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Oooh I really love the second one! Thanks!

The N issue might be caused by CPU overload, as you mentioned. In the original gameboy, the noise channel has the lowest priority, sometimes causing noise notes not to trigger at all. I presume that the GBA has a similar functionality and this is causing your problem. On the other hand, the fact that lowering the volume fixes it may point towards another cause.

I'm guessing your wobble time issue is because you put the LFO on free instead of trigger. If I remember correctly, if you put the LFO below the middle is triggered, and the LFO below the middle line is free. Can you confirm if this is the case?

This may very well be the best burn that will ever see the light of day.

Ok thanks for the quick replies! I guess I will have to settle for emulated nanoloop beatz in the meantime

Hello Pibs,

Welcome to the community!
I think making the very fast trap hihats is impossible on the current version of nanoloop 2.x. You can approximate it by working in double time (140 BPM for trap). The artists you mentioned all use LSDJ and the R command to get the fast rolls (this is in fact very easy in LSDJ). Unfortunately there is no LSDJ equivalent for GBA (yet)

I make some kind of hiphop/trap whatever beats also with LSDJ: www.soundcloud.com/vegas-diamond
There's also dauragon, who also makes hiphop with nanoloop (1, on GB): http://music.dauragon.com/

One really great way to counteract the fact that you can only do one thing per channel (borrowed from beatboxing) is to introduce the instruments one by one. So, begin with hi-hat and snare and then suddenly switch to hi-hat + snare + kick. If the instruments kind-of-sound-alike (and they do in Noise for me) the brain fills in the old things even if they're not there anymore.

And double-time works great as well. I sometimes fill in missing hi-hats by going double time and D commands. I put the missing hi-hat on the step before and then use a D02 or D05 (depending on the channel speed) to make it sound just before the kick or snare hits. This makes it sound kind of wonky but it works for me.

Simple version: you can't. There's simply no direct translation from sheet music in terms of note length to tracker. Every instrument has an envelope length, but this length has nothing to do with pattern length and can't be arbitrarily changed (it can be shortened or lengthened, not easily halved or 1.5'ed*)

Complicated version: you can: If you put a note on line 0 of a pattern and a K command (or new note) on line 4 you have a quarter note. Put the K command (or new note) on line 6 and you've effectively `dotted' the note, although this is of little help when actually composing I think.

*this can actually be done using tables, but only using absolute lengths, not relative lengths.