Droppin’ Beats on the go with the Nintendo DS May 25, 2008
Posted by PJ in : Digital home recording studios , trackbackNintendo’s insanely popular handheld (over 73 million sold worldwide) the DS and DS Lite has attracted a lot of attention from commercial music software developers and home-brewers alike. Gamers have already seen the release of Ubisoft’s Jam Sessions and Nintendo’s own Electroplankton.
These music “games” can be a fun distraction for audio enthusiasts but also a cheap, fun, interactive way for people to get into creating their own tunes (without selling their car to afford a tricked out Mac Pro).
The first example is a “freestyle” video from the developer of the home-brew project ProteinDS:
The second example is a video of the DS-10 Synthesizer by Korg and AQ Interactive. Korg has recently announced they are bringing the DS-10 Synthesizer to the U.S. Watch as the guy from Napoleon Dynamite lays down a phat groove:
Very exciting stuff!
-PJ
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