Guitar Amps/Cabs/FX Starter Suggestion List for Musicians

[Audiojunkie]

I put together this quick suggestions list that might help newcomers to Linux who want to use Open Source tools for Guitars in their DAWs. Hopefully it will be useful to someone. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or additions. I'm quite sure it's not complete, and I haven't had time to test everything:

The Musician's (Not Programmer's) Starter Suggestions List for Open Source Guitar Amps/Cabs/FX

Criteria to be listed

Must: be open source, run properly, scale properly for HiDPI monitors (if using GUI), must have available linux binaries so that musicians (not just advanced computer users) can make use of the tools

The general idea of all of this is to be able to either use Guitarix.vst and load all of these additional plugins into it to supplement what it comes with, or to create your chain of plugins straight from within your DAW and manage them from there. Either way works! Here are the suggested plugins:

Pretty much everything by brummer10--especially: Guitarix.vst (JUCE port of Guitarix wrapped for VST3) comes with tons of amps, cabs, & effects!), GxPlugins.lv2 (comes with even more effects!) ImpulseLoaderStereo.lv2, ImpulseLoader.lv2, StompTuner, ToneTwistPlugs (Comes with several effects)

Aida-X: ( https://github.com/AidaDSP/AIDA-X ), ( https://cloud.aida-x.cc/all ) Captures/Models/Profiles, ( https://forum.mod.audio/c/neural/62 ) More Captures/Models/Profiles

(NAM) Neural-Amp-Modeler-lv2: It's a shame there isn't a native binary of this one. However, look at ToobAmp!

ToobAmp lv2 (.DEB): ( https://github.com/rerdavies/ToobAmp ), TooB Neural Amp Modeler - A port of Steven Atkinson's astounding Neural Amp Modeler to LV2, TooB BF-2 Flanger, TooB Stereo Convolution Reverb, TooB Convolution Reverb, TooB Cab IR, Toob ML Amplifier, TooB CE-2 Chorus, TooB Freeverb, TooB Input Stage, TooB Tone Stack, TooB Power Stage, TooB Cab Simulator. Neural Amp Modeler Captures/Models/Profiles can be found here: ( https://tonehunt.org/all ), ( https://tonejunkiestore.com/nampacks ), ( https://github.com/pelennor2170/NAM_models )

Airwindows plugins (No GUIs): ( https://www.airwindows.com/ ), ( https://airwindowscheatsheet.aboni.dev/ ), including: Guitar Conditioner, Cabs, FireAmp, Amps, GrindAmp, Gringer, LeadAmp, LilAmp, PurestWarm, PurestDrive, BassAmp, BassDrive, BigAmp, CrickBass, MidAmp, Smooth, etc., etc., etc.... There is so much available here that applies to guitars!!

kiapitonov Plugins Pack (KPP): ( https://github.com/olegkapitonov/Kapitonov-Plugins-Pack ) - TubeAmp, BlueDream (Booster/Tube Screamer), Distruction (Distortion pedal with equalizer), Fuzz (Vintage Fuzz Pedal), Deadgate (Noise Gate), Octaver, Single2Humbucker (Emulate humbucker pickup)

X42 IR Loader: ( https://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-zconvolver )

Wolf Shaper: ( https://wolf-plugins.github.io/wolf-shaper/ )

ScorchCrafter: ( https://github.com/osxmidi/ScorchCrafter )

GuitarML Plugins: ( https://guitarml.com/ )

Jerryuhoo/Fire: ( https://github.com/jerryuhoo/Fire )

jatnchowdhury18: KlonCentaur: ( https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/KlonCentaur )

Ildaeil: ( https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil ) A mini plugin host as a plugin. This tool can be used to load plugins incompatible plugins into your guitar chain, whether that be hosted in Guitarix.vst or from within the DAW itself. Essentially, this is a "Wildcard" secret weapon plugin to allow you to use any effects of the following types: LADSPA, DSSI, LV2, VST2, VST3, CLAP, JSFX within your guitar plugin chain.

NOTE: There are MANY, MANY more available plugins that should work along with the above listed plugins. This is just some great suggestions to get you started.

[Locynaeh]

Thank you for this list ! It's quite funny because I began my own list to get an overview on the subject just a week ago. I just began to get interested in building a complete virtual guitar chain and needed ressources on software available et related knowledges.

I mainly use Guitarix and GxPlugins.lv2 for now (thank you tramp!).

I think also to these to be added in the list (I can't say for HiDPI, I never used such hardware) :

• Tamgamp / tamgamp.lv2 : a virtual amp, quite based on Guitarix as far as I know, using generic gui (the README gives an overview)

• GxPlugins.lv2, you already mentioned it but not this page in particular (the README gives an overview on all plugins, amp and effects)

• Chowdhury DSP : I heard about several tools allowing to build an amp + effect chain here

• the C* Audio Plugin Suite : I also heard about several amp, cabinet, etc. from these plugins

• For Airwindows, I had this site, making easier to read the Airwindopedia.txt file provided by the project

• The Musical Artifact page for Guitarix presets

In the end, I think it would be cool to update wiki.linuxaudio.org with a complete tutorial and ressources page on recording guitar and guitar-like instruments. Maybe one day I'll do it

[runiq]

(NAM) Neural-Amp-Modeler-lv2: It's a shame there isn't a native binary of this one. However, look at ToobAmp!

Well, we do have it on Flathub, for what it's worth.

In any case, thanks for the list!

Edit: That reminds me, I need to rebuild for 0.1.3.

[LAM]

(NAM) Neural-Amp-Modeler-lv2: It's a shame there isn't a native binary of this one. However, look at ToobAmp!

On the NAM subject there's also an interesting JUCE port I posted a couple of weeks ago:

NAM JUCE: Neural Amp Modeler JUCE Implementation - https://github.com/Tr3m/nam-juce

Should have resampling (I could be wrong, but there is code for that) so no need to run at the same samplerate of the model (like NAM-lv2 needs).
Plus has some more features like tone control, can load IRs, filters, noise gate, etc.

[runiq]

(NAM) Neural-Amp-Modeler-lv2: It's a shame there isn't a native binary of this one. However, look at ToobAmp!

On the NAM subject there's also an interesting JUCE port I posted a couple few weeks ago:

NAM JUCE: Neural Amp Modeler JUCE Implementation - https://github.com/Tr3m/nam-juce

Should have resampling (I could be wrong, but there is code for that) so no need to run at the same samplerate of the model (like NAM-lv2 needs).
Plus has some more features like tone control, can load IRs, filters, noise gate, etc.

Nice, starred immediately, thanks! :)

[magill]

Very nice list and I wasn't aware of a few there.

I would add to the list BYOD: https://github.com/Chowdhury-DSP/BYOD that supports GuitarML profiles
and
Mod Desktop: https://github.com/moddevices/mod-desktop with support for NAM profiles.

[Audiojunkie]

(NAM) Neural-Amp-Modeler-lv2: It's a shame there isn't a native binary of this one. However, look at ToobAmp!

On the NAM subject there's also an interesting JUCE port I posted a couple of weeks ago:

NAM JUCE: Neural Amp Modeler JUCE Implementation - https://github.com/Tr3m/nam-juce

Should have resampling (I could be wrong, but there is code for that) so no need to run at the same samplerate of the model (like NAM-lv2 needs).
Plus has some more features like tone control, can load IRs, filters, noise gate, etc.

Very nice! Thank you for posting this! It looks like the interface is all there too!