GT Pilot
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How to use GT Pilot

What you can ask, what happens on the pedal and where each feature stops. Say it your own way: the examples are just ideas.

Before you start

  1. 1

    GT-1 connected to the Mac over USB.

  2. 2

    BOSS Tone Studio installed and closed. When it's open, it reloads the patch and fights over the connection.

  3. 3

    Open a chat in Claude Desktop and ask: “check my GT-1”. It tells you which patch is loaded, whether there are unsaved changes and whether a new GT Pilot version is out.

Build a tone

“Give me the Knee Socks tone”
Starts from the gear on the original recording, translates it to the GT-1's amps and effects and applies it to the loaded patch. The name on the display changes too, so you can see it landed.
“An AC-30 style crunch” / “something like Gilmour”
Same thing, starting from a piece of gear or a guitarist.
“What's in this patch?”
Reads the loaded patch: every block, on or off, with its model and main knobs.

Everything happens on the loaded patch, and nothing is saved until you ask.

Tweak it without knowing the knob names

“Needs more drive” / “too muddy” / “less treble” / “lose the delay”
A small change, telling you what moved and from what to what. Whatever you already approved stays put.
“Which amps does the GT-1 have?” / “what delays are there?”
Lists the models and parameters of a block, with the current values.
“Undo”
Rolls back the last step in the chat: tone, name or loaded patch. You can repeat it.
“Louder”
Each request raises the volume by 15 points at most. Ask for much more and it goes in steps.

Save, organize and back up

“Save it to U05”
Shows what's in U05, waits for your yes, keeps a copy of what was there and checks the save byte by byte.
“Load U03”
Switches patches. If there are unsaved changes, it asks first.
“List my patches”
Shows the names of the 99 user slots.
“Rename it Rosanna Solo”
Renames the loaded patch, up to 16 characters and without accents (the display can't show them). Save it to keep it.
“Back up everything”
Copies all 99 patches to a file on your Mac. Takes about a minute.

Whatever you save lives on the GT-1 and works without a computer: build at home and bring just the pedal.

Volume, noise and where you're playing

“I'm on headphones” / “on a little 15-watt amp”
Adapts the tone to the gear, raising the volume in small steps.
“Listen to this”
Records up to 30 seconds of the GT-1 over USB and measures loudness, brightness, low/high balance, noise in the pauses and digital clipping. Compares with the previous listen.
“Match this one to the clean patch”
While you play without stopping, it measures every 4 seconds and adjusts the patch level. Check by ear afterwards: a distorted sound feels quieter at the same measurement.
“It hisses between phrases”
While you play phrases with pauses, it raises the noise suppressor until the pauses are quiet. Drive and amp stay as they are.

The first listen makes the Mac ask for microphone access: that's how Claude receives the GT-1's USB audio. The recording is only used to measure and isn't kept.

Practice

“Start the metronome at 90” / “stop the metronome”
A click through the pedal's output, with the first beat of each bar higher. It starts quiet on purpose.
“Toggle the chorus so I can hear it”
Guided listening: one effect at a time, so you learn to recognize each one.

When something doesn't sound right

“Nothing changed”
It makes a change you can't miss to test the connection. Check the cable: a loose one has caused false alarms before.
“It can't find the pedal”
USB cable, GT-1 turned on and the GT-1 driver installed. If Tone Studio is open, close it.
New version notice
Claude mentions it once, with the link. Download and open the file: it replaces the previous version and keeps your backups.

Rules GT Pilot won't let anyone break

What it doesn't do yet

On the plan, not here today. If one of these matters to you, say so on the waitlist.

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