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Are you still looking for submissions for this pack? I have the GH5 version of Sultans of Swing and I think that qualifies as an “exceptional song.” There have been a few attempts and versions of the song floating around but I will be doing a conversion “from scratch” to make sure its as good as it can be.
Yes, if we have more than 12 authors we will do 2 authors in one day as we did last year. I can happily share my day.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Things just got really busy for me at work so I am not going to add it to the schedule until I know I have time.
Just have too much stress in my life with heavy depression and other terrible things and I need to take a break from everything until I can sort it all out.Hey man, don’t worry about it. We’re all in this for the fun of it, and if it has stopped being fun for you then by all means take a break! I hope that everything works out for you, and I want to thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the game. Take another look at your song download numbers and be proud of your work
If you haven’t done so already, might I suggest picking up an instrument? If you are really into music and want to learn more about theory, that might be a great option. You already will have a strong concept of rhythm and pitch from working on customs, and if you put just as much dedication into learning an instrument I guarantee you will see results. It’s a great way to blow off steam as well! I learned to play guitar entirely from online tabs and videos.
Best of luck NL.
GENERAL:-Practice sections: As they are now they are broken and doesn’t make much sense compared to what is being played. Read up on the docs if you don’t know how to do them properly Fixed.
-Events: Put a [crowd_noclap] event at 118.1 Added.
-OD markers sometimes seems a bit long on the instruments, it should usually be 1 measure long though 2 measures is acceptable too Most have been reduced.
-Age rating: I would say to set it to FF unless some of the slang used here means something dirty, if it does set it to SR Forgot to toggle this in v4, will do this for final release.
-Some notes seems slightly off-grid. Not so much it’s gonna be noticeable, but be sure to quantize stuff under OD phrases to make sure nothing is accidentally left out of them and such THis was a result of porting the RPP over from an earlier version that did not have swing rhythm. Most have been fixed.
-Reaper: If possible, have the audio be a OGG file of the final ingame mix rather than WAV for the sake of space and download times in the playtesting RAR. Also try and have everything set up so it is easy to look over it without having to turn off VST’s for lower instrument PK parts and stuff Done
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GUITAR:
-Tier: Seems a bit high, a 3 dot would probably be the best way to go Changed.
Expert:
-3.1, 5.3: Might be better as a Blue
-3.3, 4.3: Might work better if moved one color down
-3.4, 4.4: Don’t think these are grace notes to me, 3.4 sounds like a chord and 4.4 sounds like a single note
-6.4.67, 7.4.67, etc.: These G notes sounds like Y/B chords to me These aren’t G notes, and IMO they are still consistent
-46.2, 48.2, 84.2, etc.: Missing note, if necessary wrap the stuff before it to make it fit in
Made modifications to the intro and main riffs based on these suggestions.
Hard:
-3.3, 4.3, 5.3: These notes are lower than X.4 due to X.4 being a grace slide up to a higher note, I think it would be better to chart these as such pitch-wise
-6.4.67, 7.4.67, etc.: should be left in for Hard to make a difference between Medium and Hard
-46.2.67, 47.2.50, etc.: Sustains seem long enough to keep in on Hard as well as Expert
Reductions have been pretty much entirely redone based on all suggestions here. I won’t list them all.
Medium:
-General: Avoid having notes have a density of 8ths or closer, saw a few cases of it in the “solo” parts even if most of the song looks fine
-3.3: Pitch clash with the previous note, also happens on Easy
-32.4.67, 46.4.67, etc.: Think it would be better to chart the chord here instead of the G single note right before it
Easy:
-General: Avoid having 4th notes or more than 2 notes per measure
-General: Try to keep the whole chart to a 3 fret range at a time, there is too much moving up and down as it is, and some sections have R/B/G ranges which isn’t allowed (should be Y/B/O or R/Y/B if moved up at all)
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BASS:
-Tier: Due to most of the challenge just being from the rhythm and the riffs themselves being very straight forward, I would recommend bumping it down to 1 dot
Agreed.
Easy
-Appears to not be finished, constant 4ths going on here. Be sure to reduce it down to 2ths
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DRUMS:
-OD fills should be a full measure in length
Expert:
-26.1, 27.1, etc.: Put these crashes to Green, when using Blue during a hi-hat section it’s easy to misunderstand it as being a open hat and you avoid potential confusion this way
-119.2.32: Don’t think these hats should be off-grid
Fixed.
Medium:
-6.1 and out, etc.: Should look more like this:
In general try to avoid the extra swing hits in between the 4ths all together on Medium as it is more of a Hard-level technique
Easy:
-26.1, 38.1, etc.: Seems a bit undercharted, feel free to keep in the snares here (as well as the kick at 27.3)
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KEYS:
-Tier seems a bit high here too, 2 dot or even 1 dot would be better I think
Expert:
-46.1, etc.: Be sure to have a full 8th between chord sustains
-Pro; 18.1: Goes off screen here, move the lane marker to about 17.1.15 or so to fix this
-Pro; 54.1: Notes go off screen during lane shift, I would say to wrap this by putting the C in the G/C chord before to C3 instead of C4 and then adding a G2-B3 range marker on it before the jump down to C2-E3
-Pro; 62.1: Also goes off screen here, move the lane marker to about 61.1.15 or so to fix this
-Pro; 114.1: Same as 62.1
Pretty sure I fixed everything here, but lane changes are still a bit new to me so I might be missing something.
Hard:
-Make sure the lane shift fixes from Expert are applied here as well
Easy:
-Also seems under-reduced, be sure to have it be 2ths instead of 4ths. Also seeing some pitch clashing here, remember that you don’t need to wrap stuff on Keys reductions as much as G/B so just keep the color progression the same as Expert for the most part
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VOCALS:
-Make sure the [play] markers and such don’t appear on top of notes, the game could misinterpret them as lyric events and glitch out potentially
-65.1, make sure the phrase marker here is extended to 66.1 on all parts it is on, otherwise the harmonies won’t score correctly as they are outside of a phrase
-18.1, “down” should slide up from C to D
-20.3, “screams” starts a bit too early and finishes the slide up to F a bit too late
-23.1, “+” is about a 12th too long
-25.1.50, “+” seems a 16th too short
-27.3, etc.: the slide here seems slightly off sync, think the slides should start earlier
-28.1, etc.: “drown” appears to be a 16th or 8th too short
-37.1, etc.: “They wanna get” should be moved back a 64th
-40.1, “I aint” is also a bit sloppy, also I think “aint” should be written as “ain’t”
-41.2, etc.: “a” should be a F
-42.1, etc.: “time” should probably be a talkie, either that or slide quickly down to F
-56.1, “wired” should be split into two notes, “wi- red”
-59.1, “out” should slide up from D to F quickly
-61.2, “+” should start a 16th earlier, it can end where it currently ends though
-106.1, I think “Gold” is sung an octave up here’
Applied all of these changes.
Harmonies:
-65.1, think “in” might be a bit too long
-106.1, think “Gold” should be charted to HARM3, while HARM1 and HARM2 sing “house” in the same way as 82.1
I disagree about moving the “Gold” – it sounds to me like the backup vocals still sing “house” while the lead sings the higher “Gold.”
Thanks for the in-depth review!