u/SanoHD

Since I am not able to afford a $660 M8 Tracker, I bought myself an Anbernic RG35XX Pro for a tenth of the price and, after some time, found out how to install custom software on it. I am working on a custom tracker software: It has 5 tracks, with one voice per track, some low-quality instruments like a sampler, drumkit, slicer and a minimal FM synth engine. You can load samples, switch between a bunch of cute themes and save & load projects already.

I built the software completely from scratch and in a way that it should be able to support other hardware as well (as it only requires the DPAD, A/B/X/Y, menu, select and start; no shoulder buttons or analog sticks atm)

In a world of high prices and RAM and chip shortages, it's nice to see what you can do with a cheap 1gb RAM device and a bunch of time :)

I am working on a software that is designed to be used with a controller (dpad + ABXY). At some points, it requires text input from the user, and I wondered, what would be some crazy, experimental text input methods that I could implement?

I don't want another virtual keyboard (like on Xbox, PlayStation, basically everywhere), because every letter takes anywhere from 1-15 presses on the dpad).

There surely must be a faster, visually more exciting way...

I am looking for a kinda dreamy track with a voice humming a melody and a sub that drops an octave and opens up over time. The sub also "pulsates" (LFO effect) - Link to the melody on OnlineSequencer.