glitchDS

glitchDS is a FREE homebrew Cellular Automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS. It’s perfect for creating IDM and Glitch style loops. R4DS is required for using this application. (See the documentation for reports on other working cards besides R4DS.)

Download glitchDS here. Read the documentation.
Just released: soundpack1.zip

Features include:

• Customizable Cellular Automaton sequencer
• Create your own “trigger points”
• Load in your own sounds
• Save and load your work
• BPM settings, or “strum mode” for controlling tempo
• Up to 6 sounds can be loaded at once
• Each sound has its own 32 step frequency modulation sequencer
• Global Distortion setting

Here’s a video demo:

Coming soon:

• Additional sound packs.
• Tutorial on how to prepare and include your own sounds. (For all you hackers out there: sox -V example.wav -c 1 -2 -r 22050 example.raw )

Be aware that the BPM settings aren’t perfect. I’ll be fine-tuning them for a future release. If anyone knows how to get a *perfect* BPM on the DS, please leave me a comment.