wow, thats awesome! Now i want this!

I think they made an exclusive deal with Amazon.co.jp and Nintendo only to sell in Japan or something. It's sad, I wish I could support them for their work on M01.
Originally the cartridge is not really cheap though. ¥ 4980  $/€43  £37 pounds, so £50 pounds isn't too much.

On DS10Forum.com someone made a hack to change the sounds http://ds10forum.com/viewforum.php?f=15

The ROM works fine with Wood R4 firmware. Apparently...

How come like the only copies of this are from Japan and are like £50?!
There's privacy protection on the ROM as well, which was my last-ditch effort to get it. I'm not paying some guy on eBay WAY over the odds for this :c

I finished my first track on it, melodic Drum n Bass, inspired by Hospital Records stuff...

DS Dominator - Futuregroove

http://soundcloud.com/ds10dominator/ds- … turegroove

I'm spamming this image around, might help some confused people out!

People have been sharing M01 songs over at ds10forum.com and it sounds great from what I've heard so far. Someone did a cover of Robert Miles' "Children" and it was spot on. Seems like a very powerful pocket music station.

We had the O series (Korg O1/W) which was a lightened Wavestation... Indeed it was a pain to do much more than shut the reverb off on the presets, but to give the idea of what this engine is for or the real instrument, you can put the ROM samples on oscillators and ADSR each of them, use (cold) digital filtering and arrange splits and layers of these across the keyboard in a "combi." On O series and Wavestation, you could also arrange sequences of ROM waveforms and blend them so that you get a little beat when you hold a key down, and of course, there's aftertouch and LFOs. I doubt much of this will make it to M01, but done well you can probably make D-50 type layers...

Nope, it works on Regular DS and DS Lite too

Is it DSi only?

hello guys, this is less limited than a kaossilator, will sync to ds-10 (obviously) and is clearly win. if you need to synthesize, tweak ds-10, if you need cheeze piano, play m01- Success!

pumped

I looove this Music Workstation! It is fantastic in another way than the DS-10. The sequenzer on the M01 is 100 times better than any other on the NDS so far. I can agree with some people that it can be a little limited, it has only around 330 different sounds. But be creative and combine them and it can do wonders!

This just made my day~

I think you mean "Shakuhachi", the Japanese flute (which by the way, also means "blowjob" in Japanese. And I'm not talking about blowing in the cartridges either).