[How to] Create ProGuitar Upgrade from TAB
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Creating Pro Upgrade from a Guitar Pro tab is easy! Every one should do it!
I wrote these instructions while I created my last upgrade and it was playable.
Here are the links to the programs I used
http://customsforge.com/tags/forums/EOF/
1. Obtain the rb3con file for the song you want to create the upgrade for.
- a. Drop said file into C3 CON Tools then click the Extract Package
b. In your new rb3con_extracted folder open the Rootsongs and open the file song.dta
c. Make a note what the song_id is
2. Get the audio file ready
- a. Open the remaining folder and find the mogg file
b. The mid file that is here with the mogg file will be used in step 5a
c. Drop the mogg file into Audacity and delete the tracks that do not have the guitar in it.
d. Click File>Export Save as type Ogg Vorbis File
3. Get the Guitar Pro tab ready
- a. Delete the non guitar tracks (Vocals, Drums, ect)
b. If the guitar is spread across separate tracks (ie distortion, clean, ect), move all the guitar measures onto one guitar track line
c. Click File>Export>GP5
4. Convert tab to RB mid
- a. Run Editor on Fire click File>New and select the ogg file from step 2c
b. Fill in the new song information
c. Select Use Source Audio’s Folder
d. Click File>Preferences and make sure- i. Import/Export TS is checked
ii. Save separate Rock Band Files is unchecked
- i. Import/Export TS is checked
e. Click File>Edit>Grid Snap>Off
f. Click Song>Track>Part Real_Guitar_22 then select the Amazing tab
g. Click File>Guitar Pro Import and select the gp5 file from step 3c
h. If asked about Rocksmith click no
i. Select the Guitar track that you created in step 3b and click Import then Done
j. Click File>Save (This created a mid file in the same folder as the ogg file)
5. Syncing the tab mid file to the rb3con mid file
- a. Drop the mid file from step 2b into Reaper
b. Check the Merge source tempo map to project tempo map at 1.1.00
c. Drop the mid file from step 4h into Reaper
d. Uncheck the Merge source tempo map to project tempo map at 1.1.00
e. Move the PART REAL_GUITAR_22 track so that its first note will line up with the first note in the PART GUITAR track
f. Grab the beginning edge of the PART REAL_GUITAR_22 track and drag it to expand it to the beginning of the song.
g. Click File>Export Project MIDI
6. Fine tune the notes
- a. Run Editor on Fire click File>MIDI Import and select the mid file from step 5g
b. If asked to Import the raw data of an unsupported track, click no
c. Click yes if asked to store the tempo map into the project
d. Click yes to store the BEAT track and then lock the beat map
e. Select the ogg from step 2d
f. Go through the song adjusting the notes to the song. (Read the Pro Guitar Tutorial in the Help menu)
g. Click File>Preferences and make sure Save Separate Rock Band Files is checked
h. Click File>Save
7. Gather the Separate RockBand Files
- a. Move the pro.mid file to the songs_upgrades folder
- i. Rename this file to SONGNAME_plus.mid
b. Open the upgrades.dta file
- i. Replace the ### with the song id found in step 1c
8. Open RB3Maker
- a. Click Options>Pro Guitar/Bass Upgrade
b. Click File>Open Folder
c. Navigate and select the folder from step 7a
9. Inject your new SONGNAME_plus file into 360
How was it? Should I insert pictures? Describe something in more detail? Start my own wiki?
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If only it were that simple. I have yet to find a single GP file that will import without messing up the tempo map in EOF…I had the same problem, I tried a several different orders of doing it. The trick is having EoF’s snap turned off. Once everything lined up, I deleted everything (not really, just moved everything) And started from scratch to see if it was repeatable, I quickly started writing everything I did down. At the end I was like “Oh my, This looks good enough to post”
What I’ve done before was start with importing the guitar tab in EOF then export to REAPER to fine-tune the tempo map and author everything else without ever going back to EOF. But I do this sparingly now as I’ve found that tabs I’ve found aren’t very accurate and it’s easier just to start from scratch in REAPER.
If only it were that simple. I have yet to find a single GP file that will import without messing up the tempo map in EOF…EOF won’t alter any tempos during Guitar Pro import, unless you are importing a Go PlayAlong file. It’s expected that the tempos defined in the GP file aren’t going to be accurate enough so the tempo map still has to be manually synced in EOF. However, if you want, you can have Guitar Pro export a MIDI, and then import the MIDI into EOF first. It won’t read any of the notes from that, but it will set time signatures and tempos from it, and then you can import the GP file afterward. I usually work from scanned guitar tab though, so I usually enter the tab by hand.
EOF won’t alter any tempos during Guitar Pro import, unless you are importing a Go PlayAlong file. It’s expected that the tempos defined in the GP file aren’t going to be accurate enough so the tempo map still has to be manually synced in EOF. However, if you want, you can have Guitar Pro export a MIDI, and then import the MIDI into EOF first. It won’t read any of the notes from that, but it will set time signatures and tempos from it, and then you can import the GP file afterward. I usually work from scanned guitar tab though, so I usually enter the tab by hand.
I’m trying to do this full album and there isn’t one song that imports fine. I first import the 5 lane version with its tempo map. Then the GP5 file with no time signature importing (yes, I tried importing time signatures too, it didn’t work). The 5 lane version is perfect, the pro guitar version is wrong: sustains are cut off generally, a sustain that is on a 2/4 measure and bleeds into a 4/4 measure gets truncated at the end of the 2/4 measure, from a point on the song desyncs.
EoF is a wonderful piece of software, don’t get me wrong, but this GP importing feature has never worked for me. And it’s a shame because I have tabs that are spot on…
Which revision of EOF are you using? If you post a GP file I’ll take a look. Otherwise there’s not much I can do. The import feature is working with every GP file I’ve tried, with the exception that alternate endings are currently not supported. Also note that by default, notes shorter than a quarter note have their sustains removed, which is by design. You can disable this in File>Preferences.
Which revision of EOF are you using? If you post a GP file I’ll take a look. Otherwise there’s not much I can do. The import feature is working with every GP file I’ve tried, with the exception that alternate endings are currently not supported. Also note that by default, notes shorter than a quarter note have their sustains removed, which is by design. You can disable this in File>Preferences.Sure, I’ll send you a file with some info, thanks.
Are you still able to send me the file and information, Farottone?Yeah, it’s just been crazy here. I’ll try to prep everything tonight, sorry.
Are you still able to send me the file and information, Farottone?Here we go:
http://www.keepitfishy.com/farottone/rainy.rar
It contains the audio file, the 5 button mid file I imported, the GP5 file and the saved EoF file. Issues are, mainly, cut sustains and tempo map (from a point on 5 button and pro diverge).
That tab has some weird notation in it that I don’t quite grasp. Like in measure 5, there’s a whole note and a rest note that are marked as triplets, but wouldn’t there be a third note needed to form a triplet? Or can it be arbitrarily applied to any individual notes in order to alter their length? In measure 25, the rest notes are marked as triplets, but the musical notes themselves don’t seem to be. I have to wonder if the guitar pro file is authored the way it should be, or at least they could have made it simpler than dotted, 64th notes with dotted, triplet, 64th rests in between.
By the tempo map issue you mentioned earlier, I guess you just meant that the note timings aren’t importing as expected then? Did you have other tab files (perhaps ones that don’t have strange/abnormal usage of tuplets) that don’t import properly?
That tab has some weird notation in it that I don’t quite grasp.Well, I’ll be darned. It never occurred to me that it could be the GP file. And it definitely is. Sorry for wasting your time, I’ll check my process to see what goes wrong and how to fix it, thanks!
- a. Drop said file into C3 CON Tools then click the Extract Package
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