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L.W Pianola 1 (Player Piano) -- Plays Maple Leaf Rag! [UPDATE 1.1]
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Nom|Aplem|Nom:
In the video. It does lie, It is not the first piano in Blockland that plays a song... at all. Search gallery for piano and you will see that there is actually a few pianos before this one that plays a song.

Besides that, it is quite good.
xXGhostXx:
Another Piano :|?
Sheath:

--- Quote from: Nom|Aplem|Nom on July 14, 2011, 11:59:59 PM ---In the video. It does lie, It is not the first piano in Blockland that plays a song... at all. Search gallery for piano and you will see that there is actually a few pianos before this one that plays a song.

Besides that, it is quite good.

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Its the first player piano. A piano that was evented to play and a piano that can operate piano rolls are quite different, frankly un-comparable.


--- Quote from: xXGhostXx on July 15, 2011, 12:11:32 AM ---Another Piano :|?

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The LateralWorks Digital piano had 44 keys, sustain, and onboard memory for recording and playback. This is a non-digital piano, and it doesn't have sustain, but it does have 60 keys and operates piano rolls.
Slezak:
What are the "soundboards" for? I couldn't find any events in the piano that referenced them. Are they just for show?

Other than that, another awesome piano from you. I just kinda wish you used actual note names for the sounds instead of "blackt_1.wav" and whatnot. That naming scheme, no offense intended, makes it seem like you named the files to go along with this piano and not necessarily to be easily-used anywhere else.

Love the sounds though, and it's nice that we now have a 60-note range to use. Wonderful quality in the sounds too. They sound a bit like the pianoextended sounds, but I think that's just because it's another piano soundpack.

(I really wish there was a way to easily stop sounds/change their volume without mods to the engine itself. That would make the playSound event much more versatile.)
Sheath:

--- Quote from: Slezak on July 15, 2011, 03:59:15 AM ---What are the "soundboards" for? I couldn't find any events in the piano that referenced them. Are they just for show?

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The sound boards are large plate bricks that emit the piano sound. The more there are, the louder the volume becomes. This one has 4, so each note has the sound of 4.


--- Quote from: Slezak on July 15, 2011, 03:59:15 AM ---I just kinda wish you used actual note names for the sounds instead of "blackt_1.wav" and whatnot. That naming scheme, no offense intended, makes it seem like you named the files to go along with this piano and not necessarily to be easily-used anywhere else.
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Yeah, really that is just so I can easily put the sounds onto the piano by just starting from 1 to 60 left to right. My convenience really, its not intended to be used for another build but you could since its not too hard to order the sounds from scratch. What I really should have done is named the keys more appropriately as bricks, so it is easier to make rolls. I need to post the diagram that shows how to easily make rolls. :U
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