Zune Synth

[runewake2]

If you want music, you can start it before you enter the app. It should work, though I haven't tried it.

I don't think the drum machine would have run into this problem. It occurs at or around 8 sounds playing at once and having 8 drums playing at once seems a bit odd.

I'm not sure about sticking all the playing sounds on top of each other, I've never tried it. I'm not sure if XNA would let me. I'll look into it and see what happens.

I can actually make drum sound effect pretty easily in FL Studio. Frankly, I might just have it so that their are multiple "SoundPacks" which you can just unzip over the original sounds to get what you want.

Also, I forgot about one little detail in my modders guide. It should be relatively easy to add extra columns. The only reason I don't let you do this now is that I have to account for the Zune's tiny screen. I should have a scroll bar working shortly that should fix this.

[boohbah11]

Originally Posted by runewake2

If you want music, you can start it before you enter the app. It should work, though I haven't tried it.

I don't think the drum machine would have run into this problem. It occurs at or around 8 sounds playing at once and having 8 drums playing at once seems a bit odd.

I'm not sure about sticking all the playing sounds on top of each other, I've never tried it. I'm not sure if XNA would let me. I'll look into it and see what happens.

I can actually make drum sound effect pretty easily in FL Studio. Frankly, I might just have it so that their are multiple "SoundPacks" which you can just unzip over the original sounds to get what you want.

Also, I forgot about one little detail in my modders guide. It should be relatively easy to add extra columns. The only reason I don't let you do this now is that I have to account for the Zune's tiny screen. I should have a scroll bar working shortly that should fix this.

Cool stuff, and after trying it (it's pretty awesome by the way) the only thing I can think to add would be to have it play the sound when you turn on a tile, so its not just randomly pressing tiles and hoping for the best

[runewake2]

Good idea, I'll add that to the next release.

[shpongled]

Originally Posted by runewake2

I should have a scroll bar working shortly that should fix this.

now that would be cool!

[runewake2]

Minor Update to version 5. Source not updated.
- Notes are now played when you enable them, this also animates notes with the played animation (glowing white) when they are placed.

Heading back to school next week so work on this may slow down. Hopefully I can get that scrollbar for you shpongled by next weekend.


EDIT: The scroll bar is working, I just need to work out a few bugs with it (it currently deactivates if you aren't "over" the slider part), once that is finished it should be relatively easy to work in.

This scroll bar is being pulled from my newest "Big" project currently titled Nova. This is a more expansive engine than my earlier ZNA and is intended for XBox, PC and Zune. It will hopefully be better constructed than ZNA was and easier to understand.

Anyway, scroll bars appear to be on schedule and should be released by the weekend if not sooner.


UPDATE! (current version 6)
-Source Not Updated
Now includes experimental scroll bar and a much larger number of rows. Sorry about the size of the bar, that one was designed for a mouse.

I'm sure this version will have some unforseen bugs as it was converted from a Mouse based system. However, all my tests works (though they were a bit scarce). Opinions appreciated.

Have fun.

PS. I'm working on a version two for the modders guide, which will include how to change the number of columns shown. Assuming everything works fine, it should be a single number that you need to change. ahh, simplicity!

[Arendek12]

It's not complicated at all. GIMP is very easy to use and very intuitive, not to mention that is highly portable. For complicated operations with large image manipulations you will need to study a lot more.