Making A Beep Noise When Key Is Pressed Down

[marypoppins_1]

Hello,
I want to make it so that when a key is pressed down, a beep (censor sound) plays until the key is released.
I'm not sure whether to use SoundBeep or SoundPlay, but this is what I need
Press the key (hotkey)
Sleep for 150ms
now it will continuously check for key state and as long as it is down I want to play a beep. I tried using soundbeep but there was no way to make it play indefinitely and then somehow stop it. This is the code

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Launch_Media::
    Sleep, 150
    MyState := GetKeyState("Launch_Media", "P")
    While(MyState){
        SoundBeep, 1000, 
    }
    Return

I'm not sure if it is possible to have something like a 50ms clip of the beep and then as long as the key is pressed have that play and loop until it's released.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance

[boiler]

You're checking the value of an unchanging variable in the loop. The variable doesn't know while its in the the loop that you want it to have a new value of GetKeyState just because you assigned it that value once before. You need to update it in the loop. If you do that, you don't even need a variable:

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Launch_Media::
    Sleep, 150
    While GetKeyState("Launch_Media", "P")
        SoundBeep, 1000
    Return

I don't know of a good way of having it play one continuous beep. You could try SoundPlay, but I think it would also have gaps.

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
try:

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Launch_Media::
Sleep, 150
FileDelete, Beep.ahk
FileAppend, #NoTrayIcon`nSoundBeep`,1000`,1.E6+0,Beep.ahk
Run, Beep.ahk,,, PID
KeyWait, Launch_Media
Process, Close ,% PID
Return

[marypoppins_1]

I tried Roh's method and it worked perfectly. However my launch media key isn't really a "key" idk it functioned kind of weirdly and doesn't look like most other keys on my keyboard. so I used a different key and it all worked fine. Thank you and have a nice day!