FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

São Paulo, Brazil, 20 September 2026

TAKE YOUR GT-1 OUT OF THE CLOSET: NOW YOU CAN TALK TO IT, AND A STATE-OF-THE-ART AI BUILDS THE TONE — FOR FREE

Vibe Station connects an Android phone to the Boss GT-1 over USB and places an artificial-intelligence assistant between the player and the pedal. Just ask for the tone out loud — and hear it change while you speak. More than 400 parameters within reach of your voice, backing tracks written to order, guitar recording already mixed with the track, and an interface available in 16 languages. The app is free on Google Play.

The Boss GT-1 is one of the most popular multi-effects pedals in the world — and also one of those that often end up forgotten in a closet. The sound is all in there: amps, drives, delays, reverbs and modulations. The problem is reaching it through a two-line display, a handful of buttons and a manual of more than a hundred pages. People who want to play give up on editing; people who decide to edit can spend the whole evening turning knobs. In the end, many guitarists keep using the same two factory patches.

Vibe Station was built precisely to remove that barrier. The Android app connects to the GT-1 over USB and replaces the tiny display with a full interface — and, above all, with a conversation.

Say "I want a clean blues, with a bit of crunch and no delay", and the pedal changes.

It is not a written suggestion for you to reproduce by hand. It is the GT-1 itself being configured, parameter by parameter, while you hear the result.

SAY THE TONE. THE PEDAL CHANGES.

The Vibe Station assistant works by voice or by text, in any of the 16 languages available in the app, and can act on 436 GT-1 parameters. The artificial intelligence does not drive the hardware down a parallel path: it asks the app for the changes, and the app carries them out through the same mechanism the interface uses. Screen and pedal therefore stay in sync.

There is also a fundamental rule: every change is read back from the GT-1 before it is considered complete. If the pedal confirmed the change, the assistant reports it as done. If there was no confirmation, it reports the operation as uncertain. The system never claims to have altered something the hardware did not confirm.

• Ask for a tone in plain words — "eighties stadium sound", "clean and full-bodied for jazz", "tight high gain for riffs" — and the assistant builds the effects chain.

• Make precise tweaks — "take two decibels off the treble", "raise the delay feedback", "put the reverb in a small room" — and only the parameters needed are modified.

• Switch, load and save patches in the user banks, with an automatic backup before any write.

• Reorder the nine-block chain by voice and see the new sequence on screen immediately.

• Turn on the tuner without having to hunt for buttons.

• Ask for a backing track — blues, rock, bossa nova, funk and other styles — naming the key and the tempo, and play over it.

• Prefer not to speak? The whole interaction also works in text, showing what the app understood and every change it made, in the order it happened.

• Factory presets stay untouched, and no edit is discarded without the user's confirmation.

A BAND THAT COUNTS IN AT WHATEVER TEMPO YOU ASK FOR

"Create a blues backing track in C minor, at 80 beats per minute."

In about a second the band starts playing — and the guitar comes in on top, through the GT-1.

The track is not a ready-made file pulled from a library, nor a pre-recorded snippet looped over and over. The artificial-intelligence model creates the musical plan — key, tempo, groove and harmonic progression — and the app performs that plan using an arranger of its own.

This division of labour makes it possible to generate the accompaniment quickly and, at the same time, to change key, tempo or musical character in the very next sentence, without waiting for new audio to be generated.

And the performance can be recorded.

Vibe Station captures the guitar already processed by the pedal and mixes it with the backing track at the same instant, to sample accuracy. There is no need for a microphone, a second pass or aligning tracks afterwards: guitar and accompaniment are recorded from the same time reference.

The result is saved in a format that plays on phones, computers and messaging apps.

THE WHOLE STUDIO ON THE PHONE SCREEN

Behind the conversation there is also a complete editor, for anyone who prefers to control everything through the interface:

• 404 writable parameters, including FX1 and FX2, drive, preamp, delay, reverb, expression pedal, volume, noise suppressor, master, USB, system and the CTL/EXP controls, plus six assigns and more than 300 targets.

• A tone library on the phone, with collections, names and notes, as well as TSL import and export that preserves even the bytes the app does not map.

• A practice player, with playlists, speed control and pitch shifting — useful for learning a solo slowly and then playing it in the original key of the recording.

• A chromatic MIDI tuner, reading the note straight from the pedal.

• An optional account, letting you store tones and recordings in the cloud. The app keeps working without an account.

• An accessible interface, with a high-contrast dark theme, resizable text, screen-reader labels and enlarged touch targets — designed to work on stage, in dark rooms, with tired eyes or even without looking at the screen.

The app is free. The artificial-intelligence assistant includes ten minutes of conversation a day at no cost. The optional Vibe Station Plus subscription raises that limit to two hours a day and offers more cloud storage.

Editing the pedal, organising the library, practising and recording remain available with no subscription and with no need to create an account.

QUOTES

"The GT-1 never had a sound problem; it had an access problem. The sound was always in there, behind a two-line display. What Vibe Station does is take that display out of the way and put a spoken sentence in its place." — Jonathan Santos

"There was an obvious temptation: to let the model write the notes of the backing track directly. We measured both paths. When the model creates the plan and the machine plays it, the system is right 97.5% of the time; when the model itself writes the notes, that figure falls to around half. Anyone playing over it notices the difference in the very first bar." — Jonathan Santos

"An assistant that says it changed something it did not change destroys trust at once — and hardly ever wins it back. That is why every write is read back from the pedal. What the GT-1 confirmed is reported as complete; what it did not confirm is presented as uncertain." — Jonathan Santos

ABOUT THE DEVELOPER

Jonathan Santos is a software engineer specialising in artificial intelligence, with past roles at Google and Samsung. A researcher and doctoral candidate in Computer Engineering at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, he also serves as a visiting university lecturer at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, where he teaches Generative Artificial Intelligence Applied to Health.

Vibe Station is an independent application published by Tensorial. It is not produced, sponsored or endorsed by Roland or Boss. GT-1 and Boss are trademarks of their respective owners and are mentioned solely to indicate compatibility.

INFORMATION

Application: Vibe Station
Price: Free, with an optional Vibe Station Plus subscription
Platform: Android with USB host/OTG, connected to a Boss GT-1 by a data cable
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Vietnamese, Turkish and Indonesian
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.tensorial.vibestation
Online press release: https://www.tensorial.com.br/vibestation/press-release/
Press kit: https://www.tensorial.com.br/vibestation/press-release/vibe-station-media-kit-en.zip
Website: https://www.tensorial.com.br
Contact: contato@tensorial.com.br

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