The MOD Dwarf crams infinitely updatable plugins into a giggable multi-effects pedal

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Two independent audio channels, fully assignable knobs, buttons and footswitches and more than 400 free plugins highlight the open-source MOD Devices unit

MOD Devices has launches a Kickstarter campaign for the MOD Dwarf, which the Berlin-based maker says “offers all the power and flexibility of computer-based effects and digital modulation” in pedal format.

The ultra-compact, portable multi-effects pedal boasts the capacity to house a vast array of effects, virtual instruments, amp simulators and MIDI utilities.

Features include two independent audio channels, each with independent gain controls, as well as three fully assignable knobs, three footswitches and three pushbuttons.

There’s also USB-MIDI and TRS MIDI jacks, as well as a MIDI learn function that allows the unit to be manipulated by any market-available class-compliant controller.

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A large LED screen on the unit’s front allows for easy operation.

Additionally, more than 400 free plugins are also available via the online MOD Plugin Shop.

For more information on the MOD Dwarf, head over to Kickstarter (which has already surpassed its pledge goal of $108,674).

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.