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by cpeterso 149 days ago
My guitar teacher has a Line 6 HX Stomp multieffects pedal. In addition to programming effects patches use Line 6’s HX Edit desktop application, he also uses ChatGPT to generate patch files (they’re just JSON) by describing the effect or referencing a specific artist or song by name.
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As I understand it, the difference between that and the pedal above, is that “patches” on the line6 are describing a chain of pre-existing effects. So like, phaser->delay->reverb. The polyend pedal you’re actually able to write custom dsp - so you’re able to build new units to chain together.

But there are other pedals that do custom code, rather than just custom patching, see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727231

This is really cool. I have a Line 6 Helix, and have wanted to explore something like this. Do you know if there is anything online about doing this?
I don’t have a specific recommendation, but a quick search found threads on Reddit and the Line 6 forums about generating patches with ChatGPT.