The problem is that the firmware for the Synth is very buggy, so I want to develop my own firmware.
The hardware is very solid and have a lot of stuff inside. It will be awesome to have an opensourced bootloader so I can use that for developing my own firmware for the device.
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Hey @nvmker nice to see you back here on backstage. When you say a firmware is “very buggy”, I think you’re going to have to back that up with some facts before this gains any traction. I encourage you to describe what you find to be so buggy in the current firmware.
Your current wish has a bit of an “EVERYTHING SUCKS” vibe with little indication as to what your current issues are. Good software development often focuses more on fixing a problem rather than imposing a solution. Here I see a solution, but with very little details of what the actual probIem is.
I am of all ears to hear what are the current struggles you are facing with the current Synth firmware and finding a reasonable solution to your issues.
Yeah, you right, but I did created this ticket not to talk about bugs, but just asked about possibility to open bootloader so anyone can write their own firmware. I know that this is the unusual request, but some companies do that for their products, so why not to ask?
If you want to hear about my struggles: the most frequent crash is when it crashes when I scrolling through presets, it happens pretty often. There was also problems when I connect it via USB to my Push 3(I have a powered Elektron Overhub connected to the Push everything else is connected to it, no problems at all with the exception of Synth), I don’t remember what exact problem with USB-MIDI there was since I reconnected it via plain MIDI and left it like that. And there was an other random crashes here and there. Initially I thought that I can use it in the live situations in combination with my other gear, but it is not very reliable unfortunately.
Another struggle is a pretty slow development of the features, DWA type of synth was pretty good, but since then that there was just one minor update, it feels to me like company forgot about this. Example feature is ability to put more samples(increase sample limit per dir or support for the sub directories) to use it with Granular or DWA and there is a lot of similar minor wishes here and there, most of them are already described by users of Polyend Backstage.
Sorry about the rant, but you asked. Anyway I can even provide some consulting for Polyend about how to improve processes and implement more agile development, since my professional expertise is DevOps, Cloud engineering, CI/CD, setting up processes etc. I have an experience with development on C++ for the embedded systems including music gear. And I did some work for the one of the music gear companies. So let me know if my help can be useful. my github account is: nvmker (Alexei Loghinov) · GitHub