Fwd: Re: LP1 firmware is now open-sourced

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

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/"Amazing and totally great! As a 15+ years Linux/OSS guy, I embrace 
this move. Not only will this allow others adding their LP features, but 
might also serve to put pressure on the market for features missing in 
other products. Big time kudos to Bob ;)/"
/vam


I just spent the evening with Bob,  his lovely wife and amazing family!
I have to say that in all of my years in the music 'biz',  I've never 
met someone
who had greater heart or had more determination to serve our community 
than Bob.
This is a guy who has put literally thousands of hours into creating new 
tools for the looping
community.   He's never made dime one from his efforts.

As long as I've known him,  it has been the love of live looping that 
has spurned him on.

The products that he has put out are amazing and they are also such a 
huge committment that
many people should be working on their improvement on a continual 
business instead of
one single human being.

Outside of a very, very small handful of people, however,  it's all been 
up to Bob.

The entire time,  he has juggled supporting a 5 member family and worked 
his ass off at a very
demanding hi tech day job.

The fact that he's done all that he's done to further the technology for 
this International Live Looping
community has always been a Godsend to me, personally.

I hope this move with the LP-1 software will encourage people to 
contribute to this cool instrument.
Also,  we made some strong breakthroughs tonight on the perfection of 
the LP-2 Mini Looper and
I'm excited to bring it to show people in Europe and the UK in a short 
month's time.

All kudos to Bob Amstadt (and the many other pioneers that have created 
live looping instruments in
hardware and software so that we , as musicians , have better and better 
tools with which to be creative).

Looperlative will continue into the future.  I promise you!

most sincerely,     Rick Walker