Goonhub
02-04-2019, 05:18 AM
Well I would imagine that BYOND has support for MIDIs, so why not just make an item that interacts with that? While I have little technical knowledge about any of this, I do know that MIDIs are essentially music sheets for something to play using some pre-set sounds. As such, having an application to convert some text input into a MIDI file - provided you didn't fuck up the formatting when typing the notes - and have it played in-game might work.
The one issue I see with this method is the fact that I don't know if sounds can 'travel'. As in, whether or not a sound's volume depends on your distance from the source of the sound (the instrument), or where the sound started playing (where you used the instrument). If sound can't 'travel', then yeah, someone's gonna have to code an instrument that plays notes as individual sounds whose pitches are based on some string input. This also doesn't sound very difficult, though I'm no coder.
The one issue I see with this method is the fact that I don't know if sounds can 'travel'. As in, whether or not a sound's volume depends on your distance from the source of the sound (the instrument), or where the sound started playing (where you used the instrument). If sound can't 'travel', then yeah, someone's gonna have to code an instrument that plays notes as individual sounds whose pitches are based on some string input. This also doesn't sound very difficult, though I'm no coder.