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Comment by vegadw

7 hours ago

For those that haven't been following along, a TON of custom firmwares have shown up for the M-VAVE FM-1, a roughly ~$70 synth.

BaudGirl's VA is probably the biggest right now: https://baudgirl.com/work/FM-1+VA

But there's also https://github.com/hugelton/Felucca, https://github.com/charlesvestal/fm1-x0x, https://www.groove-os.com, https://isod89.github.io/sloop-fm1/webapp/installer/, and https://github.com/charlesvestal/fm1-fomni

AFAIK, all of them are vibecoded, but that doesn't mean they're not super fun.

Edit: Someone made a good firmware list: https://fm1-editor.com/firmware/

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taurath  6 hours ago

My partner has been playing with one and its truly incredible, the sequencer interfaces and enhancements make it go from a toy to an incredibly powerful machine. The felucca project has a web interface and you can try out the software on its own without the hardware: https://hugelton.github.io/Felucca/webapp/try/

MomsAVoxell  6 hours ago

They are SO FUN, seriously. Best $180 I spent (because I bought THREE M-VAVE's!!)! ..

But, it also has to be pointed out to the HN hoipolloi: these firmwares run in web-based emulators too!!!!

So you don't have to blow $60 to join this music tech revolution ..

otabdeveloper4  6 hours ago

I wonder what specifically allowed this. Is it some new LLM innovation that can do reverse engineering now?

M-Vave didn't release any source code.