Just fucking collaborate

If you are even remotely interested in the beat-making scene, you might have heard that, thanks to our new AI age, the community has started heavily modding hardware instruments. The Verge wrote a piece a few weeks ago. Now, recently, AKAI, maker of the MPC and MPK products, including my beloved MPC Sample, announced that it was embracing vibe-coding and released a proper SDK. This is honestly a very welcome development. Except for the fact that everyone and their mother with a Claude Code account has now decided to build their own shit. Here are just a bunch of hacks currently in development: SampQOL OS Am MOD MPC MiniMod LoopPad MPC Sample Tracker HenrySkillz MPC Sample Mod Kit MP Doom Virtual MPC Sample MPC Sample Lab MPC Sample Toolkit MPC Sample Kit Maker Sample Base MPC Sample Secrets A new one even popped up this week. That's too many projects. The same thing is happening in the rapidly growing recomp scene. Everyone is either recompiling something that's already been…

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