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The instruments

Three instruments built on Electro-Smith Daisy hardware. Each one is edited from a page in this browser — nothing to install — and each has a reference guide.

Before you start All three editors need Chrome or Edge. Safari and Firefox do not support the browser APIs that talk to hardware. Connect the instrument over USB first, then open the page and press Connect.
01 — Sampler and synthesiser

WAYLORD

Two instruments at once — a Left and a Right slot, layered or split across the keyboard — through one chain of amp, delay, chorus, phaser, ring modulator, rotary speaker, reverb and tremolo. Ten patches live in the instrument; the samples live on a microSD card you can swap. More than eighty instruments: oscillators, FM, a tonewheel organ, and sampled pianos, Rhodes, guitars and pedal steels.

It comes in two formats. The Pod is the Electro-Smith Daisy Pod, with 3.5mm connectors throughout. The Stompbox is pedal-format: 5-pin DIN MIDI in and thru, quarter-inch ins and outs, a 9V supply, a headphone output and a true-bypass footswitch. Same sound, same patches, same editor — different sockets.

Guide

Owner's reference

Controls, patches, instruments, effects, the card, MIDI, firmware and troubleshooting. Covers both formats.

Editor — Stompbox

Stompbox editor

For the pedal-format board. Web MIDI, over USB.

Editor — Pod

Pod editor

For the Daisy Pod. Web MIDI, over USB.

The two formats need different firmware They are not interchangeable. Use the installer named for your format. The Pod's firmware will appear to run on a Stompbox while reading the card incorrectly.
02 — Delay pedal

WayloUD Delay

Eight modulated stereo delay voices on a Daisy Pod, each with its own time, feedback, pan, level and LFO — the delay matrix from the WayloUD plugin, in a box. Thirty-two factory presets and ninety-nine of your own, with two knobs, two buttons and an encoder that browses patches, switches the input/output routing and quick-saves.

It also imports Magicstomp patches: the editor reads a .ub9 file and converts the Eight Band Parallel Delay, Eight Multi-Tap Mod Delay, Mod Delay and Symphonic effects onto the eight voices. Reverb, pitch-shift, phaser, distortion and amp-sim patches have nothing to convert to and are skipped.

Guide

Owner's reference

Every control, the preset slots, the Magicstomp import and the MIDI map.

Editor

WayloUD editor

All eight voices, the presets and the importer. Web Serial, over USB.

03 — Polyphonic synthesiser

Waylinator

A polyphonic synthesiser on a Daisy Pod, built around patches that play more than you press: chord machines, note rotators that step a harmony through a sequence as you play, transposition and remapping patches where the bottom of the keyboard changes what the top does, and a set of patches driven by breath for an EWI. Three banks — standard, breath-driven, and audio-input blend — with chorus and delay on the knobs.

Guide

Editor guide

The long one: every patch, the rotators, the chord editor, the zones, the EWI reference and the quick-start workflows.

Editor

Waylinator editor

Parameters, patches and the chord editor, with CSV backup and restore. Web Serial, over USB.

Note

Not waylinator_editor

The pages named waylinator_editor*.html are old copies of the WAYLORD editor, from before it had its own address. The Waylinator's editor is the one above.

04 — All three

Things that are true of all of them

Topic 
BrowserChrome or Edge. Safari and Firefox support neither Web MIDI nor Web Serial.
CableA micro-USB data cable. A charge-only cable looks identical and carries nothing.
Editing is liveChanges are heard immediately and are not kept until you save to the device. Try anything; reload to get back.
Firmware updatesNever touch your sounds or your patches. An interrupted update leaves the board in its bootloader, not broken — run it again.
PluginsThe plugin versions of these sounds are in the shop, with a free version of every one.