Starless – Release Announcements

The latest version is here: Starless releases :rocket:

Starless is a custom image for the MOD Dwarf, built to explore new features, customization options, and ideas beyond the standard firmware.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: What is Starless? Starless documentation
:backhand_index_pointing_right: Have an idea or want to talk? Starless Development thread
:backhand_index_pointing_right: Found a bug? Starless issue tracker

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New Release - Starless Version 17

Version 17 is finally out! \o/

:rocket: Release page: Starless 17 Release
:bookmark: Documentation: Starless Wiki

This is a huge release, with a lot of new features, so expect bugs! More importantly, please test everything and report any issues on the Development thread or through the GitHub issue tracker.

Tone3000 is now integrated into the Dwarf! This also brought support for subfolders when selecting custom paths.

For now, I’m using my own public API key to access the Tone3000 API. In a future release, I may ask each user to provide their own API key instead.

The great @StefanD also contributed a lot of UX improvements, including cable teleporting, stereo cables, mousewhell zoom, plugin multi-selection, canvas smart resizing and the CPU monitor UI. Please visit the Wiki to discover all the new features he wrote!

@AndyCap as always helped with midi and bug fixing!

On-Device Pedalboard Editing

This deserves a section of its own.

First of all, this is the first module I wrote with the help of AI. It would not have been possible for me to implement such a large and complex feature alone.

You can now edit the pedalboard graph directly on the device, including bindings to the device buttons and knobs, as well as plugin connections.

In my opinion, this makes the whole thing feel much closer to a real v1.0 HMI firmware release.

:film_strip: See it in action!

Next Release

After this release, I hope to enter a quieter period focused on bug fixes and feature refinement such as:

  • completing the Tone3000 integration with a tone information page
  • allowing users to create an empty pedalboard directly from the device

Changelog

New features:

  • Tone3000 support for NAM, CAB and IR loaders
  • Subfolder support for plugin path selection widgets
  • Cable Teleporting support
  • CPU monitor UI
  • Stereo cables
  • Canvas auto-sizing when adding / moving plugins
  • Constructor view: support plugin multi-selection
  • Mouse-wheel zoom
  • Complete pedalboard edit from the dwarf
  • Plugin settings dialog: disable VU meter on high CPU usage #55

Bug fix:

  • Spelling mistakes in midi settings page #57
  • Settings → Advanced: midi feedback sync is disabled #54
  • Fix sorting for port groups
  • Performance view: hide level monitor since are not yet supported
  • Mod-host: fix race condition on g_audio_monitor_count increment and also implemented the disable monitor by index
  • Fix effects_remove_inner_pre() was not removing transport mappings
  • Fix change jack audio buffer size to master implementation

Contributors:

Andrew Capon
Andrea Del Signore
João Neves
Jah-yee
Stefan Doerr

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Wow!

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Wow, such an amazing list of new features :distorted_face:
Amazing !!!
Thanks a lot @AndreaDelSignore, @AndyCap , @jon, Jah-yee and @StefanD !!!

Installed, and it’s running…

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I was really not anything to do with any of that good stuff, I just did some fixes to my faulty stuff from before :slight_smile:

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You stole my words @AndyCap! This is really great @AndreaDelSignore! And it has much more than I expected.
Congrats! Great work

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Again, you stole my words @AndyCap :rofl:
I really just wrote some text for the help system and added some links to the wiki. That’s really nothing when compared with features such as device editing, or the cable teleporting.

I hope to find time later today to play with what seems to be almost a brand new device!

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Yayyyy! @AndreaDelSignore you are the best! Time to clean up my messed up Dwarf install ahaha. I’ll be happy to fix any bugs people may find related to my UX changes :smiley:

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Great Stefan! Thanks!

My presence will be a bit reduced over the next few days. I have a small gig coming up on September 10th with my local jazz school, so I need to spend some time practicing. :slight_smile:

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Never been more hyped for an update! You guys are absolutely awesome!
Will be installed right this evening!

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Very well done gentlemen!

Congratulations on the truly amazing work.

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Well that’s my weekend plans cancelled!

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Hi everyone,
I tested the new release now for a while and I’m absolutely amazed.
All the new features and especially the On-Device-Editor really elevate the experience to new heights. This is the state I always wanted the Dwarf to be in. Thank you for your hard work!

For me personally, the Editor is the feature I missed the most during the last years. Ever so often I arrived at a rehearsal with a new pedalboard, to find out the signal chain sounded good at home, but doesn’t work in tandem with the others. Now small tweaks are easily doable, that’s a real game-changer! The only thing I miss is the ability to also change the models inside NAM, but I guess this has a reason, since it could never be mapped to a knob anyways.

Thank you again!

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Regarding changing models in NAM, I agree it would be great if we could select the file (same applies to the audio player plugin, I wonder if it’s a restriction on the file management aspects of the system).

However, I believe you can select presets, so there is some ability to switch models in there as long as you’ve set up a preset in the NAM plugin itself.

I hope to include support for nam (and ir) parameters sooner than later: ondevice editing: add support per Path parameters like IR Files or AM Profiles · Issue #35 · sejerpz/alabs-mod-custom-images · GitHub

Thanks for the feedback! :musical_notes:

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NAM TEST — a Neural Amp Modeler fork with footswitch favourites (MOD Dwarf)

A GPL-3.0 fork of Mike Oliphant’s neural-amp-modeler-lv2. Same DSP as upstream — the additions are all about driving it with your feet.

It scans /data/user-files/NAM Models two levels deep, so you can move through the whole folder without the web UI: Next, Prev, Browse/Load, or a rank knob.

On top of that it keeps ten favourites. Assign one to a footswitch: a short press loads it, holding it stores whatever is currently playing. Each favourite has its own gain and a name you pick from a list of 125 short words (CLEAN 2, PLEXI, LEAD 1, SCOOPED…) — that name is what lands on the footswitch label, and in a full-screen popup when you switch. Fav Next walks the non-empty ones, Cycle bounds the round, and a CV input picks a favourite by voltage (0–10 V split into ten bands).

Auto Gain loads every favourite off the audio thread, measures it against a fixed noise signal, and writes the corrections straight into the gain knobs so they all sit at the same level. Undo puts the old values back.

It installs as nam_test.lv2 with its own URI, so it sits happily next to the NAM from the store.

Bundle and install notes: Release NAM TEST build67 · remy-live/NamTest · GitHub

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