Comments on: Musical Excel

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:26:00 +0000

Check out this Excel template:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC300009571033.aspx

Has four songs in it:
Amazing Grace
Pachabel's Canon
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Star Spangled Banner

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:01:00 +0000

Don: See http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/05/31/more-dueling-banjos/ for one method.

By: DonX

DonX — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:28:00 +0000

Hi Guys, I’m really into this stuff.. been creating some interesting music ( a sort of impromptu pattern-based music) thanks to this resource. My problem is that if I stop my code, I can’t start up the midi again. I declared the MidiOutReset function and tried to call it, but to no avail. I wonder if it has anything to do with the lifetime of the api function variables? I don’t yet understand enough about calling api’s.. i dont know how the hmidiout value is grabbed in the first place for instance. But it seems that when you stop the code it doesn’t pick it up again when you try to run the sub again..

By: Santinasi

Santinasi — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:35:00 +0000

Einstein dies and goes to heaven only to be informed that his room is not yet ready. "I hope you will not mind waiting in a dormitory. We are very sorry, but it's the best we can do and you will have to share the room with others" he is told by the doorman.
Einstein says that this is no problem at all and that there is no need to make such a great fuss. So the doorman leads him to the dorm. They enter and Albert is introduced to all of the present inhabitants. "See, Here is your first room mate. He has an IQ of 180!"
"That's wonderful!" says Albert. "We can discuss mathematics!"
"And here is your second room mate. His IQ is 150!"
"That's wonderful!" says Albert. "We can discuss physics!"
"And here is your third room mate. His IQ is 100!"
"That's wonderful! We can discuss the latest plays at the theater!"
Just then another man moves out to capture Albert's hand and shake it. "I'm your last room mate and I'm sorry, but my IQ is only 80."
Albert smiles back at him and says, "So, where do you think interest rates are headed?"

By: FlashLadyBug.com » Some code for Musical Excel Fun

FlashLadyBug.com » Some code for Musical Excel Fun — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:04:00 +0000

[...] . I’m just going to go straight to the link on this one.http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/02/06/musical-excel/ [...]

By: Mpemba

Mpemba — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:03:00 +0000

>Is there a text value in column D where there should only be numbers?

Thanks for the reminder (to think of how others will use the function) too.
It would have been SO easy to trap that in the function.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:23:00 +0000

Hi Chip -

Actually, they’re blank (ISBLANK(D2) = TRUE).

I was thinking that …Optional Volume As Long = 127) would take care of me,

but I’m learning here.

Thanks for replying.

…Best, Michael

By: chip

chip — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:36:00 +0000

Michael, that looks like the old version, so download the new one. (John comment #21 has the link). But it probably indicates trying to pass a string value instead of a number to the midi routine. Is there a text value in column D where there should only be numbers?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:23:00 +0000

M -

I get a type mismatch error on this line:

Call PlayMIDI(Cells(r, 1), Cells(r, 2), Cells(r, 3), Cells(r, 4))

I presume it's in Cells(r, 4) but I don't see why

...mrt

By: Mpemba

Mpemba — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:25:00 +0000

I can't get it to run twice. Have to Exit Excel to play it again. I downloaded the sheet from J-Walk and it's slightly different.

I've made Kevin's changes and picked up Stereo! Now why?

And into whose code do Mpemba's mods go?

The mods go into the original post: directly.

Using my system reset line (having declared the function first)
midiOutReset hMidiOut

should cure your not being able to run it twice problem

FOR RESTS:
use my "volume" version and set vol to 0 will give you a rest for sure