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Audio plugins on your channel — Jamodio's unique feature

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Hardware compressors with attack / release / ratio knobs — the spirit of plugins integrated into Jamodio — The studio feel, straight into your Jamodio channel.

⚡ Jamodio differentiator

Why it's rare (or unique)

Other remote rehearsal platforms (JamKazam, JamTaba, SonoBus, FarPlay…) are excellent at transporting your audio between musicians, but they stop there. If you want to add a reverb on your voice or an amp simulator on your guitar, you have to fire up a DAW on the side, set up complicated audio routing (Loopback, BlackHole, IAC…) and struggle to sync everything.

Jamodio integrates native audio plugins directly — AU on macOS and VST3 on Windows — into the studio mixer. You load any plugin already installed on your machine, you play, and your musicians immediately hear the processed sound. Just like in a real studio — but with your band 500 km away.

Jamodio does not ship any plugin : you bring your own collection (Logic, AmpliTube, Valhalla, Surge XT, Native Instruments…), and Jamodio handles getting them to work online with your band.

The essentials in 10 seconds

Load an AU (macOS) or VST3 (Windows) plugin straight on your channel in the mixer.
Your musicians hear the sound after processing (reverb, amp, comp…).
MIDI instrument plugins (piano, virtual drums…) supported via USB keyboard or virtual port.
Requires Audio Engine (agent) mode — ~20 ms ear-to-ear latency unchanged.

3 use cases that change everything

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Voice

Reverb on the talkback voice

A hall or plate reverb adds ambience to your voice — others hear you as if you were singing in a real room, more natural than a dry, close-mic'd voice. A must for remote choir rehearsals.

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Guitar

Amp simulator on your DI guitar

You plug your guitar in directly (without a physical amp) into your audio interface. Jamodio inserts a virtual amp sim: your musicians hear a Marshall, Fender, Mesa Boogie… chosen inside the plugin. Without bringing your stack.

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MIDI

Virtual piano / drums via MIDI

Connect your USB MIDI keyboard (or a drum pad). Jamodio routes it to a virtual piano or sampler. You play, the sound is generated by the plugin and sent to your musicians. Ideal for the pianist without their piano on hand, or the drummer rehearsing on pads.

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Zero added latency if the plugin is light.
Most plugins (reverbs, EQ, Apple native comp, AmpliTube in basic mode) process the audio block in under 1 ms per buffer — invisible in the total ear-to-ear latency (~20 ms). Jamodio automatically rejects plugins that are too slow (intrinsic latency > 64 samples) by greying them out in the picker.

Procedure — 3 minutes to add your first plugin

Launch the Audio Engine

Open Jamodio and check the badge in the top right: it should display Audio Engine in green. If not, download and launch the native agent (a small macOS / Windows binary ~4 MB).

Enter a studio

Create or join a studio. In the mixer you see your "You" channel on the left, with the usual pan, fader, mute, solo and REC.

Click + FX

Just below the M/S/R buttons, a + FX button appears on your channel. Click → a modal opens with every audio plugin installed on your machine, sorted by manufacturer. Search by name if needed.

Pick a plugin

Click the plugin → the modal closes. Your channel now shows [● bypass] [Plugin name] [✕ remove]. The processed sound immediately starts flowing to your musicians and your headphones.

Tweak the plugin

Click the plugin name → a native window (macOS or Windows) opens with the plugin's real GUI (sliders, buttons, 3D amp for amp sims…). Just like in a DAW. Tweak, close the window — settings are preserved.

A/B bypass

The ● button left of the name bypasses the plugin to compare processed vs raw sound. Green = active, grey = bypassed.

Special case: instrument plugins via MIDI

For instrument plugins (= virtual pianos, virtual drums, synths, samplers), Jamodio automatically switches your input source to MIDI mode when you load that type of plugin. You then have two options to play:

USB MIDI keyboard — plug it in, it appears in the MIDI device list under My Settings → Input source. Play, the plugin responds, your musicians hear it.
Built-in virtual keyboard — no USB keyboard? Click the 🎹 button on your channel to open a 4-octave mini keyboard (C2-C6). Mouse click, glissando, or physical keyboard shortcuts (Z X C V for white keys, S D G for black keys).
From an external DAW — Logic Pro or Ableton Live can send their MIDI output to Jamodio Virtual MIDI (a virtual port automatically created by the agent at launch, visible in every macOS MIDI tool).

Jamodio channel in MIDI mode with AUMIDISynth plugin loaded and virtual keyboard button — Your channel switches to **MIDI** mode (purple badge on top) as soon as an instrument plugin is loaded. The 🎹 button at the bottom opens the virtual keyboard.

Built-in virtual MIDI keyboard, 4 octaves C2-C6 — The built-in virtual keyboard — 4 octaves (C2-C6), playable with the mouse (glissando), physical keyboard, or via a USB keyboard.

macOS : any AudioUnit v2 or v3 plugin installed in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ or ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ is listed automatically.
Windows : any VST3 plugin installed in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\ or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\VST3\ is listed automatically.
Proprietary plugins (AmpliTube, TONEX, Surge XT, Valhalla, Logic Pro instruments…) are recognized if installed and activated on the machine — Jamodio doesn't ship any plugin, you bring them yourself.

Known limitations

✓ macOS supported

✓ Windows supported

Audio Engine mode required — pure browser mode has no access to native plugins.
1 plugin per channel at MVP. Chaining multiple plugins (= 2-3 insert slots per channel) is on the roadmap.
VST2 not supported on Windows (format deprecated by Steinberg). VST3 only.

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Ready to try?
Launch Jamodio, check that your Audio Engine is active, and click + FX on your channel. That's it.

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