TONE3000 Plugin

The TONE3000 Plugin is our official, free Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) plugin for guitar and bass. Browse and play TONE3000's massive library of NAM captures and impulse responses directly inside the plugin, either in your DAW or as a standalone app.

Yes. The TONE3000 Plugin is completely free to download and use.

Yes. TONE3000 is a free guitar and bass amp sim powered by NAM A2. Instead of a small, fixed collection of amps, you can browse NAM captures of amps, pedals, cabinets, full rigs, outboard gear, and more from the TONE3000 community.

Yes. The TONE3000 Plugin is a NAM player built for browsing and playing Neural Amp Modeler captures. Instead of downloading NAM files, organizing them on your computer, and loading them into another plugin, you can find a tone on TONE3000 and play it directly inside the plugin or standalone app.

No. TONE3000 works as a standalone app, so you can connect your guitar or bass, choose a tone, and start playing without a DAW. You can also use the plugin inside your DAW for recording and production.

The TONE3000 Plugin is available as VST3, AU, AAX, LV2, and CLAP, plus a standalone app that works without a DAW. It supports macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) is open-source technology for creating hyper-accurate digital models, called NAM captures or NAM profiles, of real analog gear such as guitar and bass amps, pedals, outboard gear, and full signal chains.

NAM A2 is the latest generation of Neural Amp Modeler, created by TONE3000 in partnership with Steve Atkinson. In quantitative tests and a blind listening test with more than 1,000 participants, NAM A2 beat Neural DSP Neural Capture V2, IK Multimedia ToneX V2, and Line 6 Proxy by a wide margin, making it the best-sounding amp modeling technology on the market.

Yes. TONE3000 is built for both bass and guitar. You can browse and play captures of bass amps, bass pedals, speaker cabinets, bass rigs, and more inside the plugin.

The TONE3000 Plugin and its entire library of tones are completely free, unlike Neural DSP plugins, AmpliTube, and Line 6 Helix Native, which are paid products. TONE3000 is also powered by NAM A2, an open-source modeling technology that significantly outperformed Neural DSP Neural Capture V2, IK Multimedia ToneX V2, and Line 6 Proxy on sound quality and accuracy in quantitative testing and a blind listening test with more than 1,000 participants.

Yes. The TONE3000 Plugin is open source. Developers can inspect the source code, report issues, request features, and contribute improvements through GitHub.