NitroTracker v0.1.4

April 16th, 2006, 17:51 Posted By: wraggster

Tob has posted a New release of the excellent app for the Nintendo DS, heres the details:

Firstly heres what NitroTracker is

NitroTracker is a FastTracker II style 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.

Release Info

Hi everybody and greetings from Breakpoint 2006. The nice climate here is just optimal for a little coding, so I have finished version 0.1.4. Along with some fixes, like write support for M3SD and SCSD, this version actually adds some new functionality that makes editing easier and quicker. Also, left-handers won't have to struggle with the stylus and the ABXY buttons anymore as their functions can now be swapped with the D-pad.
So, have some nice easter days, and watch out for easter eggs ;-)

Features:
added a "cln" button that clones the current pattern
column selection: make a selection over the columns you want to select and press the "sel" button. This expands the selection to the complete column(s). Without an active selection, the column under the cursor is selected.
live recording: press play in record mode and play
added del and ins buttons to the pattern screen, removed the del button from the keyboard
new settings tab
left-handed mode (D-Pad swapped with ABXY and LR swapped)
in list boxes, clicking below/above the "scroll thingy" scrolls down/up one page
you can now tap on the song name / filename to change the name
you now have to touch the spash screen

Fixes:
Writing is now supported on M3SD and (hopefully) SCSD, because I switched to Sata's fat lib from rain r14
moved to devkitARM r18 (general karma increase, perhaps better m3 compatibility)
wav loading was broken. fixed it and made it secure.

looping behaved strange sometimes. fixed that.

list indices are now in hex, to be consistent with the instrument column in the pattern view and with FT2 :-)

Bye,
Tob

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