NOTE - Music Element

DISCLAIMER: This element has been suggested before and has been denied, but there will be an option to enable/disable it on the sidebar (see properties)! Please see the edited version at the bottom of the suggestion.

Characteristics:

• Color - rgb(153, 189, 247)

• Tooltip - “Note, plays a sound when sparked, and can be configured by the CTYPE.”

• It plays a sound when sparked.

• The CTYPE changes its properties (instrument, volume, duration, etc.).

• It would be under the “Electronics” section.

Properties:

• CTYPE: 0xPPIVSD

• PP - Pitch (00: lowest, FF: highest)

• I - Instrument (0 - F)

• V - Volume (0 - F, 0 is off, F is loudest)

• S - Sustain (on or off)

• D - Duration (1 beat to 16 beats, ½ beats are not supported)

Its sound can still play even if the NOTE element is deleted (sustain, duration, etc.), but stops playing when the simulation is exited.

Instrument list (CTYPE):

• 0 - Piano

• 1 - Trumpet

• 2 - Strings

• 3 - Bass

• 4 - Marimba

• 5 - Bell

• 6 - Harpsichord

• 7 - Synth

• 8 - Synth 2

• 9 - Guitar

• A - Saxophone

• B - Flute

• C - Snare Drum

• D - Cymbals

• E - Bass Drum

• F - Tom Drum

Instrument list (TMP):

• 1 - Harmonica

• 2 - Pipe organ

• 3 - Bass 2

• 4 - Synth 3

• 5 - Bass 3

• 6 - Oboe

• 7 - Clarinet

• 8 - Click (drum set)

• 9 - Electric guitar

• 10 - Pipe organ

• 11 - to be determined

• 12 - to be determined

• 13 - to be determined

• 14 - to be determined

• 15 - to be determined

• 16 - to be determined

The TMP instruments can be accessed by having the CTYPE instrument value set to 0; if the CTYPE is 0 and there is a value in the TMP property, it will ignore the CTYPE instrument set.

There will be an option on the side (with the newtonian gravity, ambient heat, etc.) that disables NOTE. It would have the letter “M”.

Uses:

• Realistic instruments (keyboard, trumpet)

• Songs! You could show off your musical experience by making an existing songs or composing your own song!

• Sound Effects! You could make your game play a sound with each action or reward/win!

• Logos! You could make your logo play a little tune when the simulation is opened!

• Music composers! You could make a cool machine that lets you compose songs!

This would probably be hard to code; I might try to make it into a mod/script. It would be nice if it could play at least one instrument (probably the piano) if it was added to the game.

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Edited version:

There would only be the piano instrument, but in the future it could be possibly be changed by the tmp2 value.

There would now be 8 instruments instead of 26ish: Piano, Trumpet, Guitar, Base, Synth, Snare Drum, Cymbal, Tom Drum.

The pitch would be controlled by the tempature value (0 to 88).

The volume would be controlled by the tmp value (0 to 10, with 10 being the loudest).

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Edit #2:

This is just an addition to the first edit, but now pitch is controlled by the tempature, volume is controlled with the tmp value, and now, duration is controled by the tmp2 value!

Each "1" is equal to one beat! ".5" in the tmp2 value is equal to an eigth note! The maximum duration is 16 beats.

Chart (for the decimals):

.5 - Eigth note

.25 - Sixteenth note

.125 - 32nd note

.0625 - 64th note

The reason why I did the CTYPE instead of the other properties is because it would be easier to configure, plus there is not enough to store all of the options.

I said 32 instruments because I did not know which would be the best; I chose some that would be nice to have, but some could be removed/swaped.

The samples could be hard to find, there are some sites that you could use though.

This element would be a good idea, but I would have to make some changes. 

It probably would only have the piano as an instrument, and only have pitch and volume as properties.

The pitch should be the LIFE value and the volume would be the TMP value.

It would have to be this way because it mean less code used, less samples needed, and it would make coding much simpler.