Your ideas are now effects.
AI FX Builder is here. ✨
I've been holding onto this for a while, and now I can finally share it.
Today, we're launching AI FX Builder. Here's the idea: you describe an effect in your own words, and AI builds it for you. Not a preset. Not a tweak. A completely new effect that didn't exist before you described it.
How it works:
Describe — type what you want in plain English ("warm tape delay with flutter and saturation")
Generate — AI builds a working effect in as little as 60 seconds
Preview — hear it right in your browser
Customize — design your own controls with knobs, sliders, and colors
Play — run it in your browser, or load it onto your Stratus pedal and Nimbus amp
What people are already building:
Delays — tape, glitch, ping-pong, reverse, multi-tap
Reverbs — shimmer, plate, ambient, infinite, gated
Pitch — octave shifts, harmonizers, whammy-style
Modulation — chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, rotary
Amps — vintage, plexi, high-gain, literally any amp
Wild combos — "bitcrushed reverb with ring mod trails," "granular delay with sample-and-hold filter" — literally whatever you can think of
The best results come from creative combinations — effects that don't exist on any pedalboard because no company ever thought to build them. Until you just described one.
Why this matters: Guitar effects have always been a closed system. Companies design them, you buy them, you tweak the knobs they gave you. AI FX Builder opens that up. You describe what you hear in your head, and the tool builds it. The only limit is your imagination.
And because this is Stratus — you can run multiple AI-created effects at the same time. Stack a custom reverb with a custom delay with a custom modulation effect. All built from your descriptions. All running together.
You don't need hardware to try it:
AI FX Builder is free in your browser. New signups get 15 free builds and 2 weeks to try. Generate effects, preview them, experiment. When you want to play them live with your guitar, that's where Stratus comes in.
One more thing: This took years to build. We're a tiny indie company — very little investment, no marketing department. Just a genuine belief that musicians should be able to create their own effects, not just pick from a menu someone else made.
I've been using this daily for months. It's the most fun I've ever had with a guitar pedal… and I built the guitar pedal!
Go make something that's never existed before.
— Landon
Founder, Chaos Audio
P.S. I'll be in our Discord all day. Come share what you create!
Experienced developers: you can also build effects entirely from scratch using our open-source tools. Learn more →
