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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. Re:Things of the past by MORB · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...And USB was used as a data port.

  2. Out/Out of Stock by xanderwilson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did the site say it was "out of stock until mid-November" (as it does now) when his article went up, or did they sell out that quickly? I for one would like to see some photos of what it looks like, because my first thought is that it might be bigger than your average cartridge.

    Alex.

  3. Modem? by Tyrdium · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Besides normal line-recording, nanoloop also allows to transfer song data digitally through the audio port by playing a chain of rectangular pulses which represent song data bytes stored in the cart memory. These pulses can be decoded by a PC client software and then stored in the same format as on the cart.
    Sounds like a modem to me... Granted, the line noise is probably less than that of a telephone, but what kind of bit rate are they expecting to get with this? Wouldn't it be better to just stick a USB port on the thing? Also, I assume this means that the hard drive function is Windows-only? :-/
  4. Nintendo DS by lxt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cool as it is, I'm wondering why they chose to release this product so soon to the DS being released...although the DS will probably be able to use the cartridge with no problems, the two screens and networking features the DS offers might have been quite useful...

  5. Re:Real Ultimate Power GBA workstation by }InFuZeD{ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Honestly, musicians that travel are normally professionals... and like the parent said, we do our work on laptops.

    I've got my laptop setup to be a complete portable studio. Sure, this little guy would be fun to play around with, but it's a toy, it's not something that a musician would WORK with.

  6. A Gameboy musician by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's actually a Finnish musician called Huoratron (roughly translated Whoretron) who uses Gameboys for making music. I saw him live once and the show kicked ass. He makes a sort of rough electro.

    He has also a web site http://www.huoratron.com/

  7. Out? by ezthrust · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't see it available for download as a ROM or to buy anywhere there. How is this considered "out"?

    I am really disappointed that they don't offer the original Nanoloop for GameBoy unadvanced as a cart. There have been tests shown that the first GameBoy model had much better sound circuits that had little to no noise, while each newer model added static and buzz.

    Would there not be a market for both?

    If anyone out there could point me in the direction of the cheapest flash cartridge set-up for ROMs that would be great.