A pedalboard, not a plugin chain — six boxes, cabled in order, with footswitches wired to real bypasses.
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Boardwalk puts six pedals on one screen in a fixed series order, patched together with cables. Each enclosure has its own knobs, its own footswitch and its own LED, so the thing you're looking at is the thing you'd be standing on.
Every pedal engages through a click-free crossfade, so switching one in or out mid-take doesn't pop — and a bypassed pedal is genuinely out of the path, not just turned down.
Two presets, each played dry and then swept in, so you can hear what it does rather than watch knobs move. The actual plugin window — not a mock-up, not a slideshow.
Linked-stereo compressor to even out the pick attack.
Pre-highpass into asymmetric clipping, with a tone control after it.
Chorus, flanger or phaser — mode-selectable on the box.
Resonant lowpass with an envelope-following auto-wah.
Analog-voiced feedback with stereo spread, and a SYNC switch that locks to host tempo.
Spring, hall or plate.
Each switch is wired to its pedal's bypass parameter, so your DAW can stomp for you on the way into a chorus.
A sun/moon toggle in the top rail. It's stored as a preference rather than a preset value, so it stays put while you audition sounds.
Brushed metal enclosures with corner screws, knurled knobs with printed tick scales, jewel LEDs, and 1/4" plug barrels on the cables.
The same take, before and after. Hit play, then flip between the raw signal and the plugin doing its thing — no reload, no gap.
Seven per style tile — enough to find the room you're in without scrolling past forty near-identical variants.
Save your own alongside them — they land in your user folder and survive updates.
On Mac, unzip and drop the .component into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. On Windows, copy the .vst3 into
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. Then rescan in your DAW and it appears
under Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Yes — Boardwalk installs as a VST3 on both Mac and Windows. On Mac you also get an Audio Unit (AU) and a Standalone app in the same download. There is no VST2 build and no AAX build, so Boardwalk does not load in Pro Tools.
Anything that hosts VST3 or Audio Units — Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig, GarageBand and Luna are all covered. Logic and GarageBand use the AU; the rest use the VST3. There's also a Standalone app on Mac if you just want to plug in and play without opening a DAW.
Both. The Mac build is a Universal binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1 through M4) and Intel, on macOS 10.15 or newer, and it's Developer-ID signed and notarised by Apple, so there's no Gatekeeper warning. The Windows build is 64-bit VST3 for Windows 10 or newer. One purchase covers both — the zip contains the Mac and Windows builds together.
Boardwalk ships with 70 factory presets, grouped into 10 categories. You can save your own alongside them, and they travel with the project the same way any other plugin state does.
No. $49 a one-off purchase with no subscription, no iLok and no dongle — you download it straight after checkout, updates are free, and the licence covers the computers you own. Whatever you make with it is entirely yours.
On Mac, unzip and drop the .component into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. On Windows, copy the .vst3 into C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. Rescan in your DAW and it appears under Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Virtual pedalboard — six stompboxes on one screen.
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