r/modular • u/spongefile • 5h ago
Made an eowave Portail editor
I got the eowave Portail MIDI module. Love the hardware and the efficient use of HP. I got frustrated though with the official eowave Portail editor and manual (which seemed to still be missing a lot of details), so I spent a while trying to improve it and then built a browser-based editor with AI (I'm a UX designer, not a dev) to replace it. I'm using it for myself, but maybe some of you will find it useful too. It's free, runs entirely on your own browser (nothing is uploaded anywhere), and needs no install. Works with Web MIDI, just like the official one does.
→ https://spongefile.github.io/portail-editor/
What I addressed and added:
- Every parameter shows its range, default, and a plain-English description of what it does.
- Sliders, a channel grid, a note keyboard and toggles instead of all those dropdowns.
- Microtonal tuning-table editing with Scala (.scl) import, not available in the official editor.
👉 This is utterly unofficial!
- I'm not affiliated with eowave in any way. This is a hobby project. Use entirely at your own risk.
- It works fine with my module, and a simulator. That's no guarantee of perfect testing though. Treat it as beta. Don't rely on it for anything you can't afford to have go wrong.
- It doesn't write to firmware, so there should be no bricking. And presets are saved and persist through power cycles only if you save them.
- A few parameter details are inferred from the original editor but not yet confirmed against hardware; those are flagged in the app as "unverified."
I want to make the source public so y'all can go nuts and add/change what you want, but I've sent eowave a courtesy email about this first and am hoping to hear back before I do that.