Flash

Flash has quickly become the defacto standard for interactive media on the Web. Learning Flash takes some time but you can learn a lot faster with a good text. I recommend you buy the book Flash CS3 Professional Visual Quickstart Guide and enjoy the online resources linked below.

Flash Tutorials and Examples by Dr. Estrella

• Creating a Flash Piano (tutorial)
  • You may download a zip archive of the 13 pitches in mp3 format.
  • You may download the FlashPianoCode.as file to go with the tutorial.
• The Shearspire MP3 Player
• Demonstration of Perfect Intervals (example opens in a new window)
• A Short Music Quiz (example opens in a new window)
• Quick Review of the Sound Object (example opens in a new window)
• Basic 3-track Mixer (example opens in a new window)
• Configurable 4-track Mixer
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• Music Analysis with Flash (example opens in a new window)
• Examples from the Music First! textbook (example opens in a new window)
• Even better examples from my Fundamentals textbook (example opens in a new window, then click the student edition link)
• Examples from Experience Music (example opens in a new window, then click the student edition link)
• Configurable Expanding/Collapsing Menu
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• A list of music education sites, many use Flash.
• Use of a Flash keyboard as a navigation bar
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• Use of Flash to create Triple Fun Yahtzee, a standalone game that runs on both Macintosh and Windows. (opens a new window)
  
• The classic "Choose A Door" game revealed

Flash Tutorials and Examples at Other Sites

• CBT Cafe
• Harry Partch's Instruments (interactive Flash video - lots of fun)
• Macromedia's Basic Flash Tutorials
• Sonify.org (Using Flash for interactive audio)
• KillerSound Flash Tutorials Beginning to Advanced Tutorials on Interactive Sound with Flash
• Cybermeister's Flash MX Tutorials