[Kemiroch]

Has anyone ever converted a PowerGig song, that can maybe give me some pointers? There’s one or two songs from that game that I’d like to have in RB. I opened it up in reaper but the sheer number of midi tracks has kind of overwhelmed me ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[Spindoctor]

PM me one of the files Kemiroch, I would like to have a look please

[Kemiroch]

Will do that once I get home.

 

I messed around with the guitar track a little bit. It’s a bit different than RB or GH, but not horribly so. It has 6 lanes instead of 5, there are easy, hard, expert, and master difficulties, and each difficulty is broken out into its own midi track. Just from my initial look through, I think it would probably be easier to copy the ‘master’ track over to expert, adjust it to 5 lanes, and then do reductions than it would be to repeat the conversion process for all the difficulties.

[Spindoctor]

did you run it through the midi cleaner?

[Kemiroch]

Yes it fixed 1 error. I don’t know what it was ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

[TrojanNemo]

MIDI Cleaner is not designed to work with PowerGig files. Only GH and FoF/Phase Shift

[Kemiroch]

It’s all magic to me Nemo.

[Kemiroch]

So. I spent the better part of 2 days adjusting the PG master guitar track into a RB expert guitar track. It seems to have gone well, as once that was done it cleaned and tested out with only 2 or 3 errors that I had to fix. Unfortunately I’m at … that place…where my boss and colleagues … is, so I can’t test it out right now ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_frown.gif” /> I’ll probably post the link when I get home so that anyone who wants to can check it out and see how it turned out.

 

After having gone through that, I think that THE hardest, most abominable part of this process is going to be trying to get my backing track to sync up with the note charts, as I don’t have the PG audio. But hopefully with a (lot) of trial and error I will get it working ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

[Spindoctor]

I looked at one for about 20 seconds, that was enough to make me rage quit.

[TrojanNemo]

What’s the rage inducing part of them?

[Kemiroch]

Aye, it is pretty daunting. It imports like 20 new tracks when you import the midi ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> But its just each difficulty separated out. To start I opened the master difficulty guitar track, copied all the notes, pasted them into the Part Guitar track, and moved them so the bottom note lined up with the Expert Green line. It looks pretty strange, and I’m not sure if some of the notes were actually things like open strum, hopo, or what (I’ve never played PG). I adjusted the notes down the best I could. There weren’t THAT many notes from the 6th button but it was enough to make it ‘fun’ to adjust. To top that off, there is usually a gap between note lines that make it look like there’s even more buttons than there really are ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

 

It sounds daunting but it was pretty straightforward once I dove into it.

[Spindoctor]

I couldn’t make heads nor tails of anything in the mids, Reaper 4.22 leaves behind trails/shadows of notes etc when they are moved around & the file I looked at had about 2000 shadows of notes, hard to tell what’s what. Didn’t have a lot of time to really look all that close

I was trying to be funny Nemo with the “rage quit” line.

[TrojanNemo]

I’ll take a look and see what can be automated. Post a few midis.

[Kemiroch]

Here are all the mids (its still quite small).

 

I took the link down. If you need it PM me.

[bluzer]

Awhile back I had this chat with RayneBC about the midis. I managed to convert the midi to a typical formatted RB midi(not magma’d) with a lot of copy/paste to merge all the difficulties per-instrument into their own channels(drums/guitar). Eventually RayneBC got the midis to import into EOF.

 

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