User-Friendly or Not?

[Reika]

I recently designed the GUI for my music box - basically an integrated noteblock circuit, because the old one sucked:

Here is the new one, with the buttons replaced with a piano keyboard and individual buttons for each channel and voice. Also, the channels are color-coded and options are labelled.

Is this new one user-friendly (assuming you have sufficient musical knowledge to understand how to use a piano keyboard)?

 

[Zenthon_127]

Never used the original but I can easily understand that new GUI being a piano player. Definitely a good design.

EDIT: Oh wow, Cannon in D (or C to be more accurate). Niiiiiice.

 

[MoosyDoosy]

I might actually use this. As a piano player and lover of music, this would be awesome to use to have music playing in the background while working on building a reactor or something.

 

[Democretes]

That is absolutely beautiful. I want it. I wants all of it. It's so hard to make a nice doorbell.

 

[midi_sec]

this is awesome.

time for a doorbell that plays "waltzing matilda"

 

[Reika]

That is absolutely beautiful. I want it. I wants all of it. It's so hard to make a nice doorbell.

Now you can. V16 is ready.
https://sites.google.com/site/reikasminecraft/home

 

[Bellaabzug21]

As I am a musician I know the note names and how they should sound. So to me it would be easy. Unfortunately I cannot speak for the non-musicians out there.

 

[Qazplm601]

honestly Reika.... your update speed is probably the fastest ive ever seen.

also on the post title idea (not the content) could you please add a download for everything at once??? my mind hurts from all your different downloads.

 

[Reika]

honestly Reika.... your update speed is probably the fastest ive ever seen.

also on the post title idea (not the content) could you please add a download for everything at once??? my mind hurts from all your different downloads.

I would rather not spend 40 minutes uploading a 15MB file that 90% of viewers would not use.

 

[Yusunoha]

huge improvement, looking very awesome

 

[Albin_Xavier]

I finally can have music playing besides the records.

 

[steelblueskies]

one extremely minor user friendliness improvement for whenever. tag the bottom extremis of the keyboards keys with the note, at the least for a single octave of the keyboard. should save effort for those who for example learned notation largely via k-12 on a wind instrument and are fuzzy to boot.

 

[Reika]

one extremely minor user friendliness improvement for whenever. tag the bottom extremis of the keyboards keys with the note, at the least for a single octave of the keyboard. should save effort for those who for example learned notation largely via k-12 on a wind instrument and are fuzzy to boot.

I can do that, yes.

 

[EnzymeA113]

Gregtech's sonictron can go and die in a hole.

 

[Bellaabzug21]

It's probably an insane pipe dream, but would it be possible for you to create sheet music that could then be placed into this thing and then be played when given a signal? Another insane idea of mine is that you could have it output a different note depending on which side is given a redstone signal. Of course, both are probably either extremely hard to implement or just plain bad ideas. I won't blame you if you don't use 'em.

 

[Reika]

It's probably an insane pipe dream, but would it be possible for you to create sheet music that could then be placed into this thing and then be played when given a signal?

That is what it does; you just have to write it first.

Another insane idea of mine is that you could have it output a different note depending on which side is given a redstone signal

Which of the 64 in its range...?

 

[Bellaabzug21]

That is what it does; you just have to write it first.

Oh. Guess I should update the mod so I can play with it then

Which of the 64 in its range...?

Actually I meant that the player could select the note that plays.

 

[Reika]

Actually I meant that the player could select the note that plays.

It already plays the stored music when given redstone.