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Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

By : Michael Badger
Book Image

Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide: Second Edition

By: Michael Badger

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Scratch 2.0 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – importing a horse sound


Let's add some further context to our story by incorporating some actual sounds. As we'll see in the exercise, Scratch includes a horse sound, making it relatively easy to create some thematic stories based on the included media:

  1. With the horse sprite selected, click on the Sounds tab.

  2. Click on the Choose sound from library button to display Scratch's sound library.

  3. Browse to the Animal category and select Horse.

  4. To demo a sound before you import it, click on the play button next to each sound.

  5. Click on OK to add the sound to the list of sounds for the horse sprite. To listen to the horse whinnying, click on the play button in the sound editor.

  6. Duplicate the horse sound by right-clicking on the sound and selecting Duplicate.

  7. Select all of horse2 in the sound editor and apply the softer effect. To select the sound wave, click on the left-hand side of the sound editor and drag your mouse to the left. This is the same selection technique we used to highlight...