Rhythm Core Alpha Song: Greetings to Japan

YouTube via LuckyButtonPusher | February 06, 2011 |

"100% Rhythm Core Alpha. This DSiWare is great!!! I've got six handheld music apps until now (RCA, Korg DS-10, RYTMIK, Music On: Drums, Music On: Retro Keyboard and Nanoloop. RCA is one of the best! Many great features (Piano roll, ADSR, up to 64 steps per pattern, a lot of drum and melody tracks etc.)

Amazing: You can play all your patterns (blocks) in realtime and even change the chords of your created tunes automatically. LIVE !!!

Thank you very much for this awesome DSiWare release and keep up the good work, SoftEgg!!!

My suggestions for the next RCA version:
- undo function
- higher rate of very good samples
- echo as realtime effect (now echo is possible, but only with real notes in the blocks)
- using the button "Start" for start+stop the current pattern (block)"

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Open Source: Music Hardware Synthesizer (Supplyframe Original Series)

Published on Sep 6, 2016 Supplyframe

Tim Trzepacz is the man behind SoftEgg & Rhythm Core Alpha. He also developed a modular keyboard design as you can see below.

"(S1 / E4) Supplyframe DesignLab opened its doors this July to four creative resident teams building hardware projects in Art, Design, Technology, and Science. The new series 'Open Source' follows DesignLab residents step by step in their creations. Episode 4 explores resident Tim Trzepacz and the creation of his music hardware synthesizer the NanoEgg. After successfully launching a software synth developed for the Nintendo, Tim has begun the journey creating a fully analog hardware synthesizers.

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http://supplyframe.com/designlab"

via 3dprint.com

"'I also do crafty stuff like display stands for my product and portable stages and such,' Trzepacz says. 'I love performing, and will play music anywhere. I’m really active in the greater Los Angeles chiptune scene, and for that, I need to make interfaces to do stuff on Arduino and Propeller boards.'

Now with this multi-part design for a synthesizer controller keyboard, Trzepacz says he wanted to create a modular design which would allow designers to 3D print as many sections as they need."

Rhythm Core Alpha: Lo-fi Johnny

YouTube Uploaded by LuckyButtonPusher on Mar 6, 2011

"100% Rhythm Core Alpha. This time I used the lo-fi sounds (mainly Square, Saw and C64 samples) and tried to assemble retro tunes whith many tones and some arpeggio sounds, which personally remind me of my Game Boy childhood. Are you a Lo-Fi Johnny, too?

Amazing: You can play all your patterns (blocks) in realtime and even change the key/mode of your created tunes automatically. LIVE !!!

Thank you very much again for this awesome DSiWare release and keep up the good work, SoftEgg!!!"