| Noise Commander 3DS Demo | |
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| Author | gearmo3ds |
| Type | Music Apps |
| Version | 0.0.15 |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2025/06/04 |
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Noise Commander 3DS is a sample based groovebox app 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
v0.0.15
- 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
- HTTP upload feature (button): User can drag a file into a served web-page to transfer it to the 3DS console
- 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)