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inMusic – parent company to Akai Pro, Moog, Alesis, Native Instruments, Numark and other brands – has announced that it will be bringing 22 new products to the 2027 NAMM Show, along with a new concept, The inMusic Creator Lab.

The Creator Lab will highlight inMusic’s support for the new trend of empowering gear owners to customize their gear with alternate firmware.

“These products don’t need to be modified. They’re complete instruments designed to stand on their own,” said CEO Jack O’Donnell. “But for creators who want to take them somewhere new, we want to make that possible. Openness doesn’t require incompleteness.”

The Creator Lab is inMusic’s response to the musicians becoming increasingly comfortable modifying the technology they use, especially with AI-assisted ‘vibe coding’ making software development more accessible.

Many of the 22 products being demonstrated are designed to support further enhancement by programmers, product modders and the growing community of creators using traditional and AI-assisted coding methods. inMusic invites programmers and technically curious music makers to explore those possibilities and bring their own tastes, workflows and ideas to compatible inMusic devices.

Beyond Vibe Coding

Whether or not you are interested in so-called ‘vibe coding’ or alternate firmware options, open platform music gear promises benefits to all musicians. Open platform gear could help reduce bugs in obsolete gear, gear with incomplete or missing features, and incompatibility with modern computers and protocols.

Open platform music gear also promises to fuel new product development, as developing software, hardware and firmware become more accessible to musicians.

What do you think of companies like inMusic and Behringer jumping on the open platform bandwagon? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Behringer shared this teaser image for the Vibe Matrix groovebox, a design concept that embraces the vibe coding trend, and promises to be anything that you want it to be.

The say that they’re hoping to bring prototypes to the 2027 NAMM Show for a ‘hackathon’.

The company is looking for feedback on the concept on their Facebook page:

“What do you think of this design for a powerful groovebox featuring polyphonic sequencing, sampling, synthesis, live looping, clip launching and a customizable control interface?

Our vision is an affordable, open hardware platform that anyone can customize, vibe-code and turn into whatever they imagine.

This is just a concept, not a product announcement. If there’s enough community interest, we’ll build it!

We’ll also try to bring a few prototypes to NAMM in Anaheim for our hackathon.

Would you want one? What features would you add, what would you improve, and what price would make it irresistible?

Your feedback will help us decide whether to make it happen!”

Interested in the Behringer Vibe Matrix? Let us know what you think in the comments!