"Systematic" (Gameboy Advance Track)

[SkurBeats]

just a load of bleeps

[dangeroftime]

My friend had a GB micro I was pretty jealous of him.

[me5cool2872]

whats the song? o.o sounds cool

[StephenDruesedow]

Nice Track !!

[redbirdsaraceno]

Great job ! I have the same set up but don't know how to use the sequencer as well as you

[jonhdoe1395]

I found this video by accident. What is that thing he is holding? Some chinese GB emulator?

[littlescale]

@jonhdoe1395 No, it's not an emulator. It is a game boy micro. the software is nanoloop 2.2.

[fulltimepassgiri]

@littlescale its sex

[pschodog3]

@jonhdoe1395

How have you not seen a gameboy micro before? lol

[DJ91990]

This track reminds me of the Underwater Theme from Donkey Kong Country. It has an underwater feel to it.

[Kristhor]

this reminds of some other song... not sure which....

[TMothy73]

This is great, thanks for sharing! I'm patiently (maybe impatiently...) waiting for more 2.3 cartridges to be in stock again so that I can get one and try and make some tunes. I find your vids very inspirational. When I get Nanoloop I will try and do a track with a video and get it on here as well. Cheers! Tim

[Aircrow]

i think i just came in my pants

[KaslarProductions]

I like the Buchla sounding patch. the one like metal/ringmodish

[autumngold1]

beautiful...

[draggonhedd]

the GBA has a very different sound than the DMG... hmm kind of reminds me of the old ADLIB sound cards

[serfox1]

I think I'm gonna have to invest in a 2.3 cart. I'm primarily a LSDJ user but this is very pretty music.

[lemonrind]

I like music and I like Gameboys.

[DeadBeatBlast]

very pretty LS. Do those GBmicro have a headphone out?

[littlescale]

@DeadBeatBlast yes - it has a 3.5mm headphone jack out. Although I lost this GBM with this copy of NL in it :(

[soadx90]

@littlescale That's horrible! Very cool song!

[TheTwiggsMGW]

wierd lookin GBA

[moblsche]

@TheTwiggsMGW it's a gba micro

[mitsu002]

Sounds like a modern Jean Michel Jarre ! awesome job :)

[danglawrence]

@mitsu002 Jarre used a kitchen full of massive synths, whereas littlescale is using something tiny!

[BENTXYZ]

I wish I had as much skill in my whole body as you have in your thumbs, man. This is sick.

[ibnz93]

sweet. i love your albums man. 8 bit ftw

[unklekarma]

super cool!

[ThePianoBro1]

how u do this!?!

[geminyo]

@ThePianoBro1 google: little sound dj or nanoloop.

[y2k3100]

trance 8 bit style... niiice

[lockstick]

This song was mainly the reason I finally decided to get a nanoloop to pimp out tunes on my GBmicro :)

got it this week, check out 'Spooky Mansion' on 8bitcollective for a wip of mine. (can't link here sorry)

cheers and keep them chiptunes coming.

[culo9999]

that micro sounds macro

[CarbonWolf64]

CHOCOLATE RAIN! XD

[lloydSSJ4]

would you be offended if I said i tripped out to this?

[littlescale]

@lloydSSJ4 not at all, unless it was a bad trip.

[lloydSSJ4]

no it was more like an empty trip

[littlescale]

@lloydSSJ4 oh.

[lloydSSJ4]

the song was dope. but im told i was sitting staring at the floor for 3 minutes

[littlescale]

@lloydSSJ4 fair

[y0utub35uck]

sweet micro sound

[atufaile]

Congratulations, very nice!

[urcrazyn]

Nice.

[utoobepee]

Can I download this song?

[monsterkis]

hmmmmm

[KeanoFilms]

No Fl studio is a organizer FOR your recordings, sequences and that stuff

[TheJoEy9090]

HELL

yeah you dont have to say hello

[AstroFiber]

@KrakenZero its nothing like fl

[KrakenZero]

I mean the way it sequences beats

[AstroFiber]

no its nothing like it at all

[KrakenZero]

So its like fl studio?

[BrianWilliamGreen]

lol is that even serious

[redoutlander]

how did you get Nano loop to sound so clean and smooth? almost like bells

[necro2607]

Sine or triangle waves rather than square/saw.

[NeeekAlert]

I think it's cause it's the GBA version of nanoloop, not the normal gameboy one.

[NINJAGUY24]

Have one =)

[AHOYVSOREO]

Sounds like Ecco the Dolphin to me.

[MinamiUotani]

Sweet! A mini! I used t have one, but i traded it with a kid from school for another sp so i could trade between my pokemon games.

[noink98]

it is actually called a micro

[Minifig666]

Good on you, the micro is the worst nintendo console ever, I think the Virtual Boy is better

[TehSmexican]

Preposterous, the Virtual Boy is a pile of shit on a tripod.

[dantegx8]

@TehSmexican I have one.... and that is... 100% True.

[Osaftjunky]

Somehow it reminds me at Final Fantasy 7

[allxyourxissues]

this song reminds me of those scenes in movies where its a hole bunch of clips of a team working together trying to find out "who committed the murder"..lol nice song, nice job.

[Winzeyy]

a montage?? lol

[allxyourxissues]

yes...a montage....good god if i go all descriptive..jeez, lol

[NoonieSCREAM]

this song kinda makes me feel guilty.

[littlescale]

why?

[thekkl]

Because he committed the murder that allxyourxissues and his team are trying to solve.

[mysteriousfantasy24]

Lmfao

[mahir100]

reaaly nice

[redvirusX]

How do you like the micro vs. the DMG?

Nicely done.

[analogWeapon]

beautiful. very nice composition. :)

[oubliettezombie]

beautiful track, really nicely composed.

[tcw922]

does anyone know where i can buy one?

[alka5eltzer]

soo nice... top notch man.. sweet

[bongolow07]

Really cool, where could I get something like this? It could give me an excuse to play around with my SP :P

[sonnybrown]

Smmooooth yo! I wish there was a mini ableton for this thing. I guess that's what this is though.

[Summitsuper]

Amazing

[saintaureus]

Very nice track, thanks.

[neonzerodrow]

Please someone could tell me how do that? what type of game boy i need? and what software is? please help me

[littlescale]

the software you want to look up for this one is nanoloop 2. it works on gba / gba sp / gb micro / nds / nds lite :)

[Connoro69]

what ever happened to this gameboy? Isnt it the gameboy micro? I remember reading about it in a magazine like a month before it came out, and how it was so amazing, being the size of a pack of gum. But never really got much publicity when it was released. I wonder why

[PrivateBuckwheat]

I think the Nintendo DS was released around the same time or had already been released. It seemed pointless to buy a micro when the GBA was nearing the end of its lifespan and the DS could play GBA games. The micro was pretty expensive, from what I heard, although the size is awesome.

[mastergiux]

the DS came before the gba micro, but the ds had lots of flaws, like the first gba, the gba micro has fixed all the gba flaws and has reduced in size, then the ds lite came out, a better with less flaws was harder, had more light, longer battery life, it was lighter, and smaller, now the dsi is coming out, more than a hardware update, this new is a software update

[unfreez]

Yeah the DS was right after, noone wanted to blew 150$ or whatever it was on a GBA

[sonnybrown]

I have 3. The special edition and 2 regular ones. It's the shit! I drive all day for work and just bust that out when I'm waiting for pickup. It's probably one of the greatest pieces of hardware ever created I think. And I've owned like every system.

[Intosia]

Its great with a flashcard! Put some games on it and take it with you, its smaller then a cellphone :)

[92JLee]

that is awesome, im tempted to get a micro

[mikroorchestra]

nice track!

[kairiluvspocky]

i miss my gbmicro=[i use to have one there kina rare.

[ashimoke]

Nice. I guess you use some kind of flash / SD cartrige, right? What kind of? thx

[tesfiend]

that looks pimpin with the backlight

[yerzmyey]

RULEZ.

[xlibman]

Is nanoloop an homebrew software? I never heard of it. The only music maker I heard about (and own) for the GBA is Pocket Music by Jester Interactive (same company that made MTV Music Generator/Music 2000 on Playstation)

[TobiAmStart]

@  spannerchops:

whats going on?

Is it possible that you are Game Boy dependent??

[ahetza]

very nice.

[Sacrenouille]

I like it. Though I don't understand why there is such noise in the background. I own a GBA micro and Nanoloop 2.3, I have made some recording tests and noise is not so much present. Anyway, really good stuff. Have you tried NL 2.3 recently ?

[march88]

wonderful tune... I can imagine hearing this in an emotional scene in a videogame!

Respekt, wie du mit so einfachen Mitteln sowas schönes herzaubern konntest! *Hut ab*

[Watcher6000]

did you use some kind of m3 gba card with an mp3 on it? if not, how did you do that?

[littlescale]

Hi there, this is real time FM synthesis sequencing with eight voices on a Game Boy Micro using the cartridge Nanoloop 2.0.1

[heyayayaaa]

would you have preferred "it's a sound game! for the gb micro!"

much clearer huh!?

[TobiAmStart]

that is a fake, i see no cabel from game boy to a stero system or anything else?

and is too good qualtity of music^^

Sorry kann nicht so gut englisch^^

[littlescale]

Das kabel kommt heraus aus dem Game Boy Micro auf der unteren rechten Seite - man kann es halt nicht sehen in dem Video. Bitte suchen Sie nach "Nanoloop 2" und hören Sie sich ein paar beispiele an - dan sehen Sie, dass das nicht Fake ist! :)

[BlackSabbath1989]

dann

bitte dann

[spannerchops]

This is fake?

Go and kill yourself, do your fucking research before you make accusations of that kind, they make you look stupid.

I make music of a similar nature to this, this IS NOT fake and 100% possible.

Do you research you idiot.

[shadysessions]

Sweet tune man.

Glad to see some one is keeping it real.

[arcadekidxo]

Lsdj is a tracker though, nanoloop is a looper...

[littlescale]

yes. okay. so?

[dominarhammy]

You're my hero mate.

[733TCORE]

i love this song mate! good job.

i've been wondering how to do this for a while now but i'm proper confused about it.

any tips/help?

[anggoesgrr]

geez i can't figure out how these work,

or how you work em.

like how do you play this?

[Biopharmer]

i always thought that the gba was sample based for audio. Does that mean that it's converting the output of the synths into samples, and then playing them?

[DucksOnClouds]

i want 2.2 now.

[whatshendrix]

Good stuff, mate :)

[spannerchops]

Does 2.x enable you to input some of the old school gameboy 'noises'? because combining them with these lovley calming sounds would sound sweet if they're put in the right mixture.

[spannerchops]

How much more.."Advanced" is 2.0 that 1.3? and is it any similar to LSDJ (2.0 comapred to LSDJ) also - can you manipulate sounds to how you want them? Like you can in the Wav Channel in LSDJ?

By the way - amazing song!

[ArlenAwesome]

LSDJ was created for the Original Gameboy and Gameboy Color. Nanoloop 2.x is exclusively for Gameboy Advance systems only. 1.3 is meant for older gameboys. Nanoloop is quite different from LSDJ. You can alter the wave forms in Nanoloop because I remember messing around with things in the wave table. It's sort of like how you draw waves in LSDJ.

[johneymute]

this tune combines in a brilliant way the old gbc soundwith the extended sound,sampling and mixing those old soundchannels together in order to fit it well in the 16bit sound.

[littlescale]

Im not sure what you mean with "the old gbc sound" but this was written entirely using Nanoloop 2.01 on a Game Boy Micro.

[4NIM4L57YL3]

love this track~!

[Netplay68]

and that hurts us find ROM available.

[littlescale]

????

[sadgirl005]

incredible ! clean and soft . it sound`s very different from lsdj

[littlescale]

Oh yes, completely different sound engine from LSDJ. But both are fantastic!

[kristoffer1989]

got to say it again. this track is absolutely amazing! I really like it! have you recorded any nanoloop 2 songs?

[SuperSchmeh]

I like the track. It's not so much as chiptune as it is electronic really though. Chiptune focuses on the original sounds the old Gameboys spit out. I've never used Nanoloop 2.2 but I know 1.3 sounds waaaay different than this. :) i do like this though and you make a nice track.

[littlescale]

Well I don't personally agree with you that this is not chiptune. But thanks for the comment. I have Nanoloop 1.3, which is cool as well (but not as good (for me) as lsdj). Nanoloop 2.x is amazing!

[SuperSchmeh]

I've looked into Nanoloop 2.x and it's a fine program for synths. :) also I just recently bought my LSDJ cartridge.

[my4trackmachine]

to my understanding this is chip based on the idea that the gba is using an 8bit sound chip. if you are refering to it not sounding like a gb this is (to my understanding) becuase gb's actually use a more 4-bit sound.

[Pixoshiru]

Are you actually doing something live in this video?

No sarcasm, really, but I've always wondered if gameboy chiptuners were really doing anything else than just starting their tune and faking around til the end. :)

Reply would be appreciated !

[littlescale]

yeah, in this case i am triggering loops at the correct points in time. not very "live" i know but i am doing *something*. ;-)

[Pixoshiru]

Haha, ok, thanks for the explanation.

I'm starting to learn Lsdj, and I have been composing with nanoloop 1.3 for a few months, those are huge platforms for mobile electronica, I can't manage to make some real "live" whit them, though.

Maybe my composition method doesn't fit with a live execution...

Anyway, keep on bleeping, mate ! ;)

[littlescale]

I personally have done a little bit of live work (ie. improv stuff) using LSDJ, but this was not solo. I cannot imagine doing improv gameboy music solo either (at least not very easily or complex).

[Pixoshiru]

Neither do I. FYI, I bought a Korg Kaossilator which has some interesting synths in it, notably one which sounds like a GB pulse wave, I'm trying to use it to make some chorus while having the gameboy doing the rythm part.

Kinda cheating but muically interesting! :D

Ah and last thing, you should try muddyGB. Hard to use, but interesting.

[littlescale]

Korg sounds good.

For sure, i quite like little ol' Muddy GB. Good, clean fun, eh!

[xero806]

exellent tack!

[Mattyoak]

Do you have any trouble with it humming?

[littlescale]

i guess every gameboy has inherent noise, but the gb micro has some artefacts that are not present with say a gb advance. nds sounds the cleanest of the machines that can play gba games (in my opinion).

[kristoffer1989]

is that the gameboy speaker or do you have a jack from the headphone output? 'cos it sounds fucking GREAT!

[littlescale]

you are right, it is a line out going from the headphone socket to a mixer and studio monitors. because the speakers in the gameboy micro are not exactly great quality!

[kristoffer1989]

i see. the track is wery cool. i love the sound. do you have any other nanoloop 2 songs? on youtube or on mp3?

[littlescale]

well, the only other nano 2 track i have up is the soundtrack to the animation video on my youtube account called "Synthesis". but maybe i will upload some more sometime soon, eh.

[croyo]

that'd be cool man

[apomorfina]

wow!!!!!!

[luzzerylavender]

awesome, i just ordered 2.2! yay

[littlescale]

2.2 looks fantastic!

i should go and order one as well...

[esmusical]

Just finished working on the remix for the night. Listening to this is a perfect way to end the day.

[littlescale]

excellent, ES! have you had a chance to upload it yet?

[littlescale]

oh, "for the night", sorry i read your comment incorrectly.