@gianfranco: Congratulations to keeping MOD alive and even making progress in these difficult times! Perseverance is key, and you certainly have plenty of it. Looking forward to the next leg of this journey with you!
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Congratulations, first of all, thanks for following through on your promises, I’m really looking forward to playing around with the mod dwarf 
Secondly I was one of the people calling for you to open up more of the OS/boot code, so thank you! I just hope I can find time to play around with this all now
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Hi Gianfranco, good news and thanks for all the efforts put into this wonderful project. Keeping alive an open source project without external/additional funding is a real challenge as I can tell from experience. But this seems to be a sustainable move for the future of MOD.
Rob
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Really wonderful news that the Mod will have a sustainable future. What you have done is create the greatest guitar pedal ever with extraordinary richness and customizability. Thank you so much.
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It’s already possibile 
Hi,Gianfranco
I’m glad to hear that everything is going well.It has to be said that ideals do require underlying business logic to support them.
Mod Audio can have its own spirit and ideological values, but to think from a realistic perspective, it must also commercialize from other angles to get value, in order to have the cost to maintain its spirit.
I bought a Dwarf from a friend and it still works very well.
glad you get it sorted in a way that sets MOD up for a brighter future.
I hope you keep us updated on the process and we don’t have to wait months for a short update.
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Hi everyone,
First of all congratulations for the successful reboot! I hope you finally arrived at more stable and less stressful times for the company!
Regarding the expression pedal I also think it’s a good idea to focus on more urgent topics. By now
I think basically everyone who ordered it moved to another solution if he really needed one.
Still, one thing that was brought up by @gianfranco in the “Expression Pedal” topic was the offer to give a plugin voucher to those who backed the Expression Pedal. Is this still something one could hope for?
I’m wondering what the changes will mean in terms of the co-op with AIDA.
(since the" AX on MOD Dwarf" is my main use case)
The workbook to create profiles in’t working and the implicit and explicit message around all of this kinda worry me.
I was planning on creating some more profiles and creating some YT content around it.
First I need to know how viable and sustainable that idea would be.
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We are in the mids of porting AIDA-X to the Chaos Audio Stratus Pedal. If you are interested to have peek.
So the project is well and we will keep supporting platforms.
It all just takes so much time we only can go in small steps.
I can’t speak for MOD but they were always very supportive.
So I think when @gianfranco and @falkTX have most of the parts sorted we update stuff concerning AIDA-X including training, links, guides etc.
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That´s a tricky question Lieven
AIDA-X is an independent effort from @madmaxwell and @spunktsch, so I cannot make any affirmation in regards to their objectives and vision.
What I can say is that we will continue to fully support both AIDA-X as NAM formats, just like we already do now. With the Desktop App, the trend is to have both AIDA as NAM more and more integrated into the platform.
Regarding the trainer, there is a decision to be made by the AIDA guys in regards to the training they want to officialy support, especially in relation to new partners, like Chaos Audio, so that we know where should the support for the trainer be coming from.
There is no “official” AIDA trainer, as far as I am aware, and the Colab trainer currently available was made as a “joint venture” between MOD Audio and AIDA.
The official AIDA website has no mention to a trainer, so there ain’t much I can say.
Maybe @spunktsch can clarify on that. Would be great to hear what are AIDA’s plans for the big picture.
I’ll ask one of our guys to look into the current trainer, in any case.
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Regarding the expression pedal I also think it’s a good idea to focus on more urgent topics. By now
I think basically everyone who ordered it moved to another solution if he really needed one.
Still, one thing that was brought up by @gianfranco in the “Expression Pedal” topic was the offer to give a plugin voucher to those who backed the Expression Pedal. Is this still something one could hope for?
No answer is certainly an answer within itself, but some clear words would be appreciated, since you @gianfranco made the offer yourself. We expression pedal backers know very well that we don’t have any claim on a delivery in any way, but since there was this back and forth for so long, a final conclusion still would be nice.
The offer remains the same as I wrote in here: Expression pedal update - #571 by Inkwell
Please send contact me directly so that I can issue a discount related to your case.
Best
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What a journey it has been so far - and i guess it must have been bittersweet for the project and its scale not being up to the expectations, however i feel theres a lot of promise going forward and fully embracing the opensource structure.
Regardless of whether new dwarf units will be made or not, expanding into new territories can be interesting and a worthwhile endeavor to see in the future.
so regarding the hardware platform, will we see support for future revisions of the raspberry pi or a community effort in acquiring the correct shields?
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What about getting the MOD platform and the CV / Midi bridging utilties to eurorack. Thinking like a breakout module that could send and receive CV, curious to know if that would be of interest or a focus for mod, now that cardinal is also a thing- not mentioning the amazing cv playground already present in the mod platform.
is there a way to easily implement this over the CC IO or USB?
Really stoked for the news and I can’t wait to finally get to meet my Founders’ edition Dwarf!
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Just curious now that we’re nearly in December, how’s the shippiing of the founders edition going?
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Benissime notizie, Gianfranco! Bravi! E grazie mille!
A couple of questions though:
- any plans to make MOD desktop an AAX plugin? Please do not let us ProTools geeks high and dry!
- what are the plans for the Control chain platform? In particular, we’re waiting for the updated Arduino CC library. Also, a great addition would be to let CC run over BLE (the fewer cables and patchcords - the better!) All the CC stuff can really be outsourced to the community.
I can raise official feature requests for these if it’ll help.
Thanks again!
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Extremely unlikely as the plugin is based on DPF which doesn’t (and probably will never) support it.
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I dropped into the forum a while back to see if there was any updates on this as December is well and truely here.
I filled in the requested form as soon as the email arrived but haven’t received any updates.
Any news on this would be appreciated.
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