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Oct 18 2007

DScratch: Warp, Scratch, and Mess with Audio on Nintendo DS

Want a killer app for Nintendo DS music making? How about scratching, digitally downsampling, and transmitting MIDI wirelessly (for sync to other effects on a computer)? Yeah, thought you might be interested:

Features:

load .wav file or live-recorded audio
scratch
pitch control
FX “Retrig”
FX “DownSampling”
Midi OUT (wireless)
stylus control
NDSMotion control

I love the distinctive digital-sounding effects and the integration of visual feedback with stylus control. Version status is “pre-teta-alpha demo”, so use with caution, but it is freely available for download.

Protein: DScratch
Via Octatone on the CDM forums

Ready to put together a Nintendo DS music studio? Here’s some help:
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DSMIDIWiFi Free Download: Turn Your Nintendo DS into a Wireless Synth and Controller
Mobile Music: Tracker for Nintendo DS, DS Homebrew Music Roundup

Two things I find amusing: one, that the music games built for DS haven’t been as much fun as homebrew music “tools.” Two, that there isn’t something like this as a built-in instrument in Ableton Live. Attention, developers, on both counts.

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21 Comments

Rozling

LOVE the dual waveform displays!!! The red-green flashing gives it a mobile rave kinda feel, delicious!

October 18, 2007 @ 3:04 pm

Peter

Does it detect loop tempo then send midi clock? One could dream.

Piggytracker dev tells me this is a colleague of his. Small world!

October 18, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

DScratch - audio manipulation on Nintendo DS

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October 18, 2007 @ 4:06 pm

Ivan Smirnov

I recognize ole’ good Aphrodite. Great stuff.

October 18, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

busoni

fresh and simple, not too much functionality but well designed. i like this type of application which can’t really do anything serious but makes musical material fun to play with through an entertaining interface. would be nice for educational purpose, like, teach the basics of sample playback, bit- and sampling-rates and loops. can this record also?

October 18, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

Jesse

Something like this built-in to Live would be great fun. Are there any VSTs that would perform similar functions?

Or I could just pick up a DS…

October 18, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

octatone

busoni, yes.

hit start to record via the DS’s built in mic. Fun stuff. can’t wait to see what else he has in store for us.

October 18, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

Trademark

Totally sucks that this isn’t working on the R4…

October 18, 2007 @ 9:03 pm

PetitZozo

a bit limited but very very fun!

October 18, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

Chris

Sweet! Just as soon as I beat that new frikkin’ Zelda…

October 19, 2007 @ 9:08 am

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October 19, 2007 @ 11:22 am

wolfgang

I think I have to steal my nephews machine :)

perfect

wolfgang

October 19, 2007 @ 11:50 am

D-Scratch: Audio Tool for Nintendo DS » Audio Recording School Blog

[...] This snappy looking audio tool for Nintendo DS allows the user to load .wav files or live audio and then manipulate the audio’s pitch, generate wireless MIDI, downsample, and scratch via the stylus. « Grad Works The Mic | [...]

October 19, 2007 @ 12:40 pm

eS

Why, oh why doesn’t this work on my DSlinker? :-(

October 20, 2007 @ 5:21 am

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October 20, 2007 @ 5:46 am

Gorgull

Hey

There’s a special R4DS/M3 version now available on: http://gorgull.googlepages.com/home2

Enjoy

October 20, 2007 @ 11:17 am

abdulpullmatool

any way this can b used on a psp its something ive been want to code for a while just one thing i dont know how to code my idea was basicly a djing app for playing mp3s bpm counters with scratching and looping capability seperating the output left out ch1 - right out ch 2 to send to a mixer any ideas if there an app outthere like this would b great for portable mixing