MATRIXSYNTH: altstrument - A directory of custom and third-party firmware and tools for music hardware.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

altstrument - A directory of custom and third-party firmware and tools for music hardware.



via the creator of the site:

"I just launched altstrument.org, a free directory of custom and third-party firmware and tools for music hardware.

It lists 544 custom firmwares and 88 host-side tools (editors, flashers, SDKs) across 120 devices from 45 manufacturers: Elektron boxes, Akai MPCs, Korg's logue synths, norns and monome, Mutable Instruments and Noise Engineering modules, the M-Vave FM-1, the Music Thing Workshop Computer and more. Each entry records who made it, where the source lives, its license, its version history and whether it's still maintained. The site links to the projects and never hosts firmware files.


A few places to start:

- Music Thing Workshop Computer, 133 program cards: https://altstrument.org/devices/music-thing-workshop-computer

- M-Vave FM-1, 75 custom firmwares and 10 tools: https://altstrument.org/devices/m-vave-fm-1

- Recent releases across the catalog (also as RSS): https://altstrument.org/recent

The catalog data is CC-BY-4.0 and the site is open source at https://github.com/philmillman/altstrument. Anyone can suggest a missing firmware through an issue form."

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