gearald
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The portal for creative musicians with a soft spot for gear

Your studio can do more.

It starts with a directory of all music hardware with official open-source firmware, verified, with license, repo and a way into vibe coding with AI. Next up: firmware versions for every device and your own collection.

All 27 open devices

Freshly released

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In active development

gearald is growing

What would you like to see? Tell us

We keep building. Here's the plan:

  1. Live

    Open-source directory

    Which music hardware is open, with license, repo and an AI starter prompt.

  2. In progress

    Firmware tracker

    The current firmware for every device, with changelog and download. New versions appear automatically on the blog.

  3. Planned

    My gear

    Set up your studio, grouped by setup or room, and know right away when one of your devices gets an update.

Ideas to tweak

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Behind the scenes

How gearald came about – and why the site itself is vibe-coded

Why this directory exists – and how it was vibe-coded.

2 min read

Good to know

The most common questions about open firmware, vibe coding and flashing, answered briefly.

All questions & answers

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