Music hardware, AI and the flattening of devices
Of late, there has been a tidal wave of ‘new’ unofficial firmware patches popping up for music hardware. The trend has sped up all the more since the release of Reverse Engineer Anything, which allows one to turbo charge Claude et al with even more ability to, well, reverse engineer anything.
I don’t own a great deal of music hardware these days, but with only a couple of exceptions, every piece of kit I own now has some kind of modded firmware available. The Arturia MicroFreak now has Superfreaker. The Polyend Tracker now has Tracker RE. My 1010 Blackbox now has an SP1200 mode thanks to new firmware. The list goes on.
In short then, the walled gardens are coming down. What was once off limits and only accessible with serious amounts of labour is now almost trivially easy to achieve.
A few thoughts therefore spring up from this…
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