Cool thing for demos

Found out about this after I watched Xiu Xiu's studio tour. Apparently they used it on their album Dear God I Hate Myself, and it's my favourite Xiu Xiu record!

Great!!

I found my copy of this game laying on the ground while I was out on a walk. I LOVE this thing! It is vary limiting admittedly only two mono synths and 4 drum sounds and only a 16 step sequencer. Personally I like the limitations, it forces you to get creative, you can make chords by tuning the two oscillators that make up one of the mono synths to different notes (for example, Synth one to root and fifth and Synth 2 to a third and seventh). If you need another synth voice you can load a synth setting into the drum rack, admittedly it wont act the same in there but it will be the same tuning usually just less release.

The effects sections it has are nice, you have Stereo Delay, Chorus and Flanger. In the mixing section you can apply these too a few combinations of synth 1, 2 and the drums. Where I think it gets interesting is in the drum editor you can also bake in these effects before the mixer section. the don't work exactly the same, like the delay won't ring out forever but it makes for some interesting effects.

The pattern editor and song mode both are pretty easy to use and quite intuitive, however for the type of music I make (ambient/Drone) the BPM is kinda a hindrance it only goes down to about 40 but is usable.

This thing is amazing to bring on small trips and just make short little sketches to flesh out later. You could probably do some amazing things multi-tracking a bunch of sessions of these. There are also a few videos on YouTube showing live sets using two or three of these that actually work out quite well!