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Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday
- nostrademons 15y agoBest viewed with sound on. Also, you can save and share your compositions. I'm not quite proficient with doodle-guitar, but here's a couple seconds of noodling around: http://goo.gl/doodle/vN4K http://goo.gl/doodle/vN4K
- somedude1234abc 15y agoIs this made with javascript?
- catshirt 15y agofrom a superficial look, it seems like the sound is actually being played through flash. it looks like the doodle is canvas though, which suggests the interface is in javascript. too bad they didn't synthesize the sound with javascript as well. their web audio api is great. firefox has a (somewhat) equivalent api. :)
- delinquentme 15y ago<iframe name="wgjf" style="display:none" src="/blank.html" onload="google.j.l()" onerror="google.j.e()"></iframe> it doesn't look very "flash"
- damncabbage 15y agoIt creates a flash object on the fly with javascript: <object id="guitar11-sound-player" width="0" height="0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave /cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
- smackfu 15y agoIt really doesn't seem like sound playback is there yet, except in Flash.
- catshirt 15y agolook more into the apis i referenced. not only is javascript playback there, but even the synthesis is possible through javascript.
- amaneiro 15y agohere some details: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/doodle-for-instrumental-inventor.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/doodle-for-instrument...
- amaneiro 15y agoAnd previous works by Chen Alexander, one of the leaders behind this: http://www.mta.me/ http://www.mta.me/ http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/ http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/
- kprobst 15y agoIt works on Chrome but not on Firefox. Interesting.
- leviathant 15y agoIt works in my copy of FF4 on Win7.
- kprobst 15y agoFirefox 4.0.1 on Win7. No sound. Chrome works fine.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoWorks on Firefox 4 for me.
- derleth 15y agoI've tried it on FF4 on both Linux and Mac OS X. Works just fine on both.
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- r00fus 15y agoAs other commenters mentioned, it requires flash for sound. Any flashblocker or clicktoflash will render the page mute (like on my Safari). Maybe you have one of those installed?
- kprobst 15y agoAh yes, Flashblock. I didn't see the little icon on the page, so it didn't cross my mind. Thanks for pointing that out.
- jabo 15y agoWow, they've put in so much work just to amuse people! Saving the composition takes this doodle to whole new level. It should be interesting to see if the links to compositions remain valid after the doodle itself is taken down.
- irahul 15y agoHow did you save the composition? I can't figure it out.
- jabo 15y agoClick on the black button with the red dot on the bottom right of the doodle.
- chintanp 15y agoThere is a record button hidden in second 'g' of Google doodle.
- redthrowaway 15y agoWhere? Care to point it out with a screenshot?
- jabo 15y agoIndicated by a red arrow: http://tinypic.com/r/1z2o9kz/7 http://tinypic.com/r/1z2o9kz/7
- redthrowaway 15y agoWeird. That shows up as a keyboard for me, and allows me to use the keys to play. See: http://min.us/ldmfEC http://min.us/ldmfEC
- wqfeng 15y agosame in China.
- bfung 15y agoalso has keyboard commands, across the rows: do re mi fa so la ti do re mi q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l ; z x c v b n m , . / Edit: If anyone cares to figure out the recorded encoding scheme, could probably "record" or program a tune. ex: http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=<encoded http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=<encoded song here> ex, do-re-mi from Sound of music http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=IAZxghAmCEEYYYZgQGAMMEMwARhoBnGMJcwwxygEXNIMQI4QAiFHIkJMwxgAjlEKIJMCwQAjmECBMCSxkCjlECBUEkJkIiFABBRc0IFzzHiBsIcQJQA* http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=IAZxghAmCEEYYYZgQGAMMEMwARh... ex: chopsticks http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tune=wIBgRTAigBHIOEAhgRTAimBDIiKREUiIpEQyIijlGIREUiIpCpwJhkAqGQgUJAoyBRgVDIQKcMYFCUBkoHJQOSgcIUJCUCUCgagDAfcgBhyGBBACOQwIpgQzAhmBFIiKREUiIpEQyIikRDIiKREUC4ZAwgUIFKQKMMoFCBSkClIFKSgKcjKB4A** http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tune=wIBgRTAigBHIOEAhg... seems to be a big hash w/note+duration encoded. Would hack on, but need sleep & moving to SF in a couple days. G'nite HN!
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- InclinedPlane 15y agoNote: I'm pretty sure the keyboard commands only work in record mode.
- nostrademons 15y agoThey work everywhere, but you have to give the doodle keyboard focus, otherwise you'll be typing into the search box. I think the only way to give it focus without clicking through to the [les paul] query is to hit record. Once you stop recording, though, you can still use the keys.
- chrisa 15y agoI was also able to hit tab 3 times to give the doodle focus and use the keyboard
- joshwa 15y agotoo bad there's only the major scale. the full 12 tones would have been pretty fun...
- irahul 15y agoGoogle is one of the few companies who would invest in this sort of PR. It's good publicity for them and also an ultra creative way to garner people's curiosity and attention. It must have been a hell lot of work(unless I am missing something) but it's totally justified.
- dermatthias 15y agoBest PR ever. Today, in every office around the world, there will be at least one person saying "have you seen the google logo today?". And everybody will have a good time. Totally worth the development cost (and such a thing will be enjoyed by everyone who develops it).
- MartinCron 15y agoIn the pre-Google era, I worked for a dot-com startup that was a community for senior citizens to get together and presumably chat about their grandchildren or whatever. I suggested that we do fun things with the logo like different permutations of the logo on different parts of the site, or changing the logo out for holidays or whatever. The CEO just berated the hell out of me. He said that was the worst idea he had ever heard, and that any serious and successful company NEVER EVER EVER changes how their brand looks and is presented and gave me all sorts of examples of how all "real" companies have elaborate and detailed documents explaining the only acceptable way to display the company's name and/or logo in every possible scenario. So every time Google (or anyone else) does this sort of thing, I feel a small rush of vindication.
- sahillavingia 15y agoHere's my attempt at Mary Had A Little Lamb: http://goo.gl/doodle/1tEs http://goo.gl/doodle/1tEs
- jabo 15y agoHere's my version :) http://goo.gl/doodle/OXis http://goo.gl/doodle/OXis
- yahelc 15y agoHere's my shot at Heart and Soul. http://goo.gl/doodle/qyOQ http://goo.gl/doodle/qyOQ
- nostrademons 15y agoHandel Sonata: http://goo.gl/doodle/lAT0 http://goo.gl/doodle/lAT0 Metallica: http://goo.gl/doodle/6H8G http://goo.gl/doodle/6H8G Noodling around with some chords: http://goo.gl/doodle/KqQb http://goo.gl/doodle/KqQb
- z92 15y agoRecording and playback only works when one is browsing from the USA. I have tried from both sides. Only after loading it from a USA IP it played back successfully.
- barrkel 15y agoI can confirm, doesn't work from UK IP but does work from USA.
- oomkiller 15y agoThis is excellent! You can really easily play "Ode to Joy" with it.
- cma 15y agoIf Moe's can be successfully sued over using dead people's likenesses, how can Google get away with living people? Do they have to get permission for each one?
- nostrademons 15y agoLes Paul is dead. Died in 2009. The only "living people" that get a doodle are you. Search from the homepage on your own birthday when you're signed in, and if your Google Account has a birthday associated with it, you'll get a special doodle.
- JonathanStanton 15y agoLean on Me: http://goo.gl/doodle/ubOZ http://goo.gl/doodle/ubOZ
- delinquentme 15y agoawesome!
- JonathanStanton 15y agoLean on Me: http://goo.gl/doodle/ubOZ http://goo.gl/doodle/ubOZ
- forgingahead 15y agoLa Vie En Rose: http://goo.gl/doodle/gSAz http://goo.gl/doodle/gSAz It stops recording after a bit - I had the whole song too! Haha this is great *Edit: Last part to complete the song, because it was bugging me: http://goo.gl/doodle/aEl1 http://goo.gl/doodle/aEl1 And, quickie Imperial March: http://goo.gl/doodle/D6ce http://goo.gl/doodle/D6ce
- revorad 15y agoI'm being extra slow this morning... errr how do you play back recordings?
- bostonvaulter2 15y agoIt should just play back as soon as you load the page.
- revorad 15y agoDoesn't work for me (in the UK).
- tudorizer 15y agoDoesn't work for me either (Germany)
- fgblanch 15y agoDoesn't work for me either (Spain)
- mconstanzo 15y agoNot recording here in Australia.. But it sounds awesome lol
- mconstanzo 15y agoNot recording here in Australia.. But it sounds awesome lol
- 51Cards 15y agoAdding another comment after my one below. I couldn't get the record button (just a keyboard button) and thought it might be because I am in Canada. To test I remoted into our server in Texas and opened the doodle from there... presto, a record button... on IE7 no less. Looks like Google is distributing different versions by region. Why? No clue. Edit: This works on my Nexus One! Now THAT is cool.
- wayneyeager 15y agoMy attempt at Dueling Banjos: http://goo.gl/doodle/gsW2 http://goo.gl/doodle/gsW2
- BSeward 15y agoIt looks like Alexander Chen played a large role in this. He was responsible for the NYC MTA conductor piece that made the rounds earlier this year: http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/ http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/ Cool to see how this concept and code have evolved into something new.
- tintin 15y agoLooks like they were inspired by this: http://www.mta.me/ http://www.mta.me/ (already mentioned on HN)
- tmgrhm 15y agoI dunno, I think they're more inspired by this: http://d.pr/dQPu http://d.pr/dQPu
- tzury 15y agoThe problem with those amazing crafts is that they disappear the day later, and you cannot get a cached version of them. at http://www.google.com/logos/index.html http://www.google.com/logos/index.html you only have a static version of it, (see Martha Graham's 117th Birthday for instance). Dear googlers on HN, is there anything you guys can do about this?
- Matt_Cutts 15y agoSome logos get their own page, e.g. http://www.google.com/pacman/ http://www.google.com/pacman/ I'm sorry that posting this link may lower productivity for a bunch of people. :)
- DeusExMachina 15y agoIs there a list of these? It's hard to guess the names.
- nostrademons 15y agoThey're linked from the /logos page: http://www.google.com/logos/ http://www.google.com/logos/ If you go back to May 2010, PacMan is there, as are all the other ones. The interactive ones get hyperlinked to a standalone page.
- nostrademons 15y agoMost of them get their own page eventually. The limiting factor is just engineer-time; a backlog tends to develop when there're a bunch of interactive doodles in a row, because the engineer(s) in question are too busy working on the next doodle to put the previous one up. I know how to do it and currently have nothing to do on my real project, so maybe tomorrow I'll ask the engineers in question if they mind me putting up standalone versions of some of the backlogged doodles.
- nostrademons 15y agoFYI, Les Paul, Martha Graham, Earth Day, World's Fair, and Yuri Gagarin are all up now: http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/worldsfair.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/worldsfair.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/earthday.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/earthday.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/space.html http://www.google.com/logos/2011/space.html
- anony_moose16 15y agorandom noodling http://goo.gl/doodle/a85r http://goo.gl/doodle/a85r
- betageek 15y agoVery nice but very frustrating that you can almost play "Happy Birthday" except for 1 note missing!
- evanrmurphy 15y agoAh, you're right! Here's the first part http://goo.gl/doodle/tdXk2 http://goo.gl/doodle/tdXk2
- tudorizer 15y agoSomething is not ok for me. On all my browsers, I can play the chords and hear the sounds, but I can not playback the recodings you guys shared. What gives?
- tudorizer 15y agoWorks now. I think the rest of the world got it with a delay :)
- x-sam 15y agoRecording and replaying sounds works only for US IP addresses. Also Firefox 3.5.8 doesn't work.
- davidcollantes 15y agoIt wasn't making any sound for me, then I realized it needed Flash. Very nifty.
- Bogdanp 15y agoThis is great. Too bad recording/playback doesn't work for people outside of the US. Here's the intro to "Redemption song" since I can't record it: a sd a fhgd asdg dgdas.
- akaak 15y agoSimply brilliant. I am sure this doodle going to bring some good bit of PR and non-google search users (if there are any) to the Google home. They are marketing/pr geniuses in using the tech. In hindsight, the doodle patent (http://mashable.com/2011/03/22/google-doodle-patent/ http://mashable.com/2011/03/22/google-doodle-patent/) looks very useful
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- mbongiov 15y agoSimple Do-Re-Mi http://goo.gl/doodle/9giY http://goo.gl/doodle/9giY
- Alterlife 15y agoI'm late to the party :) . Labamba: http://goo.gl/doodle/JQgc http://goo.gl/doodle/JQgc
- mumrah 15y agoIronically, can't play the birthday song due to a lack of B-flat (could be played in G, but not enough notes)
- zarify 15y agoI have to be the only person who just didn't like this. Trying to get a class full of teenagers to work when everyone was busy playing the guitar was a headache :P Beautiful and creative, sure, but having what's essentially persistent sound in a web page just rubs me the wrong way.
- tricky 15y agoTik Tok by Ke$ha http://goo.gl/doodle/Yr6r http://goo.gl/doodle/Yr6r
- zephjc 15y agoTelephone by Lagy Gaga http://goo.gl/doodle/yXZK http://goo.gl/doodle/yXZK
- tricky 15y agoi like the cut of your jib - But, really, i think this is a good illustration of what can be done with minimal notes. I've heard a few people complain about not having sharps/flats. It might take a little more work, but there's still a ton you can still do. It also taught me that yes, i can play by ear just fine, but I am no good at transposing real time. that's tough.
- zephjc 15y agoI think this was ample, feature-wise, for a 1-day Google homepage logo :)
- 456123 15y ago?
- dsims 15y agoMary Had a Little Lamb http://goo.gl/doodle/3aEE http://goo.gl/doodle/3aEE Works on my Android phone too, even the keyboard (Motorola Droid). Can't press the record button though.
- malingo 15y agoAutomated Chopsticks: http://pastebin.com/tCpg7jjw http://pastebin.com/tCpg7jjw
- brown9-2 15y agoCreating these full-time must be an incredible blast: http://www.google.com/intl/ln/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/product/doodle-engineer-mountain-view/index.html http://www.google.com/intl/ln/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view...
- magicseth 15y agoTalk about attention to detail: if you have headphones you can tell that the audio shifts from left to right, based on where your mouse is. Try different spots on the long string in the middle for the best effect.
- moioci 15y agoThis video shows how it's done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaeO99SbgFc&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaeO99SbgFc&feature=youtu...
- lostbit 15y agoToday (1 dat after) the record/play button started to work for me. I guess they decided to make it available in other countries too. I finally could listen to your compositions.
- evanrmurphy 15y ago"Rolling in the Deep", by Adele http://goo.gl/doodle/DCvZJ http://goo.gl/doodle/DCvZJ
- Mz 15y agoI have zero musical ability and was playing with this anyway. I think it is one of the coolest google doodles ever. (Possibly THE coolest.)
- benlang 15y agoThat was an epic Google logo. Did it cause more productivity loss than the Pacman logo?
- Alicia2003 15y agocool