The free amp sim that
keeps getting bigger

A stereo rack behind the amp, and a blackface combo with its own reverb

The biggest release since multichannel amps arrived. Your rig stays mono where it should be — guitar, pedals, amp, cab — and then it opens up: three stereo units behind the cabinet, in front of the delay and reverb. And the amp everyone kept asking for now has the two things that make it that amp, built into the head rather than bolted on after it.

• The stereo rack (Pro) — an Ensemble with a micro-pitch doubler for width, a stereo tremolo and twin phaser for movement, and a Rotary with a treble horn and bass drum that spin up at different rates, so their speeds cross during every transition — that swirl is the part players actually play. Loudness-matched, so switching one on doesn't change your level. On the free version, PREVIEW runs any of them for a minute on your own guitar.
• Blackface Deluxe — both channels, and its own reverb and tremolo — Normal and Vibrato on their own inputs, with the spring reverb and bias tremolo modelled into the amp, sitting between the power amp and the speaker exactly as the hardware does — so the tremolo throbs the reverb tail too. Five minutes free in the app, €12 to keep.
• Tempo sync — tremolo, phaser and flanger lock to the beat, 1/16 up to four bars. In a DAW they follow the session tempo and land on the beat; on their own, set the BPM at the bottom of the window or tap it in. There's a metronome beside it now, too.
• Logic: mono tracks work again — projects saved with NAM 9000 on a mono track opened with the instance missing, and it couldn't be added to a new mono track at all. Fixed, and nothing about the sound changes — the stereo image is still built inside and folded down.
• The delay's first repeat is voiced like every other one — TONE and the DIGITAL/ANALOG/TAPE character used to start working from the second repeat, and did nothing at all with FEEDBACK down. Saved presets will sound a touch darker on the first repeat.
• A log file for when something goes wrong — SETTINGS → DIAGNOSTICS, with OPEN FOLDER and COPY INFO. It stays on your machine — nothing is uploaded — and attaching it to a support mail usually answers the question in one reply.
• Windows: local GPU training installs itself — tick it in a Custom install and everything needed comes along; no Python to install first. Still needs an NVIDIA card and still downloads PyTorch.
• Amp auditions are once per amp per day — trying a catalog amp is still free and needs no key, but the five minutes are now remembered, and an amp's channels share the one audition. Every amp has its own, so there's always more to try.

NAM-9000-Setup-1.10.0-free.exe · 136.2 MB
SHA256: 0c04c2c419339c78731e0a87a46c618a1caf2e85eecba82e71853d48179e2024

NAM-9000-1.10.0-macOS-free.pkg · 303.8 MB
SHA256: 7bcfc5df144eb306b9313f1793e83b2f48d7196560a9282e7316d9fd456468fe

Your presets keep what you put in them

Every fix here came from one player reporting what he heard in an afternoon. The theme: a preset should be a snapshot of your rig, and a few settings weren't behaving that way — some got thrown away on load, others followed you around when they shouldn't have.

• Presets remember your noise gate — save a preset with the GATE set where your guitar and room need it, and it comes back that way. Factory and pack presets still leave your gate alone on purpose: that setting tracks your room, not the tone, and ours came off our capture rig.
• An amp's onboard reverb and tremolo stay with that amp — they belong to the head that has them. They no longer run on every other profile, and they no longer carry from one preset to the next — which could leave a tremolo throbbing away with no knob in sight to stop it.
• Four more settings stopped leaking between presets — the reverb engine (load a Plate preset, then an older one, and its Room reverb was a plate), the delay's stereo offset, IR B alignment, and the multiband compressor being left switched on. Each of these was given a neutral default so older presets would be unaffected — now that promise is actually kept.
• Folder renames tell you what happened — renaming a factory or pack folder isn't possible, and it used to fail in complete silence, which looked exactly like a rename that didn't save. Now it says why, and the option only appears on folders that are yours.

NAM-9000-Setup-1.9.2-free.exe · 92.0 MB
SHA256: cc987f63ffe975923e1fb2137a9bacef39564b682a29587f52627704a365e0e6

NAM-9000-1.9.2-macOS-free.pkg · 303.3 MB
SHA256: 980cc75d06f4b0ba94c31d8a0a1063241dba0d7cf50e3f5eb722d71491049883

Two fixes worth updating for — and a much better browser

1.9.0 shipped with two bugs we're not proud of: Logic mono tracks lost the plugin, and the standalone app could crash on launch. Both are fixed here. While we were at it, the community browser grew up and a nasty freeze went away.

• Logic mono tracks work again — 1.9.0 stopped offering the mono-to-mono configuration, so saved mono-track projects reported the plugin as unavailable and it couldn't be added to a mono track at all. Both work again — and the stereo image is still built internally, then folded down, so nothing sounds thin. Full explanation in the FAQ.
• Standalone startup crash fixed — the app could die at launch depending on your audio device's buffer size and what was loaded last session.
• Big libraries got fast — stepping through profiles and cabs used to freeze the interface for up to eleven seconds once your library grew. Now it's under a second — the more captures and IRs you own, the more you'll feel this one.
• TONE3000 browser, rebuilt — artwork and creator cards instead of a bare list, an expandable browse grid you can drag wider, genre filters, and MY CREATORS to keep the makers you trust one click away.
• macOS scrolling behaves — knobs and faders follow your physical mouse wheel and respect your natural-scrolling setting, instead of turning the wrong way with an external mouse.
• Also: long cab names no longer hide the step arrows, clicking the cab on the amp page opens the cabinet section, and the AC-20 style amp finally reads by its proper name in the app.

NAM-9000-Setup-1.9.1-free.exe · 92.0 MB
SHA256: d2d0f2a61e70300ab18a0aabdad55ee44e5e79a0857295b23f91ed599a882767

NAM-9000-1.9.1-macOS-free.pkg · 303.3 MB
SHA256: e0a4593f726aa7454254beea75413fe1f6c622a836fd2340ebee692003f39f00

Multichannel amps — whole heads, real channel switches

Until now a capture was one sound. These are whole amps: every channel captured as a full gain sweep, on one head with a working channel switch — flip from Clean to Lead and the GAIN knob keeps meaning what it says. Try any of them free for five minutes at a time, as often as you like.

• Four multichannel amps — 5150 III-style 100W and Stealth (Clean/Crunch/Lead), Dual Rectifier-style (Orange/Red × Vintage/Modern) and the boutique AC-20 style (EF86/12AX7 × Bass/Treble). €12 each — and one of them is free with Pro, your pick.
• Five-minute free previews — click any of them in the browser, let a small one-time download finish, and the whole head is yours to play — all channels, full quality, five minutes on the clock. When it runs out your own rig returns, and you can simply audition again.
• Keys, not installs — buying an amp is paste-the-key-and-play: the app fetches the captures itself and caches them offline. No files to manage (a bulk download still exists if you want everything at once).
• Three new drive pedals — NAM BOOST and NAM LEAD (our own circuits — honest branding, no imitation) and CIRCUIT SLAMMER, a boutique overdrive captured across its whole drive range. All with 30-second auditions like the rest.
• Five factory rig presets — mix-ready rigs built on the multichannel amps, in every fresh install — loading one offers the amp's preview so you hear the rig as intended.
• Delay stereo OFFSET — the right side's echoes arrive a few milliseconds late: stereo width without ping-pong, never a flam. The ON/TAP switches now glow with the echoes themselves.
• Brit 800 gets its own head — the free Brit 800 sweep wears proper British-stack panels now — and its top-of-the-knob range was recaptured cleaner.
• Input calibration (dBu) — optional, in settings: match profiles that carry a calibration reference to your interface's actual level — the convention other loaders use, now here.
• Also: honest knob pointers app-wide (rate knobs no longer read as maxed), tremolo speed tamed to real-pedal range, presets remember which drive pedal sat in the screamer slot, and a long list of preset/browser fixes found by testing fresh installs on both platforms.

NAM-9000-Setup-1.9.0-free.exe · 91.5 MB
SHA256: fd32f5cd50bcef951c500c0169655ad66d5a9ccbbed9c94a2680c7d190d3d1c4

NAM-9000-1.9.0-macOS-free.pkg · 301.7 MB
SHA256: d0624456aedda26263339c2a1e3e875efbdc78eef2562e721017612470f0104f

The store opens — and twelve pedals move in

The big one. The preset-pack store is open — and the pedals it sells are already sitting in your app, ready to audition. Every capture we sell is multigain: real knobs riding real captures, not filters.

• The store is open — hero amp packs with a real GAIN knob (€9), multigain drive pedals (€9, five for €19), NAM 9000 Pro (€19) and the free Starter Rigs pack. Offline license keys — no account, ever.
• GD-808 GREEN DRIVE — the tube screamer reborn as a factory pedal. Its DRIVE knob rides a real 9-point gain-sweep capture, so every position is the actual circuit.
• Twelve catalog drive pedals, try before you buy — each one already in your ADD PEDAL menu. Audition free with full features, 30 seconds at a time; a license key removes the limit.
• DRIVE knob on captured pedals — load any gain-swept pedal set in the CAPTURE slot and dial it continuously.
• TONE3000 sign-in — connect your account once in the browser; no more pasted API keys.
• TONE3000 IR browsing — pull cab and room IRs straight into the CAB slot, and right-click any tone for more by the same creator.
• Library organization — folders, multi-select, drag-and-drop import from your computer, delete-key removal.
• Output that protects your monitors — defaults to −3 dB, an AUTO button sets it for you, and the knob lights red if the output ever clips.
• Lite graphics — one switch makes the moving glow, tube flicker and metal textures static — same sound, roughly half the interface CPU.
• Capture studio — train up to 1000 epochs, or set a quality target and stop the moment it's reached.
• Release notes in the app — the update badge now opens a what's-new panel.
• Fixes: library removal updates instantly; the "VCRUNTIME140_1.dll missing" error on fresh Windows installs is gone. Heads-up: DAW sessions saved on 1.7.1 or older restore the old TS9 pedal at DRIVE 50 — presets migrate automatically.

A free hero amp — with the first real GAIN knob

The release where a capture stopped being a snapshot. We captured one amp many times across its actual gain control and taught the GAIN knob to travel through them — then gave that amp away to everyone.

• Brit 800 hero pack — free, in the app — the rock amp, in full-rig and DI versions, yours to keep.
• The real GAIN knob — 18 separate captures across the amp's own gain control. Turn the knob and you move through the amp's actual gain staging, clean sparkle to full crunch.
• Four reverb engines — ROOM, HALL, a real dispersive SPRING with the drip, and a studio PLATE — all with true stereo tails, all free.
• Dual DELAY/REVERB pedal — both time effects on one cleaner face.
• 4-cable-style noise gate — kills high-gain hiss before and after the amp, without chatter.
• Knob explainers — hover any control for a plain-language tip; switch them off when you know the rig.
• Quality-of-life pass — section power switches on the rig plate, a smarter preset menu, Ctrl/Cmd-Z undo, preset hover cards.
• Also: smoother pitch shifting, an in-app update check with the gold badge, WebView2 hardening for fresh Windows installs.

NAM 9000 comes to Mac

One codebase, both studios. The Mac build is universal — native on Apple Silicon and Intel — signed, notarized, and identical in sound to the Windows version.

• macOS support — AU, VST3 and Standalone, universal binary, notarized installer.
• Automatic IR alignment — dual-cab rigs auto-align IR onsets at load, in every edition; Pro adds a ±2 ms fine-align control.
• Tighter capture timing — the capture studio compensates your interface's round-trip latency automatically — cleaner training data, better models.
• Also: FULL / AMP / PEDAL badges in the profile browser, clearer dual-rig level warnings.

The dual rig arrives

The studio trick that defines big rhythm sounds — two complete rigs at once — built into one plugin instance.

• Dual amp playback — two captures in parallel, each with its own level and pan (Pro).
• Dual cab / dual IR — a stereo cab section with two IRs, per-mic pan and phase (Pro).
• Render Rig — bake the whole rig — amps, pedals, EQ, cab — into one standard .nam that runs in any NAM player or hardware unit (Pro).

Play everything. Capture anything.

Where it started: a full rig — amp captures, pedalboard, EQs, multiband compressor, cab and time FX — plus a built-in capture studio that turns your own amp into a profile. Free, no account, no strings. Everything above was added without ever taking anything away.