Recording internal audio with Flash/AS3

Question

After searching the net high and low, I just cannot for the life of me figure this out. I'm definitely a newbie with all things Flash, but I'm teaching myself where I can. I've gotten a simple Flash piano working, and would like to add record & play back functions. This is where the problem comes in- I can find any multitude of answers for recording from the microphone and saving/playing it back with Flash, but the only things I can find relating to internal audio (or Flash-based pianos) at all are questions like this one with either really vague answers or just no answers at all.

I have some sort of idea that I should be creating an array that tracks the clicks? (It's a mouse-playable piano at the moment, but if it's better for me to make it keyboard-based, that's something I can do at least). After (before? during?) creating that array, how do I keep the rhythm/timing correct?

I'm just super lost and really need your expertise...

Answer 1

You're on the right track in storing the clicks in an array. As far as rhythm and timing, when the user wants to start "recording" you can start a timer, I'd every 200ms or so. You can use that timer to determine at what point in time the key was clicked for use when playing it back.

I don't know if something like a long press is something you'd need, but to do that, with the same timer, you can set a start time and end time (press-->release) and just subtract the end time from the start time and now you have the duration of how long the key was pressed

EDIT: here is a quick example of what I was referring to in my original post: http://ronnieswietek.com/piano/piano_example.swf

the source: http://ronnieswietek.com/piano/piano_example.fla