Hex Forge is the flagship — the whole Hex Chain signal chain in a SINGLE plugin, rebuilt around a modern node-chain interface: every block is a card you tap to edit, drag to reorder, and click to bypass, with per-model faceplates, live tone readouts and a built-in strobe tuner.

The blocks: input trim, noise gate, compressor, fuzz, drive, amp, cab, modulation, delay, reverb, wah, octave and a ‘Nail’ hard-clip stage — each independently bypassable and freely reorderable, so you build a complete board without patching a dozen plugins. And the depth inside each block is the point:

– AMP: ELEVEN original voicings (clean to modern high-gain) including a 9-mode Mesa-style channel switcher with a 5-band graphic EQ, each on a modeled power amp.
– DRIVE: seven overdrive/boost/distortion voicings.
– FUZZ: multiple Big-Muff eras plus Tone Bender and Octavia styles.
– Plus modulation (chorus/phaser/flanger/tremolo/rotary), a dual ‘Halo’-style delay, reverb, wah and a pitched octave/shimmer.

A 32-bank / 128-slot preset engine ships loaded with 50+ song- and artist-inspired rigs — Nirvana, Ghost, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Radiohead, Mastodon and more — recalled hands-free via A/B/C/D footswitches and hold-both bank chords. The factory pedalboard is pre-wired, so the pi-Stomp footswitches work the moment you load it — no MIDI setup.

On 64-bit/desktop targets the amp, drive and cab slots load your own .nam captures; on 32-bit (patchbox-os-arm32) NAM is hidden and the algorithmic models are used. The heaviest plugin in the suite — best on Pi 4/5 and desktop. Free and open source (GPL-3).

Credit: Ryan Powell