For me, the Mod Devices story began with their very impressive debut at the NAMM show. But guest Gianfranco Ceccolini has been working on the product for quite a while - and on the concept for even longer. Creating more than a guitar pedal, Gianfranco and company have succeeded in creating an entire ecosystem (they call it a platform, but that sounds only technical...) that can be used for the development of pedalboards for guitars, synth rigs or whatever. I started to work with the company when they wanted to support building Max's Gen code to run on the device; thanks to heroic efforts by some of my co-workers (Jeremy, here's a shout-out!), we not only got it running, but it is as smooth as silk. But in working on this, it was clear that this wasn't a system that just appeared because of a Kickstarter campaign - there was obviously something more behind the device. Thus, this chat. And it was really interesting - taking a love of music and a love of Linux, combining them into something that a guitarist could use, and eventually into something any musician could love. That's quite a trail, and Gianfranco maps it out for us. A great chat about the history of a company from its founder, and a neat roadmap to their future as well. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did talking!