Pretty cool @Kim!
I think yes you are 
Thanks for that 
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That is nice to hear some singing in the feed! I love the lyrics haha “sack of shit” is a nice touch
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@James Yes, James, it is a political text and it is about fellow travelers and oportunists. As I wrote the text, I got more and more pissed off and the text got more and more drastic. I then decided to leave it like that. 
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@gianfranco Many thanks Modfather! It will not be the last of that kind that I posted, I guess. I’m currently exploring the possibilities of Dwarf for vocals and mandolin, and there’s bound to be some interesting stuff coming around. Congrats from my side for your work! It is very very inspiring!
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@LievenDV
The three plug-ins are Control Voltage (CV) plug-ins. I use them for an effect I call “Endless Decay”. I sometimes tend to pathos in music, for example by letting an end chord decay infinitely with infinite reverb. To achieve the effect I need these CV plugins.
When I step on a footswitch on my midi controller, the (in this case the Rakarrack) reverb is switched to infinite. As long as I hold down the footswitch, the reverb runs at infinite, a long reverb tail is created. But if I then release the footswitch, the reverb would stop abruptly, so not fade out softly, which sounds very ugly.
My solution: I now send a CC value to the ControlToCV (not directly to the Reverb Plugin) with the midi controller and use it to turn up the knob there. The Attenuverter now makes sure that the knob turns slowly and the SlewRateLimiter determines the speed of turning the knob. Simply explained: I give a CC value to the CV system, which now makes sure that the knob on the reverb is slowly turned up and down. Turned up fast so that the reverb tail also starts right when the footswitch is pressed, turned down slow so that the Endless Decay reverb tail can decay naturally even if I am no more pressing the footswitch.
This is a good example of what the mod platform can do. You can actually recreate (almost) anything if you can’t find the appropriate plugin. These CVs didn’t make sense to me at first either, but you can use them to recreate and automate anything that a guy at a mixer does manually, for example. Again a fantastic Mod solution!
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That’s smart!
Not only did you program your own “trails” functionality, you made configureable as well 
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@LievenDV Yes, you can change the value for the reverb through the value of the CC, you can change the speed of turning the knob on the Reverb etc. Everything is configurable.
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Love this thread. I’ve traditionally played keys and came at putting together a pedalboard with a dwarf at the centre. I brought a big pedalboard and it now sits unused - the dwarf does everything. I just have a polytune and an a/b pedal to push the guitar through input 1 or 2. Might ad a midi pedal for more switches.
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@Ant Thanks a lot for your kind words. Do you have a Midi Controller in your mind that you want to use?
I looked up the Jet Micro, something exactly like that.
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@Ant I can recommend the JET. I have two of them and I am very happy with them. I even had to order it in USA, which made them expensive, but they are absolutely worth the prize. But one thing should be in your mind: The foot-switches are nearby to each other. So, you need filigran feet 
I can also recommend Morningstar MC6. This is the best in my eyes but it is much bigger as compared to the JET MCX.
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Great post/story Kim. I’m way high up on the fence about getting a Dwarf: would you really say the distortions and reverbs are as good as the nueron and specular tempus? I have the Neuron and an mxr digital reverb which are very high quality (amongst others) : and regret/ lament how big my board has gotten. Would you mind doing a few comparisons?
Do the amp and cab sims work well with headphones? I built my current pedalboard around the neunaber Neuron and iconoclast, and am scared to leave them…
Does it tune well? I do love my polytune…
Do you miss the quick tactility of multiple pedals: I’m not sure if I will or won’t… but am craving the endless routing options…
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@Jarrydactyl
I started with the same feelings. I have been really happy with some of the pedals and even pedalboards. I loved single pedals, like the Neuron, Specular Tempus, Synesthisia, Fathom, Morningstar etc. But I all replaced them with the Dwarf. Often the sounds changed but they have been as good as the others. There is always a way to reproduce sounds in the Dwarf. It is not Plug&Play. If you want e.g. a spring reverb (which is not existing as a plugin), you can re-build it GX Echo-Stereo and a Reverb. So you need ideas of how to do something. Also the distortion: You must find tricks. Don’t just use a distortion pedal, use it with a simulator etc. So some experience is necessary and then everything is possible.
But the major difference that makes the MOD platform so outstanding is the routing: You can cable evreything in a manner that is uncomparabel. This makes it even much stronger as all other platforms that I tested.
You can help yourself by keeping your pedals at the beginning. Do it stepwise, as I did it. I sold a pedal after realizing that I don’t need it any more. One day I found out that all have been gone.
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I’ve been trying to word this in a diplomatic way but I’m struggling so I’ll just say outright - no. Distortion pedals especially were an exercise in frustration. Reverbs available inside the Dwarf aren’t bad but they are very often redundant. Since MOD is community-driven you don’t get a lead telling well-paid devs that they need to create a spring (can’t find that on MOD at all), a plate, a hall, a shimmer, a mod verb, maybe lo-fi, maybe something Strymon-y and Eventide-y. You get hobbyist devs, who are no doubt often talented and capable but within a very niche LV2 plugin format, you get a handful of them creating plugins that are sometimes largely similar.
@Matt Unfortunately you’ve leave the board a bit to fast, otherwise you may have had the chance to checkout the latest distortion pedals released for the MOD.
so what you said now about distortion on the MOD have to be taken with a grain of salt. 
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@Matt
And don’t forget the brilliant distortion of the fat frog Amp!
I do not agree with Matt. I had the direct comparison e.g with the Neuron (take a look at my pedalboards). I got it even better with Fat Frog and Collision Drive. It is just a question of how you do it. Just plugin’ the distortion gives no good results.
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I understand @Matt a little bit. You can get good distortion sounds but you have to work and dig a little to get what you want. The same goes for reverb. If you know how to get a specific sound the dwarf is superior to other devices. It ist’n as polished as the specular tempus which offer great patches right out of the box but you can get beyond by combining plugins.
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To be honest, I don’t see the Dwarf as a pedalboard replacer right now either. I bought it with that goal on mind and I end up buying some individual pedals again (a multifx for different delays/reverbs and a couple of drives). But the Dwarf is a cool swiss knife that includes a lot of things and it’s kinda like “the brain of my board”. The routing and advanced stuff you can do with it (CV, now with Cardinal, some really cool plugins and good sounding plugins…) make the pedals really come to life. But I don’t think everyone would be happy just with the Dwarf, at least not yet.
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I had no intention of eliminating all my pedals, either. My plan was to put the “normal” stuff into the Dwarf and keep all the “weird” stuff as physical pedals. Since I do most everything in Linux, I didn’t like the fact that all of the other pedal modeling options require an app to get access to all the features. Add to that the ability to create my own plugins and gadgets, and the Dwarf was the clear winner in my mind.
I think I’ve found a way to replace one of my pedals, though. I have a T-Rex Moller. I think I’ve almost nailed it by combining a Tube Screamer, an X-Fader and a Gain Boost. The only real missing piece is the “voice” switch, but I don’t really use that anyway. I need to tweak the setting s a little more, but this configuration is very close to the Moller to my ears.
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