Introducing: Make Beeps! - Create music in BeepBox and import to MakeCode Arcade!

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Over the last couple of weeks I took a challenge of seeing if I can use BeepBox to craft a song then import it into MakeCode Arcade! The inspiration came after watching some of the “collaboration” options videos and how “copy/paste” was promoted as a way to collaborate a projects across students. Knowing that I could suddenly paste whole items into MakeCode Arcade I decided to reverse engineer it and attempt to create a paste-able song import too.

I present:

Make Beeps!

The site can be found here: https://cjweed.com/make-beeps. There you’ll see similar instructions as I have here.

Steps:

  1. Install the Chrome Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kcihdejijhocbjplmnllcomblcpcbchj?utm_source=item-share-cb
  2. Download the example BeepBox song: https://cjweed.com/tuned-instruments.json
    This song contains the limits of notes and has the instruments somewhat tuned to what you’d hear in MakeCode Arcade (there are some known limits, see below).
  3. Craft up your song in BeepBox! Stay within the range of that example song for best results.
  4. Save your song as JSON from BeepBox
  5. Head over to your MakeCode Arcade project and open the “Blocks” editor (the default one typically)
  6. Open up the extension and add your BeepBox JSON file to it
  7. Then on the Blocks editor simply paste (cmd-v, ctrl-v, or right-click paste)

The song you created in BeepBox will suddenly be in your MakeCode Arcade project!

A gif of the simple process:

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Limitations

There are gobs of limits I never tried, if something is going wrong you’ve likely created notes outside the range that MakeCode Arcade somewhat supports.

Drums… I haven’t yet added drums. The sounds in MakeCode Arcade are all vastly different than the BeepBox drums where it’s simply a higher pitched sound. I’ll likely add this in the near future but it’ll be far less 1:1 with the produced sounds in MakeCode Arcade.

Feedback

Let me know on the github issues: https://github.com/Kikketer/make-beeps/issues if you have any strange-ness. I’ve only tested a few songs so far.

Feel free to respond here as well, but it may get lost (and slower). I’ll try to keep up with replies here.

Thanks all!

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