Controlling Amplitube in Mainstage

Question

I am unable to map a Mainstage screen control to any of Amplitube's parameters. Yet I have no problem with Guitar Rig.
I do the same procedure for both: click on the screen control, select Map Parameter, move the parameter in Amplitube (e.g. the wah pedal), click Map Parameter again but it never registers. I've tried manually selecting every parameter listed in the Amplitube folder but again the control never maps.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm baffled as it just works as intended with all other plugins and I can't find anything here or on IKmultimedia's site which suggests that Amplitube works differently or that there is a problem.
Any help gratefully received.

Answer 1

Yeah, Amplitube works very differently from Guitar Rig (especially Guitar Rig 4) and after using both a lot, I've come around to realizing GR midi mapping works way easier/better than Amplitube imho.
So, I think the step you're missing is, you have to first of all use X-Gear as the plug-in, then select your patch from whichever Amplitube module your using. You then need to tell Amplitube that you want to do automation and what you want to automate (this is the bit you don't have to do in Guitar Rig).
- Select the "Automation" box in X-Gear.
- It will bring up a panel where on the right side is the Plug-In list and on the left is DAW Automation and the middle has Add, Remove, Move Up/Down, etc
- Select the item you want to map from the Plug-In drop down list. It's a nested drop-down based Amp, Stomp, etc with each item within those areas.
- When you locate the item you want, click on it, then click on the Param you want to assign it to, and then click "Add"
- Then go back into Mainstage and in the parameter mapping assign your control to the corresponding parameter you assigned in Amplitube.
- That's it.
The problem is that you have to do the parameter mapping in two places, first in Amplitube, then in Mainstage.
Hope that helps,
Jas.