Saw a video yesterday about Nintendo and I was thinking, why don’t they make like a Nintendo DS or something like that for music with audio in/audio out, capable of recording with small touchscreen and touch screen.
With synths inside, guys I honestly don’t know why I am telling you this but I thought of it.
I don’t have even an idea of how it would look like but I think that it would be cool, I guess
Especially if they price it the same price of a 3DS
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Would be fun yeah. Loved (and still have!) Korg DS-10 and cool that Korg brought Gadget to Nintendo Switch.
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There is some korg card for the Nintendo DS.
The MS20 version is funny, but the 16 lenght pattern is an issue for me.
Still sound quite cool, if you dig multiple hours and came back on it multiple time.
My favorite use of Nintendo DS for sound is nanoloop for GBA on a DS lite.
If you sample it properly, and put some effect and don’t use drum, there is something about this software !
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Yeah I’m thinking about something that main goal is to make music (not just loops) while having fun.
Actually going out of the idea of a simple groovebox with step sequencer but a portable studio/daw in small format
M8 tracker but not a tracker and it folds
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I remember this happening.
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Steam deck runs over linux, and I’ve been low key fantasizing about selling my smart phone and getting a dumb phone and a steam deck and putting bitwig on there. I think there’s like one USB port but that’s enough to plug in a keybo
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It would be great to have such a small device with nice controls and capable programs that can sample. I would definitely buy one.
Btw i made an EP with a program called “The game of life” on the Nintendo DS. It can’t sample but i loaded my samples into it and the program randomly sequenced them with my help. Very interesting program.
I have a steamdeck and a bitwig license, and it never occured to me to try that. The deck can be awkward for some applications due to the input schemes, but people on reddit seem to say that the combination works well…
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Oh man if you do I’d love to hear how it goes, a steam deck isn’t really in my budget right now but it is a cool thing to think about!
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something like that for music with audio in/audio out, capable of recording with small touchscreen and touch screen.
With synths inside, guys I honestly don’t know why I am telling you this but I thought of it.
Not exactly the same form factor, but OP’s describing the M8 Tracker!
And on the Gameboy-like thing: it’s not quite a Nintendo DS, more like a Gameboy Advance SP, but I run the M8 tracker headless software on a cheapo Chinese emulator. It’s the full M8 Tracker experience minus some of the I/O. Here’s a track I recently made with it:
The M8 is hard to get hold of, but you can build a device that runs the software for about £100
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The other day I’ve seen this video. I think there’s an actively developed homebrew tool called noise commander.
The guy in the vid was controlling hardware with ds. Thought you might be interested
Found the Patreon link for noise commander. It’s a groovebox app
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Analogue Pocket has Nanoloop built in plus you can load up LSDJ onto it which is the Gameboy tracker that the M8 is inspired by.
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Wow I didn’t realize it was possible to run the M8 firmware on alternative hardware – do you have more info on that?
Sick track, too.
So
They can either make hardware that sells Millions that’s suitable For most children or adults
Or
Make a niche device for people to do music
I know what the shareholders will want.
And developers making software for that device
Hint - it’s huge sales and making a return on their investment.
Get the korg synth or a cart that runs dodgy roms and a few trackers.
For m8 stuff - search in google it’ll be quicker and
More thorough .
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Maybe not the right audience for this but my friend just released this EP he wrote using Rytmik for 3DS (though I think he ended up later using the PC version to finish the tracks). When he played live it would be with his 3DS on a stool while he played guitar + one million fx pedals.
Disappointingly Bassic | Space Cadet 64
Edit: fired off the post before I got to the point - the sequencer tech behind Rytmik seems pretty cool (for the 3DS) albeit quite basic, but unfortunately you are locked into the sounds and sound packs provided by the dev which means it all sounds quite samey. I think it works in my friend’s EP because of the whole chiptune thing. I don’t know if the app is actively developed any more, the 3DS version is obviously abandonware. It’s still interesting that it even existed at all and doesn’t seem to be discussed that much.
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Just search “M8 headless” on google or this forum and there should be lots of info 
This is pretty good dude.
Actually, I just got to “tearing through the night, tears streaming down my face” and I’m upgrading my assessment from “pretty good” to “really good” so give your homie a high five for me or something.
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It’s cool hey, he’s been writing these songs on Rytmik as far back as 2010 or 2011 - I think he started on the original version of Rytmik for DS and then moved up to Rytmik Ultimate for 3DS. He also has (had?) a band called Giant Clam which is similar, and he played guitar on my most recent record but I’ll leave it there for fear of going too off topic.
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Sure thing! I developed an app for M8 headless, that will run on certain Anbernic handheld consoles and maybe some other devices: https://github.com/jamesMcMeex/m8c-rg35xx-knulli
The docs (hopefully) explain everything you need to get up and running.
It utilises an M8 headless client called m8c that was developed by Laamaa, a member of the M8 Discord community. Go find the “Headless” thread in the Dirtywave Discord and everyone will help you get started there.