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fwiw, i made lots of releases using multiple instruments at once.. "scorched earth tactics" was the one using the most gear, so much that i never even considered attempting to play any of it live (dsi mopho, yamaha cs-01, midines, circuit bent yamaha rx-17, circuit bent tr-505, tr-626, some guitar pedals & piggy tracker controlling it all).. it was recorded more or less live though, no multi-tracking or overdubs, just all the gear running through mixers at the same time and into an early-2000s creative labs usb soundcard...

yeah, sadly little discussion occurs around most of the more unusual releases ....and really not much in-depth conversation about anything, the more popular stuff ends up just getting lots of positive feedback with no real explanation of what they like about it beyond using words like "epic" in situations where the word doesn't really apply (if you go by the literal meaning of the word at least.. sorry, no 3-4 minute song is "epic")

yeah.. during the time when everyone was in nyc for blip 11, there was almost a separate show with me, 10k, stagediver & i think abortifacient (and maybe one more act, i wasn't setting it up, just asked if i'd play if it happened), but the whole thing just never came together probably because there were already like 4 other peripheral shows that year (like the hexawe all-stars gig)...

out of curiosity, did you keep the nanovoice? i'm always interested in where my old gear ends up, just found out the other week that my nanoloop 1.3b cart made it's way to IAYD

i disagree whole-heartedly.. i managed to get darker sounds out of lsdj, all versions of nanoloop, midines, piggy tracker & sammichsid among other hardware and software... it might not be super easy, but if you're only doing what's easy then why do it at all? all versions of nanoloop excel at being able to change things drastically live, and using live mode in lsdj or piggy tracker is easy and opens up lots of possibilities.. additionally one can use external effect units, guitar pedals, additional instruments, etc...

its got little in common with either.. if anything, it was closer to nanoloop 2.01-2.1... most parameters are edited on a per-channel basis, not a per-step basis, so you're essentially limited to one instrument per channel instead of being able to have kick drum and basslines on the same channel as one is used to with most chip software and hardware

this.. the scene's taste seems to be narrowing in on dance music (mostly stuff that sounds like 90s house or current edm) over the last 8 years or so... surprisingly, the scene was more diverse when it was smaller, there was a point in time when most artists sounded diffferent enough from each other that you could learn to recognize most of them by the little tricks they'd use in their tracks if not just by their style... i think that worked that way because a lot of us didn't see anyone playing chipmusic live before we started making it... there were hardly any shows (and no regular recurring ones like Pulsewave) and very little video online of other artists so you could easily have been using chip stuff for years before ever seeing another artist perform their chipmusic.. i'm guessing that the shift towards one or two styles is the downside of the community growing, as you could basically say the exact same thing about the punk scene from 1974-1980 (that it went from being amazingly diverse to being either in one of two or three styles)

the android version has very little in common with the GBA version..
the nanoloop website does have have demo roms of both current NL1 and NL2 carts though, so you can try them out in an emulator (or on a flash cart if you happen to have one)