Introducing Live Input on TONE3000
Plug in your guitar or bass and play through 275K tones directly in your browser. Now in beta.
Today, we're excited to launch Live Input, a new way to experience TONE3000.
Until now, auditioning a tone meant downloading it, loading it into your DAW or pedal, and hoping it sounds the way you imagined. With Live Input, you can skip all of that. Plug your instrument into your audio interface, and you're playing through the tone right in your browser, in real time.
What you can do with Live Input:
- Find your tone faster: Instead of downloading ten captures and testing them one by one, you can play through each one instantly.
- Test your playing style, not someone else's: Demo tracks are useful, but they're not you. With Live Input, you hear exactly how a tone responds to your attack, your guitar, and your technique.
- Browse 275,000+ tones without leaving the page: The entire TONE3000 library is now an interactive playground. Want to feel what a '59 Bassman or a Mesa Dual Rectifier actually does under your fingers? You can find out right now.
How to get started
Getting set up takes a few seconds:
- Connect your instrument to your audio interface
- Open any tone on TONE3000 and click the Play tab (below)
- Hit Connect and grant microphone access when your browser prompts you
- Start playing
That's it. The Live indicator will turn red, and you'll hear your signal running through the model in real time. Try it below:
A note on latency
Live Input runs the full NAM inference engine locally in your browser. It's the same neural DSP that powers your desktop plugins and hardware pedals. Thanks to João's recent optimizations to NAM core, we sped up the TONE3000 web player by 25%.
That said, browser-based audio processing won't match the latency of a dedicated DAW plugin or hardware pedal. Performance depends on your CPU and audio interface settings, so if you're experiencing latency, try lowering your buffer size in your audio interface software.
Open source
The engine powering Live Input is fully open source. We've published neural-amp-modeler-wasm, a fork of Steve Atkinson's NAM Core DSP library compiled to WebAssembly, so any developer can embed real-time NAM inference directly in their own web app. The React component is also available as an npm package: npm install neural-amp-modeler-wasm. If you're building something with it, we'd love to hear about it.
Huge thanks to amielmon for his incredible contributions to the Live Input feature branch!
Start playing
We're launching Live Input as a beta, so we'd love your feedback. Tinker, build, break stuff and let us know how it goes. You can report bugs or suggestions to support@tone3000.com.
Browse tones and try Live Input →
– Woody & Staas :)
