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“Behringer announced the Kik, which is $150 clone of an older Akai sampler unit... from the jump, they have announced that they are embracing the open source approach.”

Rhett Shull, at 9:49 of “I Think AI Just Killed The Plugin Industry” on Rhett Shull’s channel.

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9:30 that's a great thing for the community. We're not as reliant on the manufacturers to give us the software updates
9:36 and the features that we want in the hardware. And now the features that a new piece of hardware comes out with is no longer make or break. Like what kind of software features it has can be modified.
9:49 And in fact, we're already seeing this. Last week, Behringer announced the Kik, which is $150 clone of an older Akai sampler unit. And normally this would be a relatively minor blip in the news cycle.
10:02 Behringer launches a new budget Groovebox. Okay, cool.
10:05 But what's interesting about this is from the jump, they have announced that they are embracing the open source approach. They're going to allow vibe coders to effectively write their own firmware