Final yr Aviate Audio launched the Developer Version of its Multiverse pedal — mainly a plug-in host in guitar pedal format. Now, simply in time for NAMM 2024, the corporate has introduced the Participant Version of the Multiverse. The pedal is, for all intents and functions, unchanged. Identical primary design, similar processor beneath the hood (a 600MHz Cortex M7), it is simply cheaper now at $349, and presumably will not have entry to among the developer targeted instruments.
The pedal itself has a small 1.3-inch OLED display to navigate the UI. There are 4 programable push encoders, plus two programable foot switches. There’s stereo 1/4-inch TRS ins and outs, an 1/8-inch TRS midi enter on the aspect, two expression jacks and a USB-C port. Whereas the Multiverse can be utilized with a normal AC adapter, it can be powered over USB-C, which is fairly helpful when loading new results or testing out a patch.
To rejoice the launch of the Participant Version Multiverse, Aviate Audio can be saying model 1.3 of its Multiverse Designer software program, which can add help for impulse responses (IR) for speaker emulation. When you shell out the $349 to seize certainly one of these customizable multi-effects pedals, you will have entry to a small, however rising library of impact plugins by means of the Multiverse store (21 of them by my depend).
They cowl many of the primary results you’d want on a pedal board, fuzz, delay, reverb, et cetera. There’s even an emulation of a Klon Centaur, that is cheekily marked as being on sale for $0 with an unique value of $7,999. A lot of the results at present within the Aviate store are free, however there are just a few that ask you to pay $5 or $10 for them. The arrange is not terribly completely different from what Mod Units tried to do with its Duo line. Clearly Aviate Audio feels it might probably succeed the place Mod struggled.