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! Christine ________________________________________ From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of [hidden email] [[hidden email]] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:00 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: squeakland Digest, Vol 99, Issue 11 Send squeakland mailing list submissions to [hidden email] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [hidden email] You can reach the person managing the list at [hidden email] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of squeakland digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Playing musical notes (karl ramberg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:18 +0200 From: karl ramberg <[hidden email]> To: Steve Thomas <[hidden email]> Cc: squeakland list <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [squeakland] Playing musical notes Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Steve Thomas <[hidden email]>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:56 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]>wrote: >> >>> >>> On 11.07.2011, at 20:38, karl ramberg wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Steve Thomas <[hidden email]>wrote: >>> >>>> 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. Karl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland/attachments/20110712/ed616a74/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland End of squeakland Digest, Vol 99, Issue 11 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland |
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