Compatible emulators

Synopsis

Ikinari Musician features a piano-like keyboard, a treble clef on the score to show note locations, a 5-channel backing track, 4 timbre choices, and controllers to manipulate common synthesizer parameters such as release and attack, LFO, etc. It is also provides recording and playback function.

The player has many choices of backing track styles, from popular styles such as rock, techno and jazz, to different ethnic flavors such as Bossa, Rio, Japan, India, Arabia, etc.

The backing tracks representing the styles use familiar elements to make the game more accessible to general audiences. For example, in the Scottish style Cadence to Arms, a familiar bagpipe tune is used.

Most backing tracks revolve around one or two chords, allowing for open improvisation on the main keyboard. Once the style is chosen, the main keyboard is hidden in the way that only the scale that easily fits into the style is available, e.g. blues scale, pentatonic scale, etc.

The keyboard is controlled by the UP-DOWN or LEFT-RIGHT d-pads on the game controller, so there is no way to play ladder jumps.

Due to hardware limitation, the sound produced is typical 8-bit chiptune music.

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