Since my review of the original release of Aqi and Korg’s brilliant but crucially flawed Nintendo DS soft synth, the DS-10, development apparently hasn’t stood still! Shocking! To announce their DSi-powered update, Aqi have posted an absolutely hilariously fake “keynote” on youtube.
For all its ridiculousness, these are seriously good news! I’ll sum up the tastiest bits gathered from the available info.
- Uses the faster DSi clock speed to effectively double the available synthesis. That’s 4 dual-osc synth parts and a ridiculous 8 drum sample channels.
- Even if you don’t have a DSi, DS-10+ will finally unlock the song sequencer nice and proper. Videos show performers tweaking parameters and making on-the-fly edits while the song is playing. Previously, the song sequencer was an either-or situation, meaning for the most part if you wanted to make music, you were stuck with rapidly toggling patterns manually OR tweaking parameters. Now you can sequence the track in its entirety and make parameter adjustments as it plays. Hello effective live performance!
To give an indication of what people can do with a dual DS-10 setup, have a gander at this rather nastily polished trance track.
Excited! Woo!
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