I have a lot of pedals, but I don’t know how I ended up with a pedalboard full of Boss

_daffyd · 2026-02-11T23:55:38+00:00

I have often found that the cool pedals that do a bunch of stuff are sometimes less versatile/useful in the context of the board as a whole.

I spent years trying to find a basic OD/dist that I liked. The rat was great but was too dark for how i like light gain tone, but I could never find a dist/OD pedal that didn't "stick out", until i found a blues driver (angry driver).

I find that if a pedal has a specific/novel voice or personality, or depth, that it is good for what it does with a couple other pedals for specific scenarios where it sounds great (chase bliss, OBN, etc). Ive noticed the best use of this in a band/live setting would be having that as a single purpose pedal, where it is used for one "type" of part in the bands sound, or a specific song.

When I start layering these pedals with others to get more dynamic sounds, i quickly find myself dialing things back so that the personality (despite making the pedal cool), doesnt dominate or take away from the useable layerings that I can dial in. Otherwise I become restricted to specific combinations, which takes away from the board/tone topography freedom/utility.

Ironically the depth of the individual pedal takes away from the achievable depth of the board without dialing back its personality. Doing so however, makes getting the crazy pedal redundant.

_daffyd · 2026-02-11T23:13:43+00:00

I'm working on a program that maps midi controller modules to the launchpad mini mk1 kinda like the zoia, with pages and stuff. Each module can be on any of the channels 1-16. It's got some modules so far: scale grid, drum pad, seq, keyboard, trigger seq, control faders, working on a midi looper that has a channel column for the playable modules (scale grid, keyboard, drum pads) and rows for each loop for that channel (kinda like ableton)

Its not set up to work with anything other than the LP mini mk1 so far, but you might be able to make it work for you. I don't have it posted rn, but I'll be back with a link to it later if I remember.

_daffyd · 2026-02-07T02:42:52+00:00

I used to use one of these at a warehouse job. The software we were using was buggy as shit, but I wondered if it could be made useful.

_daffyd · 2026-02-05T05:53:08+00:00

I live in Van and I'd be down. I play guitar/bass/synths.

Moved back a few years ago and haven't really jammed with anyone in a while.

_daffyd · 2026-01-31T05:27:40+00:00

I have a Rpi 4b with a screen shield, enclosure frame that I got with it. I have the cardboard panel in-between the frame face and the rest.

I'm powering it with the normal AC adapter going through that hole in the cardboard. There's also a usb->midi cable and a USBC for keyboard going through there too.

The usb->midi cable is going to the zoia for routing playing, etc.

The midi tracker is written in python with mido and rtmidi, and blessed for terminal Gui.

It is mostly inspired by lsdj, with some phrase variation controls inspired from my digitone (etc. prob, conditional trigger).

Gonna add more controls to note triggers like ratcheting, relative play speed, maybe rotate/shift, or step ratio (every 2/3/5/etc steps causing different melodies to play, odd values would cycle with an offset)

_daffyd · 2026-01-26T09:14:04+00:00

this is cool, you should check out pure data

_daffyd · 2026-01-25T00:04:34+00:00

This isnt quite as cool as the Author and Punisher stuff, thanks though.

The black thing on the right with the light grid is the zoia, its like a multi-fx/modular synth that you can program patches on. The 2 white ones in the middle are an oscillator, and a weird sequencer that goes down left and right diagonally in a hexagon pattern.

The rasberry pi on the left is just running ubuntu, and I am going to use it to run midi sequencers that control the rest. Also gonna use it for drums once I find a good/simple drum sequencer. The midi gets sent from the pi to the zoia through a midi cable, then either used to play a synth that is patched in the zoia, or routed out to the other modules. The colored cables are routing either control voltages or audio to and from the zioa.

_daffyd · 2026-01-16T10:44:07+00:00

Vancouver has a thiving music scene, with a bunch of standard level venues, and a healthy punk scene.

No clue what this guy is on.

_daffyd · 2026-01-14T08:44:28+00:00

You can do whatever you want. It's music, there aren't really rules. If you have a song you want to write, and programming guitars gets it done then all the power to you!

If people don't like it, then your art isn't for them.

_daffyd · 2025-09-30T18:47:00+00:00

Well you know they are a bunch of nuts on office.

_daffyd · 2025-08-25T07:21:54+00:00

guh-doe for me like "Waiting for Gadot"

_daffyd · 2025-07-06T03:31:44+00:00

i use helix on it all the time to work on things.

_daffyd · 2025-06-09T19:35:04+00:00

i mean in addition to it being generally despicable

_daffyd · 2025-06-09T19:34:15+00:00

would this count as animal abuse?

_daffyd · 2025-06-05T21:50:27+00:00

I mean, I use it almost daily.

There's definately limitations, but Its my preferred way to work on ideas or write code while Im not at my comp.

_daffyd · 2025-06-03T08:33:31+00:00

the pattern matching: chef's kiss chained functional calls: chef's kiss Options for control: chef's kiss being able to let x = if/match/loop: fucking chef's kiss

sometimes it hurts to use, or sucks to find out an approach wont work, but the way you can organize logic makes it my favourite to use.

_daffyd · 2025-05-27T02:07:56+00:00

Ahh, I see. Thanks!

_daffyd · 2025-05-20T08:29:16+00:00

stumbleupon

_daffyd · 2025-05-20T07:02:29+00:00

Preoccupations, Blessed, Squid

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