FYI - Guitarix Effects Stack works Great with Jambox boot

[mnopneal]

So, while looking around for an audio looper stomp box, I came across Guitarix.

Much to my surprise and delight, it installs just fine on the Jambox boot:

apt-get install guitarix

You do have to fiddle with Patchage to connect Jack to Guitarix, but that's fairly obvious.

And voila - a complete audio effects stack with bunches of tube simulations, tremolo, reverb, flangers, etc. And "just works". Theoretically it reads like you could interface a MIDI pedal-board to control it. Or build a midi pedal board with an Arduino.

Thus far works fine with both TechRise USB audio and HifiBerry Hat cards. Latency seems just fine.

I have NOT tried to tie that in with a Jamulus session.

It seems like Kevin is aiming at making the Jambox a swiss army of audio - another essentially free option/usage?

regards,

Neal

[kdoren]

@mnopneal I am working on a "Jambox 2.0" which will add some audio utilities including guitarix (which can work in front of Jamulus). I have also been been experimenting with Hydrogen (drum machine), Qsynth (midi synth) and Calf plugins (audio effects).

I'm trying to move to pipewire instead of jack for the audio, in part because it has built-in support for rules that can have different settings for different applications. So far so good, but still some problems to solve and limited time to work on it...

One challenge is: how to add more functionality, without losing the simplicity and ease of use that made Jambox popular in the first place.

I'll be looking for feedback from some early adopters when I have something ready....