April 10, 2004
Pianographique
Flash, slow if you're on on dialup and really fun. I found this while wandering through the links at Soundtoys.net
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I don't normally enjoy flash sites, as the reward is not often worth the bandwidth/wait, but this is really beautiful. I think it's the sound that holds it together, at least on the first screen. That said, I'm pathetic, and couldn't figure out what it was about or how to use it.
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My bad. It's an interactive music flash that allows you to use your keyboard like a simple piano. The wait is really tedious if you don't have broadband. Some of the animations appear to be fully loaded before they're ready to play. That can be very confusing.
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I had no luck with this at all (tried IE and Opera for Mac).
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Boy, did I botch this one! When the first page is fully loaded, different modules -- lov techno is my favorite -- appear at the bottom of the flash screen. To get them activated, you have to double click and then wait again. It does have a really lengthy load time. I only tested it with Safari (Mac-centric mea culpas), but it should be okay in Omni, Mozilla, Camino and Firefox. I do have IE, though I never use it, and I gave up on Opera a while back. Did anyone get a broken icon?