HeavyW8bit
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Parts Unkown

Greetings Everyone!

BEATBOX will allow you to play beats live and record loops on the NES. 

Features include:
- 4 Recordable Drum Loops
- 2 Recordable Drum Fills
- 4 Sample Frequencies
- 2 Drum Kits available: Rock & Latin
- TV or Monitor is not required.
- Each Loop or Fill can contain up to 99 key presses.
- Works with original Nintendo controllers and hardware.

Controller 1 is the drum kit.
- Each of the 8 buttons will trigger a different sample.

Controller 2 is the loop controls.
- The 4 direction buttons correspond to the 4 Drum Loops
- A & B buttons correspond to the 2 Fills.
- Start button turns on Recording Mode
- Select Button turns on Live Mode

To check out the manual and demo video: heavyw8bit.com/nes_drum_machine.php

*If anyone would like a custom cart made with your own samples then email me.

Last edited by HeavyW8bit (Aug 5, 2011 12:51 pm)

kitsch
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matt's mind

very cool wink

Koatl
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Riverside, CA

Excellent.

Question: Is it possible to adjust sample frequency while recording a loop/fill?

Glitch Militia
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Nice... But the question remains; Does it wok with PAL ? Same goes for NESK-1. By the way you seem very talented in programming for the NES, where and how did you learn that ?

mechlo
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PDX, PDX

Looks awesome but the red text panics me as it was the sign you were about to die in Dragon Warrior.

Terbografx
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Long Beach, CA

Nice. smile

SurfaceDragon
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USA

Awesome!

Will you be adding more drum kits?

If you can only fit two drum kits maybe you should think about releasing multiple versions with different kits/samples.

HeavyW8bit
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Parts Unkown

Thanks for checking it out!


Koatl - It actually doesn't matter what the frequency is while recording.  Frequency and Drum Kit settings affect the playback of the loops.  If you record a loop with sample frequency at 100% and then later change the frequency to 25%, the loop will playback with the samples at 25%.  Maybe having a different sample frequency for each sample could be something added for future versions.

Glitch Militia - Yeah Im trying to get PAL versions of BEATBOX and NESK-1 going.  Once I get my hands on a PAL NES to test with then it should just be a matter of time.

SurfaceDragon - Yeah there was only enough memory for 16 samples.  If anyone would like a custom cart made with your own samples I can do that as well.  Just email me.

Glitch Militia
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HeavyW8bit wrote:

Glitch Militia - Yeah Im trying to get PAL versions of BEATBOX and NESK-1 going.  Once I get my hands on a PAL NES to test with then it should just be a matter of time.

I'd be very interested in sending you a PAL NES if you send me a cartridge or two of your awesome software when you finish it. big_smile

Kreese
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Sweden

As far as I understood about the video, you record the drumloops live. Would be nice to make some loops by using "steps" like when you program a drummachine.

Pehaps that what you can do using: PR8 by Neil Baldwin http://www.nes-audio.com ... Haven't tried that program yet. (Or I haven't learnt how to use it...)

Anyway. Cool program. This could be awesome to use live. You could mod some Rockband/Guitar Hero drums and connect to the NES! That would be cool.