(Editor's Note: Positive Grid informed us all these issues are now fixed!) Before we go into them, Positive Grid have assured us these are “on their task list,” and “will be coming soon.” However, as we’re reviewing this first version of BIAS FX Desktop, we feel the need to highlight these regardless. DAW Integrationīias FX Desktop has a few big drawbacks at the time of writing this review when it comes to DAW integration. Unfortunately the Wah and Whammy pedal are rendered useless due to the fact you can’t move them with anything other than a mouse. The quality of the effects are pretty darn good and I found myself making some highly useable sounds. This is a great feature and very well integrated into the plugin. You can of course share your own creations too. Once you're logged in to your account via the plugin you have access to literally hundreds of user presets uploaded to the Cloud. There is also the Cloud feature which is great. There are also a few simple ‘sample’ presets as starting points. Preset Management And Cloudīias FX comes with a pretty good selection of presets to get you started covering a wide range of styles. (Editor's Note: Positive Grid informed us this is now fixed!). That would be expected behavior right? Annoyingly Bias FX hasn't done this in the first release and instead stereo-izes (I made that word up) the amp? It limits your choice of a mono chorus effect into an amp to one pedal (the yellow one) which has a width control that you can turn to zero and make mono. You’d think that if you only had a single amp (mono) that any ‘stereo’ pedal that was fed into it should be summed to mono. One curious thing is how Bias FX deals with its stereo effect models in front of a mono amp. You build a rig by dragging and dropping from a list of effects (grouped into type like Comp, Drive, Mod, etc.) into your signal path.
These can then be fed into post amp effects like studio compressors, reverbs, etc.
This can consist of any combination of pedals that can feed not one but two amp models. The top half of Bias FX is where you build your rig. The ‘Pro’ version contains 32 amps compared to 12 in the ‘Desktop’ version. You can however still tweak the front panel and Cabs/Mics, etc. So what you get are essentially some preset amps to play with. The main difference between Bias FX and Bias (besides the effects) is you can’t tweak the amps complex internal settings like you can in Bias Desktop. This integrates the amp models of Bias (which are top notch) and combines them with models of many popular guitar stomp boxes and studio effects into one plugin. This allowed you to get all the amp goodness of Bias inside your DAW.īias FX is a new take on Positive Grids other popular iOS app JamUp.
#Positive grid bias desktop vs professional software
A little while back Positive Grid ported their Bias amp modeling software from iOS to a desktop version.
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