Music and life intersect for GlitchDS
by Eric Caoili 
{ May 26th 2008 at 4:30PM }
The strange, seemingly cacophonous stream of sounds coming out your speakers is GlitchDS, a homebrew cellular automaton music sequencer inspired by Conway's Game of Life. Developer Clone45 boasts that the program (his first) is "perfect for creating IDM and Glitch-style loops," and, while we have no idea what that means, we're sure he's representing the software accurately with that claim.
In addition to being free and odd enough to be awesome, GlitchDS allows you to create "trigger points," import your own audio files, save/load your work, control tempo with BPM settings, edit sounds with a 32-step frequency modulation sequencer, load six sounds at once, and fiddle with global distortion settings. If you manage to make any music with it, make sure to send it our way!
See also: Homebrew Week, Friday Video: Two DS Lites and a microphone
[Via DCemu]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David D. @ May 26th 2008 7:45PM
This seems really nice. A cool extra feature would be to create sounds that represent ambient WiFi happenings.
jsutcliffe @ May 27th 2008 9:24AM
Awesome. It's a portable Autechre generator. Now, if I combine this, NitroTracker, and my guitar, will I make it big?
math0ne @ May 27th 2008 3:17PM
I was just thinking that. I love nitrotracker but i would love more freedom to create samples ON the ds itself. If this can save as wav it'll be quite the combo.
organofqwerty @ Jul 6th 2008 6:39AM
here's a youtube video of me playing glitchDS, loaded with my own sounds; a mini kaoss pad and an alesis philtre:
http://tinyurl.com/5d7u92