more and more I’m bored by pedals that sound the same as everything else, and intrigued by pedals that don’t. luckily there’s a bunch of innovative things coming out these days. and this? absolutely WILD
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This is fun. How to have a whole pedalboard of effects to play with for cheap (if you already have an iOS device).
I especially like that the foot switches are on the floor and there’s no bending over for the knobs.
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Excellent. I needed something else to pour money into after I get done building pedlaboard #2 (my 1 row, travel board).
Seriously though, it looks really interesting (and what howard’s going on about all the time tbh). Looks like it could make hauling gear in and out of shitty dive bars quite a bit easier. Although I’d be interested in doing something in between this and a traditional board. I really like some of my reverb pedals (for example) that I wouldn’t want to lose access to. Might be worth looking into playing around with that.
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somewhere around here, it may have been here but I think it was in Howard’s plugin thread, I asked a few years ago couldn’t you just use a laptop and plugins live and basically have ALL the effects on earth in one simple reasonably priced setup. the issue back then seemed to be latency. it looks like we are approaching or finally at the point where we can do this now.
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Many people do this. DAWs are meant to also be used live. With Ableton it’s even in the name 
It’s been this way for a very long time. We had a computer on stage with us for all our gigs back in '89-90.
Still is but you just need to manage it.
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It’s absolutely the form factor that’s the tipping point for me.
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Muse actually glues iPads to their instruments 
And reliability. Operating system updates aren’t always friendly to everything working next time.
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Yes. You have to be careful with this, 100%.
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Having a little fun gameplanning this one out while I’m doing some gear maintenance this morning. To get this working through Logic on my ipad, I’ll need a foot controller, midi interface (with power pass through for the ipad) and to get it all working through my mixer (which is also my audio interface if thats even needed in this kind of setup) to send audio out to monitors and amp. Foot controllers look like they’ll be fun to window shop for, I’m not really sure where to start with midi controllers though. I’m not even really sure who the “good brands” are there.
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Just get an audio interface with MIDI ports too, and kill two birds with one stone. Make sure to verify they have tried it with iPads
Or check if the footswitch has USB MIDI out. Some might.
this could be a replacement for my hx stomp (not that I was planning on this). this is also gulp 1200 dollars.
edit: I mean I guess a quad cortex (which seems to be who they are targeting) is $1700. and this is actually primarily focused for bassists.
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Awesome! It looks perfect.
Why is Doug Castro competing with himself here though? Doesn’t he own both Darkglass and Neural DSP? Or did he sell one?
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I believe korg owns darkglass now.
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Ahh ok. So now they are competing with their former owner
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yeah there is some kind of neural/darkglass hookup going on. btw, as i posted in this video’s comments, i see one big elephant in the room with this, and that is currently i believe that DG only has 25 dsp effects for this. when you consider that even a cheap pedal like zoom has over 100 that’s… not great. and awesome as it would be i doubt very much that neural dsp would let DG use their extensive library of effects on this.
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I looked it up and Korg bought it in 2025. I wouldn’t be surprised if a two (plus development time) or three year noncompete ending is the reason this is launching now.
ETA: I can’t see buying this at almost 1.5x the price of a helix LT. I like darkglass distortion, but it’s pretty simple (based on watching YouTube videos of it done) to model a crossover and an svt for the low end with a 5150 for the high end & distortion and make it sound really good using the helix stuff.
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It’s true. I was able to replicate Neural DSP Parallax using Kilohearts Multipass in about 10 mins.
I’m interested in finding a really extreme sawtoothy distortion.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
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Fuzz for the added harmonics to get you closer to a saw than pure clipping?
Could also go for a standard clipping distortion with mismatched diodes 
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