Jungle rave track test on NitroTracker for Nintendo DS
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Was about to crap my pants and buy the m8 tracker for a portable jungle machine yesterday. Coincidentally i had also pulled out the old ds lite and r4 card to play some good ol nes open tournament golf. Was watching modernvintagegamers video about ds homebrew and he had a clip of the ds running the homebrew tracker software, nitrotracker.
Here is my review: ::::::::
Immediately I had to give it a shot. Honestly a really great little tracker. It's got everything you need to make yourself some sweet sweet old school jungle and rave music. It can play samples chromatically and has a volume envelope. Unfortunately there aren't any effects which means no filter and there also isn't any chopping or sample offset commands. Technically you can "chop" if you keep loading the sample and crop it each time but i don't think it would be very precise. It's much quicker to just pre chop your sample in renoise. It probably takes less than a minute to slice a break in renoise with a plugin and then individually export said slices. Add another minute on top of that to reduce the sample rate a little bit.
You have something like 3mb of ram to work with which could easily hold a couple different 2 bar break samples as well as some stabs, vocal chops, and other synth sounds.
A good thing about nitrotracker is that you can create multisampled instruments from your chops so you can map them out over the keyboard. It's a bit fiddly bc it automatically pitches the samples up and down when you map them to keys above and below middle C so you have to transpose them after placing. What I've done is I've made a few empty projects that have different breaks already loaded up and transposed so i can use them as templates.
Once you have everything setup, making music is incredibly easy and fast. I really have to applaud the developer here for their smart use of the touch screen and making things so intuitive. One of my biggest concerns about the m8 tracker is that having so few buttons is that having so few buttons woukd really slow down your note input. I shared the same concern for nitrotracker before i started using it. Happy to say that inputting notes is really fast here. You can quickly create drum patterns and melodies with the keyboard on the touch screen and when combined with step jump, it's even quicker. Having a button shortcut to jump the cursor to the top or bottom of the pattern is a nice touch too.
I think that's pretty much all I need to say about it.
I think I can comfortably say that I buying the m8 tracker anymore (for now at least, if it ever becomes available locally here in Australia then i will get one).
It's a dumb comparison but I'll compare anyway.
Similarities is obviously the size and portability. You would probably get better battery life on the DS lite over the m8 as it's not an intensive app and the DS lite already has really solid battery life. I haven't used the m8 tracker so i can't speak too much on how it controls. Obviously the m8 is more complex and still controls well, but from what I can see in videos, NitroTracker on the DS is much better for inputting notes. Another thing that bothers me about the m8 is that I've heard that the phrases (where you enter notes) are only 1 bar long and that you have to chain them together which just seems really weird to me. Patterns can be much longer than a bar on nitrotracker however rearranging things on the fly and actually performing like you can with the m8 isn't a thing on nitrotracker.
Apart from that, the m8 is infinitely more powerful with filters, fx, synth engines, sample memory, etc etc.
For my needs, nitrotracker is perfect, and if i ever want to take something I've made on the ds to the computer to polish it up, nitrotracker uses .xm format.
That's enough rambling for now.
Bye
![[Nitro Tracker] Histronics - Hidden Power [Drum and Bass/Jungle)](/img/d.gif)
Пікірлер: 89
Fellas, thank you for the support and comments, I have much nicer tracks. Going to plug my website and Instagram. Instagram @adelaide_acid Website adelaideacid.fun/
@IIIlIIIll
10 ай бұрын
Great tracks man, quick question though. Can you use this program on a 3DS as well? Thanks
I love when people make music on hardware like this. it’s a new kind of impressive knowing where it came from
@tomofan
9 ай бұрын
moko
It's even more impressive when you consider this programs limitations, especially the lack of note effects.
@user-bp1gx3qt3o
10 ай бұрын
note effects?
@FoxBlocksHere
10 ай бұрын
@@user-bp1gx3qt3o Things like vibratos, arpeggios, portamentos, etc.
This sounds like a tutorial level for a Sonic game and I love it.
@thatlutherfan
11 ай бұрын
sounds like some sonic rush music
sounds like keygen music, me like
@lampwizard4871
4 күн бұрын
God ole Keygen Music Team AiR
For a ds... this is INCREDIBLE. Love the music, amazing. Reminds me a lot of Fasttracker II.
How do I do this! My brain is about to explode this is so cooool
@adelaideacid7384
Жыл бұрын
I chopped the break up in renoise beforehand, exported each slice, and then used a converter to reduce the audio quality to work with nitrotracker. Bit of a fuckaround at first but once you've got it down, it's not too bad
@JALC-x
Жыл бұрын
loop a few chords, chop the amen break, stick em together, sounds alright
@christianvaldez1817
2 ай бұрын
@adelaideacid7384 why did you lower audio quality? I import wavs into nitro all the time
So cool, loved how all the variations in the drums felt dynamic/communicative
dude a ds tracker? sick
This sounds like a Toonami bumber. Super cool.
Sounds like Boards Of Canada. Love it!
This feels like ultrakill ost, not gonna lie its awesome
_slips this onto every gen alpha playlist_
Hot damn, that is surprisingly good! Thanks for introducing me to this!
@Chico_Sin_Ideas
11 ай бұрын
'Hot damn'💀
seriously impressive, well done!
Beautiful
This gives me madness combat vibes
@Jeff_WeedEater
10 ай бұрын
Madness combat is more electric than dnb ngl
this is pretty sick
Great work!
Literally every 2000’s punk / future funk song opening ever
Imagine playing super mario and suddenly
Coolest thing I seen all month
This sounds ultrakill-ish perfect for a fight sequence with those drums
@flandre666
11 ай бұрын
stop mentioning ultrakill under every jungle track🤬😡🥲
@McpeRedstoneNoob
11 ай бұрын
@@flandre666 okay... sorry
@balling4853
11 ай бұрын
@@flandre666ultrakill will always be in every jungle track 😈
@roilo8560
7 ай бұрын
Wow this song really sounds like the amen break 🤯
Amen break!
gnarr
bro should make a full version
ok this is cool
Getting bomberman hero vibes from this
gimme a SNARE ROLL followed with CHOPPAS and Some Time stretching PEWWWWWW PEWWWWWWWWWWW Noyce
This sounds like music that would come from the beta of super Mario 64
This made me laugh for real. Not because the music is bad (it's not) but because it made me remember my teenage self in my bedroom with a bunch of gear, taking up most of the space in my room, all being controlled by Cubase on my Atari ST. And hear we are with a Nintendo DS doing what all that gear could do. Madness! My kids are gonna be making music just by thought alone using neural link.
I remember having a r4 card with a lot of pirated games and even skype! and it had this little program which had a lot of .XM and .MOD files, bro😢
reminds me of foegone destruction from unreal tournament a bit
Not good,But not bad!😎
this is mad sick considering your using a ds, I just got nitrotracker on mine. Do you remember what sample pack you used for yours? also is it picky with file types?
@Spartanhero613
7 ай бұрын
judging by his filenames, he sampled the iconic jungle track "amen brother", plus some note from possibly an instrument called the "poly 61"?
@youngrokitbeats7688
4 ай бұрын
Just convert all your samples to 8 - 16 bit and you're good to go, or u gonna get in ram limitations and app crashes just by using 2 loops from jungle warfare😂
Where can i download this song? Do you have like a bandcamp or something?
noice
So this is how NDS music was made?!
🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
YES, I'm looking to buy a polyend tracker or an m8 somewhat soon but I'm looking for a tracker for my 3ds, I'll try this but I really would love to see something like psp's piggytracker for the 3ds
Real
INSERT OR SELECT
This reminds me of SF3 and then it goes into psychosis
Junglist massive =)
Sounded like a newgrounds song
how do you get this please tell me i really want it
@Grueen
Жыл бұрын
Homebrew
@tweeleaf
Жыл бұрын
jailbreak your ds with homebrew and import nitrotracker in.
@Michu131564
Жыл бұрын
@@tweeleaf It's just an r4 card there isn't any jaibreaking
@notube3766
Жыл бұрын
@@Michu131564 you can jailbreak if you have and DSi / XL
would you make a dropbox or something with your chops and samples so i can use them?
@CampfireHeadphase
7 ай бұрын
no
@DuckAlertBeats
19 күн бұрын
Why in the world would you use somebody else's samples??
3rd Strike music be like
This is keygen music
this sounds like street fighter 3rd strike music lol
HOW TO DO THIS
Ultrakill fans, assemble
Ultrakill type beat
@JollyTippy
11 ай бұрын
breakcore? 😭
@blazethegame
11 ай бұрын
@@JollyTippy that, and the music around the beat lol
@arealhamster
11 ай бұрын
@@JollyTippy jungle
Insert or Select 😂
Is this on a ds lite?
@conlangknow8787
10 ай бұрын
Nvm i should read descriptions more
ultrakill?
@djmo-2-way672
17 күн бұрын
I hate how everyone relates these tunes to Ultrakill. ☹️
bambi spam tracks be like
Как?
this sounds like a pizza is going to blow up my house with a giant laser on a tower
Mankind is dead Blood is fuel Hell is full
brother just cooked on a fucking DS