would it even be possible to make a big fat cart for LSDJ with a midi input?
LSDJ uses the ext. port for communication with a keyboard or arduinoboy. It might be possible to internally rewire some rarely used pins like the audio-in pin to the ext. pins and then it would be possible to have a cardridge with an internal arduinoboy and MIDI in/out ports. However, it would only work in a Game Boy that had been internally modified to support it.
Midines' modulation hack, DPCM speed and "wave traveller" are actually really powerful. They're not easy to mimic in Famitracker. However, you're losing a lot of your fast tracker-style effects.
That said, the trade-off allows for a very different sort of NES sound than you might be used to. Warmer and fatter bass-lines and aggressive and resonant pulse channels can be really neat. Without the power of fast effects you might want to pair it with something else like a Commodore 64 or Game Boy.
Edit: The key to midines is digging into the MIDI CCs.
Some values of the S command, or complex transpose column use, will cause this to happen even on stable mode. It's almost always possible to the the same sound using a different set of parameters while avoiding this issue but in my experience it's been mostly trial and error.
Try different values for the note itself (higher and lower octaves will trigger this behaviour at different values of Sxx) and slightly different values for any S commands or transpositions.
This isn't everything - I'm at the point where "everything" no longer fits anywhere in my house - but it's a good deal of what I'm using on a regular basis. Add in a couple Game Boys, an opl3 laptop and an Amiga 500 and you've got an idea of my space.
That had to do with jitter compensation in the demo that this was to be used in. It's pretty much useless for anyone else although it won't really do any harm if "played back" unless timing is very, very critical (it'll just be a delay of 255 x routine speed).
Just a quick thing that I want to say: Everyone feels that they're never going to get over someone after a breakup - especially if it was a really great and/or longterm deal - but statistically speaking the vast majority do. That said, there's nothing that you can really "do" to make that happen, aside from just being open minded and introspective when you start to feel yourself moving on.
