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Eight years is a long time to wait
The Corrs are all about harmonies and this song really needed pitched vocals. Thank you Domino for running with this one and taking it to the level of finish it deserved!!!
Well #2 has to be either “Arthur’s Theme” or “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” – I’m gonna bet rcale is correct because Dudley Moore is a pianist
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />Not worth it. You would end up with a ton of identical chords (when in fact they are different). See how autoreductions sometimes flatten chords between Hard and Medium and multiply the issue by 1,000. All of that after you’ve done days of research to convert guitar chords to 5-lane notes. However, you can prove me wrong: instead of programming anything, just come up with a table of conversion for all possible chords. I suspect you would quit after 5 minutes.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />Okay, I do see your point about a chord conversion table not being the way to go, but that wasn’t exactly what I meant.
Maybe a better way to frame this idea is to look at it from the perspective of automating the MIDI process in the C3 tutorial (yes, I know you literally wrote the book on this)
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” /> First, automating empty row removal would certainly be a timesaver.
Automating the process of “dumbing down” the chart is not as straightforward, but the two methods you point to in Section 9.3 could be implemented in a program. Even if you only program example A (the less subjective of the two), it still saves a lot of effort. Example B, by the way, is the point where I thought some of the RBN theory could be implemented.
The easiest approach would be to reduce all the guitar chords down to single “notes” using the mathematical mean of the MIDI note numbers (so that the trend of the pitch remains) and condense these notes down to five rows. Granted, it would then fall to the author to extrapolate chords by ear as needed.
Essentially, I’m suggesting something that would automatically convert a MIDI track into a rough chart that can be immediately pulled up in the RBN preview window and worked from there.
Hey Nemo!
In my eyes, you have been a Godsend to this community. If not for your contributions, I wouldn’t even be playing customs – let alone authoring them. I don’t know how you find time to keep up with it all and I can certainly understand why you would be looking to share the load. At one time, I was a passable FORTRAN programmer. Needless to say, it has been a looooong time since I have done any serious coding. I suspect there is some younger blood out there that is better equipped to answer this particular call
You also mentioned being out of ideas. I do have a possible idea for either you or that younger blood…
So it’s fairly common to use MIDI songs as the starting point for RB3 custom charts. One of the most time-intensive parts of this process is pulling together the guitar chart. Most MIDI songs have four or five guitar tracks (acoustic, electric, distortion, solo, etc.). In each of these tracks, a single guitar note/chord can be made up of five individual “midi notes” that are spread across dozens of lines. How about a custom Reaper action that could take these MIDI guitar tracks and reduce them using the guitar/bass chord theory from the RBN documentation? Essentially, you input a MIDI guitar track and end up with a RB guitar chart.
If the RBN chord theory is too subjective to program, how about a simpler version that uses mean/average values to reduce the MIDI chords down to a single note and then uses the relative position of each note to compress the entire song into the five expert lines in an RB chart?
As with CAT auto reductions, this wouldn’t be a final, finished guitar chart, but I could see this rough draft saving hours of time on every song.
Favorite Bond: Connery (in the first three films)
Favorite Jason Bourne: Daniel Craig
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />Favorite Film: Goldfinger
Favorite Villain: Bloefeld in FRWL and Thunderball (the character was ruined by the reveal in YOLT)
Favorite Theme: As a movie theme “Goldfinger”, as a song “Nobody Does It Better”
Least Favorite Bond: Moore
Least Favorite Everything Else: “Die Another Day”
Favorite Pre-Title Sequence: “Tomorrow Never Dies”; I actually think this is the best 10 min of any Bond movie (although the opening for “Goldfinger” is a close second) Although Connery is my favorite Bond, I actually think Brosnan was best suited for the role. It’s a shame that the scripts undermined his performance with silly shit like speed boats driving in the street, Denise Richards, and Madonna.
Wow!
The Colonel is really keeping me busy removing and reinstalling songs on my PS3…
Of course, that kind of work I don’t mind
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />Seriously, thanks to all for the GREAT songs every week!
One slight heads-up on “Heaven’s on Fire” – I’m pretty sure there is a timing issue on the update that wasn’t there before.
Hi All!
I’m usually more the silent type, but I did want to thank everyone for all the compliments and encouragement in the short time I have been doing this with Doc – THANKS!
I also wanted to do a super-quick turnaround on Glarm’s request for David Allan Coe – although all credit really needs to go to Nunchuck
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif” />I remembered seeing this a long ways back, but couldn’t remember exactly where. For some reason, it didn’t show up when I did a search, so I had to dig to find it (and I can understand why Glarm didn’t know about it).
Enjoy!