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Nanoloop: GameBoy Advance Hard Disk Recording

Posted by timothy on from the creative-misapplication dept.

parasew writes "Nanoloop 2.0 for GameBoy Advance is Out! The GBA-Cartridge features a 8-voice Synthesizer an 8-Track Sequencer, a Song Editor and a HD-Recording Option, rendering the GBA one of the most cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot. Extra-gear is a GameBoy-MIDI-Adapter and a Lowpass Filter Cable. Some Reviews of Nanoloop are available in the Web from samplepoolz, HarmonyCentral, nanoloop.de and a German one from Parasew. Demo sounds in MP3 format can be downloaded from the site."

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  1. Things of the past by Lobishomen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know.. I remember when cell phones were used to make calls, and video game systems were used to play games. Is branching development truely that advantageous?

  2. Re:Thug Passion by prescot6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > "rendering the GBA one of the most cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot. "
    > Nothing says Rock Star or Street Thug like a GameBoy.

    I'm failing to make the connection between "cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot" with rock star and street thug.

  3. Real Ultimate Power GBA workstation by Mulletproof · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "rendering the GBA one of the most cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot.

    Unless you own a powerbook or some other laptop. And don't want to look like a fool in the process. And don't have time to load linux onto your toaster. And pardon me while I load my GBA emulator onto my alienware laptop.

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  4. Hmm, that is awesome, but by mcc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What made the first Nanoloop so incredibly awesome was its aphexy 8-bit glitch aesthetic. The new one looks like a great piece of software for music creation, but will it be able to have the same degree of crazy bleepy soul?

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  5. Sounds Like A Suped Up Pocket Music by szyzyg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been a long term user of Pocket Music advance, I had to get my family to send me a copy since for some reason it was never released in the US. (which says a lot about the US gameboy market). I've used it to come up with structural outlines for tracks, not the best sound quality, but a lot more compact than say Reason on my iBook.

    But this looks like a huge step up, especially if the output can be fed into other applications in a meanigful way.

    Now all I need is an mp3 player with seamless pitch shift (The archos does pitch shifting but it glitces when you change it) and multichannel output/Mixing so I can DJ from a pocket size box.

  6. Doesn't sound like a hard disk recorder to me... by Dominic_Mazzoni · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The title is misleading. I read the specs page, and it doesn't sound like it's a hard disk recorder to me. It sounds like it's a basic MIDI sequencing program, of the type that could be used to create "classic" videogame soundtracks. The "hard disk recording" option is just a protocol that allows digital transfer of the raw sequencer data, and then a client program that turns it into a clean WAV file. This means that you can get a clean, noise-free recording of your cheezy retro music sequence, that's all.

    Not saying you couldn't have a lot of fun with one of those - heck, composing music is a lot more creative than playing a sidescroller, but this is NOT a tool for pro musicians to use to record jam sessions, which is what was implied.