To see how BubbleMachine™ allows interactive navigation through a piece of music, simply follow the simple steps below to access the pre-made chart for "1985" by Bowling for Soup. NOTE: This piece is used as an example to demonstrate the program's capabilities for educational use and does not allow users access to the actual digital audio data, constituting "fair use" under the U.S. Copyright provision.
Using BubbleMachine:
In the area below, click on the ENTER button next to "Edit an existing file"
Type the following into the textbox: 1985.txt
note that this information is case-sensitive, so make sure to use all lower-case characters
Click on the ENTER button (press the ENTER key on your computer keyboard will not work) and BubbleMachine will take you to the Tools page, where you can manipulate marker points, add more markers, or delete those present
depending on the length of your musical example, it may take a few moments for the sound file and data to load into BubbleMachine. Please wait until you see a list of numbers appear in the "Marker List" on the right side of the Tools page
Without changing any of the information, click on the "Chart" button in the lower right hand corner of the Tools page
From the Chart page, you navigate through the song by clicking on the control buttons (play, pause, and stop), by dragging the button on the progress bar that represents the length of the song, or by clicking on any of the bubbles (causing playback to initiate directly from that location).
If you want to edit, delete, or add bubbles to the chart, on the Chart page, simply click on the "Tools" button to return to the page that allows you to perform these functions. You can toggle between the two pages, with the information updated immediatley, by clicking on the "Chart" and "Tools" buttons.
if you do plan to experiment with the "Tools" page, you should definitely read the instructions provided
ENJOY!! ... click <here> to return to BubbleMachine without the tutorial.