NAM amp sim · Multi-FX · Free · Windows

NAM A2 & more,
your whole rig — free.

Run any neural amp capture (NAM) with zero latency, browse TONE3000 tones right inside the app, then build a full pedalboard — studio cabs, 60+ effects, guitar-synth instruments and AI presets. Standalone app + VST3. 100% free, full version.

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EdgeSound Pedalboard

EdgeSound app — parallel signal chain with NAM amp, IR cabinet and effects

🤖 Create with AI
Describe a tone — get a ready preset. Built-in, no API key needed.

60+ effect blocks 428 factory presets NAM · TONE3000 built-in VST3 + standalone · Free

Real rigs, in the box

Built for real guitars & bass.

Neural captures of real amps and cabinets, played through your real pickups. Single-coils, humbuckers, a bass, a seven-string down-tuned to oblivion — EdgeSound gives it a studio voice.

Electric guitar in a dark studio — Your guitar, your voiceAny pickup, any tuning

Guitar amplifier close-up — Real amp toneNeural amp modeling (NAM) + studio cabs

Bassist playing at night — Guitar or bass, anywhereHeadphones, monitors or FRFR — silent or loud

New to this?

Here's what EdgeSound does

If you want to play or record electric guitar on your computer, EdgeSound is the one app that does it all — no real amp, no pedals, no expensive gear.

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Plug in

Connect your guitar to your PC through any audio interface. EdgeSound opens as its own app — you don't need a DAW or any other software.

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Pick a sound

Load one of 396 ready-made tones — clean, blues, rock, metal — or describe what you want and let the AI build it. Sound like the records you love in seconds.

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Play or record

Practice quietly on headphones any time of day, jam through speakers, or hit record to capture studio-quality guitar. Low latency, so it feels like a real amp.

Think of it as a full amp-and-pedalboard rig that lives inside your computer — the same idea as BIAS FX, AmpliTube or Neural DSP, but simpler to use and completely free: every amp, cab, effect and instrument unlocked, instead of ~$100 per amp.

Hear it

Clean, high-gain and lead — straight from EdgeSound

Real playing through the app — no external pedals, no post-processing.

EdgeSound clean tone demo — guitar amp simulator — Clean tone

EdgeSound high-gain distortion demo — amp sim — High-gain / distortion

EdgeSound modern high-gain lead tone demo — spatial ambient lead — Modern high-gain lead

New · AI-powered

Describe a tone — get a finished preset

Just describe the sound you're after — “warm blues lead like Gilmour”, “tight modern djent” — and EdgeSound's AI builds a complete, gig-ready preset in seconds. It draws on both the built-in effects, amps and cabs and your own NAM & IR files from any source, wired into a chain you can play right away.

Your words in, a real rig out

Type “singing Petrucci lead” or “tight modern djent”, pick your guitar and how you monitor, and the AI assembles the whole chain — then tweak it in plain language.

Built in — no API key needed. Just hit “Create with AI” and play
Uses the built-in effects, pedals, amps and cabs — the full EdgeSound rack
…and your own NAM (.nam) and IR (.wav) files from any source — your captures, community packs, Tone3000, anywhere
Coherence-calibrated: no mud, fizz, warble or runaway reverb
Refine in plain language (“darker, less reverb, tighter lows”) and save it as a preset in one click
Power users: add your own key (OpenAI / Claude) for unlimited use

Create with AI panel: describe how you want to sound plus your gear, and EdgeSound builds a preset — Create with AI — your gear + a prompt, and a preset is built

Ready to try it? Give EdgeSound a prompt and it designs a real preset from its own gear and your NAM/IR files — built in, no API key needed. Play your first AI‑made tone in seconds.

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All-in-one

An amp sim and pedalboard in one

From crystal cleans to parallel walls of metal. Build the exact rig you imagine, block by block. If you know BIAS FX 2, AmpliTube or Helix Native, you'll feel right at home.

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Authentic amp tone (NAM)

Real captured amplifiers via neural amp modeling (NAM). Load your own .nam captures — a single file, or a whole folder as one rig — plus thousands of free community tones. NAM is a first-class effect block you can chain with anything and run in parallel.

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Studio cabinet sound

Get that mic'd-up studio cabinet sound without a studio: impulse-response (IR) cabs with two placeable microphones you can move for distance, angle and blend.

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Huge, layered sound

Stack multiple amps and blend them into one wide, powerful tone with flexible parallel routing — multi-amp, wet/dry and multiband, however you like.

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Every effect you need

60+ blocks: drives, an interactive EQ, modulation, pitch, studio delays and reverbs, noise reduction and more — all editable in depth.

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Sound like the records

428 ready-to-play presets by genre and by artist (based on iconic songs), volume-matched so you can browse without jarring jumps.

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Guitar-synth instruments

Turn your guitar into other instruments: a synth voice, plucked strings (sitar, koto, harp), a programmable drum kit mapped to your notes, and a polyphonic synth you can play chords into.

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TONE3000, built in

Search and download real amp / pedal / cab captures from the TONE3000 catalog straight inside the app — no browser, no copying files.

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App or plugin

Play live as a standalone app — no DAW needed — or drop it into your DAW as a VST3 plugin. It can even host your own VST3 plugins.

Routing

Build any chain, series or parallel

Drag blocks, create lanes and wire whatever you want. Watch the signal flow along the cables.

Independent lanes per input (multi-input)
Split / Branch Mix nodes for wet/dry and multi-amp
Compressor, preamps, cabs, reverb and delay per lane
Gesture zoom, edit history and undo

Amp sim pedalboard editor with three parallel signal lanes — Pedalboard view — three parallel lanes blended in Branch Mix

Effects

A catalog of 53+ blocks, searchable instantly

Clear categories and a fast search. The “Suggested” button proposes the pedal that fits your chain.

Noise reduction: Gate, Hum, Hiss, Spectral NR
Drive: Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz, Boost
Tone: parametric EQ, Tone Stack, Preamp
And host your own VST3 plugins

Effects browser with categories and 53 amp-sim blocks — “Add effect” browser — 53 blocks by category

Interactive EQ

Sculpt your tone with a curve you drag

Drag the response nodes to set frequency, gain and Q. Basic or advanced mode.

Parametric EQ with Low/High Cut
Dynamic EQ that only breathes when needed
Per-block oscilloscope (Scope)
Every block can be named and saved

EQ inspector with interactive frequency response curve — EQ inspector — interactive curve and Low/Mid/High controls

Cabinets

Place the mics wherever you want

Position two mics (SM57, MD421…) on the cone: close/far, on-axis or edge, and blend them.

Visual close/far and edge/center placement
Blend, alignment and polarity between mics A and B
Your own IRs or from your library
Eco mode to save CPU

Dual microphone placement on a guitar cabinet IR — IR cabinet — two placeable mics on the speaker cone

Metering

See your tone, not just hear it

A real-time spectrum analyzer shows input against output, band by band — so you catch mud, fizz or a scooped mid at a glance.

Input vs output overlay with peak-hold
Per-band readouts (sub, low, mid, presence, air)
Tilt and freeze for quick A/B
Per-block oscilloscopes across the chain

Real-time spectrum analyzer showing input versus output — Spectrum analyzer — input vs output, band by band

NAM node

Load any amp capture — one file, or a whole folder

Neural Amp Modeler is a first-class block in EdgeSound: drop in a capture and play a real amp with zero added latency — no extra plugin, no license hassle.

Load any .nam file — thousands of free community captures, or your own
Point it at a whole folder of captures and it becomes one amp at several gain stages — morph between them with the Drive knob (clean → crunch → lead, smoothly)
Trim level, snap to a capture and name it — it saves like any other block
Chain it with pedals, EQ, drives and cabs, or run several NAM nodes in parallel (dual amps, wet/dry, multiband)
Low CPU, zero latency — and “Create with AI” can pick and wire it for you

NAM node in the Add-effect browser: load a .nam file or a folder of captures — The NAM node — a single .nam or a whole folder of captures as one rig

Catalog

Effects for every moment

Everything you need to go from a dry guitar to a finished tone.

Dynamics & noise

Noise GateHum RemoverHiss Reducer Spectral NRCompressorCompression SustainerBoost

Drive & amp

OverdriveDistortionFuzz Tube PreampNAM Amp neuralIR Cabinet

Tone

Parametric EQDynamic EQTone Stack

Modulation

ChorusFlangerPhaserTremolo UnivibeRotaryRing ModSlow AttackAuto-Wah

Pitch & time

Pitch ShifterAutotuneHarmonizer Delay Digital · Analog · Tape · Ping-Pong · Ducking · Modulated Reverb Room · Hall · Plate · Spring · Shimmer · Gated

Synth & instruments new

Synth Voice guitar-synthPluck String sitar · koto · harp Drum Kit note→drum mapPoly Synth play chords

Utility

Split / MergeBranch MixChromatic Tuner MetronomeLooperRecorder / Re-ampVST3 hosting

428 presets

Start playing in seconds

Presets by genre and by artist, inspired by iconic songs and loudness-normalized so you can browse comfortably.

By genre

Classic Rockvintage and crunch tones

Hard RockMarshalls with attitude

Metal · Classic/Thrashedge and precision

Metal · Modern/Djenttight lows

Prog & Fusiondynamics and color

Ambient & Post-Rockhuge soundscapes

Pop & Indiebright cleans

Coquitos & 80s Balladslush latin chorus

Exoticsunconventional sounds

Parallel Lanesparallel-routing showcases

Instrument Emulationsviolin, cello, organ, flute…

World Stringssitar, koto, shamisen, harp

Drum Kitsplay a kit on the fretboard

Poly Chordspolyphonic synth pads

By artist

Jimi HendrixLittle Wing, Voodoo Child…

Jimmy Pagelegendary riffs

Eric Claptoncreamy blues

David Gilmoursinging leads

Angus Youngpure rock & roll

Eddie Van Halenbrown sound

Devin Townsendmodern walls

+ 50 guitarists4 tones per artist

Preset browser with genre and artist categories

How it works

Free. Full version. No catch.

Download the complete EdgeSound and play — every feature unlocked, nothing locked, no watermark on your audio, no trial timer. No account, no license, no subscription. It's just free.

Download it

One click — a direct Windows installer. No account and no credit card, ever.

Plug in & play

Every feature unlocked from the first run — amps, cabs, effects, instruments, AI presets and TONE3000 browsing. Use your own tones too.

Keep it forever

It's yours to keep, free. Optional anonymous usage stats (opt-in) help us make it better — turn them off anytime in Settings.

Tutorials

Get started in minutes

Watch the walkthrough, then follow the step-by-step guides to set up EdgeSound.

EdgeSound tutorial — how to create effects and build a guitar tone from scratch — Full walkthrough — add effects, load amps & cabs, route in parallel, and build a tone from scratch

Connect your guitar with ASIO4ALL (low latency)

EdgeSound needs a low-latency ASIO driver. If your audio interface doesn't ship its own, ASIO4ALL is a free, universal ASIO driver that works with almost any sound card or USB interface.

Download ASIO4ALL

Get the free installer from the official site: asio4all.org.
Install it

Run the downloaded installer and follow the prompts (Next → Next → Finish). No configuration is needed yet.
Open EdgeSound → Audio settings

In EdgeSound, open More (⋯) → Audio settings. Set Audio device type: ASIO and Device: ASIO4ALL v2.
Turn on your device in ASIO4ALL

Click Control Panel. In the ASIO4ALL window, click the power icon next to your interface or sound card (e.g. “Realtek(R) Audio” or your USB interface) so it lights up blue and becomes active.
Set sample rate & buffer

Back in Audio settings, choose 44100 Hz and a buffer of 512 samples (lower = less latency but more CPU; raise it if you hear crackling). Make sure your input and output channels are checked.
Play!

Plug your guitar into your interface, load a preset, and play — you should hear it through EdgeSound. If your speakers feed back, enable “Mute audio input”.

Get EdgeSound

Download EdgeSound — free

The complete app, every feature unlocked. No trial timer, no account, no license key. Windows 10 and 11.

Free · full version

Standalone + VST3 · Windows 64-bit · no account, no card

✓ Every feature unlocked — no trial, no watermark
✓ NAM neural amps + TONE3000 catalog, built in
✓ 60+ effects, guitar-synth instruments & 428 presets
✓ Create with AI — built in, no API key needed
✓ Plays your own NAM & IR captures · standalone + VST3

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Frequently asked

Quick answers

What do I need to play guitar through my computer?

Your guitar, an audio interface (any model — it's the box that connects the guitar to the PC), headphones or speakers, and EdgeSound. Nothing else: no amplifier, no pedals, no recording software.

Can I practice quietly with headphones?

Yes — that's what most people use it for. Plug your headphones into your interface and you get a full mic'd-up amp sound at any volume, at any hour, without disturbing anyone.

Can I record guitar without an amp?

Yes. EdgeSound gives you the studio sound of a mic'd amplifier straight into your recording, either as a standalone app or as a VST3 plugin inside your DAW.

Do I need a DAW or other software?

No. EdgeSound runs on its own as a standalone app — open it and play. If you already use a DAW, you can also load it there as a VST3 plugin.

Is it like BIAS FX, AmpliTube or Neural DSP?

Same category — a guitar amp simulator and pedalboard — but simpler to use and completely free. It also plays your own amp captures (NAM) and cabinet impulse responses and browses the TONE3000 catalog in-app, which most of those don't.

What is NAM (neural amp modeling)?

It's a way of capturing a real amplifier so it sounds and reacts like the original. EdgeSound runs these captures (including the fast A2 architecture) with zero added latency, and there are thousands of free community tones — plus the built-in TONE3000 browser — you can load at no cost.

Will it run on my computer?

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). It's built to sound good on modest gear — typical latency is under 1 ms, so it feels like a real amp under your fingers.

How much does it cost?

It's free. The complete app — every amp, cab, effect, instrument, Create with AI and TONE3000 browsing — is unlocked from the first run. No trial timer, no license, no subscription, no account.

Is there any paid or premium version?

No. EdgeSound is one free, full version — there's nothing locked behind a paywall and nothing to buy. Just download and play.

Can I play chords and other instruments?

Yes. Alongside the amps and effects there are guitar-synth instruments: a synth voice, plucked strings (sitar, koto, harp), a programmable drum kit mapped to your notes, and a polyphonic synth you can strum chords into.

Do I need an API key to use the AI?

No. “Create with AI” is built in and works out of the box — just describe a tone and get a ready-to-play preset. Power users can add their own OpenAI or Claude key in the app for unlimited use.

Is my data collected?

To help improve EdgeSound the app can send anonymous usage statistics (which presets/effects are used, session length, no personal data). It's strictly opt-in on first run and you can turn it off anytime in Settings.

Can I use my own NAM and IR files?

Yes. You can load your own NAM captures (.nam) and cabinet impulse responses (.wav) from your library — a single file or a whole folder as one rig.

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NAM A2 & more,your whole rig — free.