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I bought a Zoom MS-70CDR from Andy, it was a brilliant transaction! Great communications and the pedal arrived quickly and as described. Deal with confidence with this great BCer! S'manth x

Thanks to all of your for your supportive feedback! BC is not just a website, it is an amazing community. S'manth x

So ... my Dwarf is amazing! The number of configurable items blow my mind ... and therein lies my problem. I don't believe that I am getting anyway near the best out of it! From a techie perspective I can build a Dwarf emulator on a Pi, I can (almost) write LV2 plugins, I can play with the UI and setup great configurations. But I just don't seem to be able to get it to sound as I would like! At times I will just yank out my Zoom B1Four as it is so simple and sounds OK. I'm certain the problem is rooted in my lack of pedalboard building/tweaking experience ... I've only been using a pedaloard for a couple of years and I dove straight into the Multi-FX approach, I had a HX Stomp and could get great sounds, but just didn't like the UI. I loved the HX Effects I had, but it was a bit large (and it was lost in my fire). So I am looking for guidence to an approach to build/configure a nice sounding Dwarf bass pedalboard. How to set input/output gains, how to ensure that when I turn on fuzz that my volumes do not shoot all over the place. Is ordering important? Does the compressor go at the start or the end or both? Almost an idiots guide to setting up a Dwarf Bass Pedalboard. Any tips/pointers/suggestions/links greatly appreciated! S'manth x

Very odd as the USB and Audio are unconnected. What @Woodinblack suggests sounds sensible. I'm not sure whoich audio out the headphones replicate ... 1 or 2 or both. Other wise I'm afraid no suggestions of any value S'manth x

The last year has been ... difficult! Fire destroying my flat, a back injury meaning that I am no longer able to work as an ICU bedside nurse and 'artistic differences' with a band I'd played in for 7 years. The support here on BC has been, well, I've no words! Thank you! xx My flat is scheduled to be restored by 11-Sep, 13 months after the fire! The builders have said that they are going to be able to cover the cost of a carpet which is amazing. The insurance are going to pay for me moving back (which is surprisingly expensive even tho it is just about 100m oer the road!) as well as the professional exit clean from my temporary rental. And this morning, I interview for a clinical Research Nurse (Cardiology) role and heard this afternoon that I have been offered the position, a big change ... but the "office hours" and lack of need to do a lot of moving of patients are just the ticket for my physical capabilities; but there are loads of things to learn and a lot of patient contact so my mind and my heart will still be fed! And the new band is slowly but surely moving forwards! S'manth x

It is a beauty! Once I'm back in my flat (Mid Sep) I am going to try to build one too! S'manth x

Hiya @Plankton, great to hear from you! I'm also Brighton based (Well, Hove actually lol). S'manth x

OMG this made me laugh! I use wordpress for my very simple nursing website, for reasons that are beyond my understanding the wordpress interface, whislt it does display in english, quotes prices in swedish kroner! My best efforts to date have been unsuccessful is getting this resolved! S'manth x

I get that! A few years back I played with a few virtualisation options for home use and ended up landing on Proxmox, which (like you) I use for a variety of home servers and a couple of web sites. I've an old Mac Mini/Intel which I was given post fire which after I bunged in some extra RAM purrs along running Proxmox quite nicely. S'manth x

Not that I could find . I used a mashup of the instructions on the MOD wiki https://wiki.mod.audio/wiki/How_To_Use_Docker_Toolbox_With_MPB on their github https://github.com/moddevices/mod-plugin-builder#readme a number of posts in the MOD forum and reading the Dockerfile plus a bit of experience from having tried several times before without success! I think an up to date set of 'how to' instructions is needed on the MOD wiki, to be fair I'm not sure how this approach will work using a MacOS AMD64 (or windows/* or linux/*) environment, tho as the Dockerfile is based on debian:bookworm, I'd expect a tweaked version of the same build to work there ... pity they don't share a common install/build script (I think this is possible). S'manth x

I have always hated it when I am trying to sort out a solution and the bloody tools do not do what they are supposed to do! I would guess that perhaps 65% of my professional IT life was spent dealing with this sorta cr4p! I used to run a couple of datacentres based on VMWare tech and it was awesome! However, the UTM tech (free) is mindblowingly cool on MacOS. I'd never heard of it before @micahvdm (on the MOD forum) pointed it out. They have several pre-tuned OS images, I use their Debian 11.7.0 ARM64 image and it runs a treat (With the mod-plugin-builder. mod-nost, mod-ui tho my audio an midi do not connect , but I think PEBCAK lol). S'manth x

I only did the moddwarf and moddwarf-new, but it reports 24Gb free. I imagine I will kill the moddwarf and replace with the debug of moddwarf-new. S'manth x

So for ghits and siggles I thought I'd give the Docker mod plugin builder another go. Thought I'd share the results in case it is of interest to others. Host MacBook Pro 13-inch, M1, 2020 16Gb Memory macOS 13.4.1 (22F82) Docker Docker Desktop 4.21.1 (114176) All settings default I fired up iTerm2 and ran cd ~ mkdir dwarf cd dwarf git clone https://github.com/moddevices/mod-plugin-builder.git cd mod-plugin-builder/docker docker build -t mpb --build-arg platform=moddwarf-new . this resulted in Checking in the Docker gui I saw a new image mpb. The following cd .. ./docker-mount.sh moddwarf-new mpb fired up an interactive Docker terminal builder@02f246028ba5:~/mod-plugin-builder$ In this I ran git submodule init git submodule update Tho I am not totally sure if these are required (I could not see anywhere in the Dockerfile that they were run) Next up I tried to build some plugins ./build moddwarf-new abgate ./build moddwarf-new portal-lv2 ./build moddwarf-new guitarix ./build moddwarf-new x42-midifilter They all seemed to run successfully to completion with a message saying the LV2 had been copied. Back in the MacOS world, I was then able to see them in my home folder It all seemed to go smoothly. IIRC, the reason I went the VM route is because The interactive Docker terminal sux big time whereas I can SSH into my VM using iTerm2. I can remote VSCode into my VM. I was able to get a MOD setup working in my VM. I suspect that I could achieve this in Docker, but I could not easily find out how. S'manth x (Who got to geeking out into the wee hours but does not have to go to work today)

@rwillett, each ./bootstrap ran for about an hour on my system (Linux mod-arm-dev-svr 5.10.0-23-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.179-1 (2023-05-12) aarch64 GNU/Linux VM running inside UTM on a Macbook PRo M1 16Gb RAM) But thankfully the plugin builds are quite fast once the toolchain is built. S'manth x

Dwarf Tuner. There is an updated tuner on the go, as described here: https://forum.mod.audio/t/tuner-problems/8954/27 If you drop FalkTX a message he will send you a link to the firmware. It is rather good ... and it include some code (not totally finished I think) to allow a change in place for a plugin (If the ins/outs match) without having to rewire everything! S'manth x

Ouch! I built my first Dev VM with about 32GB, which allowed me to generate the toolchain using the ./bootstrap.sh mod-dwarf command, but it then failed when I additionally used the ./bootstrap.sh moddwarf-new (to take advantage of the new gcc). I rebuilt my Dev VM with 64GB and about 36GB is in use so far. S'manth x

So a "bracket" on the bottom panel at the centre of the front edge. If this is recessed into the cab, might it adversely affect the acoustics? If it is a surface mount, it would protude ... but if one were to mount 4 rubber feet on the bottom this should give enough clearence for a mount; then a short length of doweling (with a rubber cap at the ground end) which push fits into the "bracket"? One could have a coupld of slightly different lengths to allow for different angles. If the cab is front heavy then gravity should hold the dowling in the bracket and so long as it is not sloppy loose hopefully it will not vibrate? S'manth x

Indeed, sadly just the four S'manth x

I definately see three "categories" that would help folks. Getting the MOD build toolchain up and running successfully (be it native or docker/amd64 or arm64) LV2 itself (Which is probably well servedin the links we've shared above) The MOD specific stuff, such as the HMI and the UI S'manth x

I wonder if perhaps those of us tech types here on BC working on the whole Dwarf LV2 … challenges, might combine efforts? I’m happy to create a GitHub repo and add you chaps @rwillett, @Woodinblack (any others?) Many hands and all that. Once we’ve got something less obtuse working we could share it more widely to the MOD community. Thoughts? S’manth x

This seems an easy and effective approach https://www.paniquejazz.com/2018/09/24/project-amp-tilt-back-stand/ S'manth x

No! S'manth x

Indeed .. but will you have a 4 or 5 or 6 string in your hands when it happens? S'manth x

I love my 5 strings; Tho as a short scal lover they are hard to come by! The 2 octave capability / increase in options at any position are a winner for me. S'manth x

Some LV2 stuff I've found useful: https://lv2plug.in/ their book https://lv2plug.in/book/ has simple examples. https://github.com/sjaehn/lv2tutorial#programming-lv2-plugins-from-scratch-i---getting-started I'm still trying to really figure out the MOD build stuff, just trying to copy/edit stuff from other plugins in the mod plugin builder. S'manth x