Scratch on your DS with ProteinDS
Perhaps the next best music making application for the Nintendo DS since the guitar sim Jam Sessions and the quirky Electroplankton is a homebrew by the name of ProteinDS. It turns the user’s DS into a functional turntable. While it doesn’t exactly imitate the appearance of a physical turntable, it displays the audio clip scrolling across the bottom screen which the user can, using the stylus, scratch and loop. The visualization gives the user more accuracy when attempting to play specific portions of the song. At the beginning of a session, one has the opportunity to lay down a bass/rhythm track. There also appear to be a variety of effects at one’s disposal by using the grid-like interface of the bottom screen. I do not currently know if the app allows the user to upload their own music files, but I suppose that might be asking too much of a brand new piece of homebrew.
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You can use your own music, you just replace the original file with the song you want to use but it has to be a .wav i think. This app has been out for a couple months but the version i have dosent have many functioning features. Those blue and green dots you can move around in the video do nothing in the old version so i may need to check this out now that is has more features