Music Technology
M-VAVE Just Open-Sourced the Synth Its Own Customers Had Already Jailbroken
The $75 FM-1 pocket FM synth has spent the autumn being rewritten by strangers: a groovebox, an Omnichord, an Eno-style ambient generator, a browser emulator. Instead of issuing a cease and desist, M-VAVE published the source, the SDK and a web tool that flashes any of it — including a button to put the factory firmware back.