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Thank you both! That helps a lot!

Here's a better version. I get the tone vs. semitone math better, and the extension does rounding instead of truncating, which has a bit nicer sound. I may try to get the sampling block smoother in the future.

Super cool -- thanks for sharing it!

Question from someone still digging into GP: You trigger updates on receiving "step." How did you know that a "step" message is sent? Is there a list somewhere? I've seen "init" too, and "go," of course.

There are some blocks that I don't know, perhaps because I haven't use Squeak enough. Can someone explain please? gather : I've now even read the source code for gather, and I can't figure out what it does. animate : I see how it's used in the new Infection project (super cool!), but I can't figure ...

By the way, I really do like the three block solution you describe! It matches Elliot's theory and Briana's developing theory. No, I don't really know why. But it makes me think that GoTo's are another thing that Dijkstra was wrong about. GoTo's make code far easier for novices to write. Your exit l...

scaleplay.png Warning: This sounds bad. But I've always wanted to play with these ideas, and this is a nice tool for doing it. Press the "Go" button and you'll hear C, D, E, F, and G, and then a C major chord. C, E, and G are recordings. D and F are sampled by scaling up one semitone (1.12246 ratio...

chordplay.png If you play sounds one at at time (see the bottom set of blocks), you get them in sequence. If you play each of them in response to a "Go" broadcast, you get a chord. Each of the bassoon sounds is actually two seconds long. Use the segment block to play only one second of the C note. ...

echoplay.png First, press Go. You'll hear "This is a Test" three times simultaneously: Once preceded by a silence of 0.1 seconds, then another preceded by a silence of 0.3 seconds, then a third preceded by a silence of 0.5 seconds. But that's not a very realistic echo. All the sounds are the same v...

My extension for manipulating sound samples is working pretty well now. I'm sharing it here, and I'll upload some of my sample projects over in the other board. samplesExtension.gp sound-samples-extension.png get samples from (some sound) returns an array of all the sound samples from some sound in ...

Elliot Soloway did a set of studies on looping structures in Pascal back at Yale in the 1980's. He found that students preferred a read/process strategy (rather than process/read) with an ability to exit the loop midway. See attached paper. I have a student who is doing some further experiments, try...