Thanks for all the help. I believe I will have to try one of the more complicated solutions. Using just the player's counter and nested tests have proven to be inadequate for what my students want to do. I am certain to have more questions, but your ideas give me some things to try.

Many thanks everyone!

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Playing musical notes (karl ramberg)

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:18 +0200 From: karl ramberg karlramberg@gmail.com To: Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.com Cc: squeakland list squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: Re: [squeakland] Playing musical notes Message-ID: CAGzzWLicdzki+fh30jr-dNYoKacr2p1fQmA9g_Si4Rt0iAep3Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.comwrote:

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:56 PM, karl ramberg karlramberg@gmail.comwrote:

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.dewrote:

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On 11.07.2011, at 20:38, karl ramberg wrote:

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.comwrote:

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Is there a way to play "instruments" other than tones, similar to http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7826?

Ie: How can I specify an instrument? I can load midi files, but would like to be able to do something similar to Scratch where I can specify the instrument. and then have a script "Play the notes"

It's all there under the hood waiting for someone to do the Etoys interface... Music gets quite technical fast and it's a big job getting the tools right.

A single tile added to the sound category to let you specify the

instrument would be great.

Optionally some way to add instruments if you have a midi file.

I would introduce this to kids without using the Score Player. I would have kids build their own score players where they place the "notes" onto a playfield and the "?needle?" (That red line that moves across the piano roll) is used to play the note as long as it overlaps it. They could then do as Bert suggested and create their own rondo's by turning off "fence enabled" and having the "needle" wrap.

Stephen

Make a feature wanted on the bug tracker.

This has been a feature I have wanted to but never got around to look at.

Karl