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Tone
Presets, amp captures, effects, and why a take is never stuck with them.
Start from a preset
Afinar ships with eight tones: Guitar — Clean, Guitar — Drive, Bass — Clean, Bass — Drive, Voice, Strings, Keys, and Direct, your instrument, straight through. Pick one from the name menu at the top of the tone editor and play. Already shaped your sound in hardware, or recording something that needs nothing? Direct is the wire.
The glass readout in the rail always names the tone you’re monitoring, and what’s in its signal.
Edit the tone
Click EDIT TONE (or the readout itself). The editor shows one signal path, left to right: compressor, gate, amp, EQ, delay, reverb. Every slot is optional.
- ·A block is in the signal or out, the ACTIVE switch. Out means silent; its settings keep.
- ·Click any block to open its controls. Touching a control on a block that’s out brings it in: reaching for a knob means you want to hear it.
- ·Drag blocks to reorder them. The order you see is the order the signal runs.
- ·Fine level control lives behind Levels; you shouldn’t need it, levels are handled for you.
Amps are captures
Afinar’s amp block loads Neural Amp Modeler captures: real amps, captured. Bring your own, or browse thousands inside the amp block from the Tone3000 library: free account, a couple of clicks, no plugin folder.
Saving your tones
Stray from a preset and EDITED appears by the name, the tone still knows where it came from. SAVE keeps your changes to your own tone; SAVE AS forks anything, factory presets included, under a name you choose. Clear tone takes you back to Direct.
Each song remembers its tone
Open a bass chart and the bass tone comes back; open the ballad and its clean tone is waiting. Whatever you dial in on a score is what that score restores.
The noise gate
The switch on the rail, under the tone readout. It closes the small hiss an interface picks up between notes: on by default with the driven presets, off with the rest. Its threshold lives with the gate block in the editor.
Never a commitment
The tone you monitor is the tone stamped on the take, but your clean signal is always kept underneath, so you can swap the amp and effects on any take you’ve already recorded. See Listen back.