Musical Instrument #1
Description:
This is a musical instrument build with actionscript 3.0. I created it for an assignment in DESMA 157 - Design For Interactive Media. The prompt was to create a musical game. It is influenced by Nintendo’s Electroplankton. This version uses a hard coded sample set of musical instruments that I sampled. A version that communicates to external applications with OSC is in the works.
This project combines my knowledge of Box2D, the AS3 sound API, the drawing API, the tween class, and other AS3 elements. I also used the Flex Eclipse development environment for development.
The controls are:
Space - launch a new ball at top of screen
Shift - launch a new ball at the mouse position
To place a note on a peg, put your mouse cursor on top of it, and press a key on a keyboard. The top row (QWERTYU) is the first voice, the second row (ASDFGH), and the third row (ZXCVBN) place appropriate pitches - lowest to highest from left to right (just like a piano).
Clicking an already placed note erases it.
You can load a demo to get you started.
View:
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~rcaceres/157/pinball/Assignment3.html
Source:
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