Hello @craighissett
I’m using my set with MODEP for live perfomance on a regluar basis for a few years now, and I’m quite happy with the tone. To be honest what I really miss is the ability to tweak effects parameters “on-the-fly” while on stage. I sometimes used a tablet connected to the internal AP of MODEP, but mod-ui is not very comfortable on mobile browsers and it’s pretty slow… Bottom line is: make sure you have prepared every possible tone variation at home, and you should be good to go.
As for the heat, if you don’t plan to use any Pi Hat audio card like Pisound you might want to consider buying a metal case that can dissipate heat and prevent you from adding a fan. I’m using this one with no problem: https://amzn.eu/d/4TEfNsy
Another 2 cents advice I can give you is to try find a way to gracefully shutdown your RPi as disconnecting power can damage your SD card, it happened to me a couple of times… To achieve this, I have a little push button connected to the GPIO 3. A very simple daemon-script runs in the background and check for the button press sending the shutdown command. The same button can be pressed to start the Pi when in halted state (that is when you shut it down). You can follow this guide if you wish, or I can share the code I’m using, if you want: https://howchoo.com/g/mwnlytk3zmm/how-to-add-a-power-button-to-your-raspberry-pi
Ultimately, as it happened to me that someone setting the stage for the gig would unplug the extension cords, I decided to run my RPi with a huge power bank… 
Happy hacking
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Thanks for your feedback buddy, great to hear!
Im running my Pi4 with a Pisound HAT, and have put the OS on a USB drive to avoid any SD Card-related shenanigans, ha ha ha.
The Pisound does have the option to shutdown the Pi via its button, but fir my studio setup the board is burried too deep for my fat fingers, ha ha.
Switching the filesystem to readonly is something some Pi users recommended to save writes to the sd card, as itnwas the shuttong down mid-write that caused the problems, but I dont know if a) that would benefit the USB drive or b) it would impact how Patchbox would run. Plus itd be a huge PITA for wanting to edit boards.
One thing i would recommend about tweaking effects on the go - look to take advantage of OSC if you can. Theres some awesome phone apps like TouchOSC that can be used to create a tablet friendly dashboard of all the things you dont have access to with your feet.
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Thank you man.
I’ve been looking at OSC, but you have to manually map every parameter to your controller, so it’s a pain in the neck. I didn’t find a way to gather all the effects’ exposed parameters and tweak them with a simple interface, the same way you do when you click on gear icon in mod-ui.
Yeah that’s the only downside, having nothing dynamic to pull all parameters back. If your layout is steady and not changing much i guess itnis worth spending the time crafting the peefect companion control, but it’s a nightmare if you are regularly switching things up.
Yo! A little late to this party, but my PiSound is coming in a couple of days, and I’ve been prepping my image and playing with modep – got all the OSC stuff working, and to say I’m excited is a bit of an understatement.
I’m still reading through these forums, so apologies if this is a repeat question, but is there a quick tip and/or guide to setting up TouchOSC to swap pedal boards? One of the built in layouts, or how to do such a thing manually? (Having some other troubles getting OSC layouts onto my phone, but that seems like a TouchOSC issue, not for here.)
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Changing pedalboards with external controllers is unexpectedly tricky, but it’s possible, if you can get Program Change messages to send. See my reply here for some information on this topic: Another try with Rig Kontrol 3 - #7 by Giedrius
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Thanks for the pointers, @Giedrius! I went down the midi command server route from @whofferbert - made a couple of tweaks, and good to go.
Woo!
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