Click Play to open the player and listen to the current composition. Click Edit to open the editor, where you can edit or compose your own piece. (To begin with, try just changing the scale and then listen to the music again. Try all the scales - it's fun!) If you have a keyboard, you can press space to directly switch between the editor and the player. On mobile you have to go via the title screen. Click the green flag to return to the title screen. Click the Delete button to delete the current project and start from scratch. ◉◉◉ Basic Editor Instructions ◉◉◉ Starting from the bottom, we have the keys on which the marbles will be dropped. The colorful keys play vibraphone notes, and the gray ones play percussion sounds. The color of each key represents its note. Hovering over a note shows the Music extension number of that note, and you can click it to listen to it. The gray circles are slots, in which you can place marbles, causing them to be dropped on the keys directly below them when played. Each row represents one beat, and all eight rows together are one bar. This brings us to the bar panel, directly above the slots. The number in the bar panel shows which bar is currently displayed. The arrow buttons let you move between bars. The buttons to the right of those are Copy and Paste buttons, which are useful if you want several bars with the same or similar melodies. The last two buttons are Add and Delete, which allow you to change the number of bars. To the right of the bar panel, we have Export and Import buttons, which allow you to export the notes as a save code, or enter a save code to import notes. At the top left, we have the musical scale of the keys. changing this will produce a very different sound. The base note is the note of the lowest key (to the far left). The rest of the notes are assigned based on the base note. Tempo is tempo in bpm (beats per minute). ◉◉◉ Advanced Editor Instructions ◉◉◉ Double-clicking the Bar label brings up a dialog which lets you jump straight to a specific bar. The B key does the same thing. Double-clicking the Up arrow sends you to the last bar, and double-clicking the Down arrow sends you to the first bar. You can also use the A and Z keys. More shortcut keys: ↑ - Next bar ↓ - Previous bar C - Copy V - Paste
Share your save codes here: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/541368/ Thanks to @Fyndora for inspiring this project by telling me about the amazing Marble Machine by Wintergatan: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/youtube/IvUU8joBb1Q/ The idea behind this project was to make a Scratch version of the machine. But my focus quickly shifted to the editor... The default composition is the Marble Machine melody, although simplified and shortened. Most notably, the bass is missing. But the kick is missing as well. Also, the song ends right before the manually played part in the middle. But don't worry - @cm600286 has made an amazing project that has all those things: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/229661233 I got the scales from BeepBox: https://www.beepbox.co/ On the Wintergatan YouTube channel you can see how the machine was built, and you can follow the current process of building the much larger Marble Machine X. Very interesting stuff!
