Ill SeaILL SEA
NoAMP● coming soon● out now
NoAMP 0.334, the full board in one window: the TOONZ tuner, SQUATCH compressor, WINES wah, HORUS chorus, HAZE phaser, SWELL, OCTA, two NAM amp slots, SUCKTRONICS, EQ, the LAYERZ delay, the SPRING reverb on its Mist engine and the HOOPER looper
NoAMP

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A guitar rig for the synth-brained. The whole rig in one window, minus the amp. The amp is whatever .nam capture you load; there are thousands out there, free, made with Neural Amp Modeler.

Around it sits a real board: tuner, compressor, a wah with no heel or toe click, chorus, phaser, synced delay, a reverb with five engines (from springs to a cassette-worn Mist) and an infinite freeze, and a looper that behaves like the pedal on your floor, run from your actual MIDI hardware. One plugin. No chains.

And past the board: STIX, a drum machine; VOX, a vocal channel; MIX, a mixer for all of it; and GEN, modulators for almost any knob. All four come with NoAMP.

STATUSCOMING SOONOUT NOWPRICE$40 · LAUNCH $10TRIAL30 DAYS, NO CARDFORMATWIN64 VST3 + STANDALONE
Past the board, all included
Four more deviceseach in its own window
STIXdrum machine
STIX: a seven-row step grid for kick, snare, two toms, hats and cymbal, kit and beat slots, and the WHOLE KIT knobs (Tape and Width among them) with a NAM card and an IR card

Seven drum voices, each with four synth models, that you can layer with samples: the synth tunes itself to the sample. Four patterns per beat, 15 factory kits and 63 factory beats in eight styles. Swing, and a Human knob so it never plays two bars quite the same. Tape and Width on the kit bus; its own console runs the whole kit through a capture and a room IR, and LINK starts it with the looper.

VOXvocal channel
VOX: the vocal channel with its EQ screen, input and output meters, and the FX page knobs

A channel strip for a mic on your interface: an EQ you drag on screen, one-knob compression, pitch correction with four harmonies, echo, reverb, chorus and doubling. RING OUT notches what rings in your room; FB Guard catches feedback before it runs away.

MIXthe mixer
MIX: six faders with meters for guitar, vox, STIX, the HOOPER looper, click and master

Six faders with meters: guitar, vox, STIX, the looper (HOOPER), click and master. Every fader and mute is MIDI-learnable, and presets never move them.

GENmodulators
GEN: two LFOs and an envelope follower

Two LFOs and an envelope follower. Right-click almost any knob on the board, map one, set the depth, and the knob moves on its own, synced to the board's tempo or free.

The board, in signal order
Signal chain
TOONZ › SWELL › SQUATCH › OCTA › WINES › HORUS › HAZE
  › YOUR .NAM A ‖ YOUR .NAM B › SUCKTRONICS
  › LAYERZ › SPRING › EQ › HOOPER

You bring the dirt too. Two capture slots for amps, a Color slot in front of each for drive and fuzz captures, cab IRs, and arrows that step a whole folder, so you can audition a pack without touching the mouse.

Steps below.

In the box
  • Every pedal ships as its own VST3 too, eight modules in the box, each with its own manual page.
  • MIDI learn on everything, right-click any control, bind a CC. Preset steppers and the looper included.
  • Peak-safe auto-leveling, every capture lands at the same loudness. There’s a Raw switch if you’d rather it didn’t.
  • Offline license file, no account in the plugin, no phoning home, and all future updates free.
  • Signed binaries · Windows 64-bit · VST3 + standalone .exe (no DAW needed).
Buying from Ill Sea
Straight answersIll Sea LLC · Seattle, WA
Secure checkoutCard payment through Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe, never to us.
Try it, then decide30 days free, no card needed. Bought it and it isn’t right? Tell us within 14 days: we fix it or refund you.
Yours, offlineYour license is a small file. No account, nothing phones home.
Updates are freeEvery future version works with the license file you already have.
Signed softwareWindows binaries signed by Ill Sea LLC, so Windows knows who made them.
A real person[email protected]. We usually reply within a day or two.
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No spam, no list-selling. One heads-up when it’s live.

Buy it

$40. Or type LAUNCH at checkout while the promo lasts and it’s $10. One license, offline, yours forever, and updates are free, always. Not right for you? Refund within 14 days.

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Card checkout through Stripe. License + download land the second you pay.
By checking out you agree to the License & Disclaimer: provided “as is,” no warranty, your ears, gear and computer at your own risk.
Try it free

30 days, the whole thing, no card. One trial per email, ever.

Start the trialinstant license file
Your license file + the software download link appear right here (and by email).
By starting the trial you agree to the License & Disclaimer: provided “as is,” no warranty, your ears, gear and computer at your own risk.
From zero to your own rig in five steps
Quick start
  1. Get it and install. Buy or start the free trial above; the download link arrives with your license (on screen and by email). Copy NoAMP.vst3 into C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3, put NoAMP.exe anywhere. Rescan in your DAW, or double-click the exe.
  2. Get amps. Grab free .nam captures from tone3000.com (a huge library, filter by amp type and gain) or tonehunt.org. Captures are made with Neural Amp Modeler, Steven Atkinson’s open-source project. Make a folder like Documents\NAMs.
  3. Load an amp. Click Choose .nam on amp A and pick a capture. The arrows step the whole folder; audition a pack hands-free.
  4. Load dirt. Each amp’s Color slot takes a drive, fuzz or boost capture IN FRONT of the amp; tone3000 has pedal categories too. Capture into capture, exactly like a pedal into an amp.
  5. License. Open NoAMP once, then double-click your license file. Done, forever, offline, and every future update is free with it.

Full walkthrough with the cab-IR step: the NoAMP manual.

One manual page per device
Modules8 pedals + the board
NoAMPthe board: header, tempo, NORM / NERD, leveling, private FX, license
Toonztuner: strobe-first LCD, NORM / NERD readout, standard through 8-string
Wineswah: nonlinear ZDF sweep and the Set Low / Set High pedal calibration
Squatchcompressor: FET-style squeeze, 4:1 to All, parallel mix
Shimmerchorus: 2–6 detuned voices, dispersive top, mid/side spread
Hazephaser: voiced allpass cascade with a chaos engine
Layerzdelay: note-value sync, layouts, mod, bit-crush trails, freeze
Springsreverb: spring / FDN / IR engines and tempo-synced Freeze windows
Loopzlooper: the 4-switch cycle, quantized punch-out, multiply
Tips

Your USB MIDI stomp goes silent until you replug it? That’s Windows putting USB to sleep, not your gear: turn off USB selective suspend (two minutes, step by step).

Ableton Live won’t MIDI-learn? Live doesn’t hand MIDI to effect plugins. Click Configure on the device panel, drag the knob you want in the plugin window, then map that panel knob with Live’s own Ctrl+M: full steps.

MIDI wah feels wrong at the ends? Calibrate it: heel down, SET LOW; toe down, SET HIGH: the walkthrough.

Questions
Before you buy
What do I need?
A Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit). Use NoAMP as a VST3 in your DAW, or on its own as a standalone app, no DAW needed. There is no Mac version yet.
Where do the amps come from?
NoAMP plays .nam amp captures made with the open-source Neural Amp Modeler. Thousands are free at tone3000.com and tonehunt.org; here is how.
How does the trial work?
Enter your email: a 30-day license file and the download link appear on screen and arrive by email. The whole board, no card. One trial per email.
What happens without a license?
NoAMP plays 10 minutes of full audio per session. Load a license file and it is back at once.
Do I need to be online?
Only to download. Your license is checked on your own computer, and NoAMP only looks for a new version when you choose Check for updates.
What if it isn’t right for me?
Write to [email protected] within 14 days of buying. We’ll fix the problem, or refund the full price if we can’t or it simply isn’t for you. The details.
Are updates free?
Yes. Every future version works with the license file you already have.
Something not working?
Write to [email protected] or use the contact form. A real person reads it, usually within a day or two.
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