If you spend any time on r/synthesizers or watch a lot of synth videos on YouTube, you've probably noticed the explosion of custom firmware for hardware synthesizers, samplers, and grooveboxes . What unites almost all of them is that they were made possible by increasingly sophisticated vibe-coding tools.

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These sorts of custom firmware were exceedingly rare in the pre-LLM days and required both deep expertise and an incredible investment of time. It could take weeks or months to add a simple feature like velocity sensitivity to a Korg Volca . Now, hobbyist hackers are able to turn Temu synths into full-fledged grooveboxes in a matter of days.

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