DigiTech introduces programmable iPad pedalboard

DigiTech has also launched its own specially-designed iPB-Nexus app for iPad that gives iPB-10 users the ability to design boards by drag and drop on the tablet screen and includes a MyTones library to store and organize presets. Players can choose to use other apps with the system but full functionality may suffer.

"The iPB-10 will stream a digital audio signal to any application that uses the digital audio input on the iPad," Scott Klimt, Marketing Lead at DigiTech, told Gizmag. "In our testing we've found that we can create a preset within iPB-Nexus app, run that sound into Garageband, add any additional effects within that application and record tracks. We're not able to control third party apps with the footswitches but you can run those apps while the iPad is docked in the iPB-10."

DigiTech is also currently working with application developers to incorporate more features into the Nexus app and has plans to offer users the chance to upload custom presets to a community portal and share them with others.

"The iPB-Nexus app for iPad brings a level of connectivity and sharing to musicians that never existed for presets," says Klimt. "Allowing users to share their presets with each other directly from their pedal within an online community of iPB-Nexus/iPB-10 users is one of the features that make this part of the future of guitar effects. Imagine the ability to search and load the perfect tone for any song without having to unhook all your gear, plug into your desktop computer, install the drivers, and wait for everything to update."

Up to ten different effects pedals can be included in any one chain, in any order. The Nexus app offers a choice of 87 different pedals - including various flavors of wah, distortion, chorus, flanger and phasers. Board design can be undertaken on a docked or undocked iPad, if the latter the iPB-10 will auto-sync with the Nexus app when the tablet is next docked.

"At this time users can assign up to 5 of those pedals to a footswitch A-E (top row)," Klimt explains. "Footswitches 1-5 (bottom row) are presets within a bank. There are 20 banks (1-20), each with 5 presets within each bank. Players have access to up to 100 through the footswitches. In a future update to the app there are plans to incorporate more advanced configuration options that could allow players to completely customize the layout and assignment of each footswitch within each preset."

Once satisfied with the effects, a user can then add one of 54 amp emulations - with numerous models from Mesa Boogie to Marshall and Fender to DigiTech's own - and one of 26 cabinets to the design and save the whole thing to one of a 100 preset locations for easy recall later on, although the Nexus app itself can store an unlimited amount of designs.

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