THE RACK. REBORN.

Modern power. Classic rack feel.

A NAM player packed with classic guitar effects, built around the familiar workflow of professional guitar hardware. Load your amp captures. Shape your sound. Get playing.

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DL-1 GUITAR MULTI-EFFECTS

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ForgeEFX DL-1 front panel with green LCD, British Air preset, two rotary controls and navigation buttons

Your preset, front and centre.

A CLASSIC WORKFLOW. A MODERN RIG.
Windows build VST3 Standalone

GOOD TONE.
YOUR OWN PATH.

The familiar logic of a rack, with room to experiment. Keep your drive tight. Give your delay its own lane. Bring it all back together.

Move blocks, split the signal, and reconnect your effects on a flexible routing grid. Your settings and links stay with the block.

Actual DL-1 workflow · choose a step to replay

Choose your building blocks
YOUR SIGNALS. MORE POSSIBILITIES.
Parallel routing: input into drive, split through delay and modulation, then recombine at output INOUTDRIVEDELAYMOD

Two flavours, one signal. Delay and modulation run side by side before meeting at the output.

Routing illustration · switch paths to compare
Up to 16 blocks, including input and output.Serial or parallel. Your call.

CURATED FOR
THE MIX.

Classic drives, modulation, delays and reverbs, ready to pair with your NAM captures. Explore a selection of effects, amps and cabinets chosen for musical character and a useful place in a mix. From the first hint of breakup to the last fading repeat, build a rig around your sound.

DRIVE

29 WAYS TO PUSH IT

This catalogue shows examples from an earlier development build. Release contents and the trial selection are still being finalized.

YOUR AMP.
IN GOOD COMPANY.

Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) brings your amp captures into DL-1. Load your own .nam files with NAM A2 Lite or Full, then place classic guitar effects before or after your amp on the routing grid.

NAM A2 Lite + FullDirect .nam loading

Recorded interface · Silent demonstration

Compatible mono .nam captures trained at 48 kHz, including supported A2 containers. Model files remain external. Captures shown are examples, not bundled content.

Select a step to replay it.

SIX STRINGS.
ONE SWEET SPOT.

Get precise with the strobe tuner, or strum open strings for the polyphonic view. Your effects keep running while you tune.

Actual tuner · simulated guitar input

Fine-tune your reference from 400–480 Hz, with string offsets and drop/capo transposition.

CLASSICACTUAL LCD CAPTURE

SAME SOUL.
YOUR GLOW.

Classic green. Cool emerald. Or a negative display for late-night sessions. Choose Fresh, Faded or Dying conditions for a little extra mileage.

RIGHT AT HOME
IN YOUR SETUP.

Load DL-1 on your guitar track or open the standalone app. Choose a preset, select a block and dial in its parameters. Rotary controls and a focused LCD bring the familiar workflow of professional guitar hardware to your desktop.

FORMAT
Windows development build
VST3 + standalone
AUDIO
Windows standalone: ASIO, WASAPI & DirectSound.
Main and optional auxiliary buses in VST3.
ROUTING
Up to 16 blocks including endpoints.
Serial and parallel paths.
WORKFLOW
Saved presets, host automation and state recall.
Interface scaling from 75% to 150%.

A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS.

What is the difference between Free and Paid?

DL-1 Free includes a selection of effects with no usage or time limits, no added white noise, and no audio blanking. DL-1 Paid includes the complete collection for a one-time payment of $14.99, with lifetime updates, no DRM and no online activations.

Is DL-1 an instrument or an audio effect?

DL-1 is a guitar multi-effects audio processor. Feed it your guitar or a recorded audio track. It does not generate instrument notes. The current development build supports MIDI mapping and learn.

Which formats and platforms are available?

A Windows VST3 and standalone development build is available for testing. macOS is planned; supported release platforms and DAWs are still being verified.

Can I load my own amp captures and cabinet IRs?

You can load compatible mono .nam amp captures trained at 48 kHz. NAM A2 Lite and Full select the smallest and largest profiles of slimmable models. External cabinet IR loading is not included; DL-1 includes 11 cabinet models, including ten new speaker and enclosure models.

What does this effects preview show?

This earlier development catalogue shows 29 drives, 22 modulation effects, 14 delays, 7 reverbs, 6 filters, 18 pitch effects, 4 dynamics, 2 gates, 11 amplifiers, 11 cabinets, and NAM A2 Lite and Full. The host input/output blocks are additional. These examples do not define the final shipping collection.

WE DON’T BELIEVE IN DRM.
WE BELIEVE IN YOU.

Pay once. Use it on any of your hardware.

No activations. No cloud licensing. Just good software that gets the job done.

YOUR RIG.
YOUR CHOICE.

Start free with a selection of included effects. Get the complete collection for $14.99. Either way, keep playing.

DL-1 FREE

$0Free forever

A selection of included effects. Yours to use without limits.

  • No usage limits
  • No time limits
  • No added white noise
  • No audio blanking

Make music for as long as you like.

Download Free

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DL-1 / CLOSER LOOK
DL-1 front panel

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