The MOD community.

Musicians, makers and developers who share pedalboards, plugins, code and answers. They test new releases, fix what breaks, and build things MOD never planned.

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See what people built

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On stage.

Real players, real gigs, on MOD devices.

Rated Blue – “Wrong Foot”Rated Blue

Glen MacArthur and his son Connor. Glen maintains the AV Linux distribution; here he plays a MOD Duo.

Essor et Chute (de notre civilisation)Collectif Pince-Oreilles

Romain Baret live at Le Périscope, Lyon, with a MOD Dwarf for his delays and other effects.

Spectral Gates – “Holocene”Spectral Gates

Daniel Arena at the album launch. He wrote his own plugins, the remaincalm suite, and plays through a MOD Duo.

Riverrun – “Jahilia/Burek”Riverrun

Clarinettist Peter Lutek with a MOD Duo, his own Arduino-based pedal-to-MIDI converter and a TAP pickup for woodwinds.

Steve Lawson at the Vocoder FestivalGround Arti Elettroniche

Bass, with a MOD Duo X at the core of his setup.

Take part.

There is a place for you here, whatever you know.

Forum →Ask, answer, share your pedalboards and show what you built.Test a release →Install a release candidate and report what you find.GitHub →Contribute code to MOD OS, the web interface and the plugins.Manual →Improve the Dwarf manual. It is open to contributions.

In their words.

Forum members on what the forum gave them.

LievenDV

One thing I learned in the forum is: How modular synths ACTUALLY work
I was able to quickly get help with: Finding the right plugins for the high gain guitar tone I was trying to achieve
One of my favourite forum topics was: A plugin developer (brummer) answering my need for a functionality with an actual new version of a plugin!
The forum was able to help me with: A lot of things and always in a positive and constructive matter!

danielblues

One thing I learned in the forum is: Make automation macros with cv
I was able to quickly get help with: Not needed yet
One of my favourite forum topics was: Beta plugins!
The forum was able to help me with: Many things, most cv stuff.

CarloDossi

One thing I learned in the forum is: Make an awesome “freeze” effect
I was able to quickly get help with: Setting an external midi controller
One of my favourite forum topics was: Double octave down
The forum was able to help me with: Find good starting point for my pedalboards and shape them helped by user suggestion and AI assistant

Coffeetableworkshop

One thing I learned in the forum is: How to use crossfeed delay
I was able to quickly get help with: Noise issues
One of my favourite forum topics was: User pedal boards and how others were using the pedal in their workflow.
The forum was able to help me with: Why snapshots weren’t saving. (I wasn’t saving the pedal board afterwards)

unbracketed

One thing I learned in the forum is: There’s so many things I’ve learned over the years ranging from technical matters like choice of effects, creating soundscapes and lush textures, to general tips for creativity and how to use the tools at hand during the creative process.
I was able to quickly get help with: Suggestions for handling vocal / microphone input, especially for compression options
One of my favourite forum topics was: I’m bad at picking favorites for anything in life. I like that people from all different musical backgrounds and genres are able to come together and share their experiences and knowledge. It’s often the case that someone starts a topic about a feature request and the community is either able to help find a suitable workaround or guide the discussion to a place where the solution can put on a short-term development roadmap.
The forum was able to help me with: Learning how to use the device well beyond a fancy effects pedal and as the basis for many avenues of creative exploration. For example, managing vocals, sequencing background beats and melodies, using synths and MIDI-capable generators, and exploring different musical genres by piggybacking on what others shared.

Elk Wrath

One thing I learned in the forum is: The importance of gain staging within a board. How audio paths work in a digital environment, and a massive overview of the open source audio world.
I was able to quickly get help with: Advanced troubleshooting from devs, immediate customer service, basic-intermediate help/troubleshooting from users
One of my favourite forum topics was: All of the new firmware release topics. Content sharing
The forum was able to help me with: PSU noise issues

plutek

One thing I learned in the forum is: How to use make device or MIDI encoders control more than one plugin parameter.
I was able to quickly get help with: Returning my MOD device to a functional state when I built a default pedalboard which locked up immediately.
One of my favourite forum topics was: Contribute | Bugs Reports | Footswitch extension behaviour
The forum was able to help me with: That “Footswitch extension behaviour” topic is just one clear example of the manner in which the forum helps all the time to uncover, clarify, and ultimately solve bugs. …incomparable dialogue between users, devs, and other MOD personnel… 🙂

malfunction54

One thing I learned in the forum is: The existence of and use of the CV plugins
I was able to quickly get help with: A variety of technical and stylistic inquiries
One of my favourite forum topics was: “Show Us Your MOD Setup” (I’ll confess that I started it, but I really wanted to see how people are using their MOD units)
The forum was able to help me with: Understanding the variety of use cases that MOD units can be a part of