35 Responses to “ds music apps”

1. robman84 Says:
   June 25th, 2008 at 4:54 am

   Good idea.

   Here;s some I use:

   drummersV2 (http://www.palib.info/Lien/index.html)
   dsmidikeyboard (dsmidiwifi.tobw.net )
   dstepV2 (http://www.soundpunk.com/index.php?topic=1340.0)
   FUDIKaosDS (http://mccormick.cx/projects/KnobsAndSlidersDS/page/download)
   KnobsAndSlidersDS (http://mccormick.cx/projects/KnobsAndSlidersDS/page/download)
   MIDI-Jammer (http://www.andrewbuch.com/prog.php)
   MIDIPad DS (http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=13904&sid=1094d910f35a29c669fbaf17679f8aca)
   PulseDS (dsmidiwifi.tobw.net )

2. remaincalm.org Says:
   June 25th, 2008 at 8:17 am

   awesome, i’ll add those to the list tonight. some there i haven’t seen before. cheers!

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   June 25th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

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4. infradead Says:
   June 26th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

   wow great list!

   here are two to add to it

   SoundCells 1.00 Release and Ukulele DS 1.00
   http://patryk.ndshb.com/

5. remaincalm.org Says:
   June 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

   thanks for the tips - i’ve added most of those now

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   June 26th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

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7. Marc Troy Says:
   June 30th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

   What “backup module” is needed to use them?
   Will a M3 DS Real work?

8. remaincalm.org Says:
   June 30th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

   m3 real is an autopatching card so it should “just work”. probably.

   in case it doesn’t, some people have had success by starting dsorganize first and running their homebrew apps from there.

   i use the r4ds, so that’s the only one i’d personally guarantee - i know a lot of homebrew authors use this one to develop on, it’s quite reliable. i used to own a supercard cf and that also worked for most software (but it sticks out pretty bad).

9. Dantheman Says:
   June 30th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

   PianoVero - I don’t have a source, but there should be a mirror download available at http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=39000 if you have an account.

   On a side note, does this textbox not allow capital letters or is there something wrong with my browser/keyboard?

10. Dantheman Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Scratch that, apparently the capital letters appear when submitting the comment, though they appear lowercase when typing the comment in the first place.

11. remaincalm.org Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    ah - sorry about that. there’s a css rule that enforces lower-case.

    i’ll add that other app in the next few days, thanks!

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    June 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

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    June 30th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

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14. Marc Troy Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 3:55 am

    remaincalm.org: Thanks for your reply.

15. Rev Bucky Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Hey all. This sounds fascinating, and I would love to get some of this stuff.

    However I am fairly Tech ignorant, and have no idea on how to get or use these things!

    Could someone give me an idea what it takes, or how I do it?

16. remaincalm.org Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am

    rev, you need:

    - a nintendo ds
    - an r4ds cartridge with a micro-sd card (or equivalent - you can get these all over the place)

    that’s enough for most of the above - you just extract the program you want to run to the micro-sd card, put it in the r4ds and run it from the nintendo.

    some other ones require you to download a program to your pc called a ‘dldi patcher’, and double-click the music programs after you extract them to the micro-sd. http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/ has a program linked here: http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/downloads/DLDIrcSetup.exe that’ll do what you want if you’re using windows.

17. Daniel Craig Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:09 am

    Hi there, Cool post on ds music apps, I’m looking forward to reading more of your site.

18. Cosmos › Be A Hobo Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:06 am

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19. properbo Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    can’t get DS protein working on my dsxtreme card. it loads up but can’t get it going.have swaped drivers etc. anyone got idea what the story is? its suppose to work with my card. have spent hours messing with it but still no joy ;-(

20. remaincalm.org Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    have you extracted all the files on there to the correct location? check the readme files to make sure you’re putting everything in the right spot.

21. properbo Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    yea think so. it loads up but nothing happens. i can load up sample,go into scratch mode but its like the samples dont load up. theres no wave on the screen. im just wondering really if it works with my card. its suppose tooo?? thanks for reply

22. remaincalm.org Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    have you done all of these steps? pay special attention to step 3, step 4 (it needs to be in /proteinds/ in your card!)

    (from the readme on http://gorgull.googlepages.com/home2 )

    1. unzip the archive
    2. enter the “ProteinDS” directory
    3. DLDI patch “ProteinDS.nds” file with your linker’s DLDI device patch (more info about DLDI on http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/index.html)
    –> 4. copy the whole “ProteinDS” directory at the root of your linker’s filesystem <–
    5. place your own samples in “/ProteinDS/Samples/” directory
    6. launch “ProteinDS.nds” on your DS

23. properbo Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    sweeet. i just started from scratch. didnt know u had 2 hole L & r buttens to get working. happy days cos been trying it for ages. cheers

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26. sUBA Says:
    July 20th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    THX FOR THE APPS!

27. Andrew MEllo Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 6:53 am

    wow this is amazing. Now i can make music where ever i go!

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    August 8th, 2008 at 4:29 am

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29. tfive Says:
    August 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    some of those look alright, but psp has better!

30. remaincalm.org Says:
    August 13th, 2008 at 8:45 am

    well… psp has better sound quality and probably a bit more grunt. but my ds is pink, so i totally win. also, the touch screen is great for live stuff.

    some of these programs are really good! there’s a couple of new ones i need to add as well (and the korg ds-10 is gorgeous).

31. unfolding Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    excellent! I just bought a ds yesterday after using psp music homebrew for about a year (it was a tough choice between psp and ds originally).. so anyway I saw this site and had to buy one because of the upcoming release of the ds-10, and all this great stuff!

    so im thinking about buying a rds4, but I want to buy something that all of these programs should work on! whos got a lot of these and which card do you have?

32. remaincalm.org Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    i use the r4ds to develop on and it works great with all of those apps. cheers!

33. ffadzill Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    hey guys…

    i have a problem with the repeater ds…
    apparently when i boot up the sampler it states,
    ‘unable to load sounds from sound file”
    and i cant use it…

    so pls guys…help me out here…
    btw does the reapeater ds need midicables?
    thanx!!

34. JoJo-Synthboy Says:
    September 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Hey, Korg DS-10..

    Download here..

    watch here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK1K_jJ08Rc

    and learn about here..

35. JoJo-Synthboy Says:
    September 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    i pressed SPACE not ENTER, hadn’t finished..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rorBOzwR3Tc - watch

    http://rapidshare.com/files/132824529/_2514_KORG_DS_10_Synthesizer__JPN___DiPLODOCUS_.rar - Download

    tutorial is gone.. but google one..

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