Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down

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If you walk immoderate clip connected r/synthesizers oregon ticker a batch of synth videos connected YouTube, you've astir apt noticed the detonation of customized firmware for hardware synthesizers, samplers, and grooveboxes. What unites astir each of them is that they were made imaginable by progressively blase vibe coding tools.

These sorts of customized firmware were exceedingly uncommon successful the pre-LLM days, and required some heavy expertise and an unthinkable concern of time. It could instrumentality weeks oregon months to adhd a elemental diagnostic similar velocity sensitivity to a Korg Volca. Now, hobbyist hackers are capable to crook Temu synths into full-fledged grooveboxes successful a substance of days …

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