Musicverse: Electronic Keyboard Aims to Bring Music Composition to Life on 3DS

Sounds tight @325music

Hmm... keeping an eye (erm ...ear?) out for this.

this makes the korg app looks even worse, those sharing options and pricing is great

@vonseux The Korg apps are far more powerful than this. . . . and fair play to Detune Ltd - they offer the Korg suites at half price fro time to time. . .

I don't know music terms good, but pitch bending is when a note "slides" into a different note, right? If so, this could replace KORG-M01D for me!

better go for the korg ones made by detune.they have great sounds and are easy to use.

also you want to give this guy your monies...just watch how hilarious he is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOM7VzZQek

@allav866 portamento is the term used for sliding pitches between two notes. Pitch bending is taking a note up or down several cents so the 2 terms are kind of linked... You can't pitch bend on M01d although you can simulate it with some of the patch sounds. Dsn12 and ds10 you can pitch bend away to your hearts content with immense accuracy...

okay so art academy can make the art assets, this will make the music, and smilebasic puts it all together for a triple-a game that'll net me enough billions to buy nintendo. sounds like a plan!

When I saw the screenshot, I thought "this could be either really great or totally useless". Now after reading the article, it seems to be the latter.
Only 32 instruments, are you kidding me? And why does it have "Automatic accompaniment with 14 music styles and 4 variations"? Sounds more like something for people who have zero talent and don't know how to make music. Also, why can you only store up to 128 songs?

@vonseux: Lol, if anything, the Korg app makes this look terrible. This Musicverse app is clearly a rip-off, it offers almost nothing for a lot of money. I wouldn't spend anything more than 50 cents on that.
The two Korg apps on the other hand offer an awful lot to make music with. But they're not made for beginners, they don't hold your hand.
So if you need something more accessible yet powerful, maybe try Rytmik Ultimate.

@shani I'm not talking about sound-quality, I know the korg has better output than other apps, but about the DSN-12 having zero sharing options, does not even export to sd-card, the features such as miiverse sharing, acc export, qr code, etc. would be really cool to have. how can you disagree? I'm also really pissed that the "samples" sounds on the dsn-12 sound bad and it's really hard to get to something that sound barely as music, instead of eletronic noise. How hard would it be to have a soundbank with, say, 32 different sounds for experimenting. You have to be a rocket cientist t work with dsn-12, but then, there are so many better options on pc's;

@vonseux
you have to use it more to easily come up with stuff,ofcourse when you have a show or whatever you recreate it with hardware or a good software like renoise or whatever.you cant expect to make a great set with just your 3ds.its more used like a skethblock,you know,making the design before starting the real painting

@Lilith93 yeah, I agree. exactly why having no easy export options and soundbanks is such a drag

@vonseux Why do you need sharing options? And you can always record it as a wav via the headphone output.
I think you're getting the wrong idea about the DSN-12. It's a synthesizer, so you have to create your own samples. And they do not sound like shit if you know what you're doing. Then again, as I mentioned before, it's not something for beginners. It takes some experience with synthies and some level of understanding of electronic music production. It's not rocket science, but it's also not for everyone.

So if you say that "the "samples" sounds on the dsn-12 sound bad and it's really hard to get to something that sound barely as music, instead of eletronic noise", you're just not using it right. It's probably not for you. You should instead use the Korg M01D (which has samples and is not a synthie) or Rytmik Ultimate (also not a synthie, it comes with about 800 samples).

Basically, what you're saying is "why can't my car swim on water?" instead of buying a boat. And the things is, "Musicverse: Electronic" isn't even a real boat, it's a miniature paper boat.

@vonseux There is no point in getting the DSN-12 without the intention to design and modulate your own sound. I know that oscilloscope looked cool. And it is cool, very cool. But those who want lots of great, retro ready-to-go sounds and don't want to mess with synthesis should go with the M01D instead.

Oh and BTW, it's not rocket science. Experiment, have fun. Don't try to make the exact sound you have in your head unless you're sure of what you're doing and of what the synth is capable of. (talking about the DSN-12 here)

@vonseux DSN12 can share to Other DSN12 users locally. Also, you can make amazing sounds on DSN12. . It does help if you learn how to synthesise however.

@shani yeah I know, but it woundnt be so hard to have some samples pre-saved. in fact there is, but only six or so, and don't sound very good. I've also used some samples I've found online, even tough there's not an actual scene or community. I understand the purpose of the DSN-12.I just find it is very bare-bones, and it's expensive for an app with so little features. If you have cool sounds and samples I'll be glad if you can share. I managed to write an Axel F effort on my system, I also tried to emulate the title track from Woah! Dave - but it doesnt sound near, I can't get to that sound.

@vonseux I haven't actually used it that much yet, just made a synthie sound that I later replicated in Reason on my PC for a track that I'm about to record soon. But I found the functionality pretty awesome. For only 15€, that's really cheap! If you wanted to buy software (or a hardware synthie) that does something similar, you would definitely end up spending more.
I also wanted to buy the M01D to be able to keep hold of my beat ideas when I'm on the way, but instead I bought Rytmik Ultimate.

I have to be honest this doesn't look promising to me. I own all the Korg DS and 3DS games and love them to death, aside from chords and auto accompaniment I don't see what this is adding to the party.

It looks closer to the M01 workstation than the full blown analog modeling of the DSN-12 which is easier to get on with but not that distinctive... we'll see though.

@vonseux I have to disagree here. DSN-12 is a phenomenal soft-synth. This doesn't look like it comes close. This appears closer to the M01 in that it's sample based (by the looks of it) but the beauty of DSN-12 is that it works like a true analog synth. You can bring knowledge of subtractive synthesis to DSN-12 and there is a lot you can learn just by messing around with DSN-12 too.

@davidevoid yeah, i just wished some of the sharing options this one has, the miiverse stuff looks really cool, its not suposed to be a true analog synth like DSN-12 tough

I will buy,

This is a nice, big step in the right direction from the mindset of putting together a piece of music and sharing it almost straight out of the console.

32 instruments and AAC output aren't useful to me, but I'm glad to see them putting this much effort into making the music shareable. It's a really good thing.