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Hi there! I'd be happy to review your project. Just remember that not getting feedback doesn't mean it's not a good project, it just means that not enough people are watching it.

Okay so I just checked out your project, and people are definitely seeing it, you have almost 100 views in just 5 days, lots of projects don't get nearly that much, so don't worry.
Your project was really good, and could be useful especially on Scratch because a lot of people are looking to find or create soundtracks for their games.

My suggestions:

- Allow people to input the notes and their beats before recording. It's hard to change the beat and the note so quickly (if you did this, you would also need to add a key for rests).
- In your notes, edit A-Z, to A-Y. At least on my computer the "z" didn't do anything.
- Instead of making the notes A-Z, do it in the standard QWERTY keyboard form. When people are inputing notes, in would be infinitely more convenient to have it laid out this way than to have to search for keys alphabetically.

On the whole, great project!

cobraguy wrote:

shivadas wrote:

- Allow people to input the notes and their beats before recording. It's hard to change the beat and the note so quickly (if you did this, you would also need to add a key for rests).
- In your notes, edit A-Z, to A-Y. At least on my computer the "z" didn't do anything.

Thanks so much for your review!  But, z is a rest. If you record and press z then it will input as a rest. I have to ask, how would you suggest letting users put in notes and beats before recording and how you suggest putting the notes in QWERTY form? That was the hardest part, I didn't know how to lay out the notes.

Oh no problem, I like giving reviews    I really didn't think through how to allow people to input notes, I just thought it would allow you to produce a higher quality of music with the program.

I guess the way I would do it is to have it ask you questions where you can input the note and the beat and set the answer to a variable. Then have the play button with a sprite like this:

when [Play Button] clicked
if <[Note 1] = [A]>
     if <[Note 1 Beat] = [Quarter Note]>
     play note [57 v] for ([0.25] * (tempo)) beats
     end
     if <[Note 1 Beat] = [Half Note]>
     play note [57 v] for ([0.5] * (tempo)) beats

Then you would add the same script for every note you are allowed to play, and add more note values. Sorry if that doesn't work or doesn't make sense, I would have to think about it longer to give you a better way.

Last edited by shivadas (2013-03-30 22:23:36)