I'm
still deep in the zone with my bass tone experimentation.
I dunno: I find myself happy with many different
guitar tones I can dial in with AmpliTube -- solo'd or in a mix (even if the mix usually benefits from maybe a little more processing) -- but though I can be happy with
solo'd bass tones I dial in directly in AmpliTube, I find I need to do
much more to get bass tones I like in a
mix.
Like many mixers, I want to treat different frequency bands of the bass differently, and while there is a (relatively limited) extent to which one can do this directly within AmpliTube, the tools there are relatively blunt instruments. There are a few different third-party plugins that are intended to do just this with the bass -- but, though I haven't tried them all, none of those that I have tried seems to consistently beat just copying the bass DI across 2 or 3 tracks in the DAW, processing them differently, and then bussing them back together (although this is of course what the individual bass-processing plugins are basically trying to do internally).
Of course, AmpliTube (and Tonex) are aimed primarily at guitar players, and there is a lot that guitar players can do directly within AmpliTube. Adding all the features that would AmpliTube into "one-stop" bass processing plugin might not be cost-effective (or at least the presence of such features might simply baffle guitar players, and AmpliTube already has enough options that I can easily imagine it being a bit overwhelming for the beginner!). While it would be great if I could do more for bass in directly within AmpliTube, I can of course use its bass or guitar amp models as-is to saturate the higher-end frequencies on split bass tracks.