I’m fairly certain that everything on the MOD platform with the exception of commercial stuff, is already available to use with DAWs. You can even download the whole MODEP and install it on a shield, or whatever else.
Unless they radically shift from “hardware host for open source plugins” to something proprietary, I doubt that software is the direction I’d go.
To be honest, now that I am moving into a DAW based setup, I haven’t touched any of my hardware.
I paid retail for my units, and I’m happy to have supported the project. They serve a particular purpose in my hardware set up, and that’s where they are used.
Also, MOD isn’t the only company struggling. I have another device on preorder that has been delayed well over 6 months. Unfortunately, seems like complaints from preorder holders don’t actually improve product supply or logistical chains.
Not intimately. I understand it’s delivered over HTTP … Should I care though? As a customer who just wants results, should I care to learn how/why their host is technically limited in some way at the present moment?
Besides, how does this change the fact that, as a businesses, there’s certain obligation to adapt? This is especially true of technology, since it moves so fast.
Of course, none of this changes the fact that they had a successful crowd funding campaign. It just hasn’t produced any joy/results for me so far. The only thing I can say, is that I’m out what money I spent.
You are making some weird suggestions/demands on what they should do with their technology … without understanding a single thing about how the technology works. That’s not how any of this works, sorry
Nah, you got me wrong, dreamer. If anything, I just don’t care too much anymore.
I’m not here to please MOD, you, or anyone else with my comments. I’m only here b/c MOD seem to offer some solutions for my DSP needs … Not sure if that’s the case anymore.
Try to understand what I’m saying.
I’ve invested over $1k in MOD, with little or nothing to show for.
It is their job to make a viable, solvent company and hopefully live up to my needs as a customers. Btw, forgive me if this sounds radical.
It is not my job to live up to their needs–despite what funding/participation I’ve done, regardless.
So if $1k+, accompanied by my genuine hopes and frustrations is trolling to you, then so be it.
Yeah its definitely frustrating; no one is arguing against that, or blaming you for feeling irritated.
MOD team is also frustrated that they can’t get the components in to get their devices out.
Unfortunately, no one is in the position to fix it until the production pipeline gets its full flow back, and that’s up to an entirely different country.
Complaining we understand. Antagonistic remarks aren’t going to help with anything.
I’d say that I’m optimistic about things improving, but there are too many moving pieces across the globe and each govt is handling things differently.
I’m not going to get into any details about anything. I just want to say I’m sorry about the situation. It sucks for all of us. I would ask that we try to be nice to each other. I get the frustration but unfortunately arguing won’t solve much. By the way I don’t think the software idea is a bad one. It would only compliment the hardware in my opinion. Not a simple task though. I hope everyone is doing well and I hope things get better soon
Well, thanks for saying so. To me it seems like a logical development. In fact, the idea is pretty much just like Carla. Ya know?
Doesn’t seem too crazy. Although, just a moment ago I was almost convinced that I was crazy for suggesting it! Hah! … weird
Then I was further confused when Elk_wrath said “Antagonistic remarks aren’t going to help with anything”. Yet, he liked posts from dreamer where I was told ‘I didn’t understand a single thing’ and that I was ‘demanding things’ and then finally ‘I was troll, wasting everyone’s time’ … Hah. Weird.
It’s okay though. There’s wars and strange new problems in the world and so we can probably just blame that, I guess.
Well if you understand a little bit how mod-host and mod-ui work then you’d see that this is quit incompatible with “running MOD as a plugin”. Would take some serious development effort to completely rebuild and you would be left with a broken user experience.
So this still doesn’t make any sense to me.
We can run the MOD software on any computer already though, but I just want my Dwarf :#
Not a farewell I just didn’t want to go into technical details of what is and isn’t possible or what direction things should go. I’m just asking people to avoid criticising each other. That’s actually against the terms of the forum. Criticise ideas sure
One software related option to extend controls - both live and integrate into studio/DAW use - would be to create OSC control templates using: “openstagecontrol” (won’t let me post links so you’ll have to search for it)
Could be per plugin/pedal and/or selected controls for complete pedal boards. Not sure whether the Dwarf itself could be made to host the server, but once it’s running, anything on the network with a browser and touchscreen can run templates.
@Austin73, I will not really get deep in this conversation, most of it was explained a lot of times and most of them by me. No hard feelings, I happily do it. It’s my job, I knew about it when I started to do it and the kindness of the MOD community surprises me almost every single day (and gives me some hope, especially in the nowadays “internet world”).
That said allow me just some corrections. No, you don’t buy a product on Kickstarter or Indiegogo. You support a project.
We are not the ones setting that up. Just read this official post from Kickstarter already quite old.
That said, your question about taxes is totally valid and makes a lot of sense.
Legally crowdfunding campaigns have been in a huge black hole for many years, especially in Europe.
Not long ago it was set that by law a crowdfunding pledge is considered a donation. In case there’s a reward for that pledge and that reward is a physical good, this donation is converted into a purchase when the good is shipped. Therefore it needs to be invoiced and you pay taxes over it.
Mainly this allows the governments to collect the taxes from these goods, otherwise, everyone would start selling everything via crowdfunding and use it to run away from taxes.
