MilkyTracker looks good - all we need now is some clever person to do the magic to make this work on Maemo5/N900 - anyone up for the challenge? I wish I could....
i dont think this is stupid at all, it would be good to have a portable version of FL. been using fl for a few years and i even won an award for a track i made on their. i was using beatmaker on iphone and its preety cool as you can make ur own tunes from scratch. just didnt like using my fingers.
The question is: how would the synth work? Even though N900 is powerful compared to most smartphones, I'm not sure how well it can handle audio processing.
The audio (DSP) on the orginal DS wasn't any kind of champ. It did sound but from everythign I've read was now where near amazing. The new DSi has a much improved DSP.
Based on this I would say the N900 could handle it no problem. I would wager the DSP in the iPhone is no better or worse than the N900s. On top of that any high end sound processing could be offloaded to the CPU should it be too much for the DSP.