oh yes, some kind of unprogrammed flexible param change for all plugins would be brilliant!
I agree, it was a well presented solution, but I see it as an over complicated one. If any parameter is that important then you would have mapped it! I see that it could be useful for some, but I think that it’s asking a lot of a system that already gives you the option of mapping controls you want! No problem if it happens, but I wouldn’t be using it!
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Hello, @shaggydog. Respectfully I disagree with you. In my opinion, the fully assignment of the knobs is a workaround (“gambiarra”). This is a user experience problem.
Ideally, the device must offers a way to configure the pedalboard in the self equipment, as all the other traditional equipment (e.g. Zoom, Boss, Line 6, …). The mod team are planning to do it in the 1.13 version, but I suggested something more simple to try to solve the problem in (maybe) less time.
Comparing with the other devices, the MOD ecosystem is very rich in a way that exist a lot of audio plugins that offers features in the most creative ways. Some audio plugins aren’t initially clear how do use/control their (also, there are missing details/docs), in way that is possible and probable uses forget to assign a knob that appears not important in first view. For new users, I think that is an undue penalty.
Maybe I’m being selfish. I agree that is expected that a (professional) musician uses “correctly” the equipment. But this problem affects me and has even made me not use the equipment in this (so little) time that I have it.
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Having spent an evening thinking about it I have to admit that I’m wrong, it is a good idea. I had initially misunderstood the concept, but having all unmapped controls put onto a single pressed knob would be useful. Sorry for taking so long to realise that you have come up with a good solution to a problem I hadn’t seen, but can now see that I might have in the future.
Simon
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Thank you for the well described feature request, we really appreciate it!
I have mapped your feature request in a ticket, so that it can be considered for future development efforts.
Being honest though, it is quite unlikely that this feature could be squeezed in before the work on the “pedalboard builder mode” starts.
Having said that, it is great hearing the input from you all. We take it very seriously, and consider all inputs when deciding on the implementation of features that make it onto the roadmap.
Jesse
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@ SrMouraSilva
In my opinion this all is not necessary. My recommendation: Use a tablet or your mobile for that. Connect it via Bluetooth and you have full controll of the entire pedalboard even. It works the same way as on your PC. I always have a cheap Samsung tablet with me exactly for fine tuning. The Dwarf is fully editable on that, you can even exchange effects, build up complete new pedalboards etc. It connects via Bluetooth easily, fast and stable. For the right Bluetooth dongle take a look here: bluetooth-dongles-tested-on-mod-devices
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Nice to have: draw cables with 90° angles and ability to change IN/OUT ports side independently so it will reduce graphical mess.
Some examples…
Current cable drawing
Square drawing
Ability to change IN/OUT ports side independently
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Improvements on spillover trails
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I see some categories on pedalboards site section are not reflected into plugin store.
I see Amplifier it’s not shown on plugin store. Would be nice also to have separate categories for amps and cabs.
Don’t know if GxCreamMachine goes under dynamics or simulator. Maybe could be useful to add a plugin to several categories.
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Would be also useful to edit pedalboard description and audio file once posted here https://pedalboards.moddevices.com/
Maybe show embedded video player also (Youtube, Vimeo, …)
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A feature request related: In control mode I noted that when an on/off is assigned to a footswitch, when is on, the led is fully lighted, and when is off, instead no light, it shows quite light.
A lot of times, I get confused if the state is on or off. Especially when in the same page both footswitches (the middle and the right) are on the same state. For me, it would be more informative (more “mistakeness”) if the off state appears no light instead quite light.
Ok, If I am on the first page, the most left led is fully red. Then, comparatively, I can detect what is in off state and what is on state. But in others pages, it’s more difficulty for me (because of the led colour).
It would be awesome if is possible to turn down off state or, at least change the brigthness.
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I 100% agree with this. Would love to have an “Amps” category and a “Cabs” category
I also agree with this 100% with the current categories it makes more sense to me for it to be in “Simulation” however it would more accurately belong in an “Amps” category if it existed. We’ve been talking about this for a while and I’ve been preaching these points a lot too!
The current categories come from the LV2 spec but I believe they could be better tailored to our users and the plugins we offer. This may not change for a while but we do intend to rethink the whole WebGUI and library when the time is right.
What might be more likely is that we would use a tag system where each plugin can be given multiple tags. Then the “Categories” would be more like filters. The cream machine for example, with the tags “Dynamics” and “Amplifier”, would indeed appear in both of those Categories (or filters).
We could also have a hierarchy of filters and sub-filters. For example, a plugin with the tag “Amps” would appear under “Amps” which is a sub-filter of “Simulation” thus meaning that the plugin would automatically also appear under the parent filter “Simulation”. A plugin such as the cream machine, being only the power amp section of a guitar amp, may not fit the description of “Amps” and could just be given the tag “Simulation” or there could be sub filters “Pre Amps” and “Power Amps” under the parent filter “Amps”. This would mean that if it were tagged with only “Power Amps” then it would appear under each level “Simulation”, “Amps” & “Power Amps”. So basically the user would have the best chance of finding it by searching any of these terms while it remains well categorised in a logical way.
We could also tag targetted instruments such as “Guitar” as well as tagging the developer “GuitarX”. It would be interesting to hear what you would think of such a system. It’s all just ideation at the moment and I can’t say what will happen or when.
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@James when I was trying to simulate Boss OC3/OC5 I spent a lot of time searching octavers, some I found by plugins list
- SubSynth MDA
Some by plugins store (Guitarix OC2 wasn’t installed in my device)
- Guitarix OC2
Some looking for other audio plugins by bass pedalboard
Some checking manually the description of filter category
It’s interesting that when I search oct, shows super capo, that add an “octaver” up (+12), but I was searching a plugin to octave down (-12). I thought:
ok, was expected to show an “octaver down” in my search… but, as not show, lets check other audio plugins in the same SUPER CAPO categories
then, I clicked in SUPER CAPO, (because in this page, there isn’t clear how categories super capo is present). Suddenly, this information doesn’t appears on the audio plugin details.
And… if I access directly the plugin page intopedalboards.moddevices.com/plugins, no one category information is related
Ok, I can check some pedalboard that there is using it 
, and see the it’s plugins list, but the category flag isn’t a link: I can’t click it to see all the plugins in this category
Ok, I can try to search by plugin name, then it’s possible to filter by category
Filtering by Spectral
After some hours of searching, I found other plugins:
- Drop: Drop - MOD Devices
- 2Voices: 2Voices - MOD Devices
- Super Whammy: Super Whammy - MOD Devices
All this searching frustrates me a quite. Comparably, I also a Zoom user (MS 50g / Zoom G3). When I’m trying to find an effect, I only change the effects (one by one) pressing a single button and test it. Try to find an specific effect between 100 is more easily than find into Mod Dwarf because of searching and changing audio plugin to another spends a lot of time (the freedom of connections are a powerful tool but also causes some waste of time when I was trying to test a lot of audio plugins in a specific position).
Other days I was checking the amps and I had same feeling like @redcloud did. After try to discover where are the amps, I just selected the audio plugin that appeared most likely an amp instead try to discover a plugin with the best sound (for my necessity). 
I agree that if I was an expert, I would probably try searching for other keywords instead of octaver, but I was seriously penalized by the equipment because I’m a newbie.
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@James, is the pedalboards.moddevices.com source closed, right? mod-ui is open source, then is possible for me suggests a merge-request.
You can actually see there under the title and URL it reads “Category: Spectral”
But I agree with you. A user should not have to go to so much effort to find such a plugin. It should be under a subcategory of “pitch” or something similar.
that would be a good feature for the plugin library indeed!
In the end, you found “Drop” which is what I would have recommended. In my opinion this plugin, when switched to the “Hi-Fi” mode is much better than an OC3/OC5.
You are not alone in this feeling. In fact, I even find the same frustrations searching for plugins myself even when I already know they exist but forget the name or how they are categorised.
Thanks for your feedback! I hope that we can make this experience nicer in the near future but I can’t say when
This is a topic for @falkTX
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This is correct, the pedalboards site original code is not even on github, so dont try to look it up in there.
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I need new glasses 
, sorry. But a link there would be awesome.
In my opinion this plugin, when switched to the “Hi-Fi” mode is much better than an OC3/OC5.
In my specific case, I was trying to drop down only the low notes of the guitar. I could not (yet?)
Thanks for your feedback! I hope that we can make this experience nicer in the near future but I can’t say when
I thank you for leaving an open space for discussion. 
I agree. Something we could implement with the filters!
As far as I’m aware the OC3/OC5 also does not do this. It just drops all the notes and you have a dry/wet knob to adjust how much of the original signal comes through
In order to drop only the “low notes” the plugin would first need to decide at what point does a note become “low”
You could achieve this by putting a low pass filter before the drop where you could choose the highest frequency to be affected but you would cut out the upper harmonics of the low notes too.
In general, this is not how octaver pedals work. At least to my knowledge
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It has a mode called “poly” that does exactly this. It is not perfect, but it is amazing concept. In a different mode it does also the standard octaver thing, when it drops all the notes.
Indeed, this function is specific for OC3/OC5, no other octavers can do this.
That is the core idea of how to achieve this. I think it is needed to split the signal first, than going trough low pass to octave drop in one path and keep the original signal in parallel path - then you do not lose any of the higher harmonics of the low notes, just add the bass on notes in selected range. However you lose that harmonics in the wet dropped signal, which will more or less change the characteristic of the added bass note. That is the reason that it will probably need a bit more complicated solution. I am really looking forward to dig into this challenge.
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Oh okay. My bad! @pavel and @SrMouraSilva
I was thinking they were not so different from the OC2
That’s quite cool! It does sound like a cool challenge to make this as a pedalboard!
Let me know if either of you are able to do it in a cool way! I’m sure @Andre would love to try it out
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