So many great software modelers out there now. In no particular order:
Laptop hardware is reasonably stable and with great, inexpensive digital audio interfaces, I can see these being used live. Many guitarists have refused to do this, but I think it's because of their inexperience with laptops and knowing how to optimize it for music audio. Synth/EM bands have been using laptops and SW for years with no issues. You do have to get a good interface so you get low latencies for playing live. I have heard of people saying they cannot live with latencies of a 10 milliseconds, but this is ridiculous as this is equivalent of being 10ft from their speaker cab. You can definitely play live with a few milliseconds delay!
Here's a good article:
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/...nterface#7
Guitars: Electric guitarists generally play a few feet from their stacks, and since the speed of sound in air is roughly a thousand feet per second, each millisecond of delay is equivalent to listening to the sound from a point one foot further away. So if you can play an electric guitar 12 feet from your amp, you can easily cope with a 12ms latency.
- Native Instruments Guitar Rig
- IK Multimedia Amplitube
- Scuffham S-Gear
- Overloud THU
- Line6 Helix Native
- Positive Grid Bias FX
- Mercuriall
- Waves PRS Supermodels
Laptop hardware is reasonably stable and with great, inexpensive digital audio interfaces, I can see these being used live. Many guitarists have refused to do this, but I think it's because of their inexperience with laptops and knowing how to optimize it for music audio. Synth/EM bands have been using laptops and SW for years with no issues. You do have to get a good interface so you get low latencies for playing live. I have heard of people saying they cannot live with latencies of a 10 milliseconds, but this is ridiculous as this is equivalent of being 10ft from their speaker cab. You can definitely play live with a few milliseconds delay!
Here's a good article:
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/...nterface#7
Guitars: Electric guitarists generally play a few feet from their stacks, and since the speed of sound in air is roughly a thousand feet per second, each millisecond of delay is equivalent to listening to the sound from a point one foot further away. So if you can play an electric guitar 12 feet from your amp, you can easily cope with a 12ms latency.
