[Extension] arcade-sound-instructions

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Hey folks!

It’s been a while since i posted a new extension! Well, in honor of the current mini game jam I wanted to make an extension that lets people use the full potential of makecode arcade’s sound engine. Without further ado, I’m proud to present arcade-sound-instructions!

This extension lets you programmatically create sound effects in your game as well as manipulate them in all sorts of fun ways! I haven’t written up documentation on how all of the blocks work just yet, but today on livestream we explained how each of the blocks works in detail. That video is below:

Try it out and let me know what you think!

I also have some more features planned:

  • Combing multiple sounds to play in parallel (e.g. chords!)
  • Converting the built-in sound effects in the music category into Sounds so that you can use them with the blocks in this extension
  • Letting you override the sounds in the music editor with sounds created in this extension
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The extension’s pretty cool too!

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how do i use the extension?

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@c00lguy try watching the first half of that linked video, I explain how to use it in detail

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no i ment how do i get it in my game?

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Select Extensions in the toolbox. Then, paste either the GitHub URL or the following shortened version:

riknoll/arcade-sound-instructions

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first off invalid get over here second
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third is there a way to loop the sound

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FINALLY, THANK YOU RICHARD! Going to use this in almost all of my games.

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I mean no disrespect, but why are you a pigeon? Just curious

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@richard isn’t a pigeon, he’s the pigeon.
Actually idk why also can you tell us why all the devs are animals with buisness suits or top hats

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This extension was exactly what I needed! Thank you so much @richard for doing this for the community.

I’ve been working on voice synthesis and figured out that multiple sounds together can make different waves that sound like vowels!

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i’ve mentioned this somewhere on the forum before, but the backstory is that one of the former makecode team members (@shakao) and i one day noticed that @eanders had changed his github profile picture to be a raccoon in a business suit so we decided to replace all of the other team member’s profile pictures with various business animals to see if he noticed.

whenever i draw myself i’ve always done so as a pigeon so that’s what we went with for my profile pic. all of them were drawn by the extremely talented @shakao

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@Capybara no loop option yet. i might push an update in a few days with some new features and if i do, that’ll be one of them

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that’s cool

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I’m so excited to have custom instruments for the music editor! After all, I think the base ones are quite limiting—Also, given the percussion instrument works more like a soundfont than anything, how would we make custom percussion work just like the base one does?

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cough cough @randomuser cough cough

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Hehehehe, thanks @Capybara !

Very soon…

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wait that’s really cool! :open_mouth: how are you doing that?

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When is this coming out, and follow-up question, when it does, can I make the custom sounds have sustain on them for in the sequencer? Yk, like the sounds are similar to the duck, but a longer echo. I’m trying to make a spooky sound.