First of all, thank you for creating such an inspiring instrument. The Hapax has quickly become the centerpiece of my setup, and I truly appreciate the amount of thought and care that has gone into its design.
I wanted to ask if there are any plans to release an open-source version of the Hapax firmware (or some part of it) for the community. Other platforms, such as the Deluge, have opened up their codebase to varying degrees, and it seems to have fostered faster, more organic growth and new features contributed by the community.
I believe something similar could greatly benefit the Hapax ecosystem, allowing users and developers to collaborate and help expand its already impressive capabilities.
Is this something you might consider for the future?
Thanks for your time and for continuing to support such a unique and forward-thinking sequencer.
Hapax is still in active development with rapid iterations of version updates. I highly doubt they will make it open source. That said, there are at least three features I would love to see implemented and have sent in feedback but they haven’t come yet (16 tracks on drums, track tempo resolution and the ability to play pads when the channel is muted like in the Pyramid)
Because it would mean the abandonment of interest in the product from Squarp.
Because, in the best case, Squarp would have to divert engineering attention to making the firmware source accessible as OSS, instead of actually improving the product.
Because proprietary software designed, programmed, and maintained by a small highly motivated team of designers and engineers with an extremely strong and opinionated vision for the product is always superior to unmotivated and diffuse and product-confused development by volunteers, enthusiasts, and forum-neurotics.
Because the Hapax is the only music production tool that I ever used that I have never once considered parting with.
The question I have: what consumer could ever want this?
the best bet is to try to get consumer support and then all send feature requests. they will bounce it off of their vision and either adopt it or not. im mostly in agreeance with ^^^ what they said
Open Source grants Hardware to live longer. So much Software is left incomplete from companies having to move on to new products that the end user is left holding the bag. If done right Open Source only helps in the long term as long as you got some thing thats worth it.
