The first product of this year 2008. It is a violin (acoustic) in red wood.
It comes with animation and full violin solo song (1 minute long) and exapandable sounds. Plus a nice feature: dance while playing.
Available in 3 sizes (even for tiny avatars).
.Play! iT Engine (Play your music!)
- What's "Play it" ?
"Play it!" is a new music engine to add music to your instruments, now you may add your own sound loops and full length songs!!!
- How it works?
Full songs are performed using "SL Sounds", playing a list of sounds one each the other in a sequence automatically. Whenever i strongly suggest to use a proper streaming server for your performing, you may get alot of fun having your instrument playing "inworld". Each instrument comes with one or more full length songs preloaded, feel free to add more and more songs to have a infinite music experience!
- For first you have to split your song into a 10 seconds chunks wav files. This is done offline on your PC (not in Second Life). There are plenty softwares (even freeware) that will split a song for you into multiple pieces. I'm currently using "WaveLab" for Windows that is one of the best Audio software available (it is not free) but you may use any other software you like, or even split them manually (it's not the perfect solution indeed).
- Now upload your sound to Second Life (in .wav format) (tip: you may use "bulk upload" for a multiple upload, selecting the files using the shift or control key).
- Move these sounds into the instrument playing device (for a piano it would be the seat, for a guitar the pick, for a violin the arch, for a Gramophone the disc, for a synth and DJ sets the poseball.. and so on), check your instrument notes.
- Create a notecard with the name you wish to have into the instrument sound menu (eg: "SONG 1"), and type into it the name of each sound on separate rows (do not use any blank lines! neither at the end!), eg:
sound(01)
sound(02)
sound(03)
Save and move it into the playing device. You've finished! Now the Song name will appear into the "SOUNDS" menu and you may play it!
NOTICE: the sound file names and the sounds you type into the notecard MUST match exactly (case sensitive!!!). Do not use any blank row into the notecard (the last line will be the last sound of the list). These songs are preloaded (otherwise they won't sounds smoothly) so do not make very long lists otherwise you need to wait minutes for a single preload! You have some notecard already available into the instrument so you may look at them. *** THERE MUST BE NO OTHER NOTECARD TYPES INTO THE INSTRUMENT: each notecard is just used as song list *** DO NOT DELETE THE SCRIPTS OR YOUR INSTRUMENT WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE ***
TIP: you know you may add a song just using the UUID's of the sounds? This method would save space into your playing device and it would be alot faster to edit it. To add a song using the UUID's, create a notecard song as usual but instead of using the sounds name you'll list the sounds UUID's. To read a UUID right click on the sound *FROM YOUR INVENTORY* and select "Copy Asset UUID", now paste the UUID into the notecard using the keys combination: "CTRL+V", do this for each sound that composes the song *on separate rows*. eg:
aa649417-6e75-c08e-e9b8-29455515f1f1
aa649417-6e75-c08e-e9b8-29455515f1f2
aa649417-6e75-c08e-e9b8-29455515f1f3
You *DON'T* need to move the sound into the object inventory now, but just the notecard, but *leave the sounds into your inventory* (you may create a new folder containing them all). You'll have only the notecards now into your playing devices, you may add alot of songs more and the object editing would be a way faster.
Further informations may be found at: http://www.vittoriobeerbaum.com
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All our stuff is built by a consistent number of primitives. Since most of them (ie: guitars) are attachments, they won't affect the simulator primitives usage. However if you plan to rez this objects into your land (ie: for an exposition) be sure to have enough free prims available.
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Comments must be sent to: Vittorio Beerbaum - Please use a notecard, don't use IM's, they would be "capped". If you like you may use an email to: info@vittoriobeerbaum.com
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Vittorio Beerbaum
Beerbaum Music
http://www.vittoriobeerbaum.com
Its... the...bow
The contents do not go into the violin, as MANY WOULD THINK... it goes in the bow. -_-
This item is marvelous.... but PLEASE.... please... clarify WHERE the files should go. They go.....
into........ the bow........
Product not as shown
Not worth the SL, like most violin animations, they show the violin held up and to the chin and out form the body in the proper position, but in SL, it is angled down so your hand is almost to her stomach and the violin rammed up to your chin.. and if your female it with anything bigger then a 10 on the breast size slide bar, half the violin is clipped through your breasts.
Also no way to bring up the menu other then un attaching / reattaching the bow. Product is so bad that it actually made me type a review for the first time ever, and makes me almost want to demand a refund if I thought there was any chance of actually receiving one, the animation is just that bad...
Can't figure out how to add sounds
I uploaded all of the sounds, and created a notecard with the asset UUIDs listed, but I can't figure out how to put the sound clips into the instrument. Help?
Beautiful, customizable instrument + good customer service = win
I am so happy with this violin. The dance animations really make it stand out from most others on the market and the fact that you can add your own tunes to it makes it even better.
Not only that, but Vittorio was great about resending me the item when it was delivered while my status was set to busy in-world. I searched my inventory when I realized what had happened, could not find the violin, and sent him an nc with the transaction details explaining what had happened. In a few hours, I logged in to see he had resent it, no questions asked. That kind of service merits 5 stars.
This violin is Absolutely gorgeous. The animations are almost Perfect!
The creator fixed my problem within 4 hours of my first review.
He sent me another BOW which worked Perfectly!!
Hats off to the Creator on a job well done!
Buy this you wont be sorry at all :)
BigPauly Parnas