0xtob’s coding blog

After exactly six months and one day, here’s the new NitroTracker v0.3 featuring DSMIDIWifi integration, several interface improvements and better device support.

So now you can control all kinds of MIDI synths with NitroTracker. Also you can use any MIDI sequencer to play your loaded or recorded samples on the DS.

It’s now been about a year since I started this project - even a bit longer if you count in the work on the Sampling Keyboard, and it’s been an awful lot of fun. Sure, the DS can be a real beast when it comes to bugs, but it never ceases to amaze me what a cool gadget it actually is. And with the DS Lite, you can even show your homebrew stuff to normal people without getting these get-this-thing-away-from-me-you-hopeless-nerd sort of looks :-)

Here’s a little treat for you: An interface mock-up I drew in GIMP about a year ago before I had even started the project:

If you look closely, you’ll see it’s still missing an important feature :-) But hey, it’s still a long way to v1.0.

Thanks to everyone who has helped to improve the program so far by ideas, suggestions, bug reports, etc. I’m counting on your ongoing support :-)

Tob

Hi and welcome to my DS coding blog! I’ll try to use this place to inform you about the latest updates of my DS (and maybe also Wii) coding projects. Since this is the first post, I’ll tell a little about myself:

I am a computer science student from Germany with a passion for coding creative tools of all kinds. Also, I’m a fan of Nintendo, and I especially like the path they are going recently with the DS and the Wii. Once I found out that you could code for the DS, I bought one. I wasn’t really sure if this was a good idea because I already had a GP32 for coding and it was mainly collecting dust.

But it didn’t turn out to be a bad idea. The DS is seriously one of the greatest platforms to code for. I have started quite a number of DS projects, the biggest of them being NitroTracker, a music composition program that follows the tracker paradigm. While I’m still working on it, I still have a ton of other ideas for cool DS applications. So, stay tuned!