About noshigeSound
Recreating gear, note for note.
noshigeSound builds pro-grade audio plugins to do one thing: archive, in the digital domain, the singular sound DNA of vintage analog gear — its impossibly smooth, unmistakably strong character — accurately enough to null against the real hardware’s waveform, so it never goes out of production. Made by an AI engineer with a deep love for classic analog gear.
Why
Why we make these.
Most AI modelling plugins capture one snapshot of a piece of hardware — a fixed curve, an impulse response, a model trained at one setting. They sound right at a glance, then start to drift the second you turn a knob.
We took a different path. AI parametric modelling treats the gear as a system: every knob, every nonlinearity, every interaction. What you get is a digital twin that generates a waveform as close to the real unit’s as it gets — playable in your DAW, behaving the way the gear does in the rack.
noshige76 was the first plugin built end-to-end on this approach — an emulation of the classic "76" limiter that has been on more records than anyone can count. noshige2A brought the same treatment to its optical counterpart, and Twin-GTR then applied it to guitar amps and pedals. The Classic line is the originals; TwinGear is where we’re going next.
Founder
How this began.
In 2020, as a college student, I produced my college festival’s official theme song with my own band and recorded it myself in Tokyo studios. Watching the mix take shape taught me something I never let go of: however good the song, the mix decides how hard it moves you. I fell for mixing — and for the vintage analog gear behind that sound, nearly all of it far beyond a student’s reach.
I was a law student, but a friend in the sciences introduced me to machine learning, and one idea took hold: what if AI could learn great tone? I taught myself programming in 2021, and by 2022 I had models learning the behaviour of a real compressor and a real guitar amp from gear data — iterating relentlessly to get real-time performance and sound quality in the same model. From 2023 I worked as a professional AI engineer building speech-synthesis systems, sharpening the exact craft these plugins are built on.
In 2026, AI-assisted development finally made a one-person plugin company viable, and I decided to release properly. My motivation hasn’t changed since that first studio session: put the texture of analog within reach of people who — like my past student self — can’t rack up the hardware, and archive the DNA of great gear before it stops working.
Hear the 2020 song that started it all
— Sota Tano, founder
TwinGear
Where this is going.
TwinGear is the technology brand behind Twin-GTR — and, soon, TwinGear Cloud. With Cloud you capture the response of your own amp, preamp, or pedal at your bench, upload the recordings, and get back a custom .napx module — modelled the same way our flagship gear-twins were, encrypted end-to-end and bound to your account. It loads into Twin-GTR (and every future custom-gear-capable plugin in the line) like the bundled twins do.
The promise is durable: hardware can break, vintage gear gets harder to source every year, and your favourite signal chain shouldn’t depend on parts going out of production. A TwinGear twin sticks around as long as your account does.
TwinGear Cloud releases in 2026 Q3. Pricing model still being decided — we’ll publish before opening the doors.
Supporter
Back the developer.
Hi, I’m Souta — the solo developer behind noshigeSound. For the two launch weeks only (Aug 5 – Aug 19), I’ve prepared special supporter plans for anyone who’d like to support what I build next. With your backing, I’ll put everything I have into even better products.
Every plan returns real plugins: $10 gets you a one-time 10%-off code, $30 gets you noshige2A and Twin-GTR as perpetual licenses, and $100 adds every future noshigeSound plugin, perpetual, as they release (plugins only — cloud services not included).