Themes for this release
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Major improvements to TooB plugins; new plugins, new features.
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Support for Ubuntu 25.04 (am64 and aarch64).
Major Features
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TooB Neural Amp Modeler: Input and output calibration.
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TooB Convolution Reverb: Predelay, Stretch and Decay controls allow adjustments of impulse response characteristics.
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TooB Parametric EQ: New plugin providing a 4-band parametric EQ. A musically useful Parametric EQ that's suitable both for
shaping guitar tone before amp models, or for shaping overall sound at the end of plugin chains. This should become your
go-to EQ plugin when using PiPedal. -
TooB 3 Band EQ: New plugin providing a simple 3-band EQ. (Replicates the EQ stage on Steve Atkinson's Windows and Mac-based
Neural Amp Modeler plugin). -
TooB CE-2 Chorus, TooB BF-2 Flanger, TooB Phaser: New "Wet/Dry" controls.
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Noise Gates threshold ranges have been increased in TooB NAM, TooB Input and TooB Noise Gate plugins.
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Improvements to the default presets. Default presets have been completely redesigned to make use of
plugins that have been added since the initial release of PiPedal, and to provide really great presets out of the box. -
Support for Ubuntu 25.04. Compatibility fixes for Ubuntu 25.04 may also make it easier to build PiPedal on
other Debian-based Linux distros.
Minor Features/Bug Fixes
- Correct missing '-' key on Samsung keyboards when editing control values.
- Default to dark theme on first use.
- dB values are now displayed on plugin VU output controls.
- Correctly display name of plugin in MIDI bindings dialog. (Thanks to Jiri Popek).
- Auto-focus input control on Rename dialogs. (Thanks to Jiri Popek).
- Display LICENSE files found in upload directories.
Notes
A number of plugins have been modified to provide better functionality going forward. Every effort has been made to prevent
breaking changes in existing plugins. If you encounter a breaking change in an existing preset, please report it as a bug. If
you are using presets in live performance, it might be a good idea to check them before you next use them in live
performance, in order to verify that they have not been inadvertently broken by the upgrade. In particular, CPU use for presets
that are using TooB Convolution Reverb may go up slightly; so if you are using presets that run at or close to maximum CPU use, you should check that they still work after the upgrade.
The EQ section in TooB NAM has been removed. It has become apparent that the existing EQ controls were not entirely
fit for purpose. To prevent breaking changes, EQ controls will still show up if you
load an instance of TooB NAM that was saved with a previous version of PiPedal; but when you load new instances, the EQ section will not be present. Instead, please consider adding
one of the rich set of old or new TooB EQ plugins before or after TooB NAM instead:
- TooB Parametric EQ (recommended).
- TooB GE-7 Graphic EQ.
- TooB 3 Band EQ (equivalent to Steve Atkinson's NAM EQ section).
- TooB Tone Stack (replicates the old TooB NAM EQ functionality).
Normalization of reverb IRs has been significantly improved in order to ensure that newly loaded IR files
sound reasonable when loaded using default TooB Convolution Reverb control settings. It should now take
significantly less effort to adjust levels on Convolution Reverb IR files. In order to prevent breaking
changes, instances of TooB Convolution Reverb that were saved in previous versions of PiPedal will use
the old normalization procedure; newly loaded instances of TooB Convolution Reverb will use the new normalization.
In addition, the MaxT control has been removed. IR files will now play to their full length without
feeding back. This change may cause overruns on existing presets if you are using unusually long Reverb IR files.
TooB Convolution Reverb can comfortably support reverb IRs well in excess of ten seconds long, even on a Pi 4. For reference,
typical IR files are about 1 to 3 seconds long; and extremely reverberant IRs may sometimes stretch out to five or six
seconds long. In practice, the increase in CPU use is relatively modest; but you may want to double-check that
presets using extremely reverberant IRs run without problems before using them in live performance.
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