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05-15-2011, 09:18 AM
| | |  my self-built upright, vitual version
Hey everyone!
Lucky me, my dad in law is a luthier who helped me build my own upright.
When I discovered flash programming some years ago, first thing I made was " the virtual upright bassist" where you can play my Bass with your computers keyboard.
Its no serious musical tool, but I thought some might enjoy on a lazy sunday.
greetings!
MrSnuts
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05-15-2011, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Finland, Vantaa | | Haha this is fun  Is it you on the picture? It would be better if the notes would go on a somewhat sensible way on the keyboard, because I found playing chromatic passages a little hard, but it's not meant to be serious so I really can't see why you'd need to fix that tho. you should make a smartphone app of some kind 'cause there are the guitar ones, but there is no bass smartphone application yet At least not on Android.
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05-15-2011, 09:36 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Fun! Now everyone can play the DB! 
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05-15-2011, 09:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Irrigon, Oregon | | hot d*mn! Suddenly I can play jazz!
That is pretty cool! Good fun. |
05-15-2011, 09:56 AM
| | | | glad yo guys enjoying this.
YES thats me in the pic (some years ago...).
As for the keys: I dont see the prob with chromatics, its from left to right, down to high ascending by half a note.
Dont miss the extra features on the STRG and SPACE Keys!
looking at it, I remember clicking the webcam shots with my toe while holding the bass....
If I knew how to code apps, I'd do it.
In fact, it was done within the trial-period of some animating software I dont even have any more.
My latest home-coding efforts went into wikiloops.com, but to be honest: coding is one of the reasons keeping me from playing my real DB :-) |
05-15-2011, 10:13 AM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSnuts  As for the keys: I dont see the prob with chromatics, its from left to right, down to high ascending by half a note.) | On my keyboard, you have to interchange "Z" and "Y" but I'm not complaining.
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05-15-2011, 10:53 AM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | When I typed in "C" and "G" the program sounded an octave! |
05-15-2011, 11:14 AM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazzdogg When I typed in "C" and "G" the program sounded an octave! | That seems okay as the keys don't correspond to note names at all.
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05-15-2011, 11:22 AM
|  | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSnuts Hey everyone!
Lucky me, my dad in law is a luthier who helped me build my own upright.
When I discovered flash programming some years ago, first thing I made was " the virtual upright bassist" where you can play my Bass with your computers keyboard.
Its no serious musical tool, but I thought some might enjoy on a lazy sunday.
greetings!
MrSnuts | That's fantastic! The bass sounds really good too, thanks to you and your father-in-law. Thanks for posting this.  |
05-15-2011, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | Great! I like the slap on the space bar. |
05-15-2011, 11:41 AM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Hochberg Great! I like the slap on the space bar. | Oh that's nice! And the spin with the cigarette in the mouth will really appeal to BASS! (Ctrl) |
05-15-2011, 12:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | Couldn't make it work on my Mac. Is this for PC or should it work on both? |
05-15-2011, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Massachusetts | | | I love the bass spin when you hit Control! |
05-15-2011, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Swanson Couldn't make it work on my Mac. Is this for PC or should it work on both? | It works on my macbook. Just start hitting keys. |
05-15-2011, 08:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Hillbillyville | | control-space ad infinitum. Excellent! 
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05-15-2011, 09:19 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | Great work! Love the bird chirping behind the "H" key :-) |
05-16-2011, 12:05 AM
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Bassist | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Santander, Spain | | too funny!  |
05-16-2011, 01:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Nude Zealand | | | Dig the slap bass-face!
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05-16-2011, 02:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Hochberg It works on my macbook. Just start hitting keys. | Got it! Thanks, Eric... |
05-16-2011, 07:59 AM
|  | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | | Could it be that MrSnuts is using a German keyboard? Could that throw the chromatics off when using an American keyboard?
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