Billkwando
Posts posted by Billkwando
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Getting the tone changes wrong could have been the reason for your problem with the bass tone not showing up. (You add tone changes in EOF, but it's not usually necessary for bass parts.)
I don't know what showlights are ... but wait a bit, @@raynebc will show up soon, he's our resident EOF guru.
I made a thread the other day asking what showlights was, but it never got any replies. I'm guessing that it's cos I asked some other questions that were probably pretty dumb, in hindsight. Maybe they didn't want to point out what an idiot I must be. ;)
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How the heck do you set bend direction? I've been wondering that since I started.
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Make sure you have the most recent version of the toolkit, naturally. Also what does simplify chords and paste from do? I'm always afraid to click on things I don't understand, cos not everything can be undo'd.
When you select notes, you can use Simplify Chords to for instance turn a three finger chord into a two finger chord. I know it works well that way, I have no experience with that feature when it comes to barre chords though.
Paste from can be used if you're creating difficulty levels by hand: you do the full song in "Amazing", then you click on the next lower difficulty and use "Paste from" to copy all the notes from Amazing. Then you can thin it out, go to the next lower level and use "Paste from" to copy everything from the second highest level and so on. Great for gradually decreasing the amount of notes or the complexity of chords.
Awesome, thanks!
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I'll try that and see if it works for me. Perhaps the success also depends on the song. I've got a song with relatively simple chords in the pipeline, I'll see what it does with that.
Also: I think EOF has some pretty good features to create DD. There's your simplify chords thingy, there's your paste from feature and others. The one thing that confused me in the beginning is when you add a difficulty level and all of a sudden the names disappear and you get numbers ;)
Make sure you have the most recent version of the toolkit, naturally. Also what does simplify chords and paste from do? I'm always afraid to click on things I don't understand, cos not everything can be undo'd.
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Do you do List then Generate, or do you trust the popup when you save saying it will generate them? I always do the former, and I never do phrases or sections while testing CDLC during creation, and I haven't had that problem.Ok, I'll try that. I always do automatic generation of fret hand positions by EoF, so I'll try to add sections and phrases. Thank you
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If I can play a song right away without even trying much, I won't add DD because I figure that if I can play it, everyone else can, too.
When I add DD I do it manually. I've tried the DDC and it just never worked right for me. Maybe I'm just not giving it the right input, but the output always seems weird to me. When I do it by hand, I look at the note pattern and try to get an understanding what the actual difficulty is. Then I try to tone that done, one step at the time. I don't usually do more than four levels. It took a pretty long time for the first song I did this for, but when I did it the last time, I was much faster. And I was lucky enough to have selected notes to play for the easy difficulties that still make the song recognizable and fun to play - or so I hope.
When's the last time you tried DDC? It's not a static thing....Chili's always improving it. My wife was just commenting the other day that even though it's simplified, it really feels like you're playing the song. If you get a chance, check this one out:
Last weekend. As I said, maybe I haven't fed it right..? I didn't really try more than one setting, and perhaps that was wrong...
I don't make any phrases (DDC does that), only sections for RR, I set the phrase length to 4, and add 4000ms of leading silence usually. Also, it's important that your notes are correctly placed on the measures, cos if they're not, you'll get some wildly bad results...but I doubt that's your issue:)
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Hi!
So coincidentally, I had gone through and removed the arpeggios, but the notes were still left crazy. I went back and added 2 tonight to see if I could replicate the issue, and the first arpeggio is fine, but the 2nd exhibits the problem. They're measures 32 & 36. Here's the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uzm368q38d1fvt5/Hyde+-+Sweet+Vanilla.zip
Thanks!
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If I can play a song right away without even trying much, I won't add DD because I figure that if I can play it, everyone else can, too.
When I add DD I do it manually. I've tried the DDC and it just never worked right for me. Maybe I'm just not giving it the right input, but the output always seems weird to me. When I do it by hand, I look at the note pattern and try to get an understanding what the actual difficulty is. Then I try to tone that done, one step at the time. I don't usually do more than four levels. It took a pretty long time for the first song I did this for, but when I did it the last time, I was much faster. And I was lucky enough to have selected notes to play for the easy difficulties that still make the song recognizable and fun to play - or so I hope.
When's the last time you tried DDC? It's not a static thing....Chili's always improving it. My wife was just commenting the other day that even though it's simplified, it really feels like you're playing the song. If you get a chance, check this one out:
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Yeah, I put DD in all my stuff. If people don't wanna use it, it's not that hard to crank up the difficulty in riff repeater and restart the song. My wife won't even download a song if it doesn't have DD. Even if it's a really easy song, at least the person gets the confidence boost from maxing out the difficulty levels really quickly.
Personally, I charge headlong into everything with it cranked up, and hope for the best. Everybody else who plays RS at my house does DD. I don't see my lady going into RR and turning down the speed to practice a riff over and over anytime soon. She's still going through a long "I suck" phase, rather than realizing she's just out of practice.
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I have the same problem and it drives me up the wall. I tried a registry edit that stops popup tooltips completely, just in case that's the solution, but the game still loses forcus sometimes.the game doesn't actually end just minimises. I'll try the task manager next time to see if anything is trying to run. I dont think it's a memory problem, I'm running 8 Gb ram. The annoyance is nothing is on the screen when it happens, no notice for updates or anything.
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It's not. The arp chord is a D variation, and the unlabelled chord is an A.Is it the same chord as the arpeggio chord? That would explain it. If that's the case, try toggling the chord as a crazy note to force Rocksmith to label it.
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Please post the project file with information such as which note in which track is having this issue, with a screen capture of how it looks in Rocksmith if you have time. Is the chord in question inside of an arpeggio phrase?
No it's not, it's totally after. I probably won't be able to post it til tomorrow night. Thanks! :)
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So that's the problem I'm having. It's right after an arpeggio, but there are no sustains. Nothing's connected, so I don't know if the arpeggio is interfering or if it's something else. Thoughts?
Thanks!
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I'd guess it's because the resolution on the TV is much different from the one on your monitor, which freaks EOF out, since it's already kind of 'challenged' in the display department.
That's definitely a factor. It's going from 1440x900 to 1920x1080.
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Sorry, I mean switching which is the primary monitor.I need to do that cos I have my 50" TV as my secondary monitor, and Rocksmith only works on the primary, so I have to switch when I play.....which I do a lot when I'm testing customs.
Also, it's never playing anything back when it happens. It's just sitting there idle.
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It's not a big deal, but when I switch monitors, EoF turns black, and I have to close it with take manager. I just wanted to mention it in case it's not a known issue and can be replicated. If you need any details, let me know. Thanks! :)
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I think the most important part of this isnt how the song is done, but the final step.Which is 14. here. I dont upload songs that aren't finished, cause I dont see the point :P
Don't get too hung up on perfection, or else you'll never put up anything at all. ;)
A little WIP action isn't a bad thing. I would say if you need to move on after getting a song around 90% accurate, by all means, upload it now and come back to it later with a fresh mind when you're ready to fix it. That's just my thought, just because I released a handful of imperfect customs when I started out, and it was a great learning experience, but then I went back and fixed the rough ones later.
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I watched a couple youtube videos before I installed my i3 and it worked out just fine.
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Another problem I have with the DDC is that Rocksmith doesn't recognize it properly and never starts a custom off at the lowest difficulty level (at least for me).
Sure it's not just a very easy song? I've seen official songs start off with the DD bar half full of orange, IIRC.
No, every song. The starting difficulty seems to vary though. But official songs always start off at zero.
/puts down crack pipe, jumps out window.
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Another problem I have with the DDC is that Rocksmith doesn't recognize it properly and never starts a custom off at the lowest difficulty level (at least for me).
Sure it's not just a very easy song? I've seen official songs start off with the DD bar half full of orange, IIRC.
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No, see the red stripe up top? The site was under a DoS attack and nobody could connect. Trust me, I tried! LOL
If it's still not working, I'm sure they'll fix it, now that you let them know.
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Hi all!
I'm having a little problem with my CDLC for Prince's Computer Blue. I've gotten as high as 98.4%, and I can't seem to get the % any higher, even though I think I'm playing it better than I ever have before.
I got that 98.4% in a previous version, and I have edited it since, to simplify some 3 finger power chords that only needed to be 2. I'm wondering if the lower note count has somehow made it mathematically impossible for me to match my previous score. Is it possible to reset the score for a song?
USUALLY when I update one of my customs, it deletes my score whether I like it or not. In this case, it actually had deleted my score, but with the most recent revision, it actually restored my score from 2 revisions ago, even though it had been blank with the last revision. Thoughts? Am I on crack?
2nd question:
What is the purpose of turning off the venue stuff? Does it make the game run any better? I want to do a video capture of me playing the song, and I'm wondering if the venue mode has any affect. As soon as I start up Camtasia, even with venue turned off, the game suddenly gets really choppy. I'd leave it on if it doesn't matter, so I thought I'd check.
3rd question:
What is "showlights"? I saw it mentioned on the smithy forum. If it's possible to alter the lighting (I'd love to make it purple for this song), how do you do it?
Thanks a bunch, all!
Chord fingering not showing on first strum, clear pane instead
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Oh that's why I gave you the psarc. I can do it when I get home, sure.