| Nanoloop on Motorola MPx200 05 Oct 2005 12:53 +1:00  At the PC Dumpdagen I bought a new cell phone for a bargain, though new is not the right word here. The Motorola MPx200 is already a few years old but is at the moment still interesting because it runs Windows Mobile OS. This makes it possible to install all kind of windows software and... game emulators. One of the first things I installed on the phone was GNUboy CE for Smartphone 2002/ 2003 (an open source gameboy emulator). Then I downloaded Nanoloop, a cult sound sequencer program for the gameboy that is/ was amongst others used by electronic artists as dat politics, pyrolator, pita and merzbow. With this program I turned my mobile in real minimalist sequencer. The good thing about GNUboy CE is that you can configure all keys the way you want, which makes working with Nanoloop very easy. The problem I ran in though is that the low noises you can produce with Nanoloop can't hardly be heard through Motorola's MPx200 speaker. The solution I found for this is a 2.5 mm (headset plug size of MPx200) to 3.5 mm adapter which can by plugged in the headset output and which makes it easy connect to headphones or a mixer. Interesting is that the actual sound Nanoloop produces on the MPx200 is quite different than on a gameboy and has so to speak it's own flavor. In this sense a comparison with Roland's TR-505 and TR-909 is at it's place. Where the output sound of Nanoloop on the MPx200 stands for the 505 and on a gameboy is more like a 909. |