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Blips

A blip is a short sound a sprite or item plays when the avatar meets it. Blips makes them: pick a kind, make one, then mutate or tweak it until it sounds right.

Blips: the pick up blip, Play, Make a new sound, Mutate, the volume shape, Pitch, Length and Speed buttons, the pitches, the envelope numbers, the tone and Repeat the pitches

Make one

  1. Pick a Kind: pick up, greeting, bloop, bleep, magic, meow or random.
  2. Choose New blip.
  3. Play it. Not quite? Make a new sound makes another of the same kind; Mutate changes it a little.
  4. Give it a name.
  5. Pick it in Sound in Paint for a sprite or item.

Tweak it

Control Does
Pitch: Lower, Higher Moves every pitch down or up
Length: Shorter, Longer Shortens or lengthens it
Speed: Slower, Faster Plays the pitches slower or faster
Pitches, played in turn Up to three notes, played one after another
Attack, Decay, Length, Release (ms) How the volume rises and falls. The shape above shows it.
Sustain volume How loud it holds, 0 to 15
Step time, Step delay (ms) How long each pitch plays, and the gap before the next
Tone Square, Thin or Thinner
Repeat the pitches Keeps cycling through the pitches for the whole length

The bottom says who makes the sound, like Made by chili.

  • Tunes can play blips on a beat
  • Dialog's Play a blip ({blip "1"})