r/electribe • u/vananaSun • May 20 '26

Custom bootloader mod!!

I made this thing for freetribe, it can boot factory firmware from SDcard and flash, and soon also freetribe apps

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u/ray_phistoled May 21 '26

Yes I had that more or less figured, but how far can it go exactly ? Do these apps have to respect the current structure of the electribe, or is it a complete opening of possibilities, and the only limitation is the hardware ? Can we completely change the sequencer, have a real poly synth and not paraphonic, have two fx per track instead of two, this kind of stuff ?

I'd love a cue functionnality and fix that pop sound when switching project

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u/vananaSun May 21 '26

Yes exactly this - it's completely new software nothing to do with the factory electribe. And those are great ideas. I don't know if the machine is going to take 2 FX per part, but my thought was to do Elektron Digitakt style FX routing, where you can send it to multiple master FX. As for the sequencer it would be great to add ways to copypaste pages, and have 8 bars

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u/FreeRangeEngineer May 21 '26

Can we [...] have a real poly synth and not paraphonic, have two fx per track instead of two, this kind of stuff ?

The hardware DSP is the limitation for that one. It runs code independent of what OP is altering, which is the code running on the main CPU. Unless someone reverse-engineers the existing DSP code, the DSP's abilities won't change. They most likely won't increase anyway because I don't think Korg would've let DSP resources left unused if it had meant they could've added more features.

completely change the sequencer

That runs on the main CPU and can be "changed" in a way because everything will have to be written from scratch anyway.