pouët.net

So I Googled and checked on Pouet for tracking software (not a player, but a tool for writing tracked music) on the iPod touch and haven't had much luck.

I should note that I know the iPod Touch is a lame platform and so I'm not surprised, but one came free with my laptop and I don't want to spend money on another handheld if I can avoid it (I know there's at least one tracker for the non-lame Nintendo DS).

Is anyone working on a project to write one? If not, I'll poke around at trying to figure out how to do it, although that will take me a while since I have so much else on my todolist.

It just sucks to only be able to track at home on my laptop (since it is too heavy to drag on the train every day).

See! I have brain cells left. Eventually I'll even have time to lurk on IRC. *sigh*

Tried to watch below for the "reason", but ended up reading "page created in 0.019734 seconds."

Not exactly a tracker, but a synth.

I guess a port of milkytracker is possible...

Why is the iPod Touch a lame platform? And I take it the iPod came in a bundle with a Mac (since how else are you planning to code for the iPod.. unless you have another Mac :)), and I don't recall any MacBooks being too heavy to bring on the train .. so bring your laptop and use Renoise :D

what bstrr sais plus: if it came with a mac, it means you ordered a Mac, and we all know the iPod is no more shameful than a full blown Mac!
so you'd better just assume your platform choices rather than make up lame excuses :)

that being said, nintendo DS is elite while iTouch is lame?
from developer pov, they both equally suck, DS maybe more.
from a philosophical standpoint about their mother company, they both equally suck.
from their color, I have yet to see a pink iTouch :)

flamewar aside, I haven't heard of any tracker. Maybe a port of the piggy (lgpt) would be possible.

I really don't get all the Apple hate here.

okkie: I think it's basically this, "oh shit I can't afford to buy one so I must beat the shit out of its users". That said, I don't get it either :/. Some of these people hate Apple even before they used any of the Apple products.

me neither, bananas are far more annoying

just look at them... aaargh!

my ipod crashes if i plug it on.

RE: Gargaj
Milkytracker could do it, but something adapted for the uniquely fingerpaint interface of the iTouch (maddening at times, I'll say) would be favorite...


RE: Decipher

Good point on more specific language there, heh. Thank you.


RE: bstrr

I'm used to my old 12" and this new one is one of their lameass heavy widescreen 13" plus I have a protective bag so the overpriced thing doens't get banged up. (software I wanted to keep using on it for copyediting that I have in Apple version, don't want to pay again...that's what happened...lesson to me to wean myself off the proprietary software before the end of this machine)


RE: Barzoule


Ok, point. *grin* heck, my first computer was an Apple IIGS in 1987 and I was proud then, right up through the Mac II and 68K and then the G3 and then the iBook, PowerMac, MacBook have all been in the era of shame....
/*creeak* of the closet door
Ok, I'll just be a proud Apple scener, even though I have a love and hate relationship with the company that makes the stuff.
Then again, I'll be less embarassed writing a demo for a IIGS (when I get a chance)....

RE: Decipher vis a vis "Apple hate"

I used to love Apple's stuff, but after the iMac (or one might argue, after Apple started succeeding financially and Macs became a machine palatable to the mainstream, even if to mainstream yoyos) I was embarassed of it. I felt like back in the days of beige machines, the days before they started using Intel processors as well, they were uniquely interesting machines. Now they're just overpriced shiny stuff...and they lock everything down. Then again, you can hate on Windoze for the same reasons *grin*

In any case, I would be interested in seeing a tracker for the iPod, just as I want to write a demo for it some day. I've seen like three in the Prods category here...

\m/

Hmm... i own an ipod touch and a ds, and I'm 10x more ashamed of the ds. Maybe because it's light blue with a pink hello kitty sticker, and a pink case. :(

I've not seen a tracker for it (not really looked mind) but I've seen some good looking synth-based music apps before now. A tracker on such a small screen with only finger based input.. well, I can imagine any straight port of a tracker sucking badly. Something written for it could rule though if done right.

metoikos: you mean before apple SOLD OUT?

@okkie: no hate at all by my side, I'm both a Mac AND iPhone user... I simply find tracking on an iPhone as reasonable as coding on an iPhone. I might be wrong, but I don't see it as a practical solution.
FWIW, I'm porting a synth on the iPhone too :)

last message was for @decipher, too :)

lol macs are gay and everyone knows....

so hey, what about something like sunvox? that's a bit of a tracker right? (i wouldn't know honestly because it doesn't work on my iphone :)

psonice: you're ashamed of your DS / iTouch? What kind of nerd are you? Get your act together man!! :)

#topic: I imagine you could actually make a very useful little tracker if you took a little time to spec it out and think about how to implement the controls - you could swipe from track to track, push-drag to plot notes. Not sure how you could handle loading samples and loading/saving tracks without jailbreaking the damn thing, but then I imagine that's not really a big problem for people on here :)

quick, useless UI mockups with not much thought to functionality:

Question: why would you want to track on the iPhone/iPod Touch/ANY mobile device?

Masochism? :D

Sunvox exists on the iPhone (I guess it could be iPod compatible, too) and a bunch of other portable devices. It's still missing a vibrato command, but hey, at least it's actively being developed!

It worked quite well with LSDj on the Game Boy, IMO. I think that a bunch of tactile buttons are a whole lot more ergonomic than a touch screen, though.

Oh boy, somebody who doesn't get Macs. The novelty!

They've always been overpriced