[MWForum]playing music parallely

Zehava Wizman mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:49:53 +0200


hello Wendy!
thanks for your answer.
                          Zehava


>From: "Wendy Petti" <wpetti@mathcats.com>
>Reply-To: mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
>To: <mwforum@lists.mathcats.com>
>Subject: RE: [MWForum]playing music parallely
>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:46:25 -0500
>
>I would like to add to Shawn's helpful information. I have had partial
>success in launching two or more melodies created entirely by coding.  Try
>these steps:
>
>1) Write each tune as a separate procedure, using the note command to
>generate each note in each tune.
>2) Use each of these tune names as the instruction for a turtle.
>3) Activate all of the turtles at once with EVERYONE [CLICKON].
>
>I tried with these 3 sample tunes (and 3 turtles):
>
>to twinkle
>note 60 4
>note 60 4
>note 67 4
>note 67 4
>note 69 4
>note 69 4
>note 67 8
>note 65 4
>note 65 4
>note 64 4
>note 64 4
>note 62 4
>note 62 4
>note 60 8
>end
>
>to harmony1
>note 72 16
>note 72 8
>note 72 8
>note 74 8
>note 72 8
>note 71 8
>note 72 8
>end
>
>to harmony2
>note 64 16
>note 65 8
>note 64 8
>note 62 8
>note 60 8
>note 67 8
>note 64 8
>end
>
>When I typed
>EVERYONE [CLICKON]
>all three melodies played together for the first half of the short
>composition, and then the harmonies dropped out; I don't know why.  When I
>tried slightly different harmonies I had slightly different results with 
>all
>3 tunes staying active (but missing the occasional note in the harmonies).
>I don't know if this is a limitation of my computer's processing power
>rather than a limitation of MicroWorlds.  (I tried this experiment with
>MicroWorlds Pro but I don't think the version makes a difference.)  I don't
>know what would happen with longer coded compositions.  But I find it quite
>amusing to create one's own programmed composition and "orchestra" even if
>some of the musicians are unreliable and even if the music will never, uh,
>climb the charts.
>
>Wendy
>
>Wendy Petti
>OWL's MicroWorlds in Action
>http://mia.openworldlearning.org
>Math Cats
>www.mathcats.com
>MWForum moderator
>
> >
> > Hello Help!
> > how can I play 2 or more musics in same time,
> > Is it possible? I tried with
> > launch, and forever, and it didn't work.
> > thanks, Zehava
>
>
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