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If you know how to do all that other massaging, you’ve got enough experience with REAPER to just do it right. My first tempo map took hours, and every other one has taken 30 minutes tops. Make a real tempo map, hopefully one marker per measure, and you won’t have to fuss.
Thanks for the advice. Tempo mapping isn’t too difficult for the most part (thanks to the trusty tutorial!), but my primary concern beyond that would be importing/incorporating the MIDI. While I concede it’s definitely not the “right” way, it really does save a tremendous amount of time and errors for this portion of the work (under these circumstances). Me doing it by hand with the tempo map of the song itself versus using the method described above, I’ve not seen a difference in the gameplay experience that would warrant investing the many extra hours in adjusting and nudging the chart around just to meet that exact tempo when a mostly-accurate/suitable one can be generated with that method…
Hrmmm… I think I’ll finish these three songs inprogress first. Then I’ll see if I can consolidate the traditional and right way into an efficient import of the MIDI. Thanks again, I’ll let you know what comes up. If you have any advice for importing a MIDI of that kind, please let me know too
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Hey Exxucus. That could be cool! I will PM you as soon as I work out these 3 songs I’m about to finish together.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />In addition to what Lyra said, you can check for the “only two instruments” glitch by using C3 Con Tools to extract your con and load the mogg file from the extraction into Audacity. This will reduce time dragging everything to your console to test and will help you ensure it’s not your TV at fault. If the two instrument glitch is to blame, one of the channels (the bottom one of the mogg) will be disproportionately sized with the other and will sound terrible on its own. I think it’s important to look at the mogg from the con itself too as the Magmacompiler will take a perfectly rendered WAV from Reaper and mangle it without any warning. Hope this can help some.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />I just wanted to post to thank you for putting this together, Farottone! You have done the community a great service; so much so it actually makes me feel guilty for not having contributed sooner, but I’ll try to remedy that now
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />I took a shortcut with the above and was able to perfectly rip out the vocal MIDI on a song-by-song basis. The MIDIs are extraordinarily accurate, surprisingly. With some of the usual cleanup, they can very easily be used in Rock Band customs.
If anyone is interested in how to shortcut this without breaking into the game: Use any of the games with an emulator, go to options, turn off the BGM, and just record the vocal MIDI in real time from your sound card (in Audacity or whatever is best for you). From there, just use something like Melodyne to very quickly and precisely convert the recording back to MIDI. I experimented with this a few times and got 100% accurate results on all counts.
I thought of this earlier but… I wanted to see if it’d be easy to just extract all of the charts for the sake of creating a large database for fellow customs authors to use. Currently, they all have to be recorded manually. If there are any Japanese songs from the discs I have that someone would want ripped, let me know here or in a PM and I’ll get it to you ASAP.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Here’s an idea of the types of artists on there: BoA, L’Arc-en-Ciel, Do As Infinity, GLAY, Bump of Chicken, B’z, SMAP, T.M. Revolution, KinKi Kids, Ayumi Hamasaki, ZARD, Morning Musume, Southern All Stars, Utada Hikaru, Mai Kuraki, Namie Amuro, Hyde, Porno Graffitti, and hundreds of others. Basically any group or artist that would come to mind for “Japanese music” in the era the games were released is probably available.
