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Say the guy which develop the most amazing music handled software, developed, most of the time, on obsolete nerdy platform For music nerds

Yes, there is some on the market.
But I think people will enjoy most with this kind of stupid cheap bluetooth controller :

https://m.french.alibaba.com/p-detail/I … directed=y

It seem to be supported by lots of emulators, it is bluetooth, so no worry with current hardware android/ios and physical spec of the phone.
You feel at home with real pad if you can put a whatever phone on it. Today I think a 100$ whatever brand phone can run nanoloop android smoothly.
And a 20$ pad will not affraid anyone.
There is a ps3, xbox360 standard today, so I think with a simple "learn" menu you are in.
And this kind of controller is available on any tech shop today.

Mhh, I don't know.
The interface of ios/android is good for me.
when you change parameter per step it only react to y axis today, maybe you can take the x axis too.
What I mean here is : it is difficult to set a value beween 0 and 5 on 128 value today.
If you take the x axis too, you may be able to change the y value depending on the x value to slower the y.
I hope you understand the idea, I think it is simple to do.
And you stick on the same interface.
you can also add a two fingers tricks which reset the curent selected parameter to 0, could be a solution.

Or yes, copy paste step like the gb/gba and per step parameter no global track parameter, could be great too. I like this, and I think people could like it.

Or you completely jump to a gb/gba feeling Which could be really whooa. It change the ios/android version completely
If you think gb/gba way is nicer ( I like the idea ) to be really full, you need a usb/bluetooth joypad, which cost something like 15 euros, not a real issue for people I think, but yeah, you have the portable nanoloop like the gba version but with a cristal clear sound. I think people will buy it, if you do it this way and you call it for example nanoloop 4 or something.

I think people could really enjoy it
But this third option ( feeling like gb/gba ) is for me like another nanoloop version

Hope the best for you

There is different kind of tracker on linux, if you want to use a desktoo/laptop.
For me there is tracker which has one sound  engine at a time :
-  chip sound : goatracker c64, adlib tracker (opl) ;
- defflemask ( maybe this one support multiple sound engine at a time or multiple instance, could be interesting to you )
- sampler : lgpt, impulse, etc...
- klystrack, chip sound related

and the other one which use multiple sound engine at the same time, but they are not chip related IMHO :
- sunvox, renoise, picoloop

you seem to say, you don't want to stick with only one kind of sound, so I think, sample tracker could be the way to go. Or maybe try defflemask which support different sound engine on the same interface. But I don't know if you can mix gb sound with megadrive for example. I have not use this one.

I think you need to discover using those tracker if you want to make sound "from a chip", or you want to use "kind of chip sound" from a sampler or synth engine.

Hope the best for you, find your way thru the jungle

EDIT :
I think I have not fully reply to your question. Each tracker as it's own way to make music. So for amiga like, IIRC, it is only sample, so you have to collect sample from everywhere from the internet or collect "mod" file which contain sample and parameter (instrument) connected to the sample. The "mod" file are really interesting as format because it is quite portable and you can dump instrument sometime ( depend on the tracker ).

There is tracker which is focus on keyboard also, and other which use keyboard and mouse, not the same feeling, I know I don't like to use mouse at all because I'm a linux command line nerds. For some people mouse is a bottleneck and it is maybe a reason they like tracker or hardware gears.

I think in my case I don't like sampler because you need ( as you seem to say ) to collect sample, it take times, and you don't make music. You collect sample and you will never have all the sample in the world, so be aware, that sampler take more time than synth engine. But the two are really important ( I use also sample but from hardware sampler, less distractive ). Or you can choose to use a big bank of sample and say I have enough let's make music.

And remeber one thing, make music for you not for every one, it will be the better way to enjoy what you produce

Super retour, j'aime ça

- The font stuff could be improved, I will look at this. The screen seem to be the same size as psp, so the two can benefit from a lift.

- for the "mac" menu which is too fast, it is linked to the speed of the cpu and the refresh rate which is fast. So to fix it, you have to change the value of KEY_REPEAT_INTERVAL_LONG in Master.h define by platform. You can have a look at PatternPlayer.cpp and seek  void handle_key_mac() which handle this.
it is small function to read and you will understand how it works.

- I will pull your commit

- for the midi sync, you need a usb otg cable and a midi gears or pc. In slave sync, Picoloop receive midi clock. In Master mode, picoloop send midi clock. You can also use a gameboy with arduinoboy to be the master in the midi chain. Picoloop can be the main sequencer or slave. And if I'm right it should works right on pocketchip. But today, only midi sync in out is implemented. No recording of midi note or midi cc. One day I will work on a full midi implementation, but today, midi sync is enough for me.

- for the loadavg of cpu, if top show 1%, then maybe it will be able to handle more beefy synthengine like cursynth, this last one run on raspberry 2, so maybe it will run smoothly on chip.

- for the screen size, there is two different thing for me. The desktop version should one day be able to be resize, but today it is not possible. The "handled" version should be fixed to fullscreen. And in this case, for me it is two different platform : the handled and the desktop version.

- Great this post on the pocketchip forum.

- I think I know why you don't have sound on the opl2 engine. There is two AR/DS screen in the A/R menu then a "T Amp" which is on Y the gate time and in X the amplification of the channel.  you have to raise the gate time. put all in middle to keep simple and the sound will flow.
Then you can change from AM to FM in the " VCO" menu.

Great work see you soon

Great

I've play two years of impulse and fast tracker 15 years ago before making music with rebirth, flstudio reason and hardware synth.
I've discovered lgpt, nanoloop, lsdj 5 years ago on youtube which was : "Wahhooo, what is this weird and cool stuff ?!"
I fall into chip and related kind of sound and I play now with nanoloop and other gears.