Midify Port Now Available

Midify allows you to add a MIDI port to the Nintendo DS, thus making your DS a MIDI controller:

http://www.hackaday.com/2008/06/22/midify-now-available/

This, along with the KORG DS-10, is starting to make the DS a neat little portable music station

(those who dismiss the DS-10 need to watch and listen to this little video to see what can be done and made with it...):

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/19545

lol @ the tool head-nodding in the background.

the iPhone will probably have 10 things just like this, but way better.

Its allll about ds midiwifi, anyone who codes for anything different is a tard.

someone needs to create a rip of jazzmutant lemur for the iphone.

everyone's gonna get all jizzed up about this, then realize the iphone/DS has a 400mhz chip or some shit and runs the math-heavy musicware about as well as a brick runs grand turismo 5.

that's why it's better to stick to lightweight midi I/O apps... like lemur.

  hahathhat said:

everyone's gonna get all jizzed up about this, then realize the iphone/DS has a 400mhz chip or some shit and runs the math-heavy musicware about as well as a brick runs grand turismo 5.

Hey now, I hear the PS3 runs GT5 quite well.

  Earvalve said:

  hahathhat said:

everyone's gonna get all jizzed up about this, then realize the iphone/DS has a 400mhz chip or some shit and runs the math-heavy musicware about as well as a brick runs grand turismo 5.

 

Hey now, I hear the PS3 runs GT5 quite well.

lol

but seriously now, folks, i WOULD like to see musicware on the PS3.

  assegai said:

How'd he get the voice samples in it?

I adore my ds-10... I'll be making every track for P168 with it

  Joyrex said:

  assegai said:

 

How'd he get the voice samples in it?

I don't see him pressing a button to activate the voice samples, might just be overdubbed afterwards. Doesn't even sound like Karl Hyde

  hahathhat said:

everyone's gonna get all jizzed up about this, then realize the iphone/DS has a 400mhz chip or some shit and runs the math-heavy musicware about as well as a brick runs grand turismo 5.

My first PC ran "math-heavy musicware" pretty well, early versions of Fruity Loops, Making Waves (anybody remember that?), Cool Edit, Cubase VST3.5. This was a Gateway PII 233Mhz (with "MMX technology"!) machine with about 160 megs of ram (maybe 128? 160 sounds wrong), originally bought in 1997.

The second time I saw Autechre live was in 1998, and it was the first show where I saw them using laptops (just around the time LP5 came out), I'd say they CPU in those weren't much faster than 400Mhz. People are so obsessed nowadays with having big numbers on their CPU and multiple cores. You've got more than enough power in a DS to run music software. Kids nowadays, I tells ya. *reaches for walking stick*

It's pretty cool that the Nintendo DS is becoming somewhat a worthy music station, but in the end it's still the same as clicking and twiddling every knob with your mouse, am I wrong? Ah yes, it can be used as an XY controller as well, but that's about it no?

  Berk said:

It's pretty cool that the Nintendo DS is becoming somewhat a worthy music station, but in the end it's still the same as clicking and twiddling every knob with your mouse, am I wrong? Ah yes, it can be used as an XY controller as well, but that's about it no?

Not really using the touch screen is more akin to a Lumur than using a mouse there's also the Kaoss type modulation control and X/Y arpeggiator that give a lot of expressive control.

I've a feeling the DS10 will become a cult thing in years to come,

hats off to Korg!

yea, im a huge ds fan and all that, but the sound it outputs fucking sucks, it's tinny and quiet and theres no getting around it. using it as a midi controller can be fun though, i guess.

  Berk said:

It's pretty cool that the Nintendo DS is becoming somewhat a worthy music station, but in the end it's still the same as clicking and twiddling every knob with your mouse, am I wrong? Ah yes, it can be used as an XY controller as well, but that's about it no?

its well fun using the korg ds-10 software, the kaoss pad interface lets you play notes in and record automation

its synths are sick

i'd like to get the new nintendo dsi when the uk version comes out... sposed to have better sound output

i've got 6 tracks made with the nds and ds-10 up on me myspace at the moment

i've been doing little ds-10 bits as part of my live sets

these recordings are from some of them

check em out here

also have a look at nitrotracker for the ds, quality tracker program that lets you load wavs and export the end results