FamiStudio

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About this app

FamiStudio is a simple 8-bit chiptune music editor. It is targeted at both chiptune artists and homebrewers.

Features:

* Modern DAW-style UI with piano roll, no hexadecimal anywhere
* Instrument & Envelope edition
* Full Undo/Redo support
* Copy & Paste support
* Note drag & drop with audio preview
* DPCM sample editor
* Import from FamiTracker FTM & Text (official 0.4.6)
* Export to various formats (WAV, ROM, NSF, Video, etc.)
* Volume, fine pitch, vibrato effect tracks
* Slide notes (portamento)
* Arpeggios
* Multiple audio expansions supported.
* Desktop versions are also available for all major operating systems.

The app is free and open source.

Ratings and reviews

Great chiptune composing app! I feel like I compose better with these limitations. I can assure you that the reviews that say it's "unusable" just never understood the mechanics the app teaches you when you load it. Everything is chromatic, so I don't understand the reviews saying that there aren't specific scales. The user talking about "moving all notes at once" was accidentally swiping over the top to select several notes, and you can easily edit individual notes.

As a non-musically inclined person who had little tunes that I wanted to somehow record or write down without recording myself humming or attempting to record a snippet using some piano tutorial app, this thing is amazing! It seems pretty powerful with what it can do so I'm for sure going to try the desktop version in the coming days. I'm sure more musicians on the go would appreciate this app a ton. :D

Well this is an unexpected surprise. I had heard about FamiStudio before, but never tried it until now. It looks feature complete for NES composition. It supports the various expansion chips, pitch modulation, duty modulation, etc. Bravo for porting it to Android!

What's new

SDK upgrade, no new features.