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the Polyend Endless is an interesting upcoming product. “vibe-code your own effects pedals” is how they're trying to make it mass-market, but it's also something you can just program for directly, and the SDK is refreshingly minimal and low-level… easier than writing a VST
there is a fantastic opportunity to teach beginner DSP programming here that I suspect they are going to squander, but it's a cool product regardless
@hikari I feel like they should have made this less premium but more open and affordable instead, given their target audience is people who like to tinker with stuff. It's crazy how much music gear costs these days, compared to how easy it is to achieve the same thing in software. Like, I'd love to play around with this, but 300€ is a lot for moving the signal processing from after the audio interface to before the audio interface.
So I guess the main use-case will be musicians who don't use a DAW and need really custom effects for live sets? But this is definitely not making DSP beginner friendly at that price point.
Would be a fun project to write a VST that loads their effect binaries though, maybe it could even run natively on ARM hosts?