ok, i'm late to jump on this thread, the site was dieing when i first saw it.
trackers designed for big computers generally suck on handhelds like the gp32/2x/pdas due to the limited interfaces. there have been attempts at trackers on pdas as well that didn't work because of a lack of keyboard ... i've tried a few
however, there is a tracker designed specifically for gameboy which is actually very fast and comfortable to work in ... it's called LSDj and if we see a good GB/C emulator, it should be playable. from what i hear it's already usable on the psp
h34r: :rolleyes: ... and you could clunk around in it using rlyeh's fgb emu but the sound emulation there wasn't fully implemented.
anyway
here's littlesounddj
on the gameboy front their are also other music making programs that are not nearly as deep and versitle ... nanoloop, Carillon Editor, etc
and there are a slew of other GB/C music programs that are ment to be played like instruments (japenese step girl, etc, and stuff by
8cylinder).
if you'd searched the board for fruityloops, you'd have seen the wub programed a not-so-usable
gpMuzic ... it looked like something that could have been fruity loops but it was really hard to use and the samples were ultra distorted. still it was a pioneering effort and worth mention ... i have talked to him and we may see some new music programs from the wub in the future =) ... he is interested in making something big like fruity loops but i personally would like to see something less complicated and easier to use/implement ... i think something more along the lines of
hammerhead would work well on the gp32/2x.
and it's almost criminal that i've come this far without mentioning
LittleGPTracker
designed off the interface of LSDj, the piggy is a true sample tracker ... it's in the early stages but is still quite useable--i juse got back from a 2 week tour of europe where i was playing tracks off of the gp32 (as well as LSDj and some audiomulching) ... and everyone wanted to know what it was!
anyway, n0stromo said he will be holding off on gp2x programing and wants to finish the software on the gp32 before porting it to other platforms, but he's working with porting in mind and is at least interested in the gp2x.
finally: a 303 clone would be fun, especially if it had drum machines built in like rebirth AND it had loop export options like fruityloops (when you export loops, the WRAP REMAINDER option in the "looping mode" is so nice! the only reason i keep the demo installed on my machine) ... maybe we could convince
oliver of chocopoolp software that it would be worth porting
microbe to the gp2x ... i am not even considering bhaji loops because the interface is so dependent on the palm pilot touch screen ... and it's very well designed at that!
