![]() To pull this off, the Echo Studio is bouncing sound around the surfaces of your room, introducing micro-delays to certain parts of a track to make them appear to come from all around you. ![]() Sony has its own format, Sony 360, which is also being supported by the Echo Studio. It’s increasingly being used in music studios too, with the likes of Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group offering tracks in the format. The directional audio system, now a mainstay of quality home theater setups, uses object-based soundtracks to put sounds above and around the listener. Tapping into the new Amazon Music HD service, the Echo Studio will have access at launch to a growing library of "hundreds" of songs mixed in '3D', while also upmixing stereo tracks by default to a Dolby Atmos mix. As a result, you're going to need to keep a bit of space around the Echo Studio in order to take advantage of that directional sound. Its size means you’re going to have to think about where you’re going to place the Echo Studio – it won’t fit quite so discreetly onto a shelf as other Echos have.Īnd there’s another thing to consider here too – its directional sound capabilities. You’ll also notice two cut-aways inside the Echo Studio enclosure, allowing air to flow freely to help it pump out bass at high volume. Volume buttons sit on the top, along with a mic mute and Alexa-wake button, with the signature blue-light ring also present. The Echo Studio pumps out 330 watts at peak, via two two-inch side-mounted mid-range speakers, a two-inch upward firing midrange speaker, a 1-inch front-facing tweeter, and a 5.25-inch downward-firing sealed woofer. It’s a big unit then, and it offers output to match. It's roughly eight inches high by seven inches wide. ![]() While the Echo Studio continues that same design language, being cylindrical in shape and covered with a fabric mesh, it’s considerably larger than any Echo that’s gone before it – like someone’s zapped a standard Echo with a gamma ray and made it grow to at least twice the size, Hulk-style. We've become used to Amazon Echo speakers looking pretty similar, especially the standard Echo and the Echo Plus. If you play it and something doesn't sound right, use trial and error until you have the sound you desire! Sometimes, you have to change to a new piece of code or add a "sleep" somewhere.(Image credit: Future) Design and features Using these basic pieces of code, you should be able to code your song by translating the sheet music to code. If you have typed it correctly, sustain and release will turn pink and the numbers will turn blue. If you have a single note you wish to play for a certain duration other than 1, you can code it like this: "play:e5, sustain: 0.5, release: 0.1" with the number after sustain being the duration of the note. If you have inputted it correctly, both "do" and "end" will turn orange. The number before ".times do" signifies how many times you want the section of code to repeat. ![]() If you have a sequence of repetition in your code, you can loop one set of code using "4.times do" at the beginning of the code you wish to loop and "end" at the end of the section you wish to loop. If that is all the notes you want to play at one time, code sleep after this with the number after sleep being the duration of your shortest note in the series you just coded. Within the brackets, you should code the notes that make up the chord you are trying to play. If you want a chord to play at the same time like I did, type "play_chord " without coding a sleep in between. To do this, I used "play_pattern_timed, " The first set of brackets should contain your notes on the staff in order, separated by commas and the second should contain the duration of each note in order (1 for quarter note, 2 for half note, 0.5 for eighth note, etc.) Since this note was an eighth note and the time signature is 4/4 time, I coded "sleep 0.5" after it.Īfter this I had a lot of notes in a series that would be much easier coded in one line of code than several. The colon and note should turn pink if you have inputted it correctly. To code this, I typed "play:a4" in a free line in the buffer, making sure to include the colon so the software knows it is a note. In my case, my first note was an a4 on the staff in scientific pitch notation. Be sure to pay attention to the key signature in order to make sure you are putting sharps and flats where they need to be if there are any. You can use the simple "play" and "sleep" functions in order to do this, but I have found it actually makes it a little easier to use more complicated lines of code. Now, it is time to simply translate the notes on the staffs on your sheet music to lines of code.
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