ToobAmp

Experimental release for field testing.

• Fixes for ALSA crashes when using TooB Cab IR, or TooB Convolution Reverb with buffer sizes smaller than 64 samples.
• Revised layouts for Native UI layouts to avoid scrolling at default sizes.
• Support for Neural Amp Modeler A2 models (alpha state, pending final general release of upstream A2 models).

Currently x86_64 only.

New in this release:

• New TooB Phaser plugin.
• New TooB Tremolo plugin.
• New TooB Graphic EQ plugin.
• New TooB 3-band EQ plugin
• New TooB Parametric EQ plugin.
• New TooB Tone plugin: A simple one-dial tone control.
• TooB Convolution Reverb: stretch, or pitch-shift reverb I/R files.
• TooB NAM: Optional threaded background processing for additional instances.
• Dynamically load A72- or A76-optimized (Pi 4 or Pi 5) code on aarch64.
• New Wet/Dry controls for TooB Chorus, TooB Flanger, TooB Phaser

Bug fixes:

• Rebuilt to support Debian 12-derived distros..

Packages have been tested on the following operating systems, but may work with other Debian-derived distros as well.

To install, download the package for your platform, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.2.75_aarch64.deb

or

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.2.75_amd64.deb

The warning message about missing permissions given by apt-get is harmless and can be ignored. Please note that apt and dpkg will NOT install package dependencies; you MUST use apt-get to install these packages after downloading them.

RETRACTED: Runs on Debian 13, but not Debian 12. Fix coming shortly.

New in this release:

• New TooB Phaser plugin.
• New TooB Tremolo plugin.
• New TooB Graphic EQ plugin.
• New TooB 3-band EQ plugin
• New TooB Parametric EQ plugin.
• New TooB Tone plugin: A simple one-dial tone control.
• TooB Convolution Reverb: stretch, or pitch-shift reverb I/R files.
• TooB NAM: Optional threaded background processing for additional instances.
• Dynamically load A72- or A76-optimized (Pi 4 or Pi 5) code on aarch64.
• New Wet/Dry controls for TooB Chorus, TooB Flanger, TooB Phaser

Packages have been tested on the following operating systems, but may work with other Debian-derived distros as well.

To install, download the package for your platform, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.2.74_aarch64.deb

or

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.2.74_amd64.deb

The warning message about missing permissions given by apt-get is harmless and can be ignored. Please note that apt and dpkg will NOT install package dependencies; you MUST use apt-get to install these packages after downloading them.

New in this release:

• New TooB Noise Gate plugin.
• New TooB Mix and Volume plugins.
• New TooB 4Looper, and TooB One-Button Looper plugins.
• New TooB Record Input plugins (record mono and stereo inputs to file).
• Significant improvements to x11/Cairo user interfaces for LV2 hosts other than PiPedal.
• Compatibility fixes for Reaper.
• Official support for Ubuntu 24.x as well as Raspberry Pi OS, and for Ubuntu x64/amd64.

Bug fixes:

• TooB Record Input plugins correctly play recorded audio files.
• Improvements to TooB Tuner stability and accuracy.
• TooB Tuner detects pitches above Bb4.

Package have been tested on the following operating systems, but may work with other Debian-derived distros as well.

To install, download the package for your platform, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.1.61_aarch64.deb

or

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.1.61_amd64.deb

The warning message about missing permissions given by apt-get is harmless and can be ignored. Please note that apt and dpkg will NOT install package dependencies; you MUST use apt-get to install these packages after downloading them.

New in this release:

• New TooB 4Looper, and TooB One-Button Looper plugins.
• New TooB Record Input plugins (record mono and stereo inputs to file).
• Significant improvements to x11/Cairo user interfaces for LV2 hosts other than PiPedal.
• Compatibility fixes for Reaper.
• Official support for Ubuntu 24.x as well as Raspberry Pi OS, and for Ubuntu x64/amd64.

Package have been tested on the following operating systems, but may work with other Debian-derived distros as well.

To install, download the package for your platform, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.1.58_aarch64.deb

or

sudo apt-get install ./toobamp_1.1.58_amd64.deb

The warning message about missing permissions given by apt-get is harmless and can be ignored. Please note that apt and dpkg will NOT install package dependencies; you MUST use apt-get to install these packages after downloading them.

An experimental build to test installation of ToobAmp on Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 and amd64.

Raspberry PI OS Bookworm or
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (arm64)

• https://github.com/rerdavies/ToobAmp/releases/download/v1.1.53/toobamp_1.1.53_arm64.deb

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (x64/amd64)

• https://github.com/rerdavies/ToobAmp/releases/download/v1.1.53/toobamp_1.1.53_amd64.deb

TooB Neural Amp Modeler: 15% performance improvement for large Wavenet models.

Bug fixes:

• TooB Freeverb gets exponentially slower each time it gets loaded.
• Toob Convolution Reverb deadlocks when using small buffer sizes.
• Float denormalization protection for several plugins.

(Re-issue of TooBAmp v1.1.50.

TooB Neural Amp Modeler: 15% performance improvement for large Wavenet models.

Bug fixes:

• TooB Freeverb gets exponentially slower each time it gets loaded.
• Toob Convolution Reverb deadlocks when using small buffer sizes.
• Float denormalization protection for several plugins.

Bug fixes:

• Correct Raspberry PI OS bookworm package dependency on out-of-date FLAC libraries.

Preparing to sync with forthcoming PiPedal release.

An Ubuntu installer package will follow shorty.

Bug fixes:

• Toob Convolution Reverb filenames not updating in UI.
• Sync build number portion of version number with PiPedal.

• Added TooB Neural Amp Modeler

New in this release:

• File browser compatibility fixes for NAM, MOD plugins.
• Revised resource file publication extension.

New in this release:

• TooB BF-2 Flanger, emulation of a famous flanger.
• TooB Stereo Convolution Reverb
• Factory plugin presets for new and existing plugins.

• Dramatic performance improvements for TooB Convolution Reverb and Toob Cab IR. Convolution effects run up to 10 times faster.