[HN Gopher] Trombone Champ turns all songs into tooting works of...
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Trombone Champ turns all songs into tooting works of genius
Author : helsinkiandrew
Score : 77 points
Date : 2022-09-23 05:28 UTC (2 days ago)
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| xnx wrote:
| The game is fun for sure. I fully expect someone to hack-up a
| hardware DIY trombone interface. You might be able to get pretty
| close doing something has improvised as taping a mouse to a
| cardboard tube with a small hole in the side that allows the
| mouse sensor to read movement from another cardboard tube inside
| the first.
| jffry wrote:
| There is somebody who rigged up a mic, and some code to listen
| for loud sounds and use the pitch to set mouse position :)
| https://twitter.com/kupobucks/status/1573060085177262082
|
| But a DIY controller with a mouse taped to a physical thing
| would also be fun and I eagerly await the video
| LegitShady wrote:
| seems like a missed opportunity for Tromboner
| epaulson wrote:
| The Onion is ahead of the times - from 2007:
| https://www.theonion.com/activision-reports-sluggish-sales-f...
| jquery wrote:
| You can tell the devs are trombone players because the trombonist
| gets to play the melody.
| krallja wrote:
| The first tweeted video, by Jacob DeRose, "William Tell
| Overture", is the counter-melody at best.
| Applejinx wrote:
| QWOP, but music :)
| beefman wrote:
| Does it use real slide positions? I'm guessing not. (The slide is
| only long enough to change pitch by a small amount. Lip tension
| is used to select a resonant mode at each slide position.)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc1EPud2VAQ&t=8s
| skywhopper wrote:
| No, it's just a single continuous "slide".
| beefman wrote:
| Would be cool to have an expert mode where the keyboard is
| used to select lip tension and the slide works as on a real
| instrument. With a simple physical model, would make hitting
| the right notes easier since there's a natural 'pull' to the
| resonances.
| ec109685 wrote:
| Does Nasty actually mean you messed up or did something dope?
|
| From the article: mess up and game will proclaim it "nasty."
|
| However, nasty can be good: "4. an expression of approval or
| impressment with regard to a person's actions or ability"
| https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nasty
| wolfram74 wrote:
| Welcome to auto antonyms.
| clucas wrote:
| Cleave to the traditional uses of words! Don't cleave their
| meanings!
| jfk13 wrote:
| Should we sanction such usages, or should they be
| sanctioned?
| smrq wrote:
| I learned to type on my first non-traditional keyboard using a
| previous game from these devs, "Icarus Proudbottom Teaches
| Typing". Similar offbeat sense of humor (though, if playing Sousa
| marches taught me anything, shouldn't the horns be off-beat
| instead?) It was a Flash game but there surely must still be a
| way to play it.
| fuball63 wrote:
| My senior project in college was "Trombone Hero", which was a
| game based on guitar hero. I had an old trombone, and I took
| apart a cheap gamepad and put the sensors along a custom PVC pipe
| slide at positions 1 - 7. There was then a button attached to it
| that you would press for "blowing".
|
| I then made a little tool that would play music and record inputs
| to generate the "levels". I used some Beatles songs I had on a
| CD, and then recorded each note individually on a real trombone
| to superimpose on the song.
|
| I made the game engine with some Java graphics library that I
| don't remember. I was really proud of this when I made it, and is
| always a fun story to tell.
|
| I found an old video from ~2012 when I demoed it to the class:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rawTtdv50s
| krallja wrote:
| > Trombone Champ has been released for PC via Steam! ... > > A
| Mac release is currently being researched. Further ports are
| possible but not currently planned.
|
| Uh, why not? This would be perfect for touch screens. And
| accelerometers. Just imagine the Joy-Con chaos.
| grimgrin wrote:
| for starters, it's using an _inverted mouse_ by default, which
| has to be intentional to add to the ridiculousness of the
| entire experience
|
| playing with a touch screen would be ez mode
| schmorptron wrote:
| https://twitter.com/lawrenceyang/status/1572438040173490182
| Seems like the accelerometer part can be done with the PC
| version already :D
| Bytewave81 wrote:
| Probably just by mapping the accelerometer to a virtual
| joystick. Steam Input is a fairly powerful framework for
| mapping new controls onto existing control schemes.
| AlbertCory wrote:
| I can see a whole family of games built on difficult instruments.
|
| Just for yucks, I took a couple French Horn lessons, because I
| knew the teacher Scott. I bought a new one from Walmart for
| ~$200, which Scott bought back from me because he can always sell
| them. I told him I had no commitment to learning it, and he was
| fine with that.
|
| Man, that is one _hard_ instrument. Compared to the 'bone? I
| couldn't say.
| a_cardboard_box wrote:
| The French horn is a popular answer to "what's the hardest
| orchestral instrument?".
|
| It has longer tubing and therefore a lower fundamental
| frequency than a trombone, but typically plays in a higher
| range.
|
| The higher above the fundamental frequency of a brass
| instrument you play, the more notes can be played with a single
| fingering. So the French horn requires very precise lip control
| to get the right note.
| libraryatnight wrote:
| I was a trumpet player in band and had a "Lemme try..."
| moment after one of the French horn players told us this. It
| was indeed much harder. It was sort of fun to have her do the
| fingerings while I tried to make sensible sounds come out of
| the thing.
|
| French horn has a buttery warmth I love when played well.
| Sounds the first cry of some newborn hellspawn in the arms of
| an neophyte.
| AlbertCory wrote:
| My persistence level was very low, as I said. So bear with
| me if I tell you that the song "Beautiful Dreamer" was the
| killer. I just could NOT hit that C on "dream-ER."
|
| Scott's played with every big orchestra in the Bay Area, as
| a sub. When their regular horn player can't make it, he's
| the one they call.
| jfk13 wrote:
| I hope all you horn players (or would-be players) are
| familiar with Flanders & Swann's take:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjA6bA1qtfQ
| AlbertCory wrote:
| Thanks, never heard of them.
|
| It could use a transcript, though.
| 2-718-281-828 wrote:
| Anybody remembering Microsoft's Songsmith?
|
| https://youtu.be/Ci1K9Zcwvy4?t=17
|
| https://youtu.be/mg0l7f25bhU?t=27
|
| :D
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Songsmith
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