Noise Commander 3DS Demo

Noise Commander 3DS Demo
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Author	gearmo3ds
Type	Music Apps
Version	0.1.10
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2026/01/11
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Noise Commander 3DS is deat-making audio sequencer and DJ-tool for the Nintendo 3DS.

The full version can be accessed from their Patreon page.

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Noise Commander 3DS tutorial mission 01 (0.0.11) (Noise Commander 3DS)

Latest but not greatest news on Noise Commander 3DS (June 11/24) (Noise Commander 3DS)

Changelog

v0.1.10

• Added
  • Ability to export wav file from factotum looper (Press the "E" button)
    

The files are saved in "/nc/samples/looprenders"

• • Normalize function in waveform-view, accessible by pressing Start
  • General "Mic Hold" setting: Records full length without needing to hold the A button
  • General "Mic Pre Secs" setting: Waits n seconds before recording starts
• Fixed
  • Microphone recording cannot be trimmed in waveform-view
  • Pressing B pastes the clipboard in narrow-tracker-view mode when it should only paste a single cell
  • Clearing a cell in the narrow-view with B+A does not clear the clipboard and thus behaves "sticky"
• Changed
  • Microphone recording is now being normalized

v0.1.9

• Fixed
  • Freeze when creating a new project (ouch!)
  • Some lane-settings are not reset when creating a new project (bus-nr, midi-channel, chance, ducktrigger)
• Changed
  • Added warning about possible file corruption when saved with temp-build to splash-screen and save function
  • Attempting to load song saved with newer version now shows error dialog and aborts
  • Temp-build is now tagged in file header
  • Added missing patreon credits
• Added
  • Clipmatrix-hotkey: Y + C-Pad for paging up/down by 16 steps or jump to top/bottom (as in tracker)
  • Color-highlighting for current row in clip-matrix view
• Removed
  • "Row"-selection mode in tracker was confusing, it is now disabled

v0.1.8

• Buses are not re-initialized when creating a new project
• X-Fade misbehaves when sample is 8Bit
• Truncating in waveform-view does not free sample memory
• Maximum slice-number is now 15 instead of 16

v0.1.7

• Added
  • Column-header bus-color-coding in tracker-view and clipmatrix-view
  • User may alter 16-color-palette by adding a "/nc/colors.cfg" file with one RGB value pair per line:
    • (example:) 0 50 128
  • The colors.cfg file can be created by pressing the "Sv Clr File" button in the general settings
  • Can now edit instruments in browser (delete, rename, duplicate)
  • "Auto Sync Selection" setting in browser: Selects instrument/sample when pressing a pad
  • "Auto Assign" setting in browser: Assigns the selected sample to current instrument or the selected instrument to the current pad while browsing.
  • Press X when in either the samples- or instrument-list to show the toggleable settings
  • "Randomize values" function in tracker-menu: mutates existing values by given percentage
  • Pressing X in splash-screen shows recent files
  • "Duplicate Repeatedly" function in tracker-menu
• Changed
  • Wav-header loop points are now applied to instrument every time a sample-number is assigned
  • Unique random names are assigned to microphone/looper recorded samlpes
  • The browser settings "Preview", "Sync Selection" and "Auto Assign" are now persistent
  • The last selection mode is now remembered ("cursor"/"row") in tracker/matrix view
• Fixed
  • Bus/master automation has no effect while a track is soloed
  • Crash when truncating sample in waveform view
• Removed
  • "Insert Note Stops" function from tracker-menu (seemed broken, needs investigating)

v0.1.6

• Added
  • Ability to set arbitary loop in/out points in waveform-view (press L/R respectively)
  • "Linked Playback" option in Settings: Both decks start/stop at once when enabled
  • "Keep Tempo" option in song loading dialog
  • "Stylus Margin" setting for calibrating the selection range in the waveform view
    • This is to avoid unselectable areas at the horizontal screen borders
  • Sample list in browser can now copy samples from/to other deck or file system or delete samples
    • (Use the Select button to show the sample-list and the Y button to cycle the deck)
  • Can rename samples in sample list
  • Can audition/preview deck-samples in sample list (press B to audition, toggle auto-preview in options)
• Changed
  • Now reading loop-points from smpl chunk in wav-header (tested with renoise)
  • When a value is selected in the instrument-column, pressing B selects or "picks" that instrument
• Fixed
  • Waveform-view: Cannot select last sample with the cursor
  • Waveform-view: No panning possible at maximum zoom level

v0.1.5

• Added
  • "StdyClck" setting in tempo-dialog: Keeps clock running and causes START to wait for next bar to start playing
• Changed
  • Wav recording now creates a new file instead of appending to the previous
• Fixed
  • Value in master volume column may lead to incorrect instrument look-up and stopping of a sustained looping note
  • Octave +/- buttons skipping a value making it impossible to play the -1 octave
  • App force quits when pressing upload button and wifi is disabled
    • Now a message suggests to enable Wifi
    • Networking is re-initialized and does not fail after wifi is switched multiple times
    • If you start the function too quickly after enableding wifi you'll see errors, just start it again

v0.1.4

• Changed
  • Renamed "Gated" to "Hold" in piano and de-coupled the setting from drum pads. Hold is off per default
• Fixed
  • Creating empty clip assigns instrument 255 (Can now insert new row number without losing instrument)
  • Pad-view does not refresh instr labels when new row plays
  • Capturing loop to song in Factotum looper always copies only one bar when set to two
  • Set fade default value to 16 in Factotum looper to avoid pops at boundary
  • Pitch envelope amount not applied when selecting instrument
  • Tapping "Sub-Tab" button (2nd from left at bottom in drum-pad view) does not toggle to previous sub-tab
  • Stopping of transport not transmitted when connected via UDS
  • Current slice-number not stored in song-file and lost at reload

v0.1.3

• Added
  • Ability to connect and synchronize multiple 3DS consoles via local "multiplayer" Wifi (UDS)
  • Starting or re-starting playback on the host will also restart playback on the connected clients
  • The switches are in the General Settings (press down and tap the "General" tab)
  • Note that normal Wifi-features (Browser-upload) is not possible while UDS is active
  • "Neutral Preview" setting in preferences causes browser to play samples at original rate (default: on)
  • New Piano Buttons:
  • "Gated" toggles whether lifting stops the note and sets the instrument playmode
  • "Slide" allows pressing keys by sliding the stylus, else it needs to be lifted
  • "Off" is a shortcut for stopping current sound and recording/inserting an note-off
  • Columns for fold distortion enable, width and gain
  • Tempo Dialog: left/right buttons nudge playhead by one step to adjust phase with external audio (e.g. other 3DS)
  • REC toggle in Bus-FX view
  • New Tracker/Bus-FX screen combo (press right three times) for inserting slider-automation visually
• Changed
  • Retrig-column uses slice-positions now (i.e. works in combination)
  • Repeat mode in drum-view now uses last slice-position. Nice in combination with linear slice trigs
  • Enabling Right-channel-click-track disables stereo-widening effect
  • Piano key background color now changes while pressed
  • Fold-width (distortion) range now allows better articulation
  • Brought pitch envelope back and added columns for animation
  • Motion recording ability for most sliders in Bus-FX screen
  • "Mono to stereo" settings are now preserved
• Fixed
  • Shifting notes with A+Up intermittently not working
  • Playback position is no longer shown in Waveform-view after pressing A
  • Memory-alignment crash when resampling (only happened with -O3 i.e. in release)

v0.2.1

• Fixed
  • Note-events on buses may cancel other note-lanes. Such insertion is no longer possible.
• Added
  • Pressing SELECT in drum pad screen toggles "Loop Row" setting
  • "Tracker Row Increment" option in general settings: Advances the cursor by x rows after note insertion
  • "Tracker Grid Snap" option in general settings: The cursor stays on grid when moving up or down

v0.1.1

• Added
  • Option "Zip-Upload creates named folder" in general settings
  • "SampleReduce" column in tracker master section for automation (set 0 to disable)
  • "Reduce" toggle button in FX view (bottom right) acts as disable override
• Changed
  • Retrig-column no longer requires a note, values of 0 and 1 retrigger the current sample
  • Renamed "Instrs" to "Palette" in drumpad pie-menu
• Fixed
  • Sample loop setting has no effect
• Removed
  • Hid pitch envelope in page3 of instrument settings temporarily until improved

v0.1.0

• Added
  • WiFi-Midi support via DSMI and custom VST3 plugin made with Juce
    • Supports note-, control-change and program-change events (no clock nor sysex)
    • User needs to compile and install either DSMI or the Juce VST3 plugin
    • When using DSMI you'll need to disable and enable midi in the settings to send a discovery signal
    • When using the VST3, click on "Discover 3DS" and then press/tap "Discover VST3 Server" in NC
      • It should find the right ip-address after a couple seconds. If not, the addresses can be manually be set in both sides
    • Caveat: NC has a fixed audio latencty of 43ms. Midi out events are delayed by this amount to stay in sync
    • Program changes are only sent when the value changed, equal values and are not sent repeatedly but only once
  • A midi-channel 1-16 can now be selected for each lane (0 means disabled) and the setting persists within the song file
  • Midi note-on events use the instrument volume value as velocity
  • Five Midi CC lanes for sending messages to external gear (hidden by default, unhide in column menu B+DLeft in tracker view)
  • New "midi.cfg" file allows configuring up to 10 CCs for up to 10 midi out devices via text
  • The first five Midi CCs can be configured in the Midi Settings UI
  • "Fill to clip length" option in tracker menu and "Fill" in set length dialog
  • New "Delay" column in lane allows for "micro-timing", delays note and overwrites swing delay for the given note
  • New "Retrig" column: Repeats note x times or if >= 0x20 then digits are amount and number of steps (use for triplets)
  • New "BusNr" column to animate the bus-output assignment
  • "Set content length" in tracker menu shows the assigned shortcut (B + D-Left)
  • Rotary sliders for quick insertion of row-values (volume, probability, repeats etc.)
  • 16 Levels screen: Each pad plays current instrument at different volume
  • Repeat screen: Plays held pad repeatedly, pressing D-Pad while held changes frequency
  • Notes screen: Each pad plays a fixed note (may offer different scales in the future here)
  • "Dedupe All Instruments" entry in clip-matrix menu, collapses duplicate instruments to one
  • New buttons for managing column visibility: Show used, all, none, default
  • "Delete" menu entry in instrument palette, deletes instrument and clears palette slot
  • Looper: "xfade" slider cross-fades between dry and wet
  • Looper: "Synced" button starts recording at next bar and stops after 1 or 2 bars (according to "bars" setting)
  • Looper: "bars" setting allows up to two bars if the tempo is greater or equal to 88 BPM, else only one bar (512k limit)
  • Looper: "Automix" toggle sets dry when starting recording and wet when recording finishes
  • Looper: "Overdub" toggle - does what you expect
  • Looper: Momentary "Reverse" button
  • Looper: Rate slider resets when releasing to allow performing a a tape stop effect of sorts
  • Looper: "Capture" saves the loop sample into the song as new instrument (Disabled in Demo version)
  • Renamed bottom right button label from "Select/Play" to "Silent" in pad/performance view for clarity
  • Quantization slider in general settings for changing all lanes at once (temporary solution)
• Changed
  • Partly new color scheme, thanks to Keffu for submitting/suggesting
  • New functions in help: Pressing X shows Shortcuts list for current upper view and pressing Y for current lower view
  • Pressing Select in help view toggles "Auto-Show" mode which jumps to the upper screens shortcut list whenever help is opened
  • Empty pads show black color in instrument palette, all but first are now initialized as empty
  • Tracker lanes now show the phrase- and clip lengths at the bottom
  • Copy/pasting single notes with the B-button in compact tracker-view now copies all row values
  • Increasing phrase length also grows clip length but not the other way around (does not shrink)
  • Column visibilities now persist, stored in file
  • D-Pad functions now repeat when held in help view
• Fixed
  • Copy/paste operations exclude columns other than note in narrow/compact tracker view mode
  • Note-stops turn into notes when transposing selection by holding B+C-Pad direction
  • Menu no longer opens after inserting a note-stop with B + Y
  • Waveform display now supports 8Bit samples
• Removed
  • "Set Lenghts" menu entry from clip-matrix menu as it seems broken

v0.0.15

• • Pads show current instrument number in lower right corner
  • New generic "set length" dialog for changing current phrase- and clip-lengths
  • New tracker-view hotkey Y+X - shows "set phrase-length" dialog
  • New clipmatrix-view hotkey Y+X - shows "set clip-length" dialog
  • New tracker hotkey: Y + C-Pad for paging up/down by 16 steps or jump to top/bottom
  • Large status-icon displays deck's playing, looping or stopped state
  • B + D-Right as an alternative way to start an entire row in clipmatrix-view to double tapping A
  • "Set Lengths" menu item in clipmatrix view assigns length to all twelve row-cells at once
• Changed
  • Assigning a pitch value to an instrument sets num-beats to zero, otherwise the pitch may change unexpectedly later
  • Muting lane via B + Pad now works in tracker- and clipmatrix widgets too
  • Swing amount is now per deck instead of global (current was disturbingly changing when loading new song)
  • Volumes are adjusted when loading files from versions before 0.0.14 but the levels still sound quite different
  • Piano octave-setting no longer affects drum pads
  • Default volume is now 70 instead of 50
  • Instrument number is shown in hex in instrument-view to be consistent with tracker columns
  • Tracker-operations now work in clipmatrix too: shift cell selection w. A+up/down, select above/below w. X+up/down
  • Select button now toggles "row-loop" mode in tracker view too
• Fixed
  • Pressing START sometimes plays random clip row - it should play selected clip row
  • Cross-fading exports sample (forgot to un-comment)
  • No instrument number inserted with linear slice notes menu-function
  • Some instrument parameters are not reset when creating new project (loopEnabled)
  • "Reload" and "Reload Seq" in project view causes app to freeze
  • Pressing A to disable follow mode while deck is not playing leads to confusing behavior (cursor stays locked)
• Removed
  • Removed shortcuts which re-order lanes as they don't work as intended (A+D-Left/D-Right)
  • Hid shortcuts from tracker/clipmatrix menus as they aren't functional
  • Removed "Rotate" menu item from clipmatrix menu

v0.0.14

• Added
  • New Bus- and Master lanes in tracker- and clipmatrix view for automating effects and volumes
  • Fade-commands for lane/bus-volume and bus-filter for long fades can be accessed with B + D-UP/D-DOWN
    • Available commands (upper case letter): fade (I)n, fade (O)ut, set (T)arget, slide (U)p, slide (D)own, (S)top
    • The time-unit is amount of steps, so larger values result in longer fades and vice versa
    • Only available on the lane-volume, bus-volume and bus-filter-cutoff columns (more to come)
  • Filter type option in Bus view: State Variable Filter LP/BP/HP and Biquad LP/BP/HP
  • Preliminary Filter-Cutoff Sine-LFO per bus with amount and rate setting
  • CIA files can now be installed from the file browser (press A when selected)
  • Extremely simple waveform-view with truncating function (removes everything before or after the cursor)
  • Factotum: Looper with pitch-shifting and time-stretching as a master effect. Work in progress.
  • Parameter-columns can now be dynamically shown or hidden via B + D-LEFT (opens a menu)
  • Pitch sliding (portamento): When a note has no instrument value, it will slide to the new note
  • Pitch envelope (WIP) in third page of instrument-view
  • The time can be set via the PSlide instrument attribute and automated via the new "GL" tracker-column
  • Added cross-fade button, produces seamless loop by fading the first half into the second
  • Tracker: An entire row can now be deleted by holding B and pressing A twice when the note e column is active
  • Log-widget (open with Select + DDOWN)
  • Rotary stepped-mode (toggle w. DLEFT while holding) - snaps to coarse parameter values
  • Euclidean / Tracker screen-combo to allow selecting tracks quickly (press D-Right three times to show)
  • B + DPAD-Left allows to choose which columns are displayed per individual lane
  • Clip-lengths in clip-launch-matrix view are now shown as hex values
  • Decimal value is shown in status-line when user changes hex-values
  • "Insert Note Stops" (to first call if doesn't hold a note') option in tracker menu - to stop notes of previous pattern
  • "Apply mutes" option in clipmatrix-menu: Assigns clip zero to all muted lanes and unmutes the
  • "Double/Halve content length" options to clipmatrix- and tracker menus
• Changed
  • Volume levels change! A square-law curve is now applied to make fades perceived more evenly for humans
  • File browser: Directories can now be recursively copied or deleted
  • Tracker: Follow is disabled when transport is stopped to avoid confusion (user could not move cursor)
  • Tracker: Follow is now initially disabled (enable by pressing A)
  • Tracker: Can now edit multiple values in selection mode
  • Tracker: Value-insertion waits for button B release, to avoid unwanted insertions (less confusing)
  • Tracker: Releasing B on empty cell inserts previous value except if user moved to a different column, then it's the 'default value
  • Tracker: Pressing B + A now deletes the selected values as you would expect
  • Tracker: Moving left when on the left most lane+column the cursor no longer wraps to the right-most column
  • Tracker: Horizontal scrolling changed internally
  • ClipMatrix: B + A clears selection or current cell like in tracker
  • ClipMatrix: Replaced "Duplicate uniquely" with "Duplicate slots unique" and "Duplicate instr unique"
  • Tracker/ClipMatrix: No longer pasting at cursor x-position if clipboard is from entire row but at 0 instead
  • Drum pad selection reflects tracker-lane selection changes (and vice versa as before)
  • Bus-number is displayed at top-right in drum pads
• Fixed
  • Send effects on bus 4 have no effect
  • A loop end-point at the last frame produces a click because the interpolation reaches out of range
    • It means that single cycle samples can now be used, useful for chip-tunes
  • Moving a selection upwards would cause a freeze when moved beyond the first row
  • Flickering playhead in tracker-view during playback
  • Cannot insert value with B + C-Left (only C-Right worked)
  • Visual glitch in selection drawing where the cell before the value had differnt color
  • Entering and exiting the Rosalina menu freezes the console, due to framebuffer grab? (Still wonky but no more freezing)
  • Interpolating in row-selection mode freezes the app, now does nothing instead (supports only column mode)
  • Trig condition: x out of x triggers every time
  • Http data leaks into file uploads via curl and corrupts them

v0.0.13

• Added
  • Ability to start/stop playback by pressing the START button (play current row when in clipmatrix view)
  • Doubled Master- and bus-effects so each deck has their own - uses more CPU
  • Decks can be disabled in DJ-Mixer view to allow reducing CPU usage temporarily
  • Decks are initially disabled until the user starts playack
  • Rudimentary playlist functionality in twin-file browser
    • Press X and choose "New Playlist" in menu
    • With an *.nsm file highlighted, press X again and choose either "Copy" or "Add to Playlist"
    • Hold A + C-Pad Up/Down to re-order items inside the playlist
    • Press Select to cycle the panel-view-types: FILES -> PLAYLIST -> SAMPLES (not implemented yet)
    • Press A to load a song to the current deck as usual
    • Press B to exit back to files mode and show the "/nc/playlists" directory
    • The current playlist selection is persists, remembered during next app launch
  • Browser: Visual scroll-bars appear in long lists to indicate paging is possible (press L/R to page)
  • Browser: Pressing Y toggles deck selection
  • Browser: new functions: Dulicate, Rename, Create directory, Jump to opposite dir
  • Browser: The operations above support multi-selection but currently directories cannot be deleted or copied
  • Browser: Multiple rows can be selected by holding X and moving the circle-pad up/down
  • Header shows current deck's' loaded file name now
• Changed
  • Doubled Master- and bus-effects so each deck has their own - uses more CPU
  • Toggling display in clipmatrix has been re-assigned to the L button
  • The right-hand status column now shows the currently playing row of track 1
  • Audio init error now shows instructions on dumping DSP firmware to fix it
  • Browser: Switching side with circle-pad left/right now
  • Browser: Cursor now stays in position when paging with L/R fore more comfort
  • Browser: Pressing A when a .lst (playlist) file is selected opens it (switching to PLAYLIST panel type)
  • Browser: Copying large files is now slightly faster
  • Browser: Shows warning when attempting to load song into deck which it playing and audible (crossfader not off)
• Removed
  • Opening a project or creating a project no longer auto-plays the deck (must press Start now)
  • Start button no longer cycles pages in instrument view, use B+Circle pad instead.
• Fixed
  • DJMixer view: Both "Deck Gain" sliders affect only the selected deck instead of respective side.

v0.0.12

• Added
  • HTTP upload feature (button): User can drag a file into a served web-page to transfer it to the 3DS console
    • zip-files are automatically extracted to /nc/samples after uploading
    • Uploading via Firefox seems much slower than via Chrome
  • Tracker + pads/piano screen combo, selectable by tapping D-PAD right twice
  • Bus FX screen can be access by tapping D-PAD left twice
  • New "Instrs" (palette ) mode - allows assigning instrument numbers to pads and record them to the current lane
    • Different numbers can be assigned by holding the pad and pressing left/right on D-PAD
    • Pressing Up on the D-PAD while holding a pad will start a drag session. A copy/swap/clone menu appears when dropping.
    • Pressing D-Down while holding a pad will show a menu for overriding certain values:
      • Pitch, Volume, Slice-number, sample-number and lane number
• Changed
  • Ther user can no longer insert notes into phrase number zero
  • Allow sliding touch on piano to trigger different notes (needed to re-tap before)
• Fixed
  • Muting via B+Pad does not stop sample like PAD + Dpad-UP does

v0.0.11

• Added
  • Current octave is displayed in right-side status column
  • B + Y inserts a hard note off value (in contrast A + B changes the note length to current row)
  • "Tune to C" button in instrument view - simple zero-crossing method, sometimes off by one note - not perfect
  • Pop-up dialog for downloading demo-samples appears at startup if the samples directory is empty
• Changed
  • Changed initial reverb default value from 10 to 0
  • Matrix view displays phrase numbers in hex now and coarse edits offsets by 16
  • Renamed "Pattern Settings" screen to "Mono to Stereo Settings" and remove redundant controls
  • Hid obsolete Grid-Editor view and replaced "Assign" button with "Randomize all samples" button
  • Double tapping A shortcut for row-launching in clip-matrix view
• Fixed
  • Shifting single note row with A+DPAD UP/DOWN does not work without selection sometimes
  • Row lengths don't update when inserting or removing row in matrix view
  • Bus-numbers display range started at zero, now starts a one
  • Notes are still played when erasing notes with L + Pad
  • Clearing a pattern un-assigns samples from instruments
  • Avoid handing reserved sample, pattern or instrument with zero index to the user (adjusted related functions in code)
  • Wrong tempo value shown in tempo-dialog

v0.0.10

• Added
  • Per-bus probability setting ("BChance" in Bus-FX view)
  • Per-lane probability setting ("LnChance" in tracker bottome companion view)
  • Per-note probability setting in tracker companion screen (Percentage column)
    • If the first hex digit is zero then the second number represents a percentage (1=10%, 5=50% etc.)
    • 0F ("First") is a one-off trigger, only fired when the phrase plays for the first time
    • If the first hex digit is non-zero then the trigger occurs every nth out of x times (x being the second digit)
      • e.g. "14" plays every first out of four times and so forth (the maximum is 8/8)
  • Splash screen
• Changed
  • Removed automatic insertion of note length in tracker editor
  • Files are now sorted alphabetically in browsers
  • The phrase length now updates to the total length of the four euclideans whenever a value is changed
  • Added dynamic length toggle ("Len") button to second page in euclidean view (off by default)
    • When enabled, the clip length is set to the total euclidean length whenever a value is changed
  • The "All", "Bus" and "Selected" lane mode buttons now behave as mutually exclusive radio buttons
  • The Y-button now resets the selected parameter in instrument view
  • A unique instrument is assigned to each lane's first clip when creating a new project
  • Default template is created by code when no template.nsm file is found
  • Follow- and narrow modes are now initially active by default in tracker view
• Fixed
  • Deleting notes by holding L+Pad was broken
  • Reverb-tail never ends due to fixed-point math (replaced with float for fix)
  • Instruments not duplicated by "Duplicate Uniquely" if instrument column is empty in matrix view
  • Note with no volume value should play at full level but was quieter (64 instead of 0x64)

External links

• GitHub - https://github.com/gearmo3ds/noisecommander3dsdemo
• GBAtemp - https://gbatemp.net/threads/noise-commander-3ds-homebrew-music-making-app-in-progress.655236/
• Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/NoiseCommander3DS