Woodinblack

So first gig with the mod dwarf yesterday. I put it on my pedalboard in the space taken by the Helix HXFX. I had a new pedalboard on order from thomann, backordered because they are waiting for the power supplies, and I need to cancel it - i need a smaller board not a bigger one! it takes the function of all my other pedals. Sounded great, using mostly the stock SVT patch, although as i have dedicated output 2 to keyboards, I messed up and used a stero patch in one song that was way too loud - Have to ensure either to mute the output when not using keys, or more generally make sure the patches are mono. Navigation isn't as smooth as the helix, mostly due to the number of buttons (same reason I never got a Helix stomp) so will need some external footpedal to be able to switch effects on and off - unless I can just use the 12 step somehow. Switching between patches is a bit cumbersome during an actual gig, unless you know what is coming up, I often dont. So I will need a general patch, a patch for when I am using keys, and a patch with a lot of different switchable effects. Still great fun and it sounded really good.

had a difficulty searching for that second one until I searched for the first and realised the second was 'gift of love'

Not really relevant to this coversation or actually that useful if DHL fail to deliver.

Certainly sounds like you are diving straight in! I hate cmake with a passion (and not a huge fan of VSCode either), but they are good for that sort of thing if you can deal with their stupid ways and mostly unavoidable if you are using a bunch of different other peoples libraries. I haven't done anything about footpedals yet - I am a few months behind you and I am still not sure how I want to use the device, it could well be I can use the mvave as it is.

Merged with the "Boss Wireless alternative" thread.

If you follow the post you will see updates to it

I can spot a rabbit hole and dive into it from a long way away!

Sounds like you are well into it, but as always the programming is actually fairly trivial compared to actually deciding what it is that you want, which is always the tricky bit to stop feature creep from taking over (and ending up never happy!)

Sure can if you want, I haven't seen either thread so don't know which ones they are - as long as they don't overlap in time should be ok.

If you are using the same 128x64 devices that I use, you can actually change the hardware ID of those, so you don't need to mutiplex it at all. Sounds very much like the 64 high device is using the same setup as the 32 so trying to be a 32, but obviously could be any number of things, something there is sitting there laughing at you What sort of library do you need for those? I must admit that something like that I wouldn't even think of looking for a library for it. Obviously there are issues with differentiating between double tap and long tap, if you want the single tap to be as responsive as possible - there is a compromise there where your single tap is going to be delayed for a bit.

Oh yes, although apart from the instrument you weren't wrong with the solo at 5:20 either!

Moog solo? Thats the guitar solo

Indeed you can, but if they just exposed the pins you would't have to, just assign them a different address then they would all work. But yes, it is a workround.

Great but it looks pretty hard to press that button on the Muff!

I don't know if it is a travesty, if I was in a cover band playing some yes songs, I would be pretty happy if we had come up with that, although looking at the video I would be saying 'lets put the energy up next time'. So yes, as a cover band playing a yes song, they aren't bad.

One thing I have found really irritating in the past that affects this with the oled displays, is that while the cheap ones are very cheap and very easy to use (<£5 each), the commonly available ones are all fixed to one I2C address, and the slightly more expensive or bigger ones have a choice of 2. Why can't they just expose a number of pins so you can pick at the minimum one of 4 or 8 addreses?

If all you want is to jump between a few set sounds, you don't even need additional buttons, you can just have a pedalboard with a number of snapshots, and move between them. Obviously the pedalboard becomes more useful if you want to randomly switch between several sounds

Some people are so woke..

That sounds a lot better, and at least boris brings the hair count up a bit!

Certainly more work that I am going for - if I decide to do the upgrade, I will just use the MVave case and stick a Pico or a bluetooth feather (only because I have one!), but looks like you will have a very versatile pedal! Might just go for these though: http://www.timetravelaudio.co.uk/shop/components/switches/foot-switches/3pdt-foot-switch-illuminated-type-with-led-ring-colour-options-on-led-cap/

As I had previously asked how much power a mod dwarf took, and how the first power supply I found in my box that was 12V was 5A, i thought I would check today how much it took. Answer.. just a shade over 300mA. 200 at startup, going to the maximum I made it take which was with all of the lights on, midi working, two inputs, pedalboard with everything on it which peaked at 320ma. Was expecting a bit more than that, as it is marked as 2A, the HXFX is also marked as 2A and that comes in just over 1.1A.

If you were going to do one of those youtube 'how to sound like yes' videos, that is the sort of thing you would come up with.

ok, that makes sense, I thought you meant bank on the dwarf!

Why did you decide on midi vs control channel, was this so you could use it on other things? Also is your expression pedal USB or Midi, or are you processing that in the pedalboard too?

By switch bank, do you mean changing pedalboard? Still not familiar with all the terminology on these things. I wouldn't want to change pedalboard mid song as there is so much of a delay doing it, but happy to do it between songs. Looks good - I need another pedalboard with samples, as I have a digitech loopman on my board for one sample, and obviously I can drop that now with this, so I am rapidly losing cables, which was what I wanted to do! Thats where I am. Next samples, then I can do pedalboards for the chapman stick and the double bass!