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CLUSTER DESKTOP-EFFECTS-PATCHES · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-01-21

Music hardware patch editors

This cluster consists of desktop applications for browsing, editing, and managing sound patches, presets, and effects on guitar processors, synthesizers, and related audio hardware. Their dated history shows a sporadic pattern, with single entries appearing every few months to over a year apart from early 2018 through early 2025, indicating a slow but persistent development niche rather than a concentrated wave. Traction is minimal across members, with all listed leaders showing zero stars, suggesting early-stage or niche adoption.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2018: 1JUL 2018: 1APR 2020: 1MAY 2021: 1MAY 2022: 1DEC 2024: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 2
JAN 2018OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 8 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01dial-in0★7 dayslivehobbyAI assistant that programs guitar pedal tones from spoken descriptions and adjusts patches live over USB.
  2. 02foton-jd9902★6 days—hobbyDesktop editor and librarian for the Roland JD-990 synthesizer that adjusts every patch parameter live over MIDI and manages a searchable patch library.
  3. 03tonepush-bin0★14 daysliveopen sourceDesktop editor for guitar effects pedals that manages and organizes tone presets for Line 6 HX and StompStation PRO devices.
  4. 04tonepush0★21 daysliveopen sourceEditor for configuring Line 6 Helix and HX effects pedals through a graphical interface and a scriptable CLI.
  5. 05Polyphone0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop soundfont editor that lets musicians design custom instruments by shaping and tuning arbitrary audio samples.
  6. 06gt-100fxfloorboard0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop MIDI editor for programming and managing effects patches on a guitar amplifier effects processor.
  7. 07edisyn-bin0★8 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceCross-platform desktop editor that lets musicians browse, edit, and manage sound patches for a wide range of hardware and software synthesizers.
  8. 08freemajor0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop application that lets guitarists view and edit effect patches stored on a hardware multi-effects processor.
  9. 09me-edit-bin0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that edits and manages sound patches for a guitar multi-effects processor and a guitar synthesizer.
  10. 10thr-editor0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceApplication that controls Yamaha THR series guitar amplifiers with settings, presets, and effects management.
  11. 11GigRig Beta Web Editor0★unknownliveWeb editor for the GigRig G3 guitar effects switcher that enables musicians to create and manage presets for live performance.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.