or a STOMP+AMP+CAB TONE MODEL, the STOMP part is tied to the AMP and when swapping the AMP part, the STOMP follows as well.

  • Page 7: Tonex Pedal Overview

    TONEX Pedal Overview Machine Modeling amp and distortion pedal. TONEX Pedal is the ultimate amp and distortion stompbox pedal, using IK’s breakthrough AI Machine Modeling technology (AIMM™). Play on stage with hundreds of included TONE MODEL rigs, your own generated ones, or an unlimited number from a community of users.

  • Page 8: Front Panel

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Front panel 1. MODEL encoder Press and rotate to change the TONE MODEL on the current PRESET. Press to select inside menus. Hold to access GLOBAL and PRESET SETUPs. 2. Main display The main display is your reference when moving among TONE MODELs, PRESETs, editing parameters and browsing inside menus.

  • Page 9: Sub Display Labeling And Color Coding

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Press A+B to move a bank down. Press B+C to move a bank up. Press A+C to display current bank. Footswitches by default work at release, disable BANK NAV in the GLOBAL SETUP to make them work at push.

  • Page 10: Back Panel

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Back panel 1. INPUT mono/unbalanced Plug your instrument here. 2. OUTPUT stereo/unbalanced Use these outputs to connect the pedal to an amplifier, a PA system or your monitors if you are using TONEX Pedal as an audio interface.

  • Page 11: Browse Tone Models

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Browse TONE MODELs To browse TONE MODELs inside the selected PRESET, use the MODEL encoder: 1. Press the MODEL encoder to open the TONE MODEL menu. 2. Rotate the MODEL encoder to browse TONE MODELs (combinations of stomps/amps and cabs).

  • Page 12: Import Custom Ir

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal For further TONE MODEL information related to the real captured gear and preset management, you can use the companion app TONEX Librarian. If you need to go back when browsing, you can always press the PRESET encoder.

  • Page 13: Banks & Presets

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal BANKs & PRESETs PRESETs are the container of the complete signal chain that consists of: • Noise Gate • Compressor • TONE MODEL • Tone EQ • Reverb PRESETs are organized in BANKs; each BANK has three slots (A, B and C).

  • Page 14: Quick Save

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Quick save To quickly save a PRESET with the same name in the same location, press the MODEL and PRESET encoders simultaneously. The display shows SAVED to confirm the saved PRESET. BANKs & PRESETs...

  • Page 15: Signal Flow

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Signal Flow The following flow chart shows the DSP audio signal flow. Signal Flow...

  • Page 16: Parameters

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Parameters Main parameters The main parameters are accessible using the main 5 knobs, these are: • GAIN (0 – 10) Adjusts the TONE MODEL’s input gain. Use this parameter to saturate more or less your TONE MODEL.
  • Page 17 AmpliTube TONEX Pedal • NG REL (20 ms – 500 ms) Noise-gate’s release Adjusts the noise-gate’s release. • NG DPTH (-20 dB – -100 dB) Noise-gate’s depth Adjusts the noise-gate’s reduction depth. • COMP (ON – OFF) Compressor on/off Activates or deactivates the compressor.

  • Page 18: Setup

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Setup Preset setup 1. EXT. CTRL – External control on/off: enables/disables the external pedal. 2. EXT.LEARN – External control learn: sets/removes a parameter’s assignment to the control pedal. 3. AMP – Amp active/bypass: enables/bypasses the TONE MODEL’s amp in the selected PRESET.
  • Page 19 AmpliTube TONEX Pedal ∙ THRU: MIDI signals arriving to the TONEX’s MIDI inputs are sent to TONEX’s MIDI outputs (both USB and MIDI connector). ∙ MERGE: MIDI arriving to the TONEX MIDI inputs, and the MIDI signals generated by TONEX itself are merged and sent to the TONEX’s MIDI outputs (both USB and MIDI connector).

  • Page 20: External Control Setup

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal External control setup Creating macros: expression pedal & single switch An expression pedal and a single switch pedal can be assigned to a parameter or to various parameters to create macros. A macro is an ensemble of parameters, which can be modulated simultaneously via the external control.

  • Page 21: Expression Pedal Calibration

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal The only difference between a single switch or an expression pedal is that with the first one changing from position A to position B is an instant transition (pressing the footswitch), while the second one is a smooth transition (moving the expression pedal).

  • Page 22: Interface Mode

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Interface mode Using TONEX Pedal’s INTERFACE MODE you can hook it up to your computer and a monitoring system to jam, record and playback music directly from TONEX Pedal. You can activate the INTERFACE MODE from the GLOBAL SETUP .

  • Page 23: Asio Drivers

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal ASIO Drivers To use TONEX Pedal as an audio interface on Windows systems please install the ASIO drivers that you can find in your User Area on ikmultimedia.com. MIDI specifications PRESETs are arranged in a grid of 50 numbered banks (00-49) with 3 PRESETs each (A, B and C) for a total of 150 PRESETs.
  • Page 24 AmpliTube TONEX Pedal ALTERNATIVE PARAMETERS REVERB COMPRESSOR NOISE-GATE PRESENCE #106 DEPTH #107 ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS MODEL.VOL #103 NOISE GT NG REL NG DPTH COMP CMP GAIN CMP ATK CMP PATC BASS FRQ MID Q MID FRQ TRBL FRQ EQ PATCH #104...

  • Page 25: Tonex Librarian

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal TONEX Librarian Use the TONEX Librarian inside TONEX for Mac/PC to manage and transfer PRESETs from your computer to the pedal and vice-versa. 1. Press the Librarian tab in the TONEX app to open the Librarian section.

  • Page 26: Included Applications

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal Included applications By registering TONEX Pedal on ikregister.com using the included serial number in the registration card you’ll get the following applications. TONEX MAX for Mac/PC (Player, Modeler and Librarian) Player Modeler Librarian AmpliTube 5 Included applications...

  • Page 27: System Requirements

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal System requirements TONEX for Mac/PC TONEX for Mac/PC is a 64-bit application and requires a 64-bit CPU and Operating System. Mac® • Intel: Intel® Core™ i3 (Core i5 recommended for Modeler), macOS® 10.15 (macOS® 11 Big Sur required for Modeler), 4 GB of RAM, 6 GB of hard drive space • Apple Silicon: Apple M1, macOS®...

  • Page 28: Tonex Pedal As Audio Interface

    AmpliTube TONEX Pedal TONEX Pedal as audio interface To use TONEX as audio interface on Windows devices, Windows® 10 or later is required. System requirements...

  • Page 29: Support

    • View your Orders. • Share your AmpliTube PRESETs. • Download firmware and hardware drivers. • Access the IK Forum and more. To access the User Area go to: www.ikmultimedia.com/userarea To access your User Area, please login with your User Name and Password created upon registration and emailed to your registered email address.
  • Page 30 All other product names and images, trademarks and artists names are the property of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with IK Multimedia. Product names are used solely for the purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during IK Multimedia’s sound model development and for describing certain types of tones produced with IK Multimedia’s digital modeling technology.

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