Want a killer app for Nintendo DS music making? How about scratching, digitally downsampling, and transmitting MIDI wirelessly (for sync to other effects on a computer)? Yeah, thought you might be interested:

Features:

  • load .wav file or live-recorded audio
  • scratch
  • pitch control
  • FX “Retrig”
  • FX “DownSampling”
  • Midi OUT (wireless)
  • stylus control
  • NDSMotion control

I love the distinctive digital-sounding effects and the integration of visual feedback with stylus control. Version status is “pre-teta-alpha demo”, so use with caution, but it is freely available for download.

Protein: DScratch
Via Octatone on the CDM forums

Ready to put together a Nintendo DS music studio? Here’s some help:
Hacked MIDI Support for Nintendo DS: DSerial (that’s hardware MIDI)
DSMIDIWiFi Free Download: Turn Your Nintendo DS into a Wireless Synth and Controller
Mobile Music: Tracker for Nintendo DS, DS Homebrew Music Roundup

Two things I find amusing: one, that the music games built for DS haven’t been as much fun as homebrew music “tools.” Two, that there isn’t something like this as a built-in instrument in Ableton Live. Attention, developers, on both counts.

22 responses to “DScratch: Warp, Scratch, and Mess with Audio on Nintendo DS”

  1. Rozling says:

    LOVE the dual waveform displays!!! The red-green flashing gives it a mobile rave kinda feel, delicious!

  2. Peter says:

    Does it detect loop tempo then send midi clock? One could dream.

    Piggytracker dev tells me this is a colleague of his. Small world!

  3. Ivan Smirnov says:

    I recognize ole' good Aphrodite. Great stuff.

  4. busoni says:

    fresh and simple, not too much functionality but well designed. i like this type of application which can’t really do anything serious but makes musical material fun to play with through an entertaining interface. would be nice for educational purpose, like, teach the basics of sample playback, bit- and sampling-rates and loops. can this record also?

  5. Jesse says:

    Something like this built-in to Live would be great fun. Are there any VSTs that would perform similar functions?

    Or I could just pick up a DS…

  6. octatone says:

    busoni, yes.

    hit start to record via the DS's built in mic. Fun stuff. can't wait to see what else he has in store for us.

  7. Trademark says:

    Totally sucks that this isn't working on the R4…

  8. PetitZozo says:

    a bit limited but very very fun!

  9. Chris says:

    Sweet! Just as soon as I beat that new frikkin' Zelda…

  10. wolfgang says:

    I think I have to steal my nephews machine 🙂

    perfect

    wolfgang

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  13. eS says:

    Why, oh why doesn't this work on my DSlinker? 🙁

  14. Gorgull says:

    Hey

    There's a special R4DS/M3 version now available on: http://gorgull.googlepages.com/home2

    Enjoy

  15. abdulpullmatool says:

    any way this can b used on a psp its something ive been want to code for a while just one thing i dont know how to code my idea was basicly a djing app for playing mp3s bpm counters with scratching and looping capability seperating the output left out ch1 – right out ch 2 to send to a mixer any ideas if there an app outthere like this would b great for portable mixing

  16. Gorgull says:

    new version of [DScratch] is available!

    http://gorgull.googlepages.com/protein

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  20. tamer says:

    i installed it but i start it up and he say guru meditation error

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