It is very commonly said that “LV2 is for Linux” so yes this is misinformation. I don’t know how else to describe it.
Not meant to be rude at all, but it’s not nice to see bad information be spread around as if it’s some sort of truth.
While some where debating semantics we have a new user who had a terrible experience.
@guitarsandvideogames that sounds like a hot mess! 
The Dwarf is a flexible toolbox but there still are a few rough edges.
The MOD guys are aware of the most of them and try to apply the best adaption to improve the experience but that’s hard to achieve overnight. The more users, the more specific use cases to “waterproof”
There is no protection or warning on the output right now and you probably had some high high level signals being routed to the outputs. It’s a universal good practice to set volumes low but that isn’ a real excuse for dangerously high level blasting through your headphones right away.
A blank pedalboard has a gain control right away, on the right side, mostly for this purpose.
I my journal you will read that it wasn’t all 'Apple style plug n play" right away but I write it for exactly that purpose: passing on user experiences in order to improve.
Why not leaving it in its box for a few days and start over fresh?
(and simple; I found I had vairous levels coming out of the Dwarf when trying out other peoples outputs. There is no kind of unified output stage or “level learning” (yet) so why not start out simple yourself, with a gain plugin in the end, keeping it down to boot off and gradually opening it up.
concerning the connection:
I had some connection issues at first but it was solved thanks to this tip:
There are some steps in Troubleshooting - MOD Wiki for when things do not go right in Windows.
The most typical scenario is Windows assuming it is a parallel communication device, rather than an ethernet communication device.
Alternatively, you can switch the USB mode in the Dwarf device settings from “USB Net” to “USB Net + MIDI (Windows)” which contains a special mode known to work in Windows 10 (and as an extra, the Dwarf then acts as a USB MIDI device)
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Well, @LievenDV already said what’s to be said. You may give it some time still and see what it does for you, other than ripping your timpani apart. Have in mind that the impedance of your phones may have had an effect on the result.
Unfortunately, manuals/guides for the Dwarf are still lacking more thorough information, but as @jesusperezsv mentioned, you can control the output level independently (such is the case with the Mod X).
And just FYI, what you experienced with output levels is the EXACT same thing that happened to me with the Digitech GNX4 many years ago. Not all multi-effect units have an output “normaliser” of some kind to keep all levels the same.
But, in the name of good semantics, you already said it’s up for sale, so in any event, good luck for you.
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I understand where you’re coming from, @dreamer. It is a topic that probably speaks highly to you, and you wanted to set it straight. You have a point there.
It was an honest mistake and bad phrasing on my end, which I corrected and apologised for twice. You say yourself that there it’s “very commonly said” LV2 is linked to Linux. So this general misconception must indeed be clarified. And so is the case with the word misinformation.
No, this is not “misinformation”. Start with the Oxford:
I can’t see where was the intent to deceive anyone.
Use your own words “bad information”. Or else:
- inaccurate information;
- general misconception;
- uninformed idea.
- etc.
I had a firearm pointed to my head for the 5th time in my life just yesterday. As I was helping with translation for the people processing Ukrainian refugees in my town, someone started yelling on the street. I was asked to deescalate things and there came a gun and an ominous advice for me to stop aiding Nazi terrorists (79 women and 30 children). It took me 40 minutes to talk that person out of doing that, only to learn that he read somewhere in the internet that these “so-called refugees” were terrorists in disguise.
Last year, my mother, upon returning home from my father’s funeral was accosted by a neighbour accusing her of killing her beloved husband by allowing him to be vaccinated against Covid.
THIS is what misinformation does.
I can’t see what damage I could have done to the world by saying LV2 is for Linux-based systems, still I corrected it and acknowledged my mistake, thanking you for your help.
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As I understood reading your posts you bought the device second hand.
From that starting point, is the device updated on the last OS version and the plugins also on their last version?
If I remember well, when we first start shipping the MOD Dwarf to crowdfunding backers, we quickly spotted an issue with certain plugins volumes (way louder than others) and also some plugins that were simply cutting the sound.
I don’t remember exactly in which release or either if it happened on a OS level update or plugins updates, but I believe that was solved.
Wasn’t this the case on your device?
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