Click or touch (and hold) the screen to play the trombone. Control slide position with your x position and partial with your y position.
I've played the trombone for many years and have wanted to make a realistic trombone simulator pretty much ever since I started using Scratch. Thanks to the new pitch effects, it's now possible! Another source of inspiration came from the great comments from swimming Scratchers on my swimming project. I wanted to share another passion of mine: music! And a third source of inspiration was the Mobile-Friendly Projects studio. I wanted to try designing an interface that would work well on mobile. How a trombone works: Trombone players make sounds by buzzing into the mouthpiece. The tighter you make your lips and the faster you blow the air, the higher the note (or "partial"). Moving the slide also changes the pitch-- the further out the slide, the lower the note. How I made it: - Art is 100% pen. See the "pen" sprite for details. - For sound, I recorded myself playing the trombone. I played 9 different possible notes (called "partials") with my slide all the way in (called "first position"). Although I could have just recorded one note and used pitch effects to get them all, I thought this way would result in a more accurate trombone tone at the different partials. The lowest notes (the pinkish partial) are a good example of this. - Your mouse y selects what sound plays and your mouse x affect pitch effect. There are 7 positions on the trombone, and each position goes does what's called a "half step," so if you move your mouse x in 7 even increments, you should roughly hear notes that you might hear on the black and white notes of a piano, for example. - This interface was inspired, in part, by various trombone simulators I found online. Slide positions: #1: slide all the way in #2: slide part way to bell #3: slide just before the bell #4: slide just after the bell #5: slide a little further than 4 #6: slide a bit closer to the end #7: slide almost at the end As you can tell, it's not a perfect science-- trombonists rely on their ears a lot to tell where to put their slides! The notes in first position (starting from the bottom): - pink: pedal Bb - purple: low Bb - dark blue: middle F - light blue: middle Bb - dark green: middle D - light green: high F - yellow: high Ab - orange: high Bb - red: high C Fun fact: Did you know that at least 5 members of the Scratch Team play the trombone?
