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I would argue that they are not created by tech hackers. The ones known about in popular culture are created by businesses, and quite often great minds in those businesses. The people using them are often the ones taking them further then their creators imagined.

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The great (big) music businesses listen to artists (like benevolent thieves) because that's the only way to build relevant products that stand a chance of delivering ROI.

Such as this https://www.roland.com/us/community/roland_users_group/

although many of these artists might not exactly be what cheez would consider "young people".

The industry already exists now. You listen to young people on what is new.

We can nitpick.

Do business types create them?

Or do tech heads with a musical inclination create them?

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