Game developer SoftEgg today released music-making application Rhythm Core Alpha for Nintendo DSi.
Rhythm Core Alpha is a music creation tool designed for creating tracks and live performing in-front of an audience. It contains a 12-track step drum grid for creating drum parts and an 8-track note grid for creating instrument parts. A pattern screen for arranging pattern and key/scale changes allows you to set a maximum of 1000 steps, while you can to play music live with the stylus in 2D solo mode.
"The great thing about Rhythm Core Alpha is that the music never has to stop. You can be editing one block, while playing another," says program creator T. B. Trzepacz. "Rhythm Core Alpha detects the key of the music automatically, so you can change the key of the music you sequenced with the +Control Pad or face buttons, like fingering a guitar, while soloing with the stylus using your other hand. Or you can sequence all of the chord changes in the pattern mode and concentrate more on your playing."
The drum and note grid offer 64 beats per track, with mute and solo mode for each track. You can choose from a rich selection of specially designed sounds with seven different velocity levels. Editing commands include copy, shift, set, clear, random, echo, velocity and transpose. Furthermore, a full ADSR volume envelope control is available for every track, allowing for customization for each sound. Up to 100 drum or note blocks (loops) can be stored. The note grid contains 24 key/scale (chord) change options, from 120 possible key/scale combinations. In solo mode, the 2D solo grid gives over 6 octaves of notes on screen. Each note can reach 6 other notes without lifting the stylus for more fluid play. Notes in grid remap to current scale - no wrong notes can be hit!
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Rhythm Core Alpha is available from the Nintendo DSiWare Store for 500 Nintendo Points.
Rhythm Core Alpha
