The “Music” code pack has “play note _ for _ beats” and there is nothing that allows it to play the note until I release the key I am pressing, I have tried many things and can not figure anything out.

The blocks in the “music” pack are very limited and I have no idea if it is even possible to play a note ONLY when the key is held down and ONLY while it is being held down.

I think I was sort of able to get that to work by playing the note for a very long time - and then using the “Stop all Sounds” block triggered by the key being released. Of course - you can't use that technique for a polyphonic piano.

Paddle2See wrote:

I think I was sort of able to get that to work by playing the note for a very long time - and then using the “Stop all Sounds” block triggered by the key being released. Of course - you can't use that technique for a polyphonic piano.

Could you show an example? I am doing this for a school assignment and don't have as much experience with scratch as I would like lol

Simply add

stop all sounds

Paddle2See wrote:

I think I was sort of able to get that to work by playing the note for a very long time - and then using the “Stop all Sounds” block triggered by the key being released. Of course - you can't use that technique for a polyphonic piano.

This actually doesn't work:

when green flag clicked
set instrument to (\(20\) Synth Lead v) // Synth Lead doesn't fade so it's easy to hear when it stops playing
play note (60) for (2) beats
when green flag clicked
wait (0.2) seconds
stop all sounds // when this script stops the sound still continues

To be able to stop the sound make it using a sounds block:

when green flag clicked
set [pitch v] effect to ((10)*(-9)) // C(60) is 9 semitones lower than A(69)
play sound (A Piano v) until done // [start sound ()] block works, too
when green flag clicked
wait (0.2) seconds
stop all sounds

Mandslo_bird wrote:

The “Music” code pack has “play note _ for _ beats” and there is nothing that allows it to play the note until I release the key I am pressing, I have tried many things and can not figure anything out.

The blocks in the “music” pack are very limited and I have no idea if it is even possible to play a note ONLY when the key is held down and ONLY while it is being held down.

Maybe try

when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [...] pressed?> then
repeat until <not <key [...] pressed?>>
play note (...) for (...) beats long
end
end
end

?
Or if you meant a sprite being clicked,

when this sprite clicked
repeat until <not <<mouse down?> and <touching [mouse pointer]>>
play note (...) for (...) beats long
end