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March 31, 2026 · View on GitHub

VSTProfiler - Guitar Amplifier Simulator

VSTProfiler is an open-source audio plugin (VST3 / AU / Standalone) designed to accurately model and reproduce the sound and dynamic behavior of legendary guitar amplifiers using impulse responses, circuit modeling, and lightweight machine learning.
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Table of Contents

About The Project
- Built With
Getting Started
- Prerequisites
- Installation
Usage
Contributing
License

About The Project

EIP 2025–2026 — Technical Track Final-year engineering project (started in 4th year) developed by 4 students from Epitech Paris.

The goal of VSTProfiler is to provide guitarists with a free, open-source, and highly customizable tool capable of “copying” the tone and feel of real amplifiers, with audio quality comparable to commercial solutions.

Key Features

Impulse Response capture and loading (custom capture tools)
Non-linear tube modeling (12AX7, EL34, etc.)
Speaker cabinet and speaker emulation
Oversampling up to 16× for zero aliasing
Modern, skinnable JUCE-based UI
Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS Apple Silicon, Linux — target)

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Built With

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

for windows:

cmake
...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

choco install pkgconfiglite

choco install curl

for linux

cmake
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to be documented

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Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/QuentinStoll/Profiler.git

use the install script

windows:

.\install.bat

linux:

./install.sh