# Lapin/awesome-music-gear-firmware

> A curated list of custom firmware, software mods and tools for music gear: synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and sequencers. Links to reverse-engineering and modification projects for Ableton, Akai, Elektron, Korg, Roland and other devices.

- Magnitude: 4.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 90 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-14, 02:02–03:28 UTC, ≈ 39 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · License: CC0-1.0 · Created: 2026-10-11 · Last push: 2026-10-13
- GitHub: https://github.com/Lapin/awesome-music-gear-firmware · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Lapin/awesome-music-gear-firmware

## Useful for

- Find custom firmware for your Elektron Digitakt or Akai MPC
- Study reverse-engineering notes for Arturia MicroFreak firmware
- Pick a Monomachine or JV-880 emulation to run on Ableton Move

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-14 (UTC), 02:02–03:28: 90 → 90 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +39 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 3 days old and already has 90 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #200.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 3
- Watchers: 3
- Average over the last week: 32 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-11 … 2026-10-14: 0, 36, 54, 0

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #200

## More in this category

1. **h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr** — 6.9 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +14 stars measured 2026-10-14, 00:37–03:27 UTC, ≈ 178 by evening
   Turns a Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router into a wideband SDR receiver: 14-bit IQ capture up to 320 Msps, streaming over 10 GbE, with live spectrum and waterfall in the browser.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr.md
2. **pLabs5/pLinux5-NG** — 5.7 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +9 stars measured 2026-10-14, 00:37–03:27 UTC, ≈ 112 by evening
   Linux bootloader for PS5 consoles on firmware 8.xx–13.60, a port of ps5-linux-loader using the Byepervisor-Reborn hypervisor escape. Lets users boot Linux on PS5 units where the older loader no longer works.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/pLabs5/pLinux5-NG.md
3. **78/xiaozhi-esp32** — 5.1 · Breakout · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C++ · +24 stars measured 2026-10-14, 00:48–03:28 UTC, ≈ 131 by evening
   ESP32 firmware that turns a board into a voice AI chatbot: offline wake word, streaming ASR+LLM+TTS, MCP-based device and smart-home control.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/78/xiaozhi-esp32.md
4. **awv-informatik/smlibpy** — 4.9 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · Python · Not enough measurements today
   Python library for 3D modeling on the SMLib NURBS kernel, with exact B-reps, STEP/DXF/STL, sheet metal and an API inspired by cadquery and build123d.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/awv-informatik/smlibpy.md
5. **nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver** — 4.9 · Cooling · Hardware, IoT & robotics · Rust · +10 stars measured 2026-10-14, 00:37–03:28 UTC, ≈ 100 by evening
   A Metal driver for NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards on Intel Macs and OpenCore systems running macOS 15 Sequoia, letting the GPU drive the desktop, Metal, OpenCL and Core ML. Free and open source.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver.md

---

Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-14 03:39 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.