When sharing a pedalboard with plugins that load files, the actual files get embedded into the board and is shipped with it, so that people who download them can use accordingly. But there is no access to these files, so those who downloaded it, can only use them in the downloaded pedalboard.
This is a common topic internally. It will come at some point 
I’ll add more to this later, but my first couple of tips is are the distortion is made or broken by the cabinet sim you put after it. So make sure that you rummage through a range of cabinets for each overdrive to see what works well with it! At the moment, I’ve got full AIDA for preamp/overdrive, using a Fender Champ clean sound, a Fender Twin for break-up and a ‘glam’ (??) preamp for overdrive. The cabinet is the IR cab loader with some crazy thing I found online on it, but I REALLY like the Vintage cab sim.
Tip 2 is that you’ll almost always get more interesting results with things that aren’t designed for bass. If you have trouble with them sucking the low end out, you can always put a high/low splitter in and only run everything above 100hz through the overdrive, keeping the bass end clean (I’ve done this with the preamp IRs a lot) or just put an EQ before or after it to even things out.
The joy of the MOD environment is how quickly and easily you can chain up unlikely things, tweak it, save it and build something unique and truly versatile. I’ve been using MOD stuff for what, eight years now (??) And still spend time every day tweaking aspects of my main pedal board, finding new ways to do things and new settings to tweak or assign to MIDI controllers!
enjoy!
Steve
Excellent advice!
Yeah most of my go to drives are designed for guitar, especially the Electronic Audio Experiments stuff. Will be experimenting more, will likely have a play with doing some multiband stuff too.
Is there a RAT style drive in there? I did look and couldn’t see one.
IR wise I’m currently using some free ones by Shift Line, I’ve tried some other highly rated ones but always come back to their Mesa and Orange IRs. For guitar I really like these Zach Weeks - Impulse Responses as they work great for clanky guitar tones I’ve found.
I committed to putting the Dwarf on my board which usually take a lot longer 
I’m only running it through one output of my Cioks DC7 which only puts out 500mA, was suprised it was working. I was thinking as an interim, my pedal board has a pass through barrel dc psu connection on so I might just settle for 2 power cables from my board for now until I can get one of the Cioks highcurrent extensions on there.
I also need a right angle USB B or to get the Bluetooth working so I can connect it all while its on there!
It’s just missing the Model FeT and then it’ll be complete.
That being said I have a smaller Rockboard 2.1, if I can get some driven tones that work as well as the halberd and longsword from the Dwarf I’d maybe look at a lighter weight version by removing those and the Hyper Luminal.
@mrdinsdale I have a long story with pedalboards. You can read it here. I will add some more information to that thread in the next days because meanwhile it is again changed. I have two Dwarfs now on my pedalboard, because I am playing three instrument an I am also singing through the Dwarf.
Some pretty cool looking setups in there! I actually think I read through most of your post when I was attempting to research the Dwarf. Really useful insights there 
DAY 2
Another lunch break play after hooking the Dward up with my other pedals. One small snag that I hit along the way is that I can’t connect to the Dwarf via Bluetooth to my laptop (VPNs and other security stuff blocking it) and tbh it’s too slow for anything other than small tweaks. For now will use the iPad via BT or try and get it wired up again, just means removing from my board to make room for the usb cable.
Think I may have to look at wired options, perhaps a long USB cable I can coil and attach underneath my board should I ever need to connect. I’m gussing not but anyone know if I connect via usb C to my iPad will it allow me to connect to GUI?
Worked out how to assign controls to the device and set up some stuff so that I can make quick tweaks on the fly to the compressor and Boobtube drive.
Now that I have it on my board I can more easily A/B my exisiting physical pedals to try and match the tone, I’m not expecting anything to be exactly the same but it’s a good reference to a tone I know works well in the band setup.
Next up going to play with some more drive options along with having a play with some of the modulation options It’s a world I’ve never really explored before, I’ve rarely used chorus, phasers or flangers etc before so don’t really know what I’m looking for but might try and replicate some of Justin Chancellors bass tones as a bit of a goal to keep me focused!
The dream is to get proficient enough to start crafting some more out there stuff. Not remotely applicable to the current band but it would be awesome tos start being able to but cool tones like this together - How to Create a Synth sound with Mastro Valvola LEM & OFF1 - YouTube
Been jumping between playing into my bass amp, DI out to my Scarlett 2i2 and headphones straight out of the dwarf.
Found a bit of an issue with headphones, because I’m using the channel 1’s out and channel 2’s in as an FX send, if I use headphones I get the send signal in one ear and the end of the chain in the other.
Is there any way to configure the headphones to a single channel? Fortunately (I guess) I’m deaf in one ear so I can just about make it work if I put the headphones on the right way but it’s not ideal
Hej!
I must admit i didn’t read every word above, but i read “Bass” and “distortion” 
Maybe you’d like to check out my aida-x model of the boss ODB-3 Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive
I’ll probably try to capture it better soon, but what i shared there is already very usable. I already used it live and it sounds great 
I most certainly would added to the list!
Yeah, huge improvement and found that the table + pen is perfect for the fairly intricate UI.
Had a bit of a play with combining some drives etc to try and mimic the sound of my EAE Halberd.
Ended up settling for the GxTimRay into the GxBoobtube. I also did a split with a LPF at around 160hz with some fairly heavy compression to try and get some of the chewy depth of the Halberd.
Sorry for the terrible framing of the video
So a little more time now with the Dwarf and eco system I’ve started to get a feel for what I do/don’t like. Overall I love it, it’s everything I’d hoped for and more.
Thats a longish list of stuff but it’s all pretty minor gripes, not one is really a dealbreaker, just a range of quality of life stuff. Absolutely blown away by the handful of AIDA-X profiles I’ve had chance to try, it’s opened the door to a huge array of options. There are some great FX available there, you’ve just gotta find them first! The amount of depth you can go to with tweaking is way beyond any other platform I’ve encountered, it’s pretty breath taking compared to other stuff I’ve tried.
I’m sure some are already in the pipeline. If there is any way to get involved in anything around the pedalboard sharing platform that would be cool, I’m sure there are plenty of web developers (including myself) who would happily help out if possible!
This has been requested several times in the past and I have seen a preview of this feature coming in a future firmware update!
(hopefully sooner rather than later, but it will need some refining and testing before ready for general use)
Nice, yeah I think this was mentioned further up. Very excited to see this feature!
The feature itself is mostly ready by the way, it is mostly a matter of fine-tuning which plugins can replace each other.
Here is AIDA-X replacing another AIDA based plugin. Mono-to-mono plugin swap, with the audio file player on the left not matching the dropable IO and thus doesnt get “replaceable” icon.
That is a game changer I’d imagine it must be hard to fine tune all that stuff to align I/O, looks great.
As previously mentioned, I have a bit of an issue running integrated with my pedalboard in that the headphones use channel 1+2 as stereo outs when I’ve got it configured as an FX loop between Channel 1 out and Channel 2 in. I’ve added some switches (circled) in the top position they handle the FX loop and in the down position bypass the FX loop and treat 1 + 2 as a stereo out. Obviously the stereo out will only work if I’m using headphones etc.
Is there a better way to do this? It’s definitely adding some clutter to the board!
PS the 2nd switch at the bottom that looks redundant previously had some FX in that I was having a play with but is completely redundant now.
