Marc writes with some great news for musically-inclined portable gaming fans — and visualists, too:
Intially, after a while of finding out where the trouble was we nailed midi
for littlegptracker running on GP2x. Here’s a little vid for it.Of course, another application would be also to use the 2x as sequencer to
drive sequences on any midi-aware VJ program. So you could for example write
an audio track using 6 channels and use the two remaining to have perfectly
sync’ed video 🙂
Description:
This is Little GP Tracker [LGPT] running on a Gamepark Holdings Gp2x handheld, outputting midi using a custom serial to midi interface designed & coded by FirestARTer, board & assembly by IDMCLASSICS.NET.
In this clip, LGPT is driving a Clavia Nord Micromodular [3 seperate mono patterns into a polyphonic patch] and has an Alesis HR-16 drum machine slaved via Midi Sync.
FiresARTer: http://www.firestarter-music.de
Little GP Tracker: http://www.10pm.org/nostromo/lgpt/
IDMCLASSICS.NET: http://idmclassics.net
If the lack of a stylus Mario Kart hurts, though, see also this:
Hacked MIDI Support for Nintendo DS: DSerial
See comments: the upcoming F200 will have stylus/touch input. Awesome.
Multi-touch mobile gaming, could you be next?
Actually the new gp2x DO have a stylus control:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/gameparks-gp2x…
And lest we forget, the gp2x has usb in, so you can get a wacom or touchpad mouse to rock "alternate modes of input"
regarding mobile linux music:
I have an nice Nokia N800 (with stylus and 800px creen) in my pocket, but so far I could not find any music apps which are usable on this device (maemo platform, gtk and python 2.5 available). Is there any community advice if the N800 can run some of the linux music/audio/midi apps?
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