LILT
A musical grid for small computers. Place notes on a sixteen by eight grid and let them loop, then shape the sound with echo, space, pace and wobble across nine generated voices. Simple enough for kids, strange enough for everyone else.
Port Details
Genres
other
Requirements
Porter
Downloads
59
Last Updated
2026-10-21
Rating
None
Miscellaneous
Ready to Run
Instructions
Ready to run.
Additional Information
Notes
LILT is an original piece by deadquiet42, first made for a homebrew front end on the R36S and adapted here for PortMaster. Thanks to the PortMaster team and testers for the tooling that makes small projects like this easy to share.
LILT is a small native program. It draws its own interface and generates all of its sound in real time through the system SDL2 library, with no bundled libraries, samples or fonts.
At startup, choose one of three sound banks with the D-Pad and press A. The next screen shows the controls; press any button to start.
LILT is freeware, distributed through PortMaster with the author's permission. See lilt/licenses/LICENSE.lilt.txt.
Controls
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| D-Pad | Move (hold to keep moving) |
| Left Stick | Move (where present) |
| A | Place notes (hold to paint) |
| B | Remove notes (hold to erase) |
| X | Empty the pattern |
| Y | Change wobble |
| L1 / R1 | Change pace |
| L2 / R2 | Change voice |
| Select + D-Pad Left / Right | Change echo |
| Select + D-Pad Up / Down | Change space |
| Start | Rest or resume |
| Select + X | Fresh start |
| Select + Start | Exit |
Saves
The pattern and settings are kept in ports/lilt/conf/lilt.state.
Compile
Source: https://github.com/deadquiet42/lilt
gcc -O2 -s lilt.c -o lilt $(sdl2-config --cflags --libs) -lm -lpthread
Build on an aarch64 device or chroot with the SDL2 development files. The release binary was cross compiled with Zig targeting glibc 2.17; see the repo README for that command.