Firmware Freedom

Every multi-effects unit sells unlimited tweakability, and every working guitarist ends up on two sounds. We should buy hardware for what it is and run the firmware we choose on it. On $4 chips that outrun old DSPs, why there is no secret sauce, and an open invitation to the open-source, guitar and processor communities, and to the companies who make the hardware we already love.

When we released CoyoPedal , we ended with a paragraph about owning hardware and choosing what runs on it, and promised it deserved a post of its own. The discussion that followed on Reddit made it clear that the paragraph was the part people wanted to talk about. So here is the longer version, and an invitation at the end of it.