Play a tune with my instrument

[Azimech]

This is a bit of an oddball challenge: I've made an instrument and I hope some musicians want to play it.

There will be a poll and the tune with the most votes will be offered to be posted on Squad's main facebook and twitter pages. It's a great promotion to show we can even do this with our favorite game!

Please remove the "100" from the machine, you can change the lighting as you please.

The main difficulty in the machine is the fact that the tonegenerators (roverwheels) are toggles, if anyone knows a solution (press and you hear a tone, depress means silence), that would be grand.

Here's a demo of my instrument:

Instructions:

*Enable the fuell cells beneath the stage.

*Switch off all the wheels you don't want to tune

*Use W & S to adjust tuning

*Use action groups to make groups and disable/enable multiple tone generators at once.

Download: http://kerbalx.com/crafts/5333

Good luck!

[FleshJeb]

Hehe:

[Azimech]

That was lovely! One day we'll do this in KSP!

[Slam_Jones]

Ohh, interesting. I'll have to try this when I get my new hdd

How many parts is it, btw?

[Azimech]

Only 144. But you can reduce it a lot, the whole stage and all the lights are not needed.

[Slam_Jones]

Nice, not too bad. Maybe there's some sort of script mod or a way to set up action groups so they disable after the right delay?

[SchweinAero]

I downloaded the craft and the mods, and tried it out. It sounds like a music instrument alright, but the tuning is certainly a tough nut to crack. Seems like the wheel sound mod has introduced an incremental throttle of some sort. Mad props to whoever manages something in a Western scale.

[Slam_Jones]

Well, if each wheel can be tuned individually, it can be done. Maybe not easily, but it should be possible.

[Azimech]

Yes, every single wheel can be tuned exactly to what you want it. Like any instrument, it has a learning curve.

[BagelRabbit]

Not bad, not bad. But I would argue that my "Rocket Organ," while thoroughly unmelodious, was capable of doing at least three different tones and percussion! It was 100% stock! Best of all, it even broke the runway sometimes!

This, my friend, was the first instrument in Kerbal Space Program.

...I know, I know. Its tones aren't even as nice as the (pretty nasty) rover-wheel sounds. And I'm sorry to be 'busting your chops,' so to speak. But I do think that my instrument deserves a brief moment in the spotlight...

As for whether I'll partake in this: Unfortunately, though I do have a bit of musical ability (believe it or not), I like playing bone-stock KSP, and I don't really want to download a mod just for the sake of a single craft... as awesome as it may be.

But I wish all participants the best of luck! Hopefully you'll manage to create something gorgeous (or, at the very least, reasonably musical).

-Upsilon

[Plume & Akakak]

I approve of such tinkering.

Too bad it's not stock, Azimech, but very nice job !

Upsilon, I like your stock version, but methinks going for something more noisy and droney would have fitted best with the design

[Azimech]

Okay, I agree, you've made the first musical instrument in KSP

Maybe we can join forces? You focus on percussion, I focus on synth