Today I'm wearing my old Synthstrom shirt to celebrate the return of a Deluge at home. New music coming soon, hopefully!
One of the absolutely coolest open source project I have come across recently was #synthstrom open-sourcing the OS of their music making machine, the Deluge. The #deluge / #synthstromdeluge is in my opinion still the best electronic music making machine there is.
Now there is a community firmware at https://github.com/SynthstromAudible/DelugeFirmware, next to the official one and the ways they've built on the hardware platform is just incredible.
It's one of the best cases for #opensource I've yet to see and I feel like there are a lot of lessons to be learned from it. I'm not that qualified to comment on them, but I think it is interesting that the switch from closed to open source for this hardware platform happened quite late, after the Deluge had built a dedicated fanbase over years and was already a very solid machine. Also the company has stuck to the same hardware platform now forever, which is rare, but super cool.
I do not know how many Deluge/ #synth fans there are in the fedi, but I finally got to play around more in-depth with the new community firmware over the last couple of days and the new Grid view (Ableton inspired) is amazing.
I wasn't supposed to make music today, but accidentally a track.
Sumedokin the Impatient, Hoarder of Almonds and Synthesizers. Making sounds while life goes on, oscillating between here and Bandcamp.
https://soundcloud.com/nikodemus-siivola/room79
Quick jam turned into a quick track. I'm ok with out it turned out.
Grabbed Red Means Recording's SAFE ROOMS preset pack for Deluge, and white this didn't quite end up as a safe room track, I'm ok with it.
#jamuray 04, which has the merit of being only 72 seconds long.
Yikes, switching from headphones to computer speakers, the clav is really out there. Eh, it is what it is :D
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