Guitar Kit 1.3.0 is available, this update is free for owners of our guitar amplifier simulator and includes:
Added Apple M1 support
Minimum required macOS is 10.13
Guitar amplifier simulator with cabinet and microphone
HoRNet Guitar Kit is a guitar amplifier simulator that also includes a cabinet and a microphone simulators.
Modeled guitar amplifier simulator
What sets Guitar Kit apart is its use of physical models for each of the three modules. Many guitar amplifier simulators rely on convolved impulse responses to emulate specific units, such as particular amps or cabinets. While this method accurately replicates certain equipment, it limits your ability to customize your rig, as each model becomes a static “picture” of the emulated unit.
Guitar Kit, on the other hand, uses physical models to offer a broad range of sound options. You can select the tubes for each amplifier section, choose the cabinet speaker and type, and adjust the microphone type and placement. Moreover, you can activate or deactivate each of Guitar Kit’s three modules independently, enabling you to explore various sounds beyond the typical guitar tone. You can also apply the cabinet or microphone emulation to different sources, increasing your flexibility.
The guitar amplifier simulator for you live
Guitar Kit is a guitar amplifier simulator that operates in real-time without latency, making it ideal for live performances. Even with the “high quality” mode enabled, which oversamples the processing 8x, it remains efficient with low CPU usage
Presets
Guitar Kit comes with twelve presets made to show how the plugin flexibility can achieve some of the most popular distinctive amp sounds, the presets can be used from your host preset browser (for VST and AU hosts only)
Demo
The demo is fully functional except for the fact that every now and then it will silence out, you cannot save parameter values with your session and the plugin will not respond to automation coming from the host.
Features
- Each module can be turned on or off individually.
- Amplifier simulation made by three tube stage (high gain, preamp, power amp).
- Tubes can be chosen between 6 different models for preamp and 6 models for power amp.
- Tone stack section can be chosen between three models or turned off.
- Amp module can work in standard (4x oversampling) or high quality mode (8x oversampling).
- Cabinet can be chosen between open or closed.
- Speaker model can be chosen between4 different models.
- Cabinet resonance is modeled on the specific speaker chosen.
- Microphone model can be chosen between 4 different models.
- Microphone distance from speaker can be freely adjusted.
- Microphone position on the speaker axis can be freely adjusted.
- Frequency response based on microphone position ant type is faithfully modeled.
- Mac OS X (>=10.7) and Windows support.
- 64-bit compatibility both on Mac and Windows.
- App, Audio Units, VST, VST3, RTAS and AAX format.
- Apple Silicon native support (except for AAX)
Copy protection
The HoRNet Guitar Kit has no copy protection, I don’t believe in copy protection, they are always cracked and they are annoying for the users, we all know you are not going to give away the plugin on the internet…
So simply download the plugin and enjoy your recordings!
If this plugin had as much options and models as the likes of Guitar Rig and Amplitube then it would be king. That said, for a little plugin you cant do allot of tweaking and get some really warm sounding tones. In fact, I am impressed with Hornet in general. Fantastic prices for plugins that are certainly not lacking in quality when compared to the other big names out there..
I've only played around with crunchy hard rock higher gain tones, and I gotta say, it sounds good and feels good. There's plenty of sound to be had from the cab and mic choices, or use your own impulse responses.
This amp is great for single coil telecaster and for humbuckers. Nice cleans and gritty cleans, and can get some warm classic tones, as well. One thing I really like is that it is simple to tweak, so I am not spending an hour playing with knobs, but get my ideas recorded straight away. I own most of the expensive amp sims, and frankly, I am totally impressed by the sound of this inexpensive amp kit!
I really like the flexibility of Guitar Kit. It sounds very analog. Like a real amp you have to take your time and work with it to get your sound. I really like the fact that you have all the different elements to work with rather than a cookie cutter emulation. You can actually create "your" sound or sounds. The different tonestacks, preamp tubes and cabinets, along with the different mics is such a brilliant way of doing this sim.
Nice preamp with many different tube combinations.
Speaker simulation is very subtle, not bad but personally I preffer to turn it off and combine the GuitarKit preamp with Audified MultiCabinet or AmpliTube (where I turn the preamp off).
It sounds better than GuitarRig or Brainworx Megadual to my ears.