# ChowCentaur

> Guitar distortion effect

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1547671733](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1547671733)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1547671733`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jatin Chowdhury
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (31 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4.0
- **Last updated:** 2021-05-26
- **First published:** 2021-03-05
- **Size:** 6.51 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chowcentaur/id1547671733)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://chowdsp.com/privacy.html](https://chowdsp.com/privacy.html)

## Description

ChowCentaur is an audio plugin emulation of the renowned Klon Centaur guitar pedal. The emulation features the three knob parameters from the original pedal, along with a bypass switch, and a menu to choose between two different emulation modes. The "Traditional" emulation mode uses traditional circuit modelling techniques, while the "Neural" mode uses a recurrent neural network.

ChowCentaur began as a research project, intending to compare the benefits and drawbacks of different circuit modelling techniques. As such, there are several supporting materials that may be interesting to users with a more technical background:
- Source code: https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/KlonCentaur
- Technical Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02833
- Presentation at the 2020 Audio Developer Conference: https://youtu.be/FeS6wQJ6mYI

ChowCentaur installs as an AUv3 plugin that can be used in host applications like Garageband or AUM.

## Rankings

- #204,302 — Overall

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