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luckily, DS-10+ will allow you to fiddle around with synth/mixer stuff during song mode even on an older DS, unlike the original version of the DS-10 where you basically had to exit the song mode and kill the playback.  so, good news for you!

HECK YES vancouver.  thanks for coming by all the way here fellas!  feel free to hmu with any vancouver questions.

just thought i'd necrobump this here thread with some examples of KORG M01 work i had been working on, in case anyone wanted a better idea of what it's capable of and what it involves.

a little something i did for the Rokko Chan Soundtracks album:

a cover of the chrono trigger theme:

and here's an attempt at hair metal that i finished last night!  kinda veers off into 80's fusion territory at the end:

all in all, i've found the M01 to be uniquely powerful in terms of quickly sketching out song ideas, particularly when you have an idea beforehand of what all the parts (bass, melody, drums etc.) are gonna be like. 

but it takes a considerable amount of effort to get it to not sound like cheezy 80's/early 90's stuff, like pselodux said.  so you can choose to either embrace that sound, or just go back to FL or ableton or whatever other DAW you originally had in the first place.

vince, always dig your focused/confident songwriting and attention to structure - it's a quality that i find sorely lacking in a lot of other chip artists' music, the kind that tends to meander without any sense of the larger picture.  keep it up dawg!

i have modded + prosounded DMGs because i want the cleaner output, but i will admit that an equally prominent reason is because i like to have something iconic and glowy for others to gawk at.  to the audience, it just reads better from a distance.  i don't think it's shallow or anything to want that; it's a valid aspect of showmanship.

BUT i do 98% of my writing on my black GBA SP.  the main reason is that it's a much more discreet device to be writing on while on the commute. 

on many occasions i do like the sound of the SP because to me it sounds like it has a crisper and clearer mid/high-range, where a lot of my songwriting sits.

at the end of the day, i determine recording hardware on a song-by-song basis. but to date, no one has ever "called me out" for using an SP.

the SP seems to have a LOT of background noise though.  can anyone else confirm or deny this? any strategies for to mitigate this besides the ridiculously difficult prosounding process?

inb4 TI-8x chip scene documentary

"what's better, to be content, or to have a game boy?"  GAME BOY ALWAYS GAME BOY, GOD