Unofficial community firmware · Sonicake Smart Box

Smart Box Custom Firmware

A custom firmware for the Sonicake Smart Box, from the makers of the Pocket Master CFW. The two pedals share the same platform: the same firmware package, the same DSP chip, the same NAM engine. We are at the start: nothing to download yet.

Status: analysing the official firmware V1.0.6. No firmware to download yet, no dates.

Pocket Master CFW: the sister site

Illustrative drawings, not photos, no logos.

// news

News

We started cooking

The official Smart Box firmware V1.0.6 has been opened and studied: the same firmware package (HTFW) and the same DSP chip as the Pocket Master, so most of the Pocket Master CFW tricks can be ported. First step: the SonicMaster CFW web app now recognises the Smart Box and no longer shows it the Pocket Master notices.

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What is coming

The plan, not a promise: no dates. The Smart Box already does a lot the Pocket Master can't: we won't redo that.

planned

More IR and NAM slots

More user slots for IRs and NAM captures (Clones), with names up to 30 characters.

planned

Scenes on the footswitches

Two sounds per preset, switched without a gap and with spillover, from the Smart Box's real footswitches or by MIDI.

planned

DSP load meter

How hard the processor works, on the pedal and in the web app: useful with 136 models, drums and the looper.

planned

And then

Global EQ, MIDI maps for your controller, screen themes: the Pocket Master CFW features, one at a time.

stock

Already on your Smart Box

Assignable footswitches (preset, tap, drum, looper, tuner), the EXP/FS jack, real tempo Sync and Trails on delays and modulations, re-amping, 136 models.

// web app

SonicMaster CFW

The editor in your browser, the same one as for the Pocket Master: it tells by itself which pedal you connect.

  • The Smart Box with the stock Sonicake firmware: presets, effects, footswitches over USB-MIDI or Bluetooth
  • One web app for both pedals, always up to date
  • Smart Box support is new: we test it on a real unit in the coming days

Open Web App

Disclaimer

⚠ At your own risk. Unofficial community project: not affiliated with, authorised or endorsed by Sonicake.

There is no firmware to install for the Smart Box yet. When there is, modifying the firmware can brick the pedal and may void your warranty.

Sonicake, Smart Box, Pocket Master and the other product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to describe compatibility.

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Credits

  • SonicMaster by Andrii Klaptsov (MIT License): the base of the web app and of the NAM → Clone conversion.
  • gp150-htfw : the HTFW firmware container specification.