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When I was twenty, a guy I was dating invited me to his house to hang out. It was there I met the Korg for the first time, changing my sense of music history forever (not to mention addicting me to its icy electronic pongs and pings). For those of you that have never met the keyboard in person, its sound is responsible for quite a bit of the electronic music you've loved in the past and present alike.
 
This DS emulator, called "Korg DS-10 Synthesizer", allows you to manipulate some of the classic Korg sounds using the DS touch screen as your guide. It's the first fully-fledged music tool software for the DS; if I missed your homebrew DS music tool, I apologize in advance -- show us in the comments! A mysterious message at the end of the video says this product goes on sale in July of 2008 -- you can go see it at the official website. I am officially nipple-stiff for this thing.
 
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riomccarthy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 14:49
riomccarthy
OMG That's so freaking amazingly awesome. I need it have it. @.@ I can't stop watching the video now. XD
Tiff's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:03
Tiff
TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
do want.
Tragic Hero's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:08
Tragic Hero
I heard there is a cream you can buy to fix nipple stiffness.

Unfortunately I am not musically gifted to make use of such a thing. Sounds awesome though.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:10
Holyetheline
I'm going to start a Nintendo DS korg synth band. We're going to sound like a nerd version of The Faint. It will be glorious. Sort of like the night I hung out with Joel Peterson and told him about my The Faint "rave showers"... He said that he gets that a lot from fans. I want kids to rave shower together to my music!
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:10
king3vbo
O god, thats amazing. I CANT WAIT! ...even though I have a Korg synth @ home....
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:12
BluDesign
Oh shit. I'm getting one of those.
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:12
Sam Spectre
Why have I not heard of this before!!!
I need to get one O_O
ajay42's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:12
ajay42
I spend a lot of time playing music (www.coldhandscollective.com) ((sorry for the plug)) and I emailed this the second I saw it to my buddy to try and but immediately. AMAZING looking and Korg's electronics/synth end has really improved since the poorly built Kaoss Pad 1. The used to be just good for sound modules and great keyboards but their toys (not really toys, these things are really useful) are where its at now. (Anyone who has heard some of the weird backwards/forwards vocal mixing and scratching in a bunch of Radiohead tracks or seen them play live has seen a Kaoss Pad 2 in action. really great stuff!)
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:15
Samit Sarkar
...is that Brian Crecente demoing the product?
13thDragon's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:16
13thDragon
Colette, I can't believe you broke up with me after I let you play my Korg. And believe me, I don't let just anyone touch my Korg.
savagesaladin's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:17
savagesaladin
Nipples are cool. Yeah, I get chicks all the time by inviting them over to play some Nintendo. Bitches love that shit.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:20
GuitarAtomik
DO WANT!!!!!!!!
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:38
GuitarAtomik
@Holyetheline

A Nintendo DS Korg band influenced by the Faint?! I want in!
naia-the-gamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:43
naia-the-gamer
{orgasm}Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!{/orgasm}


There, I'm better.

So looking on the website it's for Japan only (not that it would stop importers), but what I want to know is {music babble} if it can be connected as an audio input and I can put my jammins into a sequencer like Logic or DP {/music babble}

That would be fucking awesome.
bahss's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:48
bahss
Oh. My. God. My. Nipples.
I love music producing on my DS, whether it be elecktroplankton or the AXE. But, This! This would be like having a slightly retarded brother of Garageband that you can molest!
Peronthious's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:53
Peronthious
Huzzah, this is beautiful. Definitely importing this baby.
XivSpew's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 15:56
XivSpew
My Micro-Korg is going green w/envy. You think you can utilize the DS microphone as a vocoder? Now they just gotta put out a Roland XP-30 mod and a theremin app, and i'm set for life.
guidedbyvoip's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 16:11
guidedbyvoip
Korg had its ear close to the ground for sure. KaossDS, PulseDS, DS MIDI....all happy goodtime fun homebrew apps...but this?!? Wow. Left field. Much love to Korg and the Japanese for making NDS mainstream.
Brilliam's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 16:46
Brilliam
We're going to sound like a nerd version of The Faint.

Aren't The Faint the nerd version of The Faint?

My Micro-Korg is going green w/envy

Hahaha, I was coming here to say just this!
ironmanrules1333's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 17:03
ironmanrules1333
Damn I've been looking for something like this.
Hank Peters's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 17:29
Hank Peters
I've dreamed of this ever since I first saw the KAOS Pad. Now, if they had some sort of way for microphone inputs, that would be a instant buy.
Holiday's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 17:42
Holiday
Only available in Japan.

Thanks for the interesting story.
animateria's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 19:52
animateria
Someone never heard about importing...
CypherVR's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 19:57
CypherVR
i certainly think this is much better than this product
CypherVR's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 19:59
CypherVR
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 20:17
mistic
Wohow this looks really cool :-)

DO WANT!
milkham's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 20:32
milkham
would music out of this thing count as chiptunes?
Jayson Napolitano's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 22:09
Jayson Napolitano
I don't know how everyone missed this:

(C) 2008 PROCYON STUDIO CO., LTD.

That's Yasunori Mitsuda's personal studio. I think his link to this project makes it all that much sweeter. Too bad KORG didn't actively push that connection.
slayoyayo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 23:02
slayoyayo
copping this shit FASHO! I've got an old analog juno-106 that I beat on every so often for some electro/disco/house lovin... the drums on this korg-ds sound shit but can't knock the bleep, son.
Noah's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/13/2008 01:57
Noah
Now I NEED a DS.
anomalous underdog's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/13/2008 09:14
anomalous underdog
but.. but.. there's nitrotracker.. oh well.

http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/
HarassmentPanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/13/2008 11:06
HarassmentPanda
Haha, that's pretty cool. I could see this being a homebrew project, but I'm impressed it's actually going to be a legitimate release.
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