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Jeff Ward

JAMtime.ai - Just tell your guitar pedal how to sound

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Tweaking knobs is a time-honored tradition in sound design. Chatting with AI is revolutionizing industries. JAMtime.ai embraces both, while keeping the human firmly in the driver's seat. Build and tweak your guitar pedal with phrases as simple or technical as you like, from "brighter" to "comb filter into a plate reverb." The AI writes a real DSP graph, not generated audio. Come fall in love with the JAMtime.ai workflow. Then take it to your DAW with free VST/AU plugins for Mac, Windows, Linux.

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Jeff Ward
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I've been writing software for 20+ years, and playing with music my whole life. Watching how AI has revolutionized software development made me realize: Audio devices have always been knobs and menus, but musicians describe sound in words - bright, gritty, doomy, or that 80s rock ballad intro. That gap is exactly where I started building a bridge. I built a small language (JDL) that describes a real DSP graph, taught an AI how to write it fluently, and let my C++ engine run the graph against your guitar in real time. No AI generated music here, just actual DSP code, fully editable, knob-twistable, sharable, forkable. And it runs in your browser, your DAW, and later - my forthcoming physical pedal, codename Omega FX1. Thanks for reading! Questions and comments welcome! Cheers, Jeff
Matt Gordon

@jcward what's the process of making a pedal? there's so much you could do with a smart pedal that you can talk to. very interesting

Jeff Ward
Maker

@matthew_gordon Your initial prompt can be as simple or complex as you want. You might have planned out a chain of effects, or maybe you just say "I want to sound like Black Betty by Spiderbait" - AI knows cultural references, too! From there, your plugin shows up, and you can tweak the knobs, make more requests for changes... Even sync your patch to the plugin running on your DAW so you can play your guitar own through it.

It's a fun and creative process, for sure!

Myrto Skourletou
I have a group of friends who would absolutely love this!
Jeff Ward
Maker

@myrto_skourletou 😊 Thank you! Let me know what they think! Don't forget to share my coupon code, EARLYBIRD

Nithin Raju

As someone into music tech, this feels super interesting.

Jeff Ward
Maker

@nithin_raju1 Thank you - me, too, and it's been a blast working on it!

Curious Kitty
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Real-time audio is unforgiving: how do you keep the experience playable (latency/CPU stability) while still allowing the AI to propose complex chains, and what guardrails do you add to prevent the classic problems—runaway gain, harsh resonances, feedback-y patches, or settings that don’t translate across rigs?
Jeff Ward
Maker

@curiouskitty this is a great question! So, it helps that I'm coding the C++ engine from the ground up. I design and test the DSP nodes with performance in mind with a debugger watching the CPU profile:

That said, there's always going to be a limit when you start layering on many sounds, so I just have to make sure there's enough room to get creative.

As for harsh sounds, the chat has a few mechanisms to help: you can always go back and fork a previous point in the conversation if something goes wrong. And the AI is pretty good at explaining the sound, too, so you can ask - "I hear a really ugly resonance in the mid range - what is that and how can we get rid of it?"

Regarding various rigs, the cool part of the C++ engine is that it's portable: the same code running in the browser via WASM, the DAW plugin, and the embedded code. So for a given patch, the sound generated should be exactly the same across devices.

Thanks for your questions! Cheers!

Rahman Bazarov

Like bro, this is awesome. I mean, I personally play on guitar, so it is useful for people like me. Good luck mate!

Jeff Ward
Maker

@rahman_bazarov_ Thanks! I play a little, trying to get better... The fun of designing my own sounds is helping me stay motivated!

Hassan Khan

Genuinely cool concept — but curious, does the AI ever surprise you with a pedal chain you wouldn't have thought to ask for, or is it purely reactive to what you describe?