Pokémon Composer Tsukasa Tawada Shows Off Musicverse: Electronic Keyboard

Cool, actually seems pretty good, might buy.

I'm enjoying their reactions to the app.

That is one heck of an endorsement!

Well now I'm interested

I had a go at being a Pokemon Composer recently. This is what I came up with.

Who's to say what 's better to be known for: obscure spin-offs or causing the mass depression/suicide of thousands of Japanese children, which was totally a thing that really happened?

@Maxz

That was ballin'! Did you use Musicverse?

@J-Manix98 Thank you very much.

I didn't use MusicVerse, but I am intrigued by it. That was produced in bog-standard GarageBand, which despite not having an amazing selection of pre-set instruments, is actually quite customisable if you mess around in the 'Sound Generator'. The main lines were written on guitar, and then just dragged note-for-note into the GB's 'Piano Roll'.

The main advantage of having it on computer is it makes it so easy to share; it's not permanently stuck in whatever piece of software you used to create it, or tied to a specific sharing website. You can easily save the track as an mp3 in your main music library, and then chuck that mp3 into Soundcloud (or YouTube or wherever else on the web you want).

I think that's why I'm slightly cautious about music Apps for portables and Smart Devices; they kind of seem 'locked away' in comparison. And the 3DS's lack of multi-touch would mean you couldn't actually play chords.

I'll keep an eye out for a review though. It might be useful for piecing together a few ideas 'on the move'.

@Maxz

Awesome! Yeah, I have been wanting to get to know garage band a bit better. Still haven't done much with it, haha! Seriously though, that sounded like it could have easily been an in actual Pokemon game. Keep it up!

@Maxz even if you are unable to export, you can easily record it using male to male 3.5 cable. Just plug it in microphone port on pc and record

it seems like this app only has preset rhytms, if it's the case it limits creativity, in my opinion, you couldn't call the songs to be completely your

@Minish Sorry, I'm a little confused - could you clarify?

Do you mean plugging a 3DS into a computer, and then recording onto the computer, but using the 3DS software, or using the 3DS as a part of some computer software or... something else?

@Maxz plugging one end of the cable to 3ds headphone jack, other end to pc microphone jack. Then you can record 3ds audio using audio recording software on pc. I used to record music i made on DS this way

First post, hi everybody! I have all the other 3ds music apps but this one.. Until now that is! Very cool!

I got kind of disappointed with this app. You can't really record stuff in a convenient way.

@proboscus Thank you! It's probably just as well I don't work for Ninty otherwise I'd soon be fired for sharing top secret tunes. ; )

I'm really glad you like it. I wrote it after listening to a lot of older compositions from the franchise (which still remains some of my favourite music ever), and I wanted to make something that had some of the qualities I loved from those songs.

Unfortunately, a lot of the XY music is quite a drastic departure in terms of both composition and instrumentation, so despite having just written that song, it probably wouldn't fit in with the new games for sounding too 'dated'.

I really enjoyed making it though (even if it took a while), and it's nice to be able to share it with people. Thank you for listening! : )

@proboscus That's a really valid and interesting point. The HGSS version of Ecruteak City in particular doesn't shy away from traditional instrumentation. RS went all out with the horns (although I'm not sure if Hokkaido is particularly renowned for its wind music), and BW definitely had an edgy "New World, New York' guitar thing going on, so I guess its always been reasonably hard to predict exactly what the next games are going to sound like.

That said, I think X and Y probably marked the biggest change in overall style. There's been a music tournament going on in the forums pairing different gym leader themes off against each other, and the one that stands out the most is definitely X and Y's theme. It's more of a soundscape than anything else, and most of the songs from the game have got got a broader, less "MIDI" feel to them. Though despite that, I think I prefer most of the music from the games that preceded it. Maybe I'm just a slave to nostalgia.

I'm looking forward to SuMo too. Okinawa is a fantastic suggestion. I'd been thinking it would be Hawaii, given the run of popular tourist locations from Japan. Maybe Okinawa and Hawaii could BOTH make an appearance. Anyway, I imagine there'll be steel drums in abundance (and who knows, maybe even a Steel type steel drum Pokemon). I know a lot of people were disappointed by the lack of information given in the direct, but it's certainly kept us on our toes, and that's kind of fun in itself.