For sure, though the topic ITT is the "relationship between a maker of musical tools and the artists who used those tools".

I give the example of MOD particularly in this case because falkTX* not only works for MOD but helps develop JACK (and DPF, Carla, KX.Studio, etc.).

For another DIY solution that uses mod-host, what the MOD and Zynthian devices use for LV2; https://github.com/auto3000/pedalpii / https://github.com/auto3000/meta-pedalpi / https://github.com/Rezzonics/pedalC2-dev-platform

* https://github.com/falkTX

I think its quite appropriate to be discussing these projects, given that:

a) they are AMAZING (Zynthian is truly an extraordinary project - as is MOD, which is included in the zynthian distro incidentally) and,

b) these projects are available for you to put on your own hardware .. which is an ideology which runs counter to almost every other hardware manufacturer today, operating in the synth business ..

It should be noted, also, that this open attitude and sharing/caring is what good musicians do. Music is one of those realms where the maxim 'information wants to be free' is true, with every single note.

Of course it's appropriate to be discussing and signal boosting these projects. I've made two websites centered around that theme; https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Audio#Linux (and related header link articles) and https://libreav.org

I know, which is why I said "mod-host, what the MOD and Zynthian devices use" ;)

The guitarix-foot-remote project is awesome, it's only part of the package and not really got the same scale of use with the customer/developer feedback loop that the first poster (and I) wanted to focus upon. Development seems to be stalled, so I'd rather direct folk to more active projects.

The Zynthian has co-ordinated a stack with UI etc, and artists use it, and they give feedback, and MOD/falktx wrote part of that stack and I think MOD has a larger market share, so IMHO I think it's a better example about that kind of customer/developer relationship.

And a shout out to https://github.com/brummer10

Another big example is Monome.

https://monome.org