Hi, tried to edit a custom and it didn’t work out. I was trying to fix a single chord in the Nothing Else Matters chart to learn a bit more about the tools. These are the steps I followed:

1) Installed Reaper with C3 and RBN templates and Limiter VST, Le Fluffie, Party Buffalo etc. I’ve already been able to play customs in the game so the basic Party Buffalo workflow seems to be fine. I’d already played Nothing Else Matters in the game.

2) Using Le Fluffie, opened the Nothing Else Matters CON in Song Explorer and extracted it to GHM2NothingElseMatters_extracted.

3) In Reaper, “Insert > Media File” and selected the extracted MIDI file, said yes to import it as 16 tracks.

4) Navigated to the appropriate measure of the Pro Keys Expert track and fixed the chord (yay, the easy part!)

5) “File > Export project MIDI” and overwrote the file in the directory.

6) The first time I tried to Create Package in Le Fluffie, I tried adding the entire extracted folder to the package. The result obviously didn’t load in the game. I then analyzed the original song’s package structure to try to emulate it:

6A)Open Song Packager

6:cool: Set Package Title and Description fields to arbitrary values (however I notice that if I set the title to “Nothing Else Matters”, with the quotes, I’ll get an exception if I try to save. So I used NEM as the package title).

6C) Drag GHM2NothingElseMatters_extractedRootsongsnothingelsematters into the folders pane.

6D) Verified that songs.dta is now present in “songs”, the MID and MOGG are present in “nothingelsematters” and the milo_xbox and png_xbox files are in “gen”.

6E) Click “Create Package” and it saves stuff and then loads it back into the explorer.

6F) Change package title and description “safely” and save again.

7) Use Party Buffalo to add the song to the flash drive and then try to play it in the game.

The song is detected, the album info and tiers all show up correctly. When I try to play the song it gets about 2/3 of the way through loading and then the Xbox freezes and has to be rebooted.

My guess is that the problem isn’t with how I build the package, because when I originally built the package incorrectly the album art didn’t show up and I got an in-game error when I tried to play the song (something like “Error loading song, skipping”). So my guess is that the problem is with the MIDI file. Since my actual change was almost non-existent, I’m guessing that the export was lossy of information that the game requires.

And in fact I see that the original extracted MIDI file was 158,402 bytes, and my saved and edited file is 153,668. Since I only changed one chord, I would expect basically the same size.

So my question for you fine people is where I went astray in the above steps. I kind of get the impression that using Reaper might actually be overkill for editing one chord. Is there an easier process I could follow to try to accomplish this?

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