NitroTracker

March 20th, 2006, 22:04 Posted By: wraggster

An entry in the Neoflash Coding Comp, heres the details

Oxtob posted this :

NitroTracker

A FastTracker II style tracker for the DS, by 0xtob

What's this?

NitroTracker is a (music) tracker for the Nintendo DS. If you didn't understand that, you might want to read up on trackers. For starters, NitroTracker is a versatile tool for creating music - everywhere! It supports the popular XM file format that is used by many PC trackers and that can be played on many PC audio players such as Winamp or XMMS.

With NitroTracker, you can carry your XMs around in your DS and compose whenever and wherever you feel like it. "Tracking on a handheld console? Sounds like a pain in the ass." You might say. But because of the touchscreen and stylus of the DS, it's quite easy. You can compose your melodies using an on-screen keyboard, directly edit your patterns by making selections, copying and pasting - all with the stylus. And that's not where it ends: If you don't have any samples at hand, make your own with the DS's microphone. You can even replace the samples in existing songs with your own recorded ones. There are many possibilities already and there will be even more.

The project was coded completely from scratch using only libnds and chishm's FAT library. It includes


A complete GUI toolkit including many specialzed widgets (to be released separately soon)
A module player that runs completely on the ARM 7 and that can be easily included into other projects (to be released separately soon)

It uses Chishm's FAT library, so the following adapters are supported:

Neoflash MK2/MK3
GBA Movie Player CF
SuperCard CF
M3 CF

Homepage

http://nitrotracker.tobw.net

Documentation

http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/index.php?cat_id=4

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