Introducing the MOD Desktop - Beta release

Azza · February 5, 2024, 11:05am

Amazing. I’ve also wanted for a long time the ability to drop a plugin on a cable and automatically have it inserted in the circuit with the cable split and connected to some default plugin’s input/output ports.

falkTX · February 6, 2024, 9:11pm

Another release is here!

Introduces a few “factory pedalboards”, based on Dwarf ones. For now it is basically the “Guitar Synth” collection and the “useful tips” one. But this paves the way to have a collection of pedalboards pre-installed with the desktop app, we will add more later on.

Also corrected the case of JACK + PipeWire on some systems, hopefully that works better now.

Enjoy!

PS: Also started generating a “device unique id” thing, to be used later on for the whole plugin store and commercial plugins. But will take a while…

Rino2 · February 7, 2024, 4:33pm

Eehhm?.. where are this pedalboard?? Nothing is installed with this version… my user doc folder is correctly namef MOD Desktop, so…

unbracketed · February 7, 2024, 5:10pm

I installed v0.0.8 for Mac and am able to load the factory pedalboards from the Pedalboards Library.

Rino2 · February 7, 2024, 6:29pm

Sorry, are you speaking about the pedalboards library on internet?
I was thinking that this Guitar Synth pedalboards were inserted in this software release, falkTX speak about factory pedalboards

Well probably I’m wrong!

unbracketed · February 7, 2024, 6:42pm

(as a side note, opening the synth boards with the default OS mic input makes for a nice noise / ambient soundscape )

Rino2 · February 7, 2024, 7:36pm

I’m on windows (11)!! There’s no factory pedalboards, only the ones I have created (user pedalboards)…
Maybe it’s my fault…

Simon · February 8, 2024, 4:05am

I am trying to have the fun too but so far no luck

I have a Mac Mini Late 2012 running Catalina. Python 3.12.2

This is what I get in the “mod-ui” log when I start the Mod Desktop 0.0.8:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “lib/startup.py”, line 113, in run
File “lib/Console.py”, line 15, in run
File “lib/mod-ui-setup.py”, line 91, in
File “/Applications/MOD Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/mod/webserver.py”, line 2500, in run
prepare()
File “/Applications/MOD Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/mod/webserver.py”, line 2471, in prepare
application.listen(DEVICE_WEBSERVER_PORT, address=(“localhost” if DESKTOP else “0.0.0.0”))
File “lib/tornado/web.py”, line 1825, in listen
File “lib/tornado/tcpserver.py”, line 126, in listen
File “lib/tornado/netutil.py”, line 154, in bind_sockets
File “lib/socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known
ERROR: This system has no python serial support
Using FakeHMI => <mod.development.FakeHMI object at 0x110589250>
cc start socket missing
jack client deactivated NOT

Rino2 · February 8, 2024, 10:50am

…not only!! Cliking on Open User File …it doesn’t open the user file… but not… the directori is correctly named because I can load audio, nam, midi, or any other file…
Strange!

Maxinova · February 9, 2024, 10:22am

Thank you for your work; it’s a fantastic piece of software, very powerful.

I have a kind of technical question. I would like to control some settings with the command line (I’m on Linux, by the way). I found out that mod-host can be controlled with the command line, and I tried to send some commands via the socket. The problem is, I don’t know the socket port. I tried the default one (5555), but it doesn’t seem to work with mod-desktop.

SamIAm · February 9, 2024, 11:55am

What would be needed to remove the need to ‘approve’ access to mics on MacOS? Is it simply a case of getting hold of an Apple Dev Licence to allow signing?
If so, I would be willing to chip in towards the cost (I think it’s about $300 for organisations).
Sam x

falkTX · February 9, 2024, 4:10pm

it does indeed use another port, to try to not conflict with other mod-host already running.
this port is not useful by itself though, and connecting through it would make mod-ui state broken and invalid.
The mod-host port on desktop is 18182 by the way.

It needs a code-signing thing to be setup, we still need to setup one for MOD Audio UG as company. It is just something I have not ever dealt with before.
From what I understood it is not complicated, and you can even “ad-hoc” and that will do the trick here too.

Maxinova · February 9, 2024, 9:12pm

Thanks for the reply, it seems like it’s not as simple as I hoped. I was asking because I’m trying to solve this issue:
I really want to figure out a way to change NAM files on the fly using MIDI commands. Right now, the only method I found is to create multiple instances of the NAM plugin, one for each file, and assign a different file to each instance. Then, I can bypass all of them except one using MIDI. The problem is that all these plugins are taking up space on my pedalboard, and I think they might also be using resources even when they’re bypassed.
Another idea I had is to control either plugin presets or pedalboard snapshots using a MIDI command, but I’m not sure if that’s possible.

falkTX · February 10, 2024, 12:00am

there is no need to install python when running mod-desktop, it already includes everything it needs to run, it does not use system python at all.

for your error in particular, it comes from here:

application.listen(DEVICE_WEBSERVER_PORT, address=(“localhost” if DESKTOP else “0.0.0.0”))
...
File “lib/socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known

this means the localhost address in your system somehow is not being mapped to anything, making mod-ui unable to start.
it seems a very peculiar issue, localhost should always map to 127.0.0.1 on any regular system, not sure what is going on in yours really.

falkTX · February 10, 2024, 12:02am

We have yet another release!

Fixes a few regressions from 0.0.8 and other issues as reported by users.
Enjoy!

dreamer · February 10, 2024, 9:35am

I recently saw an issue on macOS where it would first resolve to the ipv6 ::1 before it would resolve to ipv4 127.0.0.1 (this was with nodejs though)

falkTX · February 10, 2024, 10:51am

Good point, changed that just now to use the more specific 127.0.0.1 as per Use 127.0.0.1 for desktop instead of localhost · moddevices/mod-ui@214d64d · GitHub

Simon · February 12, 2024, 3:32am

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

It turns out my “Hosts” file was empty. I honestly don’t know why.

There was another file named “Hosts~old”, so I renamed it “Hosts” and this solves my problem.

Thanks again !

falkTX · February 12, 2024, 11:59am

And yet another release!

Has a new factory pedalboard and some minor tweaks.

Enjoy!

suitsus · February 12, 2024, 5:59pm

Just downloaded the latest Desktop version, having not used it for a while (maybe a couple of months). Have an issue whereby when the audio interface is set to the iConnectAudio4+, the app won’t Start - i.e. Start button doesn’t fire it up. When I choose another, such as the onboard audio or the Syntakt, then it works fine. The iConnect is preferable for the purposes of routing in and out of the DAW.