UPDATE: Here is the download. This is what German hacker/student/musician Tob, who created the cool NitroTracker old-school tracker app for the DS has been working on: Software to turn put easy-to-use MIDI into the Nintendo DS using WiFi. Previously, you've had to use hardware. The DS obviously sucks as a keyboard, but is great as a little X-Y controller like a Kaoss Pad, and presumably there's no reason why he can't build a simple XOX drum programmer, a little Lemur clone, or even a virtual Monome. Tob is still developing the software - as you can see from the video, it's in a pretty early stage - but it will be released ASAP. And even if you don't have a DS, stick with this video long enough to hear the guy playing 'We Will Rock You' though the onboard sounds... (via the wonderful Robot Porn blog, which is currently building a MIDI Keytar. Thanks Philip)
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
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Same approach, but between a Palm and a Mac (oh and it uses BT instead of Wi-fi): http://www.bhajis-garden.org/story.php?id=31
No on-screen keyboard, but a bunch of trigger buttons, assignable knobs and a X-Y controller.
Its only a matter of time before someone hacks the new Nintendo WII controllers into Wireless MIDI gestural controller madness. They're pretty much glorified IR Remotes....
It's neat how people are starting to use the DS as a viable music making instrument, from homebrew type stuff to official software like Daigasso! Band Brothers, Gunpey (a puzzle game that has a sequencer as an extra), and M-06, the acoustic guitar software.
Here's someone using Gunpey with a KAOSS pad (found via GameSetWatch:
I used the DS for some work on my latest two albums -- it's experimental electronic, broken-beat, ambient, pop style music so please spread it around on iTunes! Used mostly in this album and this album! -- Please support independent music!
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