ES8 Control
Edit patches, footswitches, assigns and system settings. Reorder the loop chain, swap or move patches, change many patches at once. Runs in your browser; nothing to install.
Open ES8 ControlTools for the ES-8
Free, open-source tools for the BOSS ES-8 Effects Switching System. They read your patches over MIDI, let you change them, and check every write by reading it back.
ES8 Designer
In preparation. It will share the engine, the MIDI connection and the last read of your ES-8 with ES8 Control.
Coming lateres8ctl
Scriptable, JSON output, made for automation and AI agents.
uv tool install es8ctl es8ctl names -p WIDI
Or in Docker (no MIDI on macOS; on Linux, pass --device /dev/snd):
docker run --rm ghcr.io/jpecquais/es8-cli --help
What you need
- A BOSS ES-8 with firmware 2.x.
- A MIDI link in both directions: a USB MIDI interface with two cables, or a Bluetooth adapter such as a CME WIDI Jack.
- Chrome, Edge or Opera for the web apps (Web MIDI with SysEx).
- The ES-8 on its play screen while editing: on the Bulk Dump screen it ignores what it receives.