[Extension] arcade-custom-instruments

[richard]

Hey folks!

Today’s extension comes courtesy of a request by @not_a_lemon!

GitHub - riknoll/arcade-custom-instruments: A MakeCode Arcade extension for customizing the...

This extension allows you to change the builtin instruments from the music editor in a song! You can customize any of the melodic instruments in the music editor. That includes the dog, duck, cat, fish, car, computer, burger, cherries, or lemon! Drums cannot be customized (maybe one day)

How to use:

1. Add riknoll/arcade-custom-instruments to your project
2. Wrap your song inside the “make song writable” block like so:
   
   
3. Use the other blocks to change the sounds for the instruments in your song:
   
   
4. You did it!

Here’s that demo project: https://makecode.com/_ct4d4JA7KYm5

Known bugs

Tremolo and vibrato currently do not work as expected. This is due to a bug in MakeCode, which I’ve already made a bug fix for. Once that fix is released, they’ll work as expected!

[king_bob]

this will be awesome to make music with.

[redSprite]

Seeing an extension in the default color is quite cursed.

[TheEarth]

the green color nah I managed to troll someone by setting the side bar color to the color of the side bar they never realized

[not_a_lemon]

YAAAAAAY TYSM TYSM TYSM!!!

[not_a_lemon]

Using this extension I’m trying to make a single function that changes the instrument; is there any way to have a song as a function input?

[richard]

there is a hacky way to do it, add an “Array” input and then pass your song inside an array with one element

[Awesomefreez]

Next stop mp3 files

[redSprite]

Songs are a type of array?

[richard]

no you put the song in the array

[BLADEr]

Thank you so much for doing this!

[Astro]

Time for my 50% Duty wave

[RoboVacDev]

Yo this is awesome

[RoboVacDev]

Look what I made with this extension so far!

test

For some reason though, a block from the volume section freezes my screen…

[not_a_lemon]

Hey @richard can you please add a volume control for the drums instrument, too? it’s really weird to have the drums at volume 100 and the rest of the song at 25.

[RoboVacDev]

Hey @richard i think there’s a bug in the volume section. Whenever I add it into the editor, it mysteriously freezes my screen.

[not_a_lemon]

@richard why can’t I use negative numbers in the pitch envelope amount block? when I use anything less than or equal to -1 the pitch goes way too high

[richard]

@not_a_lemon the song format allows for positive values only!

the reason it goes high is because the value that’s assigned is treated as an unsigned integer. -1 reads as a very high number when converted to an unsigned number (see two’s complement)

[TheEarth]

who is two and why are they complimenting me?/j

[Astro]

Unsigned? Like the Arduino??? (I jest)