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DuckSlinger Appeared!

screenshotDuckSlinger is a new Tracker for the Nintendo DS that was announced at BlockParty. The interface looks a bit spartan, but the website has demos from Coda and Virt, so you already have no shot at being the best composer for it.

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EDIT:  Forgot to mention this appears to be a PSG based tracker. This means you use the Internal DS sounds instead of samples to create your sounds!

9 comments to DuckSlinger Appeared!

  • Don

    “the website has demos from Coda and Virt, so you already have no shot at being the best composer for it.”

    LOL

  • egr

    Does this have it’s own synth? Looks like you can choose either waveforms or channel types with the buttons…

  • egr

    “Internal sounds” — in that case f**kin’ sweet!

  • Its PSG based, updated the post to reflect that. Internal sounds!

  • http://duckslinger.s3m.us/

    This looks really interesting, I don’t have all my kit to give this a try but definitly curious.

  • The DS (like the GBA too) still has the original Gameboy Soundchannels built-in. This is software based but could be used for some easy synthesis I guess. Maybe the Duckslinger Guys still wrote their own softsynth though, I dont know :P

  • fired it up.. well it sounds like square waves.. more bass than a regular gameboy though.. Wanted to try and record a song, but couldn’t get a song to load, even after patching it for my r4ds. The gui has a way to go, but lsdj style screens is a nice start. Commands please! and use the xyab buttons for parameters, not just dpad mirroring please!

  • anyone know anything about the developers of this? i’ve been using it a lot, but there are so many little things that could be added to improve it. would be a shame if its not developed further

  • B00daW

    I’m pretty sure it’s reduz and coda. Check them out at EsperNet #mod_shrine.