Well, you know I had to mess around with it a bit…
Don’t expect music when you click this link - the track is “Tommy One”:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands…7317268
I will say this - the actual synths in the little box have very usable sounds - not the “drums” so much - but for a monophonic synth in the Korg style I’m hoping to try it on something real.
It has little Kaos pads!
Playing it is a bit like the Stylophone. Anyone ever have one of those?
I think it needs some jangly guitars… 
LOL…
That’s the little thing for the Nintendo DS? Pretty cool Tom.
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Some cool sounds on there.
Stylophone…my son just got a brand new one for Christmas…I didn’t even know they still sold them!
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Yeah, they started making the stylotone again b/c the electronica folks were eating up the old ones. If you process them enough you get cool sounds, and the interface makes for some interesting limitations/styles.
Dang, I have two more things to post this afternoon, better things, but soundcrick seems to be awol.
OK, got them posted. Still not sure that it is music. 
DS vice sounds like two different beats/tempos weird…
You gonna let the kids have any time with it?!
Fun stuff - could be real useful.
It’s great!
What’s with the album title? “Eye, Hear Anew, World!” lol Are you doing an electronica album? Sounds very cool, looks like you’ve found a nitch. Lots of cool groovs! 
Poppa - The beat problem is a result of the delay setting - not quite rational.
I bought this for MYSELF!
Did one more: “Lectroids from Planet 10”:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands…7319504
Levi, you are the first to ask about that title. I’ll give you a hint:
Joe Meek.
“Lectroids from Planet 10”
Pretty Cool!
The Electric Cookie Finger! Mr Electron
lol it’s good, it’s really good!
Sorry, Joe Meek means nothing to me.
I thought you’d bought it for the kids and had hi-jacked it - my bad…
Joe Meek Bio
Well, I did buy it for the kids, but I used my birthday money, and Ruby said I can use her game machine anytime.
Truth is, it’s a bit too sophisticated - it actually requires some music theory.
E.g., the Kaoss pads can be set to various modes - but how many 10 year olds are going to understand all that lydian etc. stuff?
I don’t really remember it.
And the synths are really basic but still full featured synths.
ADSR envelopes, wave forms, detune, all that.
and there is even some primitive wiring that makes them semi-modular.
Cool thing - it only has two synth voices and 4 drum voices - but the drums are themselves basic synths - so that last one - “Lectroids” - I got 4 monophonic voices and 2 drum voices by using two of the drums as tonal instruments.
I’m gonna bet that someone is going to make some very good music with it - if you like that sort of thing.
OK, Joe Meek.
One of the most important recordists ever.
Pushed things in ways they should not have been pushed.
You know “Telstar” by the Tornados?
That was a Joe Meek “composition” (everyone said he couldn’t carry a tune, so they’d try to guess what he was humming).
I was sort of shooting for that cool tube synth sound.
Joe recorded an album early in the 60s (late 50s?) in which he used every weird idea he could come up with - in stereo - the point was to show off stereo.
It is called “I Hear a New World” - you can get a copy with the book “Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques” - lots of it is musically silly, but in the historical context it is important.
I thought changing it to “Eye, Hear Anew, World” - making it an imperative directed toward the eye of the world - was sort of funny.
Ha ha?
Rest of Joe’s story is horrible. Untreated mental illness.
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Untreated mental illness.
Fine line there isn't it between creative genius and mental illness. The great ones cross it.
Not to say all creative genius has that line crossed - you know what I'm sayin.....
What are you sayin’?
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Blablyuhbandershawn. Clear now?
Ahhh… gotcha! Booflenagginfleefgargin eh?
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Uh huh. A very fine line indeed.
'Course that means you guys are creative geniuses - or at least were before you went off the deep end.
I’ve got that book!
GREAT book to have. Joe was DaMan (sort of…read DaBook), even if he frustrated the heck out of many around him, sometimes for reasons they didn’t fully understand.
He’s a great example of why sometimes those that don’t know what they are doing actually do a much better job than those that do know what they are doing.
Quote: (TomS @ Feb. 09 2009, 11:00 AM)
Uh huh.
A very fine line indeed.
'Course that means you guys are creative geniuses - or at least were before you went off the deep end.
The deep end is where all the FUN is kind sir.
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Thought you had no new music ideas.