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Squatch Rig.

A whole guitar rig on a web page: amps, pedals and a cabinet.

Open the rig full screen

The Squatch Rig web page: a chain of amps, pedals and a cabinet connected on a canvasLive

What it does

Connect the pieces however you like and play through the result.

Who it’s for

Players who want to try a chain of gear without buying it.

Why we built it

How it all connects is half the sound, so we made it something you can see and change.

What we’re proud of

A full rig in a browser tab, with nothing to install.

How it works

A rig you wire up yourself.

  1. Start with a guitar loop, or your own instrument through an interface.
  2. Wire pedals, an amp and a cabinet together on the canvas, in any order.
  3. The pedals run as audio worklets and the amp as a neural model in WebAssembly, all inside the page.
  4. Save a rig, share it as a file, or open someone else's.

Get it

Nothing to install. Just play.

Open the rig

Nothing to download or install. Headphones help.

Read the code: github.com/Squatch-Stack/squatch-rig

Try it

The live piece

Play it

LivePress Play to hear a guitar loop through the rigOpen full
Text version: how to use the rig
  1. The rig is a chain of devices drawn left to right: an input, a gate, a pedal, a four-way split into three amp heads and a cabinet, a mixer, an envelope filter, a reverb, a limiter and the output.
  2. Press Play to hear a guitar loop that comes with it, no instrument needed. Pick a different loop, a quick sound or another pedal from the lists, and drag the input and master sliders.
  3. To play your own guitar, choose Input source and pick a microphone or line-in. The browser asks first, and the sound stays in the page.
  4. Everything has a label and works from the keyboard: Tab moves between controls, B bypasses the selected device, Delete removes it, F fits the chain to the window, and undo and redo are buttons. A motion button follows your system setting.
  5. The bundled guitar loops are credited in the app to their dataset, under a Creative Commons licence.

Our sound tools

Where each one runs.

One open sound engine under all four. Each is free, with its source on GitHub.

The Squatch plug-ins

Ten effects for your DAW, as Audio Unit, VST3 and CLAP.

  • MacOut nowSigned by us and notarized by Apple.
  • WindowsComingx64 and ARM64 in v0.3.0, unsigned at first. Tested offline in a Windows DAW on a Windows 11 ARM64 virtual machine; not yet tried live or on real audio hardware.
  • LinuxPartlyThe core sound library, no plug-ins yet.

Squatch Tuner

A strobe tuner that reads a string to a tenth of a cent.

  • BrowserOut nowtuner.squatch.cc, on a computer or a phone.
  • MacOut nowA command-line tuner, notarized, for Apple silicon.
  • LinuxOut nowThe command-line tuner for x86 and ARM.
  • WindowsComingThe command-line tuner, in the v0.3.0 release with the plug-ins.

Squatch Rig

A whole guitar rig on a web page: amps, pedals and a cabinet.

  • BrowserOut nowrig.squatch.cc, in a current browser on a computer. Nothing to install.

The DSP engine

The sound blocks under all of these, in one small C++ library.

  • MacOut nowA static library for Apple silicon.
  • LinuxOut nowA static library for x86-64.
  • BrowserOut nowAs WebAssembly, inside the rig.

Technologies used

What it’s built with.

More work

Keep looking.

The Squatch Tuner, a strobe display reading a guitar stringLiveCaptureInteractive

The tuner locks in 44 ms.

A guitar tuner for your browser and the pedal.

A rolling 3D spectrogram in gold on a dark background: the harmonics of a plucked string rise as ridgesLiveInteractive

A guitar string, drawn by the graphics card.

A guitar string, plucked and drawn as it sounds: a rolling 3D picture of its frequencies.

The Fretwright editor: a four-bar guitar score with its tab underneath and a fretboard belowCapture

Fretwright, a guitar tab editor.

A tablature editor that runs in the browser.

All the work

Get in touch

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