LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box

Holy cow, this is absolutely incredible! Amazing.

Nice! Looking forward to seeing how this develops!

If you go to the GIThub repository you can contribute to his work, I will say, every single person who has been bitching about the OP1 Field and TX-6 should be contributing to this project and watching in earnest. This is absolutely one of the most impressive DIY projects I've ever seen. Subbed and supported. I'm still reeling over here.

This looks and feels a lot like an open source op-1. That's incredibly impressive. Creating additional plugins and enhancing i/o options can really take this to the next level. I can easily see this becoming a great hardware hub where the focus is as much outside of the box as it is inside. One fast way to do this would be to incorporate a usb MIDI host and a single adat port. You've now got 16 audio channels and at least 16 MIDI channels. Toss in (possibly) CV ports and you've got something that can put high end workstations to shame in a handheld package. Keep it up!

Dude I'm an industrial designer and I'd be super happy to help you out on that angle because this project deserves full attention

Very op-1 like. Great to see an open source project like this. Nice work everyone that contributed.

This is the first video in a while that has motivated me to want to build and add to an open source project. I can’t wait to see what the community comes up with, the “maker” niche is already pretty popular. I would recommend well edited tiktoks that show off the features and give a quick overview of the process involved. I’ve seen a bunch of DIY music equipment videos on my feed and it would bring more ideas to the project. Great job dude!

Damn. Mad respect to you. I bought an OP-1 (im not a musician, but a guy with way too many hobbies) and I couldn't stomach the cost and ultimately returned it. I loved playing with it, and this looks like an AMAZING way to get back into the hobby. I plan on building one.

This is the best implementation of an autonomous DAW I ever saw. I get that this is an open source hobby project, but IMO a product like this can make a lot of devices on the market obsolete. Especially because it's OS. Wish you best of luck and keep up the good work!

Great work, hope to see more of these around

This project is incredible, and being open-source I'm even more excited about what will come out of it. Amazing work!

This one thing could become someone's entire hobby for a decade...

Absolutely amazing work mate! I love the keyswitch interface and keyboard. The UI is beautiful and surprisingly visible for such a small screen. That all this runs on such lightweight embedded hardware is miraculous. This takes what has been done with trackers in recent years and brings the benefits of visual UI design. I can think of quite a number of small suggestions for the UI and DAW itself but I think I may have to build one before I really can sink my teeth into it. I will have a look at the build files and check them out shortly. If I were to give one big suggestion it would be to add more visibility to the encoder's function on each screen. A standardized way to do this is on stuff like the DSI tetra, Elektron digi series, or waldorf blofeld, which is to put labels for the encoders in a geometrically similar arrangement, e.g. the rotary controls would display as a row along the top of the screen and the pushbutton functions on the bottom. Some screens may not benefit from this e.g. the mixer or 4OSC device, but certainly on the arrangement/song mode and the sequence mode, seeing labels for "Length/Grid/Select/Loop" would be super helpful. Screen real estate seems quite tight so perhaps these could pop in to be visible just for a few seconds after an encoder is turned or pressed, with the last-used function displayed in a brighter color. Alternately, tapping the lemon button could toggle this display on/off. Overall an incredible project and I thank you for making it open source! Can't wait to see how this develops.

Daaaamn. Way to make an entrance onto YouTube, friend. This is amazing. Insanely exciting. If anyone wants to help with UI or Case design for this I'd be glad to lend my design/prototyping skillset, given appropriate time. Wow. Congrats on all the hard work here.

This is absolutely fantastic! The possibilities for the LMN are potentially endless. I love that its open source

This is incredible, bringing an op-1-like feel, at a lower price, and being open source allows for the potential to be infinite. Amazing work mate!

Incredibly impressive for a solo project. You’re pushing music making forward

I LOVE IT!! How you’ve made this look a bit like that Op-1, but yet, something TOTALLY familiar still to anyone who is familiar with those gorgeous pieces of old-school Hewlett-Packard test equipment! Whenever I see those extruded aluminum T-slots with PCBs that slide into a backplane, THAT brings some wonderfully welcome memories that remind me that still while we can’t go back to doing stuff quite that well today, we can sure at least learn a thing or two from those days and give it our best shot and nod to it!!

I'm in love with this now. Hope there is a way to recording external source to this machine and bring it into sampler in future :) love the way you making old school style keyboard here!! amazing work!!

I stayed hype the whole video, I can’t wait to see what this turns into. This is FIREEEEEEE