Tones from TONE3000

Browse the TONE3000 community library from inside Plectrify and load an amp capture as an ordinary patch — no files to find, unzip or point a plugin at.

TONE3000 is a community library of amp captures — recordings of a real amplifier’s behaviour that a plugin can play back — and impulse responses. Plectrify can browse it and load from it directly, so a tone someone captured this morning is a couple of clicks from your rack.

You do not need anything installed first. Neural Amp Modeler, the plugin that plays these captures, ships with Plectrify, and captures download on demand.

Browsing

Press Browse TONE3000. Plectrify opens TONE3000’s own site in a window of its own, which means you get their real catalogue: their search, their filters, their tags, and their audition players so you can hear a capture before you take it. There is no smaller copy of their library inside Plectrify to work around.

Sign in with your TONE3000 account the first time. The window remembers where it was — size, position, the page you were on and how far down it you had scrolled — so closing it and coming back puts you where you left off rather than at the top of a fresh search.

Loading a tone

Pick a tone on their page and Plectrify takes it from there: it downloads the capture and saves it as an ordinary patch.

That is the whole design. A downloaded tone is not a special kind of object with its own panel and its own rules — it appears in the module drawer beside your own patches, in a module’s patch menu, and it is recalled by a rig like anything else. Drag it onto a module and play.

Where a tone offers several models — the same capture at different sizes — Plectrify picks one for you. They are the same amp; being asked to choose between them while holding a guitar is a question with no useful answer.

Credit where it is due

Every capture is somebody’s work. A tone loaded from TONE3000 carries its creator, its licence and a link to its page, shown on its drawer tile and in the patch menu, and it keeps them when it is saved into a rig. The tile shows the tone’s own photograph rather than a knob layout, because every capture here is the same plugin with the same six controls — the picture of the amp is the thing you are actually choosing between.

A module playing a TONE3000 tone therefore arrives finished: its knobs are already mapped and its plugin editor stays shut. Everything else about the module is yours as usual — move it, rename it, recolour it, bypass it, or load a different patch over it.

Where the files go

Captures and impulse responses land in a tone3000 folder under the same shared content root the Packages panel uses:

They are files on your disk, downloaded under your own account and TONE3000’s terms. Plectrify does not redistribute them and never bundles them into anything you export.

Your account stays out of the web page

Plectrify’s interface is a web page, and that page also hosts third-party plugin windows — so it is deliberately never given your TONE3000 credentials. The sign-in, the token, the downloads and the files are all handled by the app itself. The page only ever sees the finished patch.

Signing out removes the stored credential and the browser window’s cookies with it.