This video is, well, amazing. It’s producer Nobuyoshi Sano doing his best Steve Jobs impersonation as he presents to the world a new, improved version of the Korg DS-10 synthesiser for the Nintendo DS. More »
In this video you see jetdaisuke jamming with an iPhone, two DS, iPod Touch and Kaossilator.
Last month, four Australians got together at a record label party. Each had a copy of the Korg DS-10 synthesiser for the Nintendo DS. The four joined forces, improvised then rocked out.
Just in case you weren’t already sold on the neat stuff the Korg DS-10 synthesiser could do, along comes Jetdaisuke and his bendy plastic straw.
..and by ‘Released’ we mean ‘put up on a website in a Zip file’. Say what you like about the democratising power of the internet – it does rather suck the glamour out of album launches.
Anyway, what we have here is a cracking little collection of musical experiments created using the KORG DS-10 emulator for the Nintendo DS, for a competition at MP3Death.us/diplodocus.
I listened to all twelve tracks on the way home tonight and it is mainly what you would expect – squirly, twiddly synth sounds and squelchy beats. Some tracks have quite an 8-bit soundtrack feel — Aliceffek’s ‘Toneworks‘ is great fun and would not sound out of place on a Commodoure 64 platformer — while the brilliant ‘DSTennis‘ by A Rival is reminiscent of Hexstatic‘s ‘Bass Invader‘
Yes, I’ve been a bit obsessed with the Korg DS-10 synthesiser software since it was announced by AQI. Fortunately, it seems that others share my passion for making electronic musical diversions, as the company has responded to (I assume) BILLIONS of requests for a global release. Turns out, Korg DS-10 isn’t Japan only, as previously thought.
We posted about Korg’s DS-10 software the other day, the music app that makes your Nintendo DS a pretty capable sequencer and synthesiser. What we neglected to do was include helpful video of the software in action. Looks perfect for those of us lacking in rhythm and pitch detection. Musically incapable, unite!
