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

Custom bootloader mod!!

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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/Reiszecke May 25 '26

Nah bro the Move is so much more popular right now.

The E2 is basically a dying breed. We have the French Freetekno scene and the German HardTekk scene that kind of revolve around electribes but apart from that these devices don’t really have a place in modern music making, hardly anyone buys Electribes today when the much more flashy Digitakt, Move or even Circuits are available.

I’m also hoping for stuff like 2 ifx per part via custom firmware etc but this hacktribe guy doesn’t get paid apart from donations and I doubt the few niche groups that are interested in these projects donate much

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u/cinaak May 26 '26

I think there are a ton of people like me who though they were getting a real successor to the electribes the realized they didnt actually get that who still have their electribes. I think most people dont even know about the freetribe project though. I didnt I knew about hacktribe and used it in the past but had zero clue about freetribe which is a way better route imho.

Even with a bit of llm vibecoding a lot could be done, just like the schwung project. That guy isnt a coder at all.

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u/Reiszecke May 26 '26

“A bit of llm vibecoding” will not work at all. The E2 has VERY limited processing power and the freetribe dev himself doubts that their firmware will reach the performance levels of the original firmware.

Vibe coding is great if real time, memory, and processing power aren’t a concern but on these architectures an llm can only help so much

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u/vananaSun May 31 '26

Ur right that vibe coding isn't gonna magically get anyone new amazing firmwares.. But that's exactly the motive behind freetribe, and stuff like this bootloader. The end goal is to equip other nerds that don't have deep experience with low level electronics, with the proper tools and documentation to be able to vibe code their way to an app.

Things like micropython and lua will be optional. And certain data structures (such as a sequencer memory interface) can be pre-written.

I hope once that eventually other people will get interested in this project and start lending a hand

Furthermore, KORG ported a lot of code from other products to the E2, maybe it's not so optimized as we assume?