BenVersluis.com

My birthday is next week so my fiancee bought me a Nintendo DS. A few weeks earlier, I had imported the Korg DS10 game cart (Japanese version; American version comes out in October according to Amazon). I’ve been playing around with it endlessly for the last week and found it to be a pretty powerful little app.

Neddless to say, it was nice when I saw Kotaku’s story about the DS10 today. It’s about the first “album” produced using the DS10. Check it out here. Among the DS album, you can also find a really nice DJ mix using music performed entirely on the DS10.

The album and the mix are actually very entertaining. They sound like pumped up 8-bit chiptune songs, and with some mixing love I think the tracks coming out of it could be amazing.

I can’t wait to pump some audio out of my DS and into Pro Tools so I can play around with some tracks.

Developer Cavia showed the Korg DS-10 at this year’s E3 in LA. The DS-10 is a Nintendo DS copy of the famous Korg MS-10. You can connect up to 8 DSes together via ad hoc wireless to have one giant synth jam sessions!

The software features the full range of musical notes, which is pretty amazing. You can also create songs from one to five minutes long.

The DS-10 will also feature Korg’s Kaoss Pad so you can endlessly tweak your sounds.

It’d be really cool if they could integrate some type “export” feature for this. Maybe they can integrate this somehow with the Wii so you can create music and then drop it on that system? Either way, if I buy a DS, I will buy this.

You can check out this preview video for the DS-10: