Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Guitar Effects Program for PC that has Guitar Distortion online effect, lowpass filter, compressor and other effects


This simple program is a software pedal board simulator which works in your browser and any soft installation to your computer is not required. List of supported features of Online Virtual Guitar Processor:
  • Applying different effects sequentially or building effects chain like compressor->Distortion->Some Filter
  • Applying the same effect many times with different parameters like 2 different filters
  • On fly effects parameter changing (playing guitar and change distortion level at the same time)
  • On fly adding/removing effects
  • On fly effects reordering
List of available sound effects for guitar:
  • Distortion pedal, with different parameters can be turned into overdrive or fuzz
  • Bi-Quadratic filters (lowpass, highpass, bandpass, lowshelf, highshelf, peaking, notch, allpass)
  • Echo or delay
  • Compressor
It works in Chrome and Firefox browsers. For me it works better in Chrome, but maybe for some other computer and OS it will work better in Firefox. It really performs realtime sound effects.
It is absolutely free! Watch this video as a demo and another demo with real guitar of this online software.

Update 07 September 2023

    The main update is that the program still works :). Latency has been measured in Windows 11 with a modern updated browser and external/embedded sound card. These are the results:
  • Windows 11 Lenovo Laptop with Google Chrome browser and external sound card: latency (delay) is 87 ms (0.087 seconds)
  • Windows 11 Lenovo Laptop with Firefox browser and external sound card: latency (delay) is 85 ms (0.085 seconds)
  • Windows 11 Lenovo Laptop with Google Chrome browser and embedded sound card: latency (delay) is 111 ms (0.111 seconds)
  • Windows 11 Lenovo Laptop with Firefox browser and embedded sound card: latency (delay) is 128 ms (0.128 seconds)
The conclusion is that latency or delay depends mostly on hardware. Both browsers Chrome and Firefox have similar results. An expensive external sound card should be better and will have smaller (lower) latency (delay). In this test, cheap Chinese 10 Euro external USB sound card was used and it has around 30% smaller latency.

Update 10 June 2017

  • Firefox support has been improved. Now it works completely fine in Firefox.
  • Latency (delay) has been reduced. 70 ms (0.07 seconds) in FireFox, 200 ms (0.2 seconds) in Google Chrome and 45 ms (0.045 seconds) in MacBook Pro with Safari.
Available Effects:
Selected Effects:

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