The FM-1 is the hardware version of the millions of slop VSTs flooding the market and social media.

Everything comes at a cost. The entshitification of everything, the total lack of intention.

I’ve developed boutique hardware instruments and sold them to retailers around the world, so this affects me directly.

It removes financial incentives to do research and development in these areas because overnight someone can just duplicate or imitate your work.

And its the height of hypocrisy from artists to call out for copyright protections of music, but then simultaneously support vibe coded software thats been trained on data thats probably stolen.

I get the world is changing fast, but what its taught me is that people are ravenous and are willing to watch entire industries and maybe even society itself collapse if they think they can get a free short-term meal from it. Pretty disheartening