NitroTracker: Difference between revisions

	NitroTracker
	File:Nitrotrackerds.png
General
Author(s)	0xtob
Type	Music
Version	0.4
Licence	Mixed
Links
	[Media:NitroTrackerv04ds.zip Download]
	Website
	Source

Revision as of 03:20, 24 Mayıs 2012

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NitroTracker is a FastTracker II style tracker for the Nintendo DS. If you didn't understand that, you might want to read up on trackers. For starters, NitroTracker is a versatile tool for creating music - everywhere! It supports the popular XM file format that is used by many PC trackers and that can be played on many PC audio players such as Winamp or XMMS.

With NitroTracker, you can carry your XMs around in your DS and compose whenever and wherever you feel like it. "Tracking on a handheld console? Sounds like a pain in the ass." You might say. But because of the touchscreen and stylus of the DS, it's quite easy. You can compose your melodies using an on-screen keyboard, directly edit your patterns by making selections, copying and pasting - all with the stylus. And that's not where it ends: If you don't have any samples at hand, make your own with the DS's microphone. You can even replace the samples in existing songs with your own recorded ones. There are many possibilities already and there will be even more.

Features

Composing with the stylus using an on-screen keyboard
Selecting, copying and pasting with the stylus
Loading and saving XM modules (sorry, no effects yet)
Loading and saving WAV samples (any sampling rate, 8 or 16 bit)
Recording samples with the DS's built-in microphone!
Editing samples (cut, fade, reverse, ...)
Forward and ping-pong loops
Volume envelopes for instruments
Multiple samples per instrument that can be mapped to keyboard keys
MIDI integration via DSMI
16 hardware channels
Standby mode when the DS is closed
Support for nearly all DS card adapters

Installation

Patch NitroTracker.nds with the DLDI patch for your card.

(Please refer to the documentation for more info on this.)

Then, copy NitroTracker and some music and samples to any folder of your memory card and start tracking!

Control

D-Pad scrolls in the pattern

B - Accelerates vertical scrolling

Start - Start / pause playback

Select - Stops playback

X or L - Flips the screens

R + up/down - Scrolls to the beginning / end of the pattern Lid - Closing enters standby mode / Opening leaves standby mode Start+Select - Reset DS

Resources

A list with some great resources for samples and music.

Credits

NitroTracker beta testers

alienspurm, andars, atomtwist, Biiaru, chrislody, grobsen, Ignatzthemouse, infradead, Jono-60, license, lotlemmwax, nitro2k01, nonfinite, parkstenator, reSet, Shagbat, silent_code, spielor, totoee, Vengeful Parasite, willgripp

joat, dovoto and WinterMute for libnds and DevkitPro
chishm for the universal FAT library
sgstair for the incredible wifi lib
Headspin for the great on-screen typewriter design
doublec for his ds development tutorials that got me started with DS coding
Martin Korth for the incredible gbatek reference and the no$gba emulator
My friends in #dsdev for patiently answering my questions
starpause for providing the samples used in the tutorial
Michael Krause for the open source SoundTracker, that was a great help with the XM format
Last but not least: Vogue and Mr.H of Triton for

     Fasttracker II, the tracker that NitroTracker was
     designed after.

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