Frequently Asked Questions
Amp Rack is a Guitar Effects Processor for Android. You can use it to put some effects on your Guitar, voice, or any other instrument.
Amp Rack is a LADSPA Plugin Host for Android. It supports LADSPA SDK v1.1 plugins. Since ANdroid does not (easily) support loading dynamic modules, a lot (!) of plugins (shared files) have been included in the APK.
Amp Rack takes in audio input, runs it through loaded plugins, and sends output to an audio device, optionally recording it to an audio file.
We use the Oboe framework by Google, and Amp Rack achieves Low Latency due to native code and high performance tuning.
Click this button to start the effects engine.
Click the + Effect button to show the effect plugins dialog
By default the list shows all available effects. You can add some plugins to your favorites, and toggle the show favourites button to show only liked effects
You can filter the plugins list to show only one type, such as Distortion, Echo, Reverb, Delay, Chorus etc. A number of plugin types are available.
Click the + button to add plugin to the effects chain, or ♡ button to add plugin to favourites
Move the sliders to change effect parameters. Labels above parameters indicate name of the parameter.
Absolutely! Putting a compress before and after a distortion effect has completely different connotations. Try for yourself and find out!
Click on the record button to enable recording before you turn on the effect engine. :bulb: You cannot turn recording on or off while the effect engine is running. :bulb: You can record a backing track with chords or rhythm which can be played on loop.
