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#1 2012-03-06 10:33:52
Help with instrument changing for no reason
Hey guys,
I'm having a pretty simple problem with my project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/pllama/2361736
The problem is that the instrument changes for a reason I am unable to find. When the bar goes over a dot it makes a noise, and for some reason that noise is not the instrument that I would like. This happens sporadically and I can not figure out the cause of the problem.
Help would be greatly appreciated. 
Thanks,
Pllama
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#3 2012-03-08 11:06:15
Re: Help with instrument changing for no reason
Thanks for the response Trinary,
Unfortunately that is not the problem. The problem is that sometimes, some of the dots play the correct instrument and sometimes they dont.
Thanks for your help,
Pllama
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#4 2012-03-08 11:09:43
Re: Help with instrument changing for no reason
It doesn't seem like I can edit or delete my post but I have played around a little more with the Java player and it seems to be working correctly. The dots still do not work completely while in the Scratch client. Is there a way to remedy that?
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#5 2012-03-08 13:32:35
Re: Help with instrument changing for no reason
Note: Limited instrument and drum library
Unlike Scratch 1.4 and the Java-based player, Flash does not have a MIDI synthesizer available. Thus, for the Flash-based player, we had to create our own synthesizer and instrument/drum library. Currently, we have 15 instruments and 12 drums as opposed to the General MIDI collection of 128 instruments and 35-ish drums. Every instrument should do something in the Flash-based player, but when an instrument is missing (e.g. bassoon), then you get a similar instrument or the default instrument (piano) instead. Similarly, for missing drums. Also, many of the instruments in our home-built library do not sound as nice as the ones in the commercial libraries available to Scratch 1.4 and the Java-based player. At some point we'll extend and improve the instrument library, although to minimize download time, it may always be a subset of full General MIDI library.
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Last edited by roijac (2012-03-08 13:33:24)
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