Positive Grid BIAS Amp II Standard

This amazingly authentic guitar amp modeler puts thousands of classic tones at your fingertips.

What it is:
Meticulous recreation of historic amps, tubes, transformers, cabinets, and microphones.

How we use it:
Color preexisting guitar tracks, record live, or even jam with Bias Amp Desktop as a standalone app. For the adventurous, create your own sound by running vocals, drums, etc. through a variety of iconic guitar rigs. 

Why it's cool:
Amp Match Technology allows you to match the tone of an incoming isolated guitar track. NEW CONCEPT ON TONE

BIAS Desktop is the world’s most accurate, thorough and versatile guitar-amp modeler and designer. Its advanced amp-modeling engine captures the warmth and feel of real tube amps in every aspect, component by component.

BIAS is fully customizable, easily create amp models by swapping out the tubes, preamp, transformer, tone stacks, cab and mic to create your own custom amps and unique signature sound.

AMP MATCH YOUR TUBE AMPS

Accurately capture the sound of all your favorite tube amps.

Amp Match Technology utilizes a collection of underlying technologies to analyze and compare your currently selected BIAS amp model and the sound of a target tube amplifier, its accompanying cabinet and the microphone used to capture its sound. It then executes the tonal compensation and enhancements needed to make your amp model’s sound accurately match that of the target tube amplifier.

INSANE CUSTOMIZATION

Experience insane possibilities and seamless real time exploration that you never imagined before.

Compatibility
Mac: OS X 10.10/10.11 macOS 10.12/10.13/10.14, Core i5 Windows: Windows 7, 8 and 10, Intel Core i5 or equivalent, 4GB RAM
Hosts:

• Ableton Live - 8.0 or above.
• Avid Pro Tools - 10 or above.
• Ardour - 3.0 or above.
• Apple Logic Pro - 9.0 or above.
• Apple GarageBand - 6.0.5, 10.0 or above.
• Bitwig Studio - 1.0 and above.
• Cakewalk Sonar - X2 or above.
• Cockos Reaper - 3.4 or above.
• Harrison Mixbus - 2.0 or above.
• Steinberg Nuendo - 4.3 or above.
• Steinberg Cubase - 5.0 or above.
• MuTools MuLab - 6.0 or above.
• PreSonus Studio One - Producer/Professional 2 or above.

Installation Instructions
To Register:

1. Create a Tone Cloud account at https://store.positivegrid.com/
2. Go to https://store.positivegrid.com/redeem
   
3. Enter your redeem code then press the Redeem button with your Tone Cloud account logged in.
   
4. If the redeem is successful, the webpage will redirect to the installer download page. If you have downloaded and installed the latest version of BIAS Amp Desktop, please ignore the download page.
   
5. Open Bias Amp Desktop, press the Upgrade button and log in with your Tone Cloud account to activate the license.

General Instructions:

• We auto-detect your computer operating system, so just click the download button above.
• Find the downloaded plugin (it's in your computer's download folder, or wherever you've chosen to save it) and double click the installer.
• A plugin installer window will open. Simply go through the installation process.
• We will also send you an email with a link to re-download in case you need it.

How to use installed plugins in Ableton Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2VjFjUhlR4

1. If Ableton Live is closed, open it and skip to #5.
2. If Ableton Live is already open, go to Preferences.
3. Go to Files & Folder.
4. Click "Rescan plugins".
5. Find the plugin in the Ableton plugins folder in the sidebar.
6. Drag-and-drop the plugin onto your track at the bottom of the screen.

How to use installed plugins in Logic Pro X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dhy1wSIdI

1. Open Logic Pro X. Newly installed plugins should be detected automatically every time Logic is opened.
2. If you've downloaded an effect or utility plugin, these can be used on an insert for any track in the mixer.
3. Create a software instrument track if you downloaded a virtual instrument plugin.
4. Under Default Patch, go to AU Instruments and choose the plugin you just installed.

How to use installed plugins in Avid Pro Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5QZ48MtuA

1. Open Pro Tools. Newly installed plugins should be detected automatically every time Pro Tools is opened.
2. If you've downloaded an effect or utility plugin, these can be used on an insert for many types of tracks (Audio, Aux, Instrument, Master Fader...)
3. If you’ve downloaded a software instrument, create a new Instrument track.
4. Navigate to the Mixer and locate the newly created Instrument track.
5. Select the desired instrument plugin by clicking on any of the Inserts on the Instrument track.

How to Install plugins to Garage Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NmmTYMNhQ

1. Go to the Reverb SYNC Software and plugin Collection.
2. Choose your desired plugin.
3. Reverb will auto-detect your platform, so simply click the download button.
4. Continue the installation process by following the prompt.
5. Hover your mouse over the smart control button.
6. Click Show Inspector icon.
7. Click on plugins and choose your desired plugin.

What's new?
Positive Grid BIAS Amp II Standard Upgrades Include:

• New Dynamic Tone Engine
• New Tubes, Transformers and Tone Stacks
• New Dynamic Tone Control
• New Speaker Cabinet module with Dual Mic and Open/Closed Back operation
• New RTA EQ
• New User Interface