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11-20-2009, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lincoln, NE | | | Program to lay out a pedal board? - now web based!
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Anyone think this would be useful? I'm toying with the idea of writing one.
I've seen too many boxes drawn on mspaint to see if my pedal will fit and how they will fit so maybe I can take it a step farther.
Features can include pedalboard size, add pedals, move them around, etc etc. As it develops it can have cool features like import/export pedals so they can be sent around once someone creates them. Also other features can be added like total power requirements, weight, how much Velcro do I need, and all sorts of useful info.
Would anyone actually use this if I decide to write it? Any volunteer alpha/beta testers?
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11-20-2009, 09:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | I used Word... you can create boxes with your own dimensions, put text in them and move them around. Not designed for it but does the trick! |
11-20-2009, 09:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | | I enquired about this a while back. I would use it, and be willing to test.
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11-20-2009, 10:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Coventry, England | | I'd go for that 
Sounds like a great idea, I've been trying for a while now with image editing programs liek fireworks, word and even google sketch up. got far too bored with the constant changing and resizing, but a specific program would be a great idea i think!
Would also be willing to test |
11-20-2009, 10:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Columbus, OH | | | This is an excellent idea. I'm sure guitarists could find it useful, too. With that kind of market, you could probably sell it for $20, or even market it to pedalboard companies to include with their products. I'd be willing to test it. |
11-20-2009, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lincoln, NE | | Well, of course, TB Beta testers would get it for free (I may add a paypal donate link eventually if I actually feel the program is worth any $$).
Who knows, it may even end up in an eSellerate web store. |
11-20-2009, 10:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | Ah, I misread the 1st post, didn't realise you were offering to write one! If it could hook up to an online database where users could submit pedal photos/dimensions/etc that would be awesome! |
11-20-2009, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Miami Florida | | | Google has a really great program that's similar, I bet you could base your code on that... I think it's galled sketchup?
It would be great to have a list of pedals to download, and even extremely greater to be able to sample how they'll effect your signal... but that's big picture stuff I would imagine.
I'll happily test, but I'm on a mac. If you can write it for that... or an iphone app, I'm your man.
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11-20-2009, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | How about a platform independent AJAX / Flash web application? Depends on which languages you're comfortable with I suppose...
You could create a free account to try out the basic features, or pay $5 to go premium where you get more features like load/save, upload pedal info to the database, etc...
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11-20-2009, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lincoln, NE | | Yeah - Though about a web version but I just don't do flash (well). I said windows because it wouldn't take me too long to put it together with the comfort level that I have with C#/ VB.
I'm getting started with Cocoa as well so a mac version may be available in the future.
@dannyboy - what kind of online db can you provide? mysql? an on-line pedal repository would be nice. |
11-20-2009, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | +1 for web-based
Though AJAX is a pain and Flash is well... Flash.
Have you considered doing it as a Java applet? Java is extremely similar to C#, so it wouldn't be a huge leap for you. Then Linux nerds like me could use your program (and I guess Mac people too).  |
11-20-2009, 01:26 PM
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11-20-2009, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Kano2864212  | Cool idea.
3 of my 5 pedals (Mutron III, EBS Multi-Comp, and TC Chorus) aren't in his list, but he does have some plain boxes of correct size.
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11-20-2009, 02:11 PM
| | | | It would be a good idea, im currently designing a new pedal board and therefore I need to establish where all the pedals are going. Also if you want to make it more of a "open source" project, sign me up as a coder. |
11-20-2009, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Sign me up as a beta tester. I'd love to help with this.
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11-20-2009, 03:23 PM
| | | | I'd like to help as well. I am all for open source and helping individuals get something like this going.
PM me if you need help.
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11-20-2009, 03:50 PM
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11-20-2009, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | The pedaltrain app is a good start.
But it's really just a toy to sell pedalboards. You could do a lot better.
If this was a community effort, people could submit specs for any pedal they wanted (dimensions, power requirements, inputs and outputs with locations, weight, and ???). You could also have specs for different pedalboards, power supplies, etc.
With that info, the app could tell you what kind of power requirements you have, the exact cable lengths you need to connect a setup, the weight of your pedalboard with different configs. it could be really cool.
If you need any code or design help, let me know. I don't have a ton of time, but I'd be happy to contribute. |
11-20-2009, 09:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: York, UK | | | TBH I think this would be better as a web app. Quicker to develop, easier to collaborate and share content, platform independent, etc. |
11-20-2009, 09:56 PM
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