Mario Angst<p>One of the absolutely coolest open source project I have come across recently was <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/synthstrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>synthstrom</span></a> open-sourcing the OS of their music making machine, the Deluge. The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/deluge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deluge</span></a> / <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/synthstromdeluge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>synthstromdeluge</span></a> is in my opinion still the best electronic music making machine there is.</p><p>Now there is a community firmware at <a href="https://github.com/SynthstromAudible/DelugeFirmware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/SynthstromAudible/D</span><span class="invisible">elugeFirmware</span></a>, next to the official one and the ways they've built on the hardware platform is just incredible.</p><p>It's one of the best cases for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> 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.</p><p>I do not know how many Deluge/ <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/synth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>synth</span></a> 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.</p>