Events: FX Hackathon 2022 - a student event for pedalheads and effect enthusiasts
FX Hackathon Overview
Effects and audio processes are an integral part of modern music-making. In this event hosted by the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab (EGIL) and the Interactive Music Systems Lab (IMSLab), WPI students work in small teams with coaches (musicians, faculty, and professionals from pedal/effects communities) to create cool audio effects devices! Sponsored by The Les Paul Foundation !
The FX Pedal Hackathon!
Students of all majors and experience levels are invited to participate—only a love of audio and an interest in learning about effects processing are required! Prizes, fun, food, and weird sounds!
You can also show up just to watch and listen as things happen without participating!
Do This (if you're a WPI student)!
-On your laptop, download the FX Testing Rig using the link below and complete all install steps in the ReadMe
-Read the FX Development Primer before the event
-Show up at Higgins House w/your laptop & headphones...you can bring an instrument, pedals, an amp, or none of those things if you'd like!
Our Software-to-Hardware Development Workflow
From code to hardware! We develop/adapt/prototype effects using software-based resources and then push that code to pedals and other standalone hardware devices!
FX Development Primer
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a guide for developing effects using the FX Testing Rig and Max. Learn more .
Start here2022 Project Personnel and Collaborators
-V.J. Manzo, Founding Director and PI of the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab
-Ryan McKenna, WPI alumnus and Research Associate for the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab
-Our FX Testing Rig and related tools are maintained by a team of contributors
-Our hardware and software-to-hardware integration is based on the work of Electro-smith using the Max programming environment developed by Cycling '74 .
-Hackathon Coaches & Helpers Scott Barton , Izzy Tonelli-Sippel , Josh Rosenstock , and Jake Pelrah, Jeff Duquette, and Gracie the Pedaldog
-Sponsored by The Les Paul Foundation
-Flyer artwork by WPI student Imogen Barnes
-All of the many WPI students who have participated in this research and this event 
