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Imagine having a max4live like the Ableton community, but for the Quad Cortex 
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Imagine if, in the process of building a fantastic API for serving ‘Cortex Store’ developers, you ended up accidentally also serving your own development team with a platform that is faster and simpler to develop for.
What if the top community contributors were to become full time employees, and they could immediately become productive because they have already learned everything about developing for your platform?
What if your platform were designed to be forwards compatible with future hardware releases? Wouldn’t it be nice if those community contributions come with it to provide a rich feature set on launch?
Is there a better way to differentiate yourself from your competitors? How do you think they would respond?
Consider the case of Valve Software, they started by licensing a technology framework (Quake engine, then later the Quake 2 engine), making some proprietary additions, then releasing the product with the tools for the mod community. The most popular mods were acquired and turned into famously successful franchises such as Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead. Their original product (Half Life) enjoyed a long shelf-life, largely driven by the mod community releasing new content. Upon the launch of Half-Life 2, they launched Steam, creating a marketplace.
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I am SO for this. But opening it up to the floor has it’s upsides and downsides.
Just look at NI Reaktor is VCV Rack in the synth community to see where this goes.
On the up side: So much many fun and innovative modules to choose from. Including some excellent cheeky clones or real hardware.
On the down side: Sooooooo much crap to sort through before you stumble on something good. There’s a voting/likes system but it’s a bit self-perpetuating after a while. There’s diamonds in the rough that exist but take so much time to find.
The community blocks would need a QC (quality control 
) team for sure so the list doesn’t get filled with endless crap. And how is that going to work?
All things to think about. And when it comes out, can someone please make us a Hologram Microcosm? That’d be great 
You can already do that with the MOD Dwarf. Ridiculous levels of configuration/routing, Max devices, plus loads more…
I have barely even seen it mention in guitarist circles, and have never seen/heard of anyone using it live.
Poly Effects do the Beebo which is similar too.
Neither of those are huge sellers or lauded by guitarists, so I just don’t think the desire is really there.
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Very interesting pedals…I have never heard of them!
Well, these pedals being not as popular as the quad cortex, doesn’t mean that customers wouldn’t want programmability or community driven feature development… The popularity might have different reasons, I presume Neural lobbied their product very well and got lucky being hyped.
Anyway, the m4l community of Ableton is one of the many examples of how everyone benefits of community driven development.
I have a Dwarf but it’s been sitting on the shelf since my QC usurped it.
It’s such a cool concept but they had so much trouble getting it going.
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Think about what happened when apple released the appstore. They were crowd-sourcing software which made their product 1000x better.
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