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The long-awaited big bad Lingus full band is finally ready for download, with a preview video forthcoming. Enjoy!

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Firstly, what do I do if I want to place a tempo mark in the middle of a measure? I need to do these because the bar is “lopsided” – the band play nothing in the first half and start the second half “late”.

 

I do this all the time. What you’ll want to do is make a time selection starting at the beginning of the measure and ending at the first sync point. So let’s say we’re dividing a measure of 4/4 in half. Select from beat 1 to where you want beat 3 to land. Then right click on a blank part of the interface (an area with no track on it) and select “Create measure from time selection (new time signature). From here, either do 2/4 or 2 measures of 1/4, and hit OK. Do the same with the second half of the measure as well. Then double click the tempo markers that appear, starting at the later ones, and uncheck the box that says “start new measure, time signature” on each of them.

 

You can do this dividing up a measure any way you want to, putting sync points in odd spots. I also like to do this when the accent is on beat 4.5 for example, by mapping a measure of 7/8 and then switching it back to 4/4.

 

This is also the best way to map changing time signatures anyway, so if you’re doing something where the time signature actually does change, you can just do the first few steps of this, and then just keep your new time signatures.

 

Hope that helps!

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Thanks to hotfuzz for reminding me about this song (A Certain Romance) today, and to Storm360 for getting the files to me literally over a year ago. Sorry for sitting on this for so long!

This song now has the other guitar part charted in the verses, a few other minor charting changes, and proper audio levels. Enjoy!

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I was thinking of doing some Bloc Party, and Like Eating Glass and Octopus were a couple songs I thought of. That and So He Begins To Lie. Maybe I’ll do a 3-pack…

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Got a chart up of this video:

 

I’ll do more of his if people are into it!

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Been a while, yeah? Wasn’t planning on only ever doing CHON but whoops here ya go.

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You can also right-click and drag to select a section of notes.

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There’s too much else going on in the actual song file in just about anything you’d chart. Unless you have stems, what you’re doing probably won’t work. If you can’t sing, just use ReaSynth and try to match the pitch that way like everyone else. There’s no way around it.

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There’s a plugin called “JS: Center Canceler” but it’s not a guarantee. It just removes anything that’s mixed down the center and brings out anything that’s panned left and right (creating a mono track of it, I believe). Usually you’ll get keys and harmonies clearer this way, but it’s worked for guitar for me on occasion.

 

Beyond that, you can open up ReaEQ and boost the low mids (around where the 2 band is on the default setup), but that will only do so much.

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Alright, I’ll probably do it on Youtube then. I can’t promise any kind of schedule, though.

 

I don’t have any streams still up on my channel, but you can find my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GanonMetroid

 

Thanks for the feedback!

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After all the tricks that there are to help isolate harmony tracks, there’s a good chance you could still be trying to pick out a single pitch from a group of pitches, which can always be tough, especially if you’re not used to listening for those kinds of things.

 

Generally, harmonies are going to be a 3rd or 5th away from the main melody (so if the main melody is C, and the harmony is a 3rd above, it’ll be on Eb or E. If it’s a 5th, it’ll be on G). You may occasionally get harmonies a 6th away or even a 4th on some occasions.

 

If you know the key you’re in, that helps too. Knowing the notes of the key narrows it down to 7 options (including unison/octave harmonies). Try each note independently and see which one sounds right.

 

What I’m essentially suggesting is to plug in a dummy note with the synthesizer – or even sing it if you’re able – and see how close it sounds to what’s on the recording. Even if you’re not sure what the key is, you can just try all 12 notes. Even if you end up with the wrong note (which hopefully you won’t), this method should give you a note that sounds good if people sang along, which is the next best thing.

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If you hold Alt and click+drag the end of an audio track, you should be able to stretch and shrink it. Play around with that until they line up properly.

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I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking, but here’s a handy trick that solves any issues of note timings.

 

Lay out the correct number of notes you need, regardless of where you need them. Just make sure it’s the right pattern and all of the notes are directly back-to-back. Then highlight them all (right click+drag or ctrl+click). Hold down alt, and click the right (or left) edge of the notes, and drag it to wherever you want the pattern of notes to end. Boom. Highly customizable note quantizations.

 

The only problem here is that often they can’t be snapped to any of the grid options, especially the weirder ones you get this way. Be wary of that when you’re copy/pasting and using the quantize command.

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BPM is not guaranteed to be consistent throughout the length of a song, and in fact will probably not be. Your best bet is to go through and find the BPM yourself as it changes.

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Usually it’s set to do that with ctrl+scroll or alt+scroll. You must have changed the settings somehow. Go into your actions list and check your programmed hotkeys.

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