Double Bass my self-built upright, vitual version

[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

 

[IanIan]

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.

 

[drurb]

Fun! Now everyone can play the DB!

 

[punkozuna]

hot d*mn! Suddenly I can play jazz!

That is pretty cool! Good fun.

 

[MrSnuts]

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

 

[drurb]

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.

 

[Jazzdogg]

When I typed in "C" and "G" the program sounded an octave!

 

[drurb]

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.

 

[Jake deVilliers]

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.

 

[Eric Hochberg]

Great! I like the slap on the space bar.

 

[Jake deVilliers]

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)

 

[Eric Swanson]

Couldn't make it work on my Mac. Is this for PC or should it work on both?

 

[SPAZ5446]

I love the bass spin when you hit Control!

 

[Eric Hochberg]

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.

 

[nachodaddy]

control-space ad infinitum. Excellent!

 

[Matthew Tucker]

Great work! Love the bird chirping behind the "H" key

 

[Fran Diaz]

too funny!

 

[GrowlerBox]

Dig the slap bass-face!

 

[Eric Swanson]

It works on my macbook. Just start hitting keys.

Got it! Thanks, Eric...

 

[Jack Clark]

Could it be that MrSnuts is using a German keyboard? Could that throw the chromatics off when using an American keyboard?