Jingle

PowerShell Team

As an attempt to spread some holiday joy, Satish Mathew and I wrote the following script.  Hope you enjoy it! 

– Marcel Ortiz

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$notes = write-output `
  4A4 4A4 2A4        4A4 4A4 2A4        4A4 4C4 4F3 8G3             1A4 `
  4Bb4 4Bb4 4Bb4 8Bb4     4Bb4 4A4 4A4 8A4 8A4    4A4 4G3 4G3 4A4    2G3 2C4 `
  4A4 4A4 2A4       4A4 4A4 2A4    4A4 4C4 4F3 4G3     1A4        4Bb4 4Bb4 4Bb4 4Bb4 `
  4Bb4 4A4 4A4 8A4 8A4    4C4 4C4 4Bb4 4G3     1F3     4C3 4A4 4G3 4F3     2C3 8C3 8C3  `
  4C3 4A4 4G3 4F3       1D3      4D3 4Bb4 4A4 4G3     ‘1E3’    4C4 4C4 4Bb4 4G3 `
  1A4     4C3 4A4 4G3 4F3    1C3     4C3 4A4 4G3 4F3     1D3 `
  4D3 4Bb3 4A4 4G3         4C4 4C4 4C4 8C4 8C4    4D4 4C4 4Bb4 4G3    4F3 2C4   4A4 4A4 2A4 `
  4A4 4A4 2A4      4A4 4C4 4C3 8G3      1A4     4Bb4 4Bb4 4Bb4 8Bb4      4Bb4 4A4 4A4 8A4 8A4 `
  4A4 4G3 4G3 4A4       2G3 2C4     4A4 4A4 2A4     4A4 4A4 2A4    4A4 4C4 4F3 8G3 `
  1A4       4Bb4 4Bb4 4Bb4 4Bb4      4Bb4 4A4 4A4 8A4 8A4      4C4 4C4 4Bb4 4G3     1F3

function Play([int] $freq, [int] $duration)
{
  [console]::Beep($freq, $duration);
}

 

#
# Note is given by fn=f0 * (a)^n
# a is the twelth root of 2
# n is the number of half steps from f0, positive or negative.
# f0 used here is A4 at 440 Hz
#
$f0 = 440;
$a = [math]::pow(2,(1/12)); # Twelth root of 2
function GetNoteFreq([string]$note)
{
  # n is the number of half steps from the fixed note.
  $note -match ‘([A-G#]{1,2})(\d+)’ | out-null
  $octave = ([int] $matches[2]) – 4;
  $n = $octave * 12 + ( GetHalfStepsFromA $matches[1] );
  $freq = $f0 * [math]::Pow($a, $n);

  return $freq;
}

 

function GetHalfStepsFromA([string] $note)
{
  switch($note)
  {
    ‘A’  { 0 }
    ‘A#’ { 1 }
    ‘Bb’ { 1 }
    ‘B’  { 2 }
    ‘C’  { 3 }
    ‘C#’ { 4 }
    ‘Db’ { 4 }
    ‘D’  { 5 }
    ‘D#’ { 6 }
    ‘Eb’ { 6 }
    ‘E’  { 7 }
    ‘F’  { 8 }
    ‘F#’ { 9 }
    ‘Gb’ { 9 }
    ‘G’  { 10 }
    ‘G#’ { 11 }
    ‘Ab’ { 11 }
  }
}

 

$StandardDuration = 1000;
foreach($note in $notes)
{

  $note -match ‘(\d)(.+)’ | out-null
  $duration = $StandardDuration / ([int] $matches[1]);
  $playNote = $matches[2];
  $freq = GetNoteFreq $playNote;

  write-host $playNote;
  Play $freq $duration
  start-sleep -milli 50
}

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