PedalEditor vs Tape Death

A Brain for Brainless Pedals. PedalEditor is a curated MIDI editor and preset library for the guitar pedals and synths you already own. It runs on iPhone and iPad, connects over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB, and puts the full parameter map of every supported pedal on the screen — no laptop in the signal path, no proprietary editor for each brand. The pedal is the render target. Presets live in the app. —— SPEAKS FLUENT STRYMON BigSky, BigSky MX, blueSky V2, Brig, Cloudburst, Compadre, Deco V2, DIG V2, EC-1, El Capistan V2, Flint V2, Iridium, Lex V2, Mobius, NightSky, Riverside, Sunset, TimeLine, UltraViolet, Volante, Zelzah. 21 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT WALRUS AUDIO ACS1, ACS1 MkII, D1, D1 MkII, M1, M1 MkII, R1, R1 MkII, Meraki, Qi. 10 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT UAFX ANTI 1992, Dream '65, Enigmatic '82, Knuckles '92 Rev F, Lion '68, Ruby '63, Woodrow '55. 7 amp modelers. SPEAKS FLUENT CHASE BLISS Generation Loss MkII, Habit, Mood MkII. 3 profiles. ALSO: Hologram Microcosm. Meris LVX. Line 6 DL4 MkII. About 200 more profiles are built and releasing — 10 to 15 a week, brand by brand. —— THE EDITOR Every parameter on the pedal's faceplate is a control in the app — named the way the pedal prints it, laid out in the order the manual describes it. Knobs, toggle switches, algorithm selectors, multi-position physical switches, and dip banks all render as their hardware equivalents. Switching effect categories (BigSky's 12 reverb machines, TimeLine's 12 delay machines) updates the parameter layout to match. Three save actions, deliberately distinct: • Save — writes to the app library. Nothing goes to the pedal. • Send — pushes the current state to the pedal without writing hardware memory. • Save on Pedal — arms the pedal via Program Change, then writes the slot. On supported Strymon hardware, Read from Pedal pulls the current parameter state back into the app. Capture All Presets sweeps the hardware preset bank and imports it as a named Collection — useful for backing up a pedal before a firmware update. The MIDI Monitor shows every message in and out for the connected destination, with raw hex and human-readable descriptions. —— HOW YOU ORGANIZE Rig → Project → Pedal → Collection → Preset. A Rig is a physical board: specific pedals, specific MIDI channels. Multiple Rigs coexist — a studio rig, a fly rig, a rehearsal rig. A Project is a purpose within a Rig ("Worship Band," "Studio Sessions"). A Collection is a named, colored bank of presets for one pedal in one Project — multiple Collections per pedal, each with up to three independent A/B/C state slots. Presets have freeform names, notes, tags, and lineage tracking; they are not bound by hardware display character limits. Songs hold ordered sections, each with the presets that section needs. Setlists hold ordered songs. Build the setlist before the gig. —— LIVE Open the Live tab, tap a setlist, and step through it. Each advance sends the Program Change and CC values for that section to every pedal on the board. The screen stays awake. No tap-dancing through hardware menus in the dark. —— Custom MIDI (128 Knobs) is always free. It sends CCs 0–127 on any MIDI channel, so it drives any MIDI device you own, no profile required. No account. No cloud. No tracking. Restore Purchases lives in Settings, and it works. Presets, rigs, songs, and setlists sync automatically across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud — no setup, no logins, same Apple ID. —— PedalEditor runs on iPhone and iPad. Bluetooth LE MIDI, USB MIDI, and Network MIDI (RTP-MIDI) over Wi-Fi — same app, same presets, whichever cable you prefer. The pedal still doesn't know your name. The app remembers everything.

Tape Death is a four-tape looping instrument that falls apart while you play it. Record a loop onto a cassette and it plays forever — but it never holds still. Every second it runs, the tape wears: the highs fray, dropouts bloom, the pitch begins to sag. Nothing you make will ever sound new again. That's the point. This isn't a clean, non-destructive studio — it's a machine for sounds that rot beautifully. Four tapes, each aging on its own. Layer them, warp them, drown them in space, and bottle the decaying mix to share. FOUR TAPES • Record straight from your mic — a voice, an instrument, the whole room. • Overdub to build layers onto a single loop. • Play each tape forward, in reverse, or ping-ponging back and forth. • Every tape keeps its own character and its own state of decay. DECAY IS THE INSTRUMENT • Tapes wear permanently as they play — the heart of the whole app. • Dial each tape from "eternal" to "dying," or age them all together. • Begin the disintegration again whenever you like — your settings stay. CHARACTER, NO NUMBERS Shape each tape by feel, not by figures. Every control is a drag between two words: • WARMTH — clean to melted tape saturation • DUST — quiet to snowy hiss and grit • WOBBLE — steady to seasick wow & flutter • TONE — dark to bright • SPACE — each tape's own echo and reverb (spring, hall, cathedral, shimmer, void; standard, ping-pong, and granular delays) THE ROOM A shared space every tape plays into — one reverb, one echo, one bus compressor to glue the whole mix, and a global decay to age everything at once. BOTTLE IT Capture the living, decaying mix to an audio file and share it anywhere. Save whole setups as sessions and return to them. Tape Death records everything on device. No account, no sign-in, nothing collected, and it works fully offline. It keeps playing in the background, too. Make something. Let it die.