Changelog
Introduction
Track the latest updates, new features, and improvements to TONE3000. Stay informed about what's new and what's coming next.
Note: This changelog tracks all significant updates to TONE3000. We release updates regularly to improve performance, add new features, and fix bugs.
How to Stay Updated
- Check this page regularly for the latest updates
- Join our Discord community for discussions
Versioning
We follow semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH). Major releases include breaking changes, minor releases add new features, and patch releases include bug fixes and improvements.
Feedback & Suggestions
Have ideas for new features or improvements? We'd love to hear from you! Contact support@tone3000.com or join our Discord community for discussions. You can also report issues for open source projects on our GitHub.
Updates
Community Engagement & Platform Maturity
Social features, creator verification and leaderboard, backend performance improvements, and platform maturity updates.
👑 Creator Verification & Recognition
- Verified profiles for top creators and hardware manufacturer partners
- New creator leaderboard page showcasing top creators
- Featured creators highlighted on homepage
💬 Social Features & Community Interaction
- Comments and replies system for tone discussions
- Up/down voting on comments
- Report comments function with integrated moderation tools
- Real-time notifications for social interactions available at tone3000.com/notifications
- Email notifications for social interactios. You can now choose which notifications you want to receive via email via tone3000.com/settings
- New TONE3000 social accounts for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube with backlinks on the site
⚡ Performance & Technical Improvements
- Concurrent model and IR uploads for faster processing
- Backend performance overhaul: migrated from PostgreSQL triggers to cron-based materialized view updates for significantly improved creator CRUD performance
- Structured JSON-LD data implementation for better search engine indexing
- Fixed layout shifts caused by server-client mismatches
- Simplified canonical query string handling
- Increased maximum parameters allowed for custom architecture training
🛡️ Platform Protection & Content Quality
- Updated terms and privacy policies to discourage unauthorized model scraping and republishing with content protection for creator intellectual property
- New monitoring and ban tooling to detect and prevent bot behavior
- Removed thin UGC pages from sitemap with noindex tags to avoid soft 404s
♿ Accessibility & User Experience
- Keyboard navigation improvements throughout the platform
- Enhanced screen reader compatibility and accessibility
- Improved tone card semantic structure following web best practices
- Added important FAQs to homepage for better user onboarding
- Helpful modal when downloading amp-head only models to steer users to pair with IRs
- IR length limited to maximum 60 seconds to prevent users mistakenly uploading sweep files
🔍 Search & Navigation Improvements
- Refactored search URL parameters to use semantic, readable values - tags and makes now use descriptive parameters (e.g., ?tags=metal instead of ?tags=1234) for cleaner, more intuitive URLs
🔌 API Updates
- New /api/v1/users endpoint for retrieving user with public content, sorting by most tones, downloads, favorites, or models, plus username text search functionality
- Deprecation of camelCase parameters in favor of snake_case (backwards compatible). Updated API documentation available at tone3000.com/api. Developers encouraged to migrate to new parameter format
Trust Building & Community Growth
Community has reached 1.5M downloads and 100K models. New requirements and features to build trust within the TONE3000 community.
🔒 Trust & Quality Requirements
- Photo requirements: Only unedited photos of actual gear used during capture
- Detailed info: 100+ character descriptions, photo, tags, and makes/models required for homepage featuring
- Enhanced creator flows with helpful instructions, examples, and guidance for high-quality tone postings
⚡ New Features & Improvements
- Batch training now supports dry-wet processing
- Multiple YouTube embeds allowed on tone pages
- Improved login flow with magic link or OTP code options
- Performance improvements for tone pages with hundreds of models
- Preview player performance improvements
🎛️ Preview Player Enhancements
- New DI/inputs from community: bass, metal guitar
- Added bass IRs and bass NAMs for preview player
- All preview player options now open source and community-contributable
- Available on GitHub for contributions
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed HEIC image upload issues
TONE3000 API Beta Launch
Version one of the TONE3000 API is now available for developers and hardware manufacturers to access the TONE3000 library of NAM profiles and impulse responses.
🔌 API Features
- Direct access to TONE3000 tones without manual downloads
- User authentication to access created or favorited tones
- API key management and usage tracking
- Open-source demo web app available on GitHub
📚 Complete API documentation available at www.tone3000.com/api
🎛️ Use Cases
- Pedals that load amp models directly
- Block-based signal chain builders
- DAW plugins with instant pedal access
- Convolution reverbs pulling IRs from TONE3000
- Synths with TONE3000-powered saturation
- Hardware displays showing tone download counts
Neural Amp Modeler WASM Open Source Release
TONE3000 has open sourced our web preview player technology, releasing Neural Amp Modeler WASM - an open source fork of Steve Atkinson's NAM Core DSP library for real-time audio modeling in web browsers.
🔧 Development Tools
🎯 Use Cases
- Integrate audio modeling into web applications
- Run neural networks directly in the browser
- Build custom audio processing tools
- Create interactive tone preview systems
🙏 Special thanks to Kutalia's previous work on NeuralAmpModelerCore_WASM
Batch Training Feature
Batch training is now available, allowing users to upload multiple sweep recordings and submit batch training all at once.
⚡ New Capabilities
- Upload multiple sweep recordings simultaneously
- Submit batch training jobs in a single operation
- Streamlined workflow for processing multiple gear captures
- Improved efficiency for bulk model creation
Community Milestones & Feature Updates
One week after launch, the community has reached incredible milestones: 50K models created and 500K downloads. New features and improvements have been added based on user feedback.
🔍 Enhanced Search & Discovery
- Searchable filters for makes, models, and tags (e.g., "metal")
- New "Creator" filter to find tones from favorite creators
- Creator filter doubles as a mini leaderboard
- New "Trending" algorithm balancing downloads and favorites
- Improved promotion of newer tones for better equity
🎛️ Improved User Experience
- Smarter preview player remembers last-used input, IR, and NAM
- Enhanced image upload supporting .heic, .webp and other formats
- Auto compression eliminates size limits for image uploads
- Numerous bug fixes and UI/UX improvements
TONE3000 Beta Launch
ToneHunt and TONEZONE3000 have been unified into a single platform: TONE3000. This complete platform rebuild combines community sharing and gear capture in one open-source Neural Amp Modeling ecosystem.
🎉 Major New Features
- Add images to your tone packs for better visual organization
- Edit, delete, download, and move individual models within tone packs
- Add links to your captures and profile to promote yourself
- Advanced search across tone packs, makes, descriptions, tags, platforms, and individual models
- Filter by NAM architecture/size and models calibrated with input/output levels
- Train models on TONE3000 with private or public sharing options
- Search existing tags or create your own when capturing/uploading models
- Stats on your shared tones including total downloads and favorites
🚀 Performance & UX
- Website benchmarked 30x faster than previous versions
- Full redesign across all pages (landing, profile, tone page, account, search, capture/upload)
- New "preview player" on every tone page with DI and IR options
- Works seamlessly on all modern browsers, iOS, and Android
- Preview individual models in tone packs with various NAM models
- IR tone packs support previewing each IR with different NAM models
🔄 Migration & Compatibility
- Seamless login with existing ToneHunt or TONEZONE3000 credentials
- All TONEZONE3000 models migrated and organized into tone packs
- ToneHunt and TONEZONE3000 links automatically redirect to correct TONE3000 pages
- Complete content migration preserving all user data and contributions
🔮 Coming Soon
- API for plugin developers and gear manufacturers
- Pro-tier gear capture including batch uploads
- TONE3000 plugin for direct DAW integration
Report Issues
Reporting Issues
Found a bug that's not listed here? Help us fix it by reporting the issue with as much detail as possible.
📝 What to Include
- Detailed description of the problem
- Steps to reproduce the issue
- Your browser and operating system
- Screenshots or screen recordings if helpful
- Any error messages you see
📧 Contact Methods
- Email: support@tone3000.com
- Discord: Join our community server for real-time support
- GitHub: Report issues on our open source repositories