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Instruments

Instruments - Scratch Tutorial

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Instruments

- [Voiceover] Scratch also allows you to create sounds from instruments. You can create instrument sounds in the sound scripts. Those are found inside the set instrument and play note scripts. Notice that it says beats for measuring this, just like it says for the drums, so you can use these in a loop. However, I would mention that when you use instruments in a loop, what I have noticed personally is that it doesn't play perfectly like the drum beats do. So it's a little bit harder to sync up an instrumental loop than it is to sync a drum loop. So just keep that in mind. Usually this is going to be good for creating something where you click on this guitar for example and then you hear a note. So actually let's do that. Let's go to Events and then we'll drag out when this sprite clicked and then go back to sound and what we wanna do is play a sound. So I'm going to drag out set instrument to and I'm going to change it from one, which is a piano, to six, which is a bass. Now of course,…

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