A pedal with no limits.
Rugged and ready for the stage. Inside, a growing catalogue of every kind of effect, from the iconic to the truly unusual, that you combine any way you like and can change all the way down.
The MOD Dwarf.
MOD is an open sound platform, and the Dwarf is the pedal that runs it. Build your sound from hundreds of plugins, from faithful classics to the gloriously strange: amps, drives, delays, reverbs, synths and loopers, connected in any way you can imagine. And when you want to go further, everything underneath is open: the plugins, the interface, the operating system.
- Rugged die-cast enclosure, with o-rings sealing it against spills: beer proof
- Three footswitches, three endless encoders and a display, mappable to any control
- Two inputs, two outputs, headphones, MIDI, and USB for controllers
- Audio, MIDI and CV routing inside the same pedalboard
- Standalone on stage: no computer needed
Want to try it first? MOD Desktop puts the platform on your computer for free, standalone or as a plugin in your DAW. Try MOD Desktop →
A sound is a pedalboard.
A pedalboard here is virtual: the plugins that make your sound and every connection between them. Split the signal, run effects in parallel, send MIDI and control voltage between plugins, patch it any way you can imagine. No wood, no cables to buy. Build your own, or start from one another musician has shared.
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Real amps, captured. One click away.
Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) is the open-source technology players use to capture real amps and pedals. Its A2 architecture runs natively on every MOD device, down to the 2014 MOD Duo.
Tone3000, a library of more than 700,000 captures and cabinet IRs shared by players and tone makers, is built into the whole platform: any plugin that loads a NAM model or an IR gets the Tone3000 button. Pick one and it downloads straight to your device. Want your own amp on the Dwarf? Tone3000 makes capturing it simple.
Plugins: the building blocks.
Almost 400 plugins and growing: amps, drives, delays, reverbs, synths, loopers and sequencers, from faithful versions of the classics to things no hardware pedal could do. Most are free and open source, built by the community. Some come from independent brands, in the MOD Plugin Shop.
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Plugins from independent brands
Amps, pedals and effects from independent brands, in the MOD Plugin Shop.
Make plugins? Sell them on MOD →
Build the instrument you need.
Artists have always built their own tools. MOD is open so you can too: change how the instrument behaves, and what it sounds like.
Make it behave the way you need
How the instrument works on stage is open to change. MOD OS and its interface are open source, and players have reshaped them around how they perform. Starless, a community-built OS for the Dwarf, added editing pedalboard parameters without a computer and a Performance View, and its grouped plugin controls are now part of MOD OS 1.14.
Make it sound the way you hear it
New sounds start as ideas. Patch yours in Pure Data or Max gen~, code it in FAUST, or describe the effect to the AI assistant of your choice. Whichever route you take, the MOD Cloud Builder turns it into a plugin for your device. Community members have already shared dozens of their own.
A platform that keeps moving.
MOD OS releases are now made with the community: release candidates go to testers on the forum first, and what they report shapes the final version. The latest release brought NAM A2 to every MOD device, Tone3000 built into the platform, and the grouped plugin controls that started in Starless. And more than 100 new plugins are on their way. What’s new in 1.14 →
Lately on the forum
Cookbook Challenge. The first one, run by Niels: make an effect that uses or affects pitch in an unexpected way. Entries close on 1 December.Take part →
Mark Melvin of Audiofab released Easy Spin. It emulates the FV-1 chip behind many boutique delays, reverbs and modulation pedals, so one plugin runs any FV-1 program, including your own.Read the thread →
Stefan made System Mixer, a 16-channel stereo mixer for the whole pedalboard: right-click a plugin to send it to the mixer, instead of wiring every parallel chain by hand.Read the thread →Take part.
MOD is shaped by the people who play it.
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