With so many ways to supercharge your stage or studio setup via hardware pedals, software supplements, and hybrid-focused tools, detailed signal-management control is essential, especially when MIDI is involved — Disaster Area Designs developed its DPC.micro Gen4 to give you that exact capability. This looper footswitch packs a trio of effects-looping possibilities into a pint-size powerhouse of multimode MIDI-controlled modularity, allowing you to manage up to three separate pedals or entire signal chains, while side-mounted 5-pin MIDI input and output ports bridge untold varieties of expansive sonic palettes to explore. Onboard MIDI processing handles both CC and PC messages, impressing Sweetwater’s live-show and studio technicians with not only a capacity for 120 instantly recallable preset combinations, but its ability to be reconfigured at will. In one mode, you can manage your DPC.micro Gen4 as a 1-into-3 switcher, toggling outputs individually, while the alternate configuration flips the script to a 3-into-1 switcher, managing one input at a time. And without any buffer to inhibit the use of impedance-sensitive effects, virtually any pedal will flourish.