Amplarium

Amplarium is Suono's guitar-focused audio plugin suite. The goal is to give guitarists and producers a fast, honest path from raw signal to finished tone — without the overhead of bulky physical rigs.

The project covers amp and cabinet simulation at its core, with additional processing tools in the pipeline. All of it is in active development; nothing has shipped yet.

Specifications, pricing, and release timing have not been announced. Get in touch below if you have questions.

A guitar tone chain is built from two problems that need different solutions. An impulse response (IR) is a short recording that captures how a specific cabinet, speaker and microphone placement colors a signal — load it, and a plugin can run any input through that same coloration. It's precise and cheap to compute, but it only describes the passive, linear part of a rig: the cabinet and the mic, not the amp's own distortion.

Neural amp modeling (NAM) targets the other half — the amplifier's own nonlinear behavior, learned from real recordings of an amp being played. Where an IR describes what a speaker does to a signal, a NAM model describes what the amp itself does to it. Run one after the other — amp modeling first, cabinet convolution second — and the chain mirrors how the real thing works: guitar into amp, amp into a mic'd cabinet.

A tone chain built this way can run with just an IR, just a NAM model, or both, and it's designed to keep working with neither loaded — nothing engaged just means the signal passes through unprocessed instead of failing. Which combination matters depends on what's being preserved: an IR alone is enough for a cabinet's coloration, a NAM model alone carries an amp's character over any cab, and both together is the closest match to one specific real rig.

Amplarium tones are designed to travel as .tonepack files. Each .tonepack holds exactly one tone — a single container with a manifest plus whatever's needed to reproduce the sound: a cabinet impulse response (IR), a neural amp model (NAM), or both.

Neither is required on its own. A pack can carry just an IR, just a NAM model, or the pair — so a tone stays portable without extra setup.

Structurally, that container stays simple on purpose: one manifest describing the tone, plus whichever of an IR file, a NAM model or a cover image apply. There's no bank of presets inside — one .tonepack is one tone, so building a collection means gathering individual packs rather than scrolling through someone else's bundled preset list.

The primary audience is guitarists who already have a rig worth preserving — a touring backline, a pedal chain, a specific amp-and-cabinet pairing that took years to land on. The idea is to let that player capture the setup once, as IR and/or NAM data, and keep it as something portable instead of something that only exists in one room on one night.

The secondary audience is everyone on the receiving end — a producer, a collaborator, or a listener — who wants to hear a tone exactly as its creator shaped it, through the same plugin, without needing to own the same physical gear.

Looking for something to use today instead of a roadmap? Suono also runs a free, browser-based audio tools collection — no plugin, no install.