Ping-pong mode is back.
Bug in manual playback fixed.
- Scrambled icons in arpeggio mode corrected
- Pause & resume playback with A / B at tempo control
- When paused, manual, stepwise playback with A is possible.
- Setting delay from within menu affects only even steps, so that a swing factor can be applied easily.
Download 2.6.0 update (for use with USB-MIDI-adaptor)
The sequencer's 16 steps are organized as a 4*4 matrix, where notes can be set and removed with one button press. Parameters are set for each note rather than for the whole channel (which is still possible though by changing all notes at once from within the menu) to provide a maximum of flexibility within the limited number of channels. Available parameters include pitch, 4-note chords (2 x arpeggio, 1 x actual polyphonic chords), volume envelope, pitch envelope/LFO, filter/modulation envelope/LFO, shuffle and panning.
There are 4 channels playing simultaneously. Each channel's playback speed can be set to 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of the global tempo to realize longer structures without using the song editor. Furthermore, each channel's lenght can vary from 1 to 16 steps, allowing all kinds of non-4/4 bar schemes.
Nanoloop 2.6 has four channels with different sound types:
- R: rectangular wave, pulse width + filter or FM
- L: as R
- S: as R but with 4-voice polyphony and stereo phasing effect
- N: pseudorandom noise generator with filter
Nanoloop 2.6's flash memory is organized in 128 banks, each of which can hold 15 patterns per channel and one song structure. Saving / loading loops does not interrupt playback and can be used for live performance, mixing saved patterns in countless new combinations.
Unlike most other Game Boy cartridges, nanoloop 2.6 uses flash memory instead of battery-buffered SRAM for user data storage. The high quality flash chip allows at least 100,000 write cycles per file slot and has a minimum data retention of 100 years.
In the song editor, saved patterns are arranged to a song structure of maximum 240 patterns length (about seven minutes at 120 BPM). It is possible to invoke tempo changes within a song.
Nanoloop can be synced to external sources via link port. The external source can be another nanoloop connected via link cable, a MIDI-sync adaptor or an analog clock. The MIDI-sync adaptor is under development.
Saved projects can be exchanged between two nanoloop 2.6 units via cart swapping or link cable. With the USB-MIDI-adaptor accessory, backup and software updates are possible, too.
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