Heavy Rig
For crust, hardcore and metal: guitar and bass in one purchase.
- FORJA €69
- BASALTO €69
- SERRA Free
€109Buy Heavy Rig
Solidian Amplification · amps and pedals for heavy music
Heavy tone, solved at the circuit.
Valve heads, a bass pre-amp and stompboxes modelled component by component, voiced for crust, d-beat, sludge and the low end of djent. VST3, AU and LV2 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
SERRA FORJA BASALTO · Heavy Rig
Free · name your price
SERRAChainsaw distortion
The Swedish buzzsaw, rebuilt stage by stage: asymmetric silicon diodes in the feedback loop, an op-amp pushed into its rails, a germanium pair for the sputter, and the COLOR MIX gyrators that carve the saw. VINTAGE and CUSTOM modes, 7, 9 or 12 V supply, gate, TIGHT, blend, and its own cabinet for going straight to the desk.
Enter €0 at checkout to take it free. Same quality as the paid line, no trial limits, no expiry.
The line
Seven plug-ins that work as one rig. The pedals sit in front of the heads, MARÉ moves ECO over SOLIDIAN LINK, and every unit carries its own cabinets and mic placement.
High-gain valve head
FORJA
Three channels in one head, after the British super lead, the 80s master-volume head and the modern American lead channel. Voiced to sit behind SERRA.
- EMBER, ANVIL and FURNACE: cascaded 12AX7 stages with cold clippers and each amp's own tone stack.
- EL34 or 6L6 push-pull with sag and bias, and negative feedback through a 4x12 speaker load for PRESENCE and RESONANCE that behave like the real thing.
- TS-style boost, gate and TIGHT in front for the d-beat and powerviolence tightness.
- Modern and vintage 4x12 cabinets, positionable microphone, room and your own IRs.
- Channels
- 3
- Power amp
- EL34 / 6L6
- Oversampling
- 2× / 4× / 8×
Bass pre-amp and drive
BASALTO
One pedal for the whole low end, from crust and powerviolence to modern djent clank. Seven engines, a split that keeps the lows clean, and a graphic EQ.
- GRIT, BLADE, PUNCH, RUIN, VALVE and SWARM, plus DUAL, which runs PUNCH and RUIN in parallel and mixes them with MOOD.
- SPLIT with Linkwitz-Riley crossovers: the low band stays clean and compressed while the drive takes the top.
- One-knob compressor with an ALL IN mode, GRUNT and ATTACK pre-shaping, six-band graphic EQ.
- 4x10, 8x10, 1x15 and a 4x12 guitar cab, on the drive path or the whole mix.
- Engines
- 6 + DUAL
- Graphic EQ
- 6 bands
- Latency
- 6 samples
Desert fuzz amplifier
DUNA
A valve head with a fuzz built in, made for stoner, desert rock and the warm, wide end of sludge.
- 12AX7 preamp with grid current and the coupling and cathode capacitors, an exact passive tone stack and a power pair with sag.
- Built-in silicon fuzz and three voices: VALLEY, RIDGE and TUNDRA.
- Four synthesised cabinets plus your own IR, saved inside the session.
- Positionable microphone and a stereo room.
- Voices
- 3
- Cabinets
- 4 + IR
- Room
- Stereo
Fuzz pedal
SIROCO
Three fuzz circuits in one orange box, with the guitar's volume knob modelled in front so it cleans up the way a real fuzz does.
- Two-transistor germanium, four-stage MUFF with exactly solved diodes, and OCTA for the upper octave.
- BIAS and supply voltage, down to the dying battery.
- MIDS control and a latency-compensated blend for keeping the attack.
- Circuits
- 3
- Guitar volume
- Modelled
- Blend
- Phase-aligned
Analogue echo
ECO
A bucket-brigade delay modelled down to every clock tick, so time changes bend the pitch and long repeats darken like the chip.
- Compander with its gain carried through the buckets, triangle and square modulation.
- Tap tempo with six subdivisions and host sync.
- LOW CUT, TONE and DRIVE inside the feedback loop, AGE, WIDTH and trails.
- Expression input: let MARÉ move any control over SOLIDIAN LINK.
- Latency
- Zero
- Tap divisions
- 6
- Includes
- MARÉ
MARÉ is included. An expression pedal that also runs as an LFO or an envelope follower, with range, curve and smoothing. It moves ECO over SOLIDIAN LINK and sends MIDI CC to anything else.
MARÉ moving ECO
Built like hardware, measured like software
Every circuit is solved sample by sample, then checked: aliasing, latency, CPU, clicks on every control and the behaviour at any sample rate.
8×
Oversampling for offline renders, with 2×, 4× and 8× live, all relative to 48 kHz so a preset sounds the same at any sample rate.
6 smp
Fixed latency on BASALTO at 48 kHz. ECO and MARÉ add none at all.
ADAA
Antiderivative anti-aliasing on the clippers, so the top end stays clean when the gain is up.
Level 10
Every plug-in passes pluginval at its strictest setting before release.
VST3AULV2StandalonemacOS UniversalWindows 64-bitLinux
Rigs
Buy the units that fit your band, or take a whole rig for less. MARÉ comes free with ECO and with every rig.
Desert Rig
For stoner, desert rock and fuzz: the amp, the fuzz and the echo.
- DUNA €59
- SIROCO €29
- ECO €39
- MARÉ Included
Complete
All seven plug-ins, and every new Solidian release in version 1.x.
- FORJA · BASALTO · DUNA 3 heads
- SERRA · SIROCO · ECO 3 pedals
- MARÉ Expression
€179Buy Complete
Try before you buy
14 days, full sound
Every paid plug-in installs as a trial. Play it in your sessions, render with it, run it through your own rig.
- Install
One installer per system with every Solidian plug-in. Nothing to register.
- Play for 14 days
Every control, preset, cabinet and oversampling mode works, with no noise and no nag screens.
- Then a short silence
After 14 days the plug-in drops out for a moment once a minute. Your sessions keep loading and your settings stay.
- Activate
Paste the licence key from your Gumroad receipt into the plug-in. The same install becomes the full version.
Want Solidian on iPad?
AUv3 versions for AUM, Loopy Pro, GarageBand and Logic Pro for iPad are on the table. Join the list and we will build them when enough players ask.
Questions
Anything else, write to the address on your Gumroad receipt.
Which hosts does it run in?
Any host that loads VST3 or AU on macOS, VST3 on Windows, or VST3 and LV2 on Linux: Studio One, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Reaper, Cubase, Bitwig, FL Studio and more. Each plug-in also runs as a standalone app for practising.
Pro Tools?
Not yet. AAX needs a separate certification from Avid, and it is on the list after the iPad versions.
How many computers can I use?
Your licence key activates up to three of your own computers at the same time, so the studio Mac and the laptop are both covered.
Are updates free?
Every 1.x update is free and arrives through your Gumroad library, where you can download the latest installers at any time.
How do I pay?
Checkout runs on Gumroad with card or PayPal. Your receipt carries the licence key and the download links.
Can I use the presets on records I sell?
Yes. Anything you record with Solidian is yours, with no credit or royalty owed.