Korg DS-10, Glentown

Here's another clip that my folks would love, my whole family loves irish trad. and my dad also has a copy of DS-10 (yay, music-geeks!)

New Year, new stuff...

Yeah, happy new year everybody ... The Krampus didn't get me this year, and saint nick was very good to me. I got a microKorg, and DS-10, and a Beadazzler; so very very busy the past couple of weeks making all sorts of sounds, and putting studs in my gig-bags.

The microKorg sounds so freakin' sweet, and has some great features and the knobs feel GREAT (but weird, I'm used to sticky Moog Rogue knobs. these move too smoothly) ... I'm very in love with the patch-editor that you can nab from their site. I've never really played with midi before, I mean, I've USED midi, but never anything with sys-ex, which is awesome ... I'm gonna try playing with pureData into this, controlling the midi, then editing the sound somehow, might even bring the arduino into the fun if I can get my hands on some midi jacks, I wanna be doing some fun stuff likethis : http://www.larsby.com/johan/diytar/ (Arduino + microKorg) .

DS-10 is also AWESOME... the real cart has a little cleaner graphics than diplodicus... but that's neither here nor there... it's all fun in the end.

Also I signed up for twitter today to play around with that ... Probably build something for flashDen or what-not with their API, maybe hook up an arduino and have it tweet every time a flea farts, who knows, it's there ... displaying the minutia of a lot of people's lives...

DS HomeBrew Review:

I've had the R4DS for about a month now, and I love it. I haven't had an official cart in my gameboy for weeks... let's review what I've downloaded, where to find it, and what I think about it...

1. StillAliveDS: http://stillaliveds.free.fr/
   PORTAL clone. fun as hell, I've been obsessed... Might get a console just to play the real thing
2. LAMEBOY: http://lameboy.nutki.com/
   GameBoy emulator. Sure I have a real gameboy, but I can play those games on the DS instead of risking damaging my precious carts
3. ProteinDS: http://gorgull.googlepages.com/home2
   Crazy music app, 2 loops (that you can scratch) a sampler, and a controller (I think it's midi) I'm still fumbling my way around the details but it's great.
4. Population Tire / Secret Collect: http://www.mrphlip.com/ds/
   Videlectrix can make a good game, I'm glad somebody ported these, I'm just waiting for a version of 20 ex-dee 6
5. PocketPhysics: http://www.freewebs.com/pocketphysics/
   Draw something and then run it through your drawn world ... more fun than a barrel of monkeys, I keep making crazy domino runs with balls & pendulums and stuff.
6. Colors: http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/ds.htm
   Man, I love to doodle. If this thing had an eraser I'd be a lot happier, but the replay function replays every line of you making your drawing, sweet.
7. DS2Key: http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showforum=88
   A DS wardriver/gamepad emulator... I found 10 wifi networks on my street, some of them are completely open !!
   
8. ChorDS: http://nobkilla.free.fr/spip.php?article1&lang=en
   A Tab-viewer for DS soon to have a chord dictionary & a section called "Beginners"

I have some other things on there but none really worth mentioning, and a few things I have yet to even touch...