In case you need guitar lessons for the Google Les Paul Guitar Doodle <grin> -> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/how- … e_n_873895.html 😀

He he, not bad at all. 😎

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

He he, not bad at all. 😎

Hehe, quite difficult with how bad the latency is (using the PC keyboard) 🤣!

Anyhow, y'all here at Vogons *know* me... I just can't help but slapping together/cobbling together a SoundFont every chance that I get <grin>.

http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/SoundFonts/Goo … tric_Guitar.txt

http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/SoundFonts/Goo … tric_Guitar.zip

😀

(edit) P.S. In actuality, even though there are 10 strings on the Google Doodle GUI, there are actually *12* guitar samples contained in the Shockwave Flash SWF file.

There is *NO* way to play those extra two strings in the Doodle, as the keyboard controls are any of the following:

1234567890
QWERTYUIOP
ASDFGHJKL;
ZXCVBNM,./

My SoundFont includes those additional two "secret" samples that the Doodle doesn't even use 😀

Hehe, a bit better than my previous one <grin>:

The Google "Doodle" Les Paul Electric Guitar - Original Untitled Cover... an original composition, with added Sound Blaster Live! Environmental Audio Effects (EAX) Reverb and Chorus.

Any Les Paul electric guitar is absolutely *BEGGING* for Fender tube-amp spring reverb (as well as chorus) effects! 😀

YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2kGJUZARNM

Original recorded Google "Doodle" Les Paul electric guitar tune: http://goo.gl/doodle/19HrU

Note that the latency is really bad/high when using your computer keyboard with Google's "Doodle" applet [ugh].

sbfmdrv
play doodle

Now that's better.

Vogons wrote:

sbfmdrv
play doodle
Now that's better.

Hehe, LOVE it! 😀 I had forgotten about that one <grin> 😀

P.S. "playcmf doodle.cmf" 😉 😀

P.P.S. One of FAVORITE CMF tunes... "THECLOUD.CMF" 😀

The tool for playing cmf's that came with my Vibra16 (best sounding OPL card I ever owned) was indeed called "play.exe" and you didn't really need to specify the extension (though it supported cmf's, mid's, voc's and wav's) provided there was only one "doodle" in the folder, and nope, no "THECLOUD.CMF" in this particular driver bundle, but I recall playing it on an even older card 😎

Anyways, it's a nice little app, just like the interactive pac-man logo they did sometime ago.

Vogons wrote:

The tool for playing cmf's that came with my Vibra16 (best sounding OPL card I ever owned) was indeed called "play.exe" and you didn't really need to specify the extension (though it supported cmf's, mid's, voc's and wav's) provided there was only one "doodle" in the folder

Ahhh. you are quite right, I stand corrected 😀 After perusing my old backup archives, I then stumbled upon (and remembered) the old CLI utility "PLAY.EXE"... yep played 'em all; WAV/VOC/MID/CMF 😀

Vogons wrote:

and nope, no "THECLOUD.CMF" in this particular driver bundle, but I recall playing it on an even older card 😎

"THECLOUD.CMF" shipped with the older SB16s, and was the music heard for it's "MMDEMO.BAT" ("MMPLAY.EXE") intro thingie... quite a cool thing (and a cool song). Snag the "MMPlay.zip" file here -> download.php?id=7042 , mentioned within this thread -> original Sound Blaster demo... ... it includes the "THECLOUD.CMF" file 😀

Vogons wrote:

Anyways, it's a nice little app, just like the interactive pac-man logo they did sometime ago.

Yeah, I thought that one was cool as well 😀

Hehe, the reason for my YouTube video? All of the HUNDREDS of *LAME* ones that I've seen uploaded to YouTube in the past few days 🤣!

BTW, one (from another YouTube-er) that is a bit more creative than the usual bog-standard YouTube-er "I JUST PLAYED TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR IN THE NEW GOOGLE DOODLE!11!1!1!1!!1! LOLLOO!11!1 OMG!11!!11" <grin> -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_KaQy50ot4 😀

(edit) P.S. Just stumbled on this one -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_2QLqqjAEs , another pretty good one! 😀

Here's something fun to try if you really dig this whole keyboard playing thing.

1. Get Maple Virtual Midi Cable

2. Get MidiPiano

3. Get Moog Modular V

4. Install everything, and Moog Modular V specifically as a standalone app.

5. Set Moog Modular V's "Midi in:" to "Maple Midi in: Port 1" and select your favorite guitar/string patch.

6. Open MidiPiano, uncheck everything for both "Input Devices" and "Output Devices" except for "Maple Midi Out: Port 1"

6. Type away 😎

Hey, that "Moog Modular V" looks extremely cool! 😀 I myself have twiddled around with "Kassiopeia! v2.0" (a Casio CZ-101 emulator) as well as Cakewalk's "Square I" VSTs.

Hehe, "Kassiopeia! v2.0" can sound almost *exactly* like my old Casio CZ-1 (that I still use even today for all of my MIDI input!) 😀

http://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/cz1.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Casio_CZ-1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_CZ_synthesizers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMs03zSPUo

"Maple Virtual Midi Cable"; I myself use "MIDI Yoke" and "MIDI Thruway" for various MIDI patching type things.

"MidiPiano"; I have a few other 'make a PC keyboard act like a MIDI keyboard' utilities, but I don't use them much... as I have that Casio CZ-1. It's touch sensitive, has full-sized weighted keys, and supports aftertouch as well... it also has the usual modulation and pitch-bend wheels 😀

I saw that "MidiPiano" is also a MIDI sequencer; I myself still use the old antique "Cakewalk Professional 3.01" ( http://www.simpilot.net/~richnagel/#cakewalk ) for all of my MIDI sequencing and (de)composing <grin> 😀

(edit) BTW, when "Moog Modular V" is installed as a 'standalone app', does it act as a "global" Windows MIDI kernel driver (that can be selected as a standard MIDI output device in any MIDI sequencer)? I'm assuming not, as you mentioned using the MIDI patch cable utility.

Hmmm... so does anyone have any idea the gobbledygook that makes the Doodle actually play back recorded things <grin>? After recording, you'll be provided with a shortened URL, that if you surf to will be lengthened -> http://goo.gl/doodle/19HrU .

...which looks like (carriage returns added so's that it fits in this message a little better):

1http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html#tune=
2mIBMRLkCXIFApQFQgOlAdLkCnIBIDqOCmAg4KYCHIEuQCQHKgOF
3AdJAmIEOQCQHEpgkgKGCEB0oDicgSxAkhDkAXIBOQKQHEpglTBJ
4IUBkIDicgS5AlyBLkASRIDIUwCpglAdKAogUOQBcgS5AFyBKIwi
5AsEIcIC4QpwhKAwjEOAMCQgOJAcKA6kBwoDiQHU

That's the actual saved Google Doodle recording of my YouTube creation <grin>. But what the heck??? Hmmm... I wonder if a 'MIDI file to Google Guitar Doodle gobbledygook/URL converter' utility might be a possiblility <grin?

Any takers 🤣?

Hehe, more good Google Guitar Doodle tunes -> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386737,00.asp 😀

...and another good one (directly within the Doodle itself) http://goo.gl/IKiJr

Rich Nagel wrote:

Hmmm... I wonder if a 'MIDI file to Google Guitar Doodle gobbledygook/URL converter' utility might be a possiblility <grin?

Hehe,

1) "Bome’s Midi Translator" ("Classic Edition", which is freeware; translates MIDI input to computer keyboard keystrokes) -> http://www.bome.com/products/miditranslator/overview/classic / http://www.bome.com/bome/downloads/MidiTransl … lassic1.6.1.exe .

2) MIDI Yoke (or your virtual MIDI cable of choice) -> http://www.midiox.com/myoke.htm .

3) Possibly MIDI OX (can be used to set MIDI keyboard velocity to "127" for touch-sensitive keyboards) -> http://www.midiox.com .

4) Cakewalk Professional v3.01 (or your MIDI sequencer of choice) -> http://www.simpilot.net/~richnagel/#cakewalk .

5) The following Bome’s Midi Translator ".bmtp" preset:

1[Project]
2Version=1
3
4[Preset.0]
5Name=Google Doodle Les Paul Electric Guitar
6Active=1
7Name0=MIDI Keyboard G2 to Google Doodle G2 to PC Keyboard A
8Incoming0=MID1902B7F
9Outgoing0=KAM10100KSQ10002041241
10Options0=Actv01Stop00OutO00
11Name1=MIDI Keyboard A2 to Google Doodle A2 to PC Keyboard S
12Incoming1=MID1902D7F
13Outgoing1=KAM10100KSQ10002053253
14Options1=Actv01Stop00OutO00
15Name2=MIDI Keyboard B2 to Google Doodle B2 to PC Keyboard D
16Incoming2=MID1902F7F
17Outgoing2=KAM10100KSQ10002044244
18Options2=Actv01Stop00OutO00
19Name3=MIDI Keyboard C3 to Google Doodle C3 to PC Keyboard F
20Incoming3=MID190307F
21Outgoing3=KAM10100KSQ10002046246
22Options3=Actv01Stop00OutO00
23Name4=MIDI Keyboard D3 to Google Doodle D3 to PC Keyboard G
24Incoming4=MID190327F
25Outgoing4=KAM10100KSQ10002047247
26Options4=Actv01Stop00OutO00
27Name5=MIDI Keyboard E3 to Google Doodle E3 to PC Keyboard H
28Incoming5=MID190347F
29Outgoing5=KAM10100KSQ10002048248
30Options5=Actv01Stop00OutO00
31Name6=MIDI Keyboard F#3 to Google Doodle F#3 to PC Keyboard J
32Incoming6=MID190367F
33Outgoing6=KAM10100KSQ1000204A24A
34Options6=Actv01Stop00OutO00
35Name7=MIDI Keyboard G3 to Google Doodle G3 to PC Keyboard K
36Incoming7=MID190377F
37Outgoing7=KAM10100KSQ1000204B24B
38Options7=Actv01Stop00OutO00
39Name8=MIDI Keyboard A3 to Google Doodle A3 to PC Keyboard L
40Incoming8=MID190397F
41Outgoing8=KAM10100KSQ1000204C24C
42Options8=Actv01Stop00OutO00
43Name9=MIDI Keyboard B3 to Google Doodle B3 to PC Keyboard ;
44Incoming9=MID1903B7F
45Outgoing9=KAM10100KSQ100020BA2BA
46Options9=Actv01Stop00OutO00

I loaded an old MIDI of "Stairway to Heaven" ("STAIR_H.MID") into CWP301, transposed the guitar backing track to match the Google Doodle a bit better (transposing notes up or down an octave so that they would play using the ten strings within the Google Doodle), and then set all of the note velocities to "127".

Then I set the MIDI output port for CWP301 to "Out to MIDI Yoke: 1", and the MIDI input port for Bome’s Midi Translator to "In from MIDI Yoke: 1".

Started MIDI playback in CWP301, alt+tabbed to my web browser, and then let 'er rip.

Here was the result (I didn't spend much time editing the original MIDI, so it's not all that great, but is simply a "proof of concept" example) -> http://goo.gl/WhnNh 😀

Using the same method you can play the Google Doodle with your MIDI keyboard as well (although the latency is still high).

...yes, I have WAY to much time on my hands 🤣!

Hehe, the first part of "Dueling Banjos", played in the Google Doodle Les Paul Guitar 😀 Note that the Google Doodle doesn't include one of the notes (F), so's one of the notes sounds out of place <grin>.

http://goo.gl/6e2ZJ