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NAMPER · USER GUIDE

Every knob, explained.

NAMper turns an iPhone or iPad into a complete guitar rig: Neural Amp Modeler profiles of real amps, a routable pedalboard, your own Audio Unit plugins, a four-track looper that keeps time for you, sampler pads, backing tracks with a lyrics teleprompter, and MIDI control over all of it.

START HEREFive minutes to your first sound

  1. Plug your guitar in — through an audio interface if you have one, or just play into the phone with headphones on.
  2. Open the Rig tab and tap the power button in the top-right corner. Nothing makes a sound until it is on.
  3. Play. Watch the IN meter beside the amp card — a hard strum should reach the top third. If it does not, raise Input trim in Settings.
  4. Tap a preset in the PRESETS rail: Clean, Crunch, Lead or Ambient.
  5. Tap any block in the chain to open it, and tap the little dot underneath a block to switch it off and on.
If you hear nothing

On the built-in mic and speaker NAMper mutes itself on purpose, so your phone does not howl. See the feedback guard.

The Rig tab with a NAM amp profile loaded, the signal chain and the preset rail
The Rig tab — amp card on top, signal chain below, presets on the right

THE GUIDEEverything, chapter by chapter

01 · Getting started
Audio interfaces, sample rate and buffer, the power button, the meters, the feedback guard, and where your files live.
02 · Rig & signal chain
The blocks palette, NAM profiles and TONE3000, cab IRs, the five EQ models, presets, multiple rigs, branches and the master section.
03 · AU plugins
Adding your own Audio Unit effects to a chain — and running NAMper itself as an AUv3 effect inside GarageBand, AUM or Logic.
04 · Looper
Four synced tracks, the circular pads, AUTO arming and bar snapping, the loop editor, undo, tempo and the click.
05 · Sampler pads
Sixteen pads, the four factory kits, importing and recording samples, the pad editor, and trigger quantize.
06 · Perform & lyrics
Backing tracks, setlists and sections, preset markers, the lyrics teleprompter, multitrack recording and DAWproject export.
07 · MIDI & control
MIDI learn, the built-in CC map, Bluetooth MIDI pairing, taught sound triggers, and the tuner.
08 · Settings reference
Every card and every row in the Settings sheet, with its default and what it actually changes.

ORIENTATIONThe five tabs

TabWhat lives there
RigThe amp, the signal chain and the presets. The only tab with the header bar, so the power button, Settings, the tuner, the key and the metronome all live here.
LoopThe four-track looper.
SampleThe sixteen sampler pads and their kits.
PerformBacking tracks, the setlist, the lyrics teleprompter and your recordings.
ControlThe MIDI map, taught sound triggers and Bluetooth MIDI pairing.

On iPad the same five tabs sit across the top and the rig lays out edge to edge, with the signal chain running left to right and the preset rail down the side.

NAMper on iPad: the rig laid out edge to edge with the preset rail on the right
The same rig on iPad
The quick tour

NAMper runs an eight-step spotlight tour over the live interface the first time you open it. You can replay it whenever you like from Settings → PROMPTS → Replay the quick tour.

STUCK?Getting help

  • Ask in the Telegram community — that is the fastest way to reach other players and the developer.
  • Report a bug or request a feature on the issue tracker.
  • If audio is misbehaving, Settings → DIAGNOSTICS → Share engine log gives you a plain-text log of interface routing and peaks to attach to a report.