Niall Moody Nialls Pedalboard2

Back in June 2011 Niall Moody released Pedalboard2, a VST and AudioUnit plug-in host designed for live use. It is a re-invention of Niall's Pedal Board, originally released in 2004. Niall has just updated Pedalboard2 to v2.03.

Pedalboard2 Key Features:

• Modular patching.

• All plug-in parameters can be manipulated in real time via MIDI CCs or Open Sound Control messages.

• Any number of patches can be queued up and rapidly switched.

Changes in v2.03:

• Drag and drop loading of.pdl files.

• Drag and drop loading of plug-in files (.dll,.vst,.component).

• Set FilePlayer's Sync to Main Transport button correctly on creation.

• Saving an existing patch should no longer open the save as... dialog.

• Dragging a PluginComponent outside the PluginField's bounds scrolls the viewport.

• Fixed MIDI Input only accepting messages from the default device; now messages from any devices ticked in the Audio Settings dialog will be available.

• Special case fix for VAZ+, since it doesn't like being put in a resizable window.

• Basic OSC learn functionality; the app remembers every OSC address it's been sent since it was started, and gives the user a combobox list of them.

• Added the same OSC learn functionality to application mappings window.

• Fixed memory leak in the mappings managers.

• Larger hit test area for plug-in pins (big enough now?).

• Fixed plug-ins disappearing off the top left of the screen if you dragged them and changed patch.

• Made AudioFormatManager and AudioThumbnailCache singletons to simplify things (not ideal, but the alternative would be an enormous pain in the bum).

• Added Audio Recorder component.

• Use same stored folder for AudioRecorder as for FilePlayer.

Changes in v2.02:

• Load pdl files from the command line.

Changes in v2.01:

• Display the current computer's IP address in the about window.

• Add Trigger parameter to File Player (to allow drum machine-style playing).

• Make OSC mapping address text editor not require a return keypress.

• Draw dragged connections centred on the mouse pointer.

• Update PluginField bounds when a processor is moved outside them.

• Made Level processor stereo.

• VU Meter processor.

• Ability to double-click a processor's title bar to change its name.

• Give pins a larger hit test radius when dragging a connection.

• Make sure 'Override plug-in's MIDI...' button state persists after closing the window.

• Update to JUCE v1.54.27.

• OSX Version.

Pedalboard2 is a VST (plus AudioUnit on OS X) plug-in host designed for live use. Based on the JUCE 'audio plug-in host' code, heavily modified.

Key Features:

• Modular patching.

• All plug-in parameters can be manipulated in real time via MIDI CCs or Open Sound Control messages.

• Any number of patches can be queued up and rapidly switched.

Niall's Pedal Board is a simple ASIO VST host designed to be used as a guitar pedal board, using a joystick interface to control the plug-ins' parameters (instruction included on how to turn a joystick into a (physical) pedal board).

Niall's Pedal Board is open source, written using the Raw Material Software's JUCE library.