Home » do not delete stream » This AI guitar pedal let me roll my own effects

This AI guitar pedal let me roll my own effects

May 21, 2026 Terrence O’Brien

Two Polyend Endless pedals with different effects “Plates” on them: ARP and Endless Delay.
You can buy physical plates to pair with your AI effects. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge

I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with a reputation for building niche, idiosyncratic devices. The company has built grooveboxes around old-school trackers and a multi-effect pedal that you can step sequence. So there was at least some hope that if anyone could do an AI effect pedal right, it would be Polyend.

Polyend's Endless is a $299 programmable guitar pedal running an ARM processor. It's paired with Playground, a number of interconnected AI agents that turn any text prompt i …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Previous Article
Sonos’s pint-sized Roam 2 speaker is 25 percent off for Memorial Day
Sonos’s pint-sized Roam 2 speaker is 25 percent off for Memorial Day

If your summer plans involve spending any time outdoors, whether on the trail or at a pool party, a good po...

Next Article
Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis
Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis

Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the road as part of its new AV Lab project to collect d...

Return to Home