Magic Musicbox
A downloadable game
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A music "game" for Panic's handheld system: Playdate
Features:
- Crank to play the songs or auto-play
- Magically generates new songs, including percussion
- Change key and scale live to play the Magic Musicbox like an instrument
- Choose between 4 synthesizer sounds (Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle)
- Edit mode for entering your own sequences
Proceeds/Pricing
All proceeds donated to Sonic Guild (Austin chapter, previously called Black Fret)
Controls:
- Live Mode (Mode selector in menu)
- Up / Down: Transpose by half-step
- Left / Right: Change scale
- Major Pentatonic
- Minor Pentatonic
- Stack of 4ths
- B: Generate a new song
- Edit Mode
- Up / Down/Left/Right: Move cursor
- B: Toggle Note on/off
- Up / Down/Left/Right: Move cursor
- A: Stat/stop auto-play
- Crank: Play the song (one beat per 360° rotation). During auto-play turning the crank will still advance/reverse the playback by one beat per full rotation, effectively speeding up or slowing down the auto-play.
Settings:
- BPM: How fast auto-play should progress
- Synth: Which sound should be used for the pitched notes
- Mode (v1.1): Switch between Live mode and Edit mode
Don't forget - Paying for Magic Musicbox will help support Austin Musicians!
Download
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Click download now to get access to the following files:
Magic Musicbox.pdx.zip 317 kB
Development log
- v1.2 - Autoplay BPM bug fixJan 23, 2023
- v1.1 - New Editing modeSep 10, 2022