Download this project!Project Notes
- experimental -
Funny & strange: works currently *only* correct online (!).
This project features a customizable one-sprite composer. You can reuse it to add endless random symphonic background music to your projects.
Here's how:
Export the 'music' sprite, and import it into your own project. That's it!
You can also adjust all settings to make it fit your own preferences:
- speed: beats per minute.
- beats (per measure): 2 (slow march) 3 (waltz) 4 (swing).
- complexity: enables / disables complex chords.
- instruments: for orchestration.
The music sprite is my shot at a minimal random harmonic composer. It needs no global variables and uses just one single broadcast message.
Have fun!
- Jens
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hey i just added your project to my new gallery i love it! check out my keyboard i just created with a recording function, and let me know what you think (link to project)
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speed:150 beats:4 complexity:1 voice:128 melody:128 chords:40 bass:128 .... much better.
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sweet
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Woah. When you set all instuments to 128 (Proving that you can make music out of gunshots) it sound like some kind of dramatic drumbeat. I've never really looked at your music projects before (I'm not much of a musician) but they are amazing!
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Wadler, how rude! Thsi project is awesome. As for wadler, you know he probably spends hours on these projects.
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it wasnt me it was my bro
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hes always pushing me off and typing stuff
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If you want, I can make a gallery that has all one sprite projects like here and (link to project)
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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAWWWWEEEEESSSSSSSOOOOMMMEEEEE OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WOW, thats awesome
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oooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk..................
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ive got darkbrownhair and light brown hair ive got some freckles
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I wish there were more projects like this on scratch!
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Really cool! Come see my new Bach project: (link to project)
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this is amazing wow that is reallly good
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Very nice, I have composed a beutiful song to use in my virtual ipod
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I'm blown away...too cool for words!
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Ich muss sagen, dieses Arbeite ist sehr gut! Ich mag es am liebsten! (Sorry if my German is a little off...)
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Aber sicher!
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Sie sind von Deutschland?
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cool
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Jens: I like your idea of putting together a gallery of useful one-sprite projects. I know you have a couple, and I think I've seen a few others. The original scratch distro also has some useful ones (like the gravity ball, etc.) Why don't you go ahead and create a gallery and add me to the list of people who can add projects. There
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Jens, my latest project "Scratch Sounds" allows one to call up lists of the instruments and drums so that one can choose a particular instrument when using a slider. I'd like to know what you think of the idea.
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When you say it works only online (and in my experience it's true) how about your development of it on your own computer? I would like to be able to alter the settings successfully offline. Very strange.
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Beautiful! DrJim's suggestion of volume control in Scratch is a good one. Jens...you may hear this project in ALL future Scratch projects!!! :-)
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Does this ever end?! Oh sorry er- good job you make cool stuff,your real taleted. :)
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Great - but really argues for a volume control capability in Scratch to get the full "romantic" flavor.
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Thanks for sharing this! I've been doing some simple puzzle games in scratch and this is a perfect way to add a bit of background music without bloating the file size. And it even works for someone as musically incompetent as I am.
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The 'secret' behind this project is the way it produces random harmonies. Here I'm trying out a new radically simiplified 'dumbed-down' harmony-making algorithm. The result surprises me, because it actually sounds rather pleasant, even reminding me of late 19th century romantic music (Bruckner, Mahler, Wagner) or contemporary movie score (John William, James Horner) at times. Aparently it doesn't take a great composer to produce that kind of music, just Scratch will do!
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Beautiful
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Amazing.Great job!
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Excellent. Very compact and useable in a variety of projects.
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wicked, its really good
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Cool
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