My Nintendo DS music rom search continues, deep cut of the day is this odd unfinished DS port of the OP-1!?!?!?

Don’t really know what it’s quite doing but got some glitch looping going. There’s a screen with a line and in+out points where at some point I briefly got a waveform to appear… there’s one with concentric circles of switches which seem to make some click rythyms, the keyboard grid in the photo plays notes, and two nice tape recorders which can record what’s going on and you can ‘scratch’ with

Seems to be no info about it anywhere except this github. Spent a while trying to figure out how to compile it before realising that the included .nds file does actually work on a real DS, just not in my emulator. :-/ GitHub - efairbanks/op-1: This bit of Nintendo DS homebrew is deserving of its own repo. This is specifically pulled from my bitbucket account, and is hopefully the most up-to-date version of this software. It's a digital audio workstation for the Nintendo DS that presents the user with a set of "pages" that represent a particular piece of hardware you might find in a studio. (eg. a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a synthesizer, etc...) It's an ambitious project considering the Nintendo DS's lack of CPU-power, but I'm quite fond of the tape-deck emulation on this thing.

EDIT: found out that the D-pad on the concentric circles thing turns the clicks into nice machine-like glitch rhythms :slight_smile:

The waveform editor kind of thing I found you can select part of it and fade in/out with the D-pad… but also you can zoom in and not be able to zoom out again!?

quick video:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1znPzhHfz/

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New arrangement in the mini case. Learning teletype has been great!

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and i thought i was only person with a purple Monorocket case!
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great setup!

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…trying to fix my reputation with this little vulgar beast…

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This looks insanely powerful for the size!

Can you share some thoughts about the Landscape Stereo Field? It is so beautiful!

Thanks!

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Silver?

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Hmm… the only thing I don’t like about the Sweet Sixteen is the panel graphics, so this is kind of tempting.

On the other hand, the labeling on the silver one is a more minimal than it should be. Numbers for each jack and fader would have been welcome – as it is, it doesn’t even indicate that the jacks are in column-first order rather than row-first order.

And “midi” rather than “m” would have been good; with jacks that look like Eurorack patch points but aren’t, it pays to be explicit!

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Yes, agreed but possibly the designer was going for a super minimal aesthetic.

I have a SS w/ this panel on the way and will be using it simultaneously control channel levels on my Bluebox as well as individual track levels on the OP-Z.

@SPIKE :smiley: I really like this color a lot and the case it self is beautiful :slight_smile:

@eblomquist I just have it for a couple days :slight_smile: It’s sounding very nice. Feedbacking itself creates a lot of textures. I will perform with it 13th february at a live stream. I will let you know if you would like to watch/hear :slight_smile:

@bc3 I actually like the black in contrast with the other modules! Thanks for the tip! :slight_smile:

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mine mainly hosts my weirdest modules… :smiling_imp:

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woooo very very nice :slight_smile:

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I sold all 7 of my bass guitars (many accumulated from bits) gave away parts and unnecessary components, consolidating into two basses made by a local luthier who lives just a few miles from me (a 6 string bass and its short-scale and very lightweight sister, a 5 string (which I use a lot on my punk pop project The Antisocial Justice Worriers).

I also let go of my refrigerator sized Trace Elliot stack and bought something small and portable from Phil Jones Bass which is probably a bit more relevant for 2021.

My 35Kg pedalboard is in the process of becoming a much smaller and more portable unit using a Mod Devices Mod Duo rather than a fixed chain of FX pedals, I’m aiming to not have backache and sore fingers when I turn up for practice after lockdown ends.

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These look stunning! What an inspiring set of handcrafted instruments.


FULL 6U 84HP version of my live system :moyai:

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Sitting slightly proud of its case as it’s being worked on. This modest setup is ideal for me and all I really need.

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Is it an EMS synthi or a clone ?

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I’d love to hear that, will it be recorded?

A personal take on a classic piece, built to be physically bulletproof for another 25-30 years of travel and performance.

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