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Building a Pedalboard

A pedalboard is your signal chain — the set of plugins and connections that make up a sound or a rig. The Web UI's Constructor view is where you build one.

Note that signal flows left to right in the Web UI, opposite to the physical device where audio flows right to left.

Creating a new pedalboard

Clicking "New Pedalboard" and the resulting empty Constructor

  1. Click the "New Pedalboard" button in the Constructor.

Dragging a plugin from the Plugins Bar into the pedalboard view

  1. Drag plugins from the Plugins Bar (right side) into the pedalboard view.

Connecting two plugins by dragging from an output node to an input node

  1. Connect plugins by clicking an output node and dragging to an input node.
  2. Repeat until your chain is built.

Cable types

The Web UI uses color to distinguish connection types:

  • Purple — audio connections, carrying signal between plugins.

A purple audio cable between two plugins

  • Cyan — MIDI connections.

A cyan MIDI cable between two plugins

  • Orange — Control Voltage (CV) connections, for modular-style parameter control. See Using CV (Control Voltage) for what you can do with it.

An orange CV cable between two plugins

A plugin can have one or two audio inputs/outputs (mono or stereo), and some take mono in but output stereo.

Gain staging

Use meter plugins (like Level Meter) between stages to check whether a plugin is boosting or cutting your signal more than expected — especially useful after distortion, dynamics, or amp-sim plugins, which can push gain staging further than you'd expect. See Troubleshooting if you're dealing with noise or clipping.

Installing plugins

The Plugin Store view

Open the Plugin Store (from the mode selector) to browse or search. Click a plugin, then Install — it's added to your Plugins Bar, ready to drag into a pedalboard.

A newly installed plugin sitting in the Plugins Bar, ready to drag in

Most plugins are free; paid ones offer a trial (audio will randomly drop out during trial use — that's expected, not a bug) before you buy.

A paid plugin's store page with pricing/trial info, and the "add to cart" flow (1/2) A paid plugin's store page with pricing/trial info, and the "add to cart" flow (2/2)

Saving

The pedalboard actions bar showing Save / Save as

Use Save to save over the current pedalboard, or Save as to save a new one under a different name. All saved pedalboards appear in the Pedalboards Library.

The Pedalboards Library view

You can also save pedalboards directly from the device — see Snapshots.

Next: Assigning Controls