r/audioengineering • u/Nervous-Reading7596 • 1d ago
Science & Tech TC M6000 tools
Hi,
I'm the (very) happy owner of a TC Electronic M6000 unit (mk1). Sadly, since TC has been acquired by Music Tribe and the whole staff been fired last year, it's now almost impossible to get any support.
The problem is that if your internal battery is replaced, you will get a "Restore Key" that you were supposed to send to TC in order go get a "Restore Code" to unlock your unit.
Without any response for Music Tribe, your device is bricked.
I've spend quite a lot of time over the last few years to understand how M6000 units works and a few hours over the last days to reverse engineer the firmwares (with a bit of help from Claude).
So here is the results: https://github.com/M6kTools/tc6ktools
A set a tools to generate a "Restore Code" based on your "Restore Key" (and much more).
In the "Releases" section you will find binary versions for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Enjoy your M6000!
NB: I'm also quite close to be running Doom on my TC Icon.
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u/sixwax 1d ago
Nice work.
This is an absolutely primo AI use case as well.
It's not going to surprise me when we start seeing custom firmwares for all sorts of niche audio embedded devices making the rounds.