Archive for May, 2005

MeloBoard : MIDI

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

I integrated MeloBoard with FlashMIDI by Alexis ISAAC, so you can use your MIDI device in MeloBoard.(Thanks Alexis) You can use not only basic GM sound built in Windows, but also Giga sampler, VSTi, and external MIDI modules using MIDI out port to make melodies in MeloBoard:MIDI.

However, you have to install additional plug-in, because MIDI […]

Advanced Communication between Flash and HTML

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Do you know that Flash could communicate with the base HTML? You just add a javascript function to operate in HTML, then call in Flash using getURL(”javascript:someFunction(’arg1′,’arg2′)”); That’s all~

But, an important thing is that;”getURL function” works correctly only if its argument’s text length is less than 255.

So I use a trick as below:

In HTML Part,

//This […]

Display Windowless Flash on Firefox

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Most people said that firefox doesn’t support windowless flash using “< param name=wmode value=transparent>”, but Firefox can do it of cause

First of all, you have to modify < object > tags. Firefox does not read param tags, but embed tag. So, you have to add new attribute to embed tag like this,

If you […]

MeloBoard : The First Version

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Here is the first version of my meloboard!!

Its main feature is,

Compose my own melody, not professional music, easily on Websites
Support several kinds of notes such as a quarter note, eighth note, and tercet.
You can put your own melody to any type of websites:BLOGs, [...]

Controlling Multi-channel Sound

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Do you know that Macromedia Flash only suppport maximum 8 channel sounds? For instance, if your current sound channel reachs maximum limit, Flash cannot play new sound unless one of the play sound ends. So, I made SoundController class, which manages sound channel. When current channel get to maximum sound limit, SoundController class stop the […]

Basic Interface : Hommage to Composer & Adlib

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Are you the generation of “Adlib”?

When I was a middle school student, an adlib sound card is the best and the only way to hear the music in PC. In this era, “Composer” is also the only tool to compose songs.

It’s not powerful, but simple!

Concept of the “Sociable Melody”

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Humming is the one of my best entertainment. I love singing an endless looping song all day long. A melody that I sing is not much complicated, but just simple and joyful. Meloboard that I refer to is a combination of “Melody” and “Bulletin Board”. I wanted to make people communicate each other with melodies. […]