Noise commander in 2025

Happy new year!

First a look back to what happened in 2024:

• 9 versions released

• Made beats with samples from Pikmin 3 game

• Visited the Evoke demo-party in Cologne and submitted a demo/advert for the 3DS named "Pocket beats adventure", placed 14th in the compo

• Made 14 beats during the #Beatober 24 challenge

• Uploaded 30 ish Youtube videos

• Made a limited demo version available (will submit to Universal Updater soon)

• My Fasttracker 2 youth-chiptunes video got more than 14 thousand views

• Reached ~450 Youtube followers

Features I hope to add to the app in the coming year (may be overly optimistic or not feasible).

• Parameter automation (requires having separate effects instances per deck)

• Probability in sequencer (mostly done)

• Audio-looper (currently work in progress)

• Playlists and cue-points for DJing

• More effects

• Synthesis (tailored to reeses and wubs)

• More LFOs and Envelopes

• Midi clock synchronization via Infrared and/or WiFi

• 4-channel wav recording

• 4 channel streamed wav playback for backing tracks (and potentially overdubbing)

• Separate looper-interface for dragging loops into the sequencer

• "Crafting" mode for mangling and manipulating samples with effects or generating FM noises baked as audio sample

• Basic editing-mode for long audio jams to delete "boring" bars

• Built-in file transfer/synchronization from/to PC

• DAW integration via linux CLAP plug-in for Reaper, Renoise and Bitwig

Which feature is most important to you?

I will try to make the next demo version available via the Universal Updater with the hope to attract more users.

I believe I might have a tendency to oversell the app in the youtube videos implicitly. The user interface is very clunky and so far nobody is using it on a regular basis. It would be so cool to listen to tunes made from someone else for a change.

There is a saying that a piece of software needs to be written three times until it is good. I got two rewrites ahead of me then.

I am also considering to make one or more additional crowd-funding campaigns on other platforms for development sprints.

Thanks for caring and best wishes to you for 2025.

Yours, Mr. Gearmo 3DS.