My 2 cents,
I do recommend anyone interested to join the discord and follow along. The guys are doing a phenomenal job. Currently theres quite a few people all working on giving the King of Sampling an entire new set of tools. I mean Midi scenes, new efx, Mutuable Instru ports, new hot keys, these guys even managed to squeeze some got damn synthesis into the machine, internal synthesis on this thing with all the bells and whistles of the octatrack?? Potentially even the silver boxes could get machines ported based on the chips if someone really did the work.
To re-itterate these guys are killing it and making the impossible possible, and they are all doing it for the love of the game, community and instrument, without pay. Lets be grateful y’all and if we can buy them beer and coffee :D.
My advice is be paitent, theres a lot of other things to consider with this kind of work and diverse amount of seperate projects. There has been much discussion about how to ensure compatibility if users wanted to mix and match feature sets from different O.Sdevelopers. This could mean making some kind of web ui interface where you could select the feature you want and flash your OS, such as em’s octakit. When the guys have something ready to share the world they will. Till then enjoy the ride or offer some help with testing. As mentioned earlier nobody has bricked their octatrack yet, caution is a good thing.
These dude are going boost octatrack sales by a lot when all is said and done.
Stay safe, Stay frosty y’all