Rockman guitar sound with FLOSS?

[SpotlightKid]

Has anyone tried to get those classic eighties Rockman tones using FLOSS?

I'm talking the clean tone like on Def Leppard's "Hysteria" or the distortion rhythm tone like on "Pour Some Sugar On Me" or the lead tone on Boston's hits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gSo2Vw-gE (Rockman demonstration)

https://youtu.be/S4mCIsmiAWc?t=140 (Boston - Amanda Solo)

I wonder if anyone ever tried to model the circuit in software or has profiled the box with a neural amp and made it available under an open license? It seems someone has made a model for Neural Amp Modeler, but the download is in a closed FB group.

[erlkönig]

I have here a Tom Scholz Soloist, i'm going to get an impulse response from it during the next days. Unfortunately, i don't have a powersupply or batteries for it. I like the sound! With a Chiqiuita Travelguitar, a Rockman and some walkman speakers, it was possible in the 80s to have a really great sounding mobile guitar rig, that fitted in a pocket! And that brought, during holidays, to the hotel-neighbours unforgettable vacation

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[SpotlightKid]

Actually, I found some models for Neural Amp Modeler on Tonehunt:

https://tonehunt.org/search-results?search=rockman

The "4 Rockman Channels" package also has the two clean channels. They don't include the chorus or echo effect, but I can achieve them with my own chorus and delay plugins:

https://github.com/SpotlightKid/stereocrossdelay
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/cchorus

@erlkönig Maybe you can try to train your own model from your Tom Scholz Soloist?`I have never tried this, though, and don't know complicated or how much work this is.

https://github.com/sdatkinson/neural-am ... l-features

[erlkönig]

Maybe you can try to train your own model from your Tom Scholz Soloist?

I will try to do this
...but a model is different to an impulse response.

I have never tried this, though, and don't know complicated or how much work this is.

https://github.com/sdatkinson/neural-am ... l-features

....so do i, thanks for the link

[SpotlightKid]

As an alternative to Neural Amp Modeler there's also AIDA-X:

https://github.com/AidaDSP/AIDA-X

You can train models for AIDA-X with this repo:

https://github.com/AidaDSP/Automated-GuitarAmpModelling

The link to the cloud hosted training Jupyter notebook given in the AIDA-X readme currently doesn't work, but you can run the notebook locally using docker to provide the runtime environment (but you'll need lots of disk space for the image).