Billkwando

Oh freaky, when did this come out? Mine's only like a month old. Thanks!

Will it work with all my old package files? I rely on them pretty heavily (loading old ones to re-generate) since I revise my customs A LOT.

Hopefully someone knows the answer about the correlation between the tone volume and track volume. I'd assume they're uniform, but assumptions can be tricky. ;)

You'll need to select the XML file for import. If you directly import the Guitar Pro file in EOF, it won't import any of the synchronization from the XML file.

Excellent, good to know!

I have a song that is basically perfect volume-wise relative to the volume of the tones, but way too quiet in comparison (both preview and gameplay) to other songs in my list, which forces me to adjust the volume when I play it.

I want to boost it to match the volume of the other songs in the list, which I'm aware I can do in the toolkit. My question is, if I raise the song (for example) 2db, if I raise the tone volume for each tone by 2db as well, will that exactly approximate the relative volume I had achieved before, while making the whole thing louder, or are the ratios not exact?

Also, does the db setting for the track volume govern the volume of the preview as well?

If not, then in the song list it would appear to the user that the song might be too quiet, even though in actuality it isn't, which is a minor concern, but still a concern.

Thanks!

Awesome, thanks.

 

I'm gonna try the psarc creation again now and see what happens. Working tonight, but hopefully I'm now fully equipped to begin doing proper charting on my day off tomorrow.

 

Cheers!

Good luck, and post back if you have any issues! BTW, blank thumbnail and no sound happens sometimes if you paste a new psarc into the game folder while the game is running. Usually just shutting down the game and repaste-ing is all it takes.

Once I had a particularly persistent "song won't play" issue, and all I had to do was go back to the original file in EoF and simply load it and save it again.... like something went wrong with the save the first time or something. It's never, in my experience, an issue with the files created by the DD tab...on the rare occasion something goes wrong, it's with what you're feeding into it.

Note for new GPA users:

After finishing your first sync and hitting "finish", to use the file you have to go back to the Library (song list) in GPA, then do "export track" which will output a new XML and GP file to a new time stamped folder in your "My Documents"...and I believe all the folders start with the word "Library", if you're having a hard time finding it.

I think you can import either the xml or the gp file into EoF, but I've only done the xml so far.

For section, just do a shift S before every unique song chunk (or just one every 4 or 10 measures or whatever) and just keep choosing Intro if you're in a hurry. The dynamic difficulty creator (dd tab in toolkit) will make the phrases for you. You just need the sections so folks have chunks to select in riff repeater.

In my experience with amps+wall, all you have to do is generate the psarc again and it usually works. That's why I always check bass and guitar after every revision, cos amps+wall can strike either one.....like a ninja!

:D

 

I just charted and synced Justboy by biffy, which I'd been having loads of problems with, in about 5 minutes flat. 

 

For some reason, it didn't play in Rocksmith, but that's another problem for another day. Worst parts over! :D

Was this with GPA? Sure sounds like it! :D

Edit: About the not playing, did you get the amps and blank wall, or the suddenly missing thumbnail and no sound?

I've seen quite a few people talk about this Go Play Along. I'll look into that too, as beat markers are annoying as hell :P

 

I keep moving them and messing up the BPM of songs 

I'm like 1000% more productive with GPA (and now Ultrastar Creator!), and I'm never worried about losing my work or having to start over anymore, because the vast amount of the grunt work (rather than the creative aspect, like tones and which guitar parts to use) only takes a couple minutes now. It makes it so much more relaxing and enjoyable now, knowing that you're not a couple of mistakes away from ruining hours of work.

I'm working on Prince's Computer Blue right now, and even though it's got tempo changes and 19 tracks of Guitar Pro instruments (most of which are guitar/bass), my biggest concern is the guitar sounds.....which is just so nice.

If I had some way of automating Wwise, I would be a one-man, fun-having, assembly line of customs.

I used to try to stick to songs that were recorded to a metronome (Satriani's Not of This Earth, for example), and then I tried Go Play Along, and now I can chart pretty much anything with comparatively minimal effort. I highly recommend downloading the trial (try it on an easier song just get the hang of it).

I paid the $20 for the full version within 5 or 10 minutes of downloading the program, and as soon as I did, I synced like 5 songs I'd had problems with in 1 afternoon, including Kuso Breakin' Nou Breakin' Lily, which has like 3 or 4 drastic tempo changes.

It's completely changed how and what I can chart, cos I never could get the hang of dragging beat markers. I actually always have like 3 or 4 songs in reserve that only need tones added (Nobody do "Computer Blue", ok!?) , cos I can work sooooo fast with this program, as long as I have good tabs.

This site is insane, thanks!

I really like that song they did about dim-sum.

Sheila Take a Bao

They pretty much live to screw modders, so yeah.

Also now that I've tried Ultrastar Creator, I pretty much wanna marry it. I went from thinking I was basically never gonna do lyrics cos it's such a PITA, to doing lyrics for almost all of my songs in a day. I'll probably try it for subtitling videos too, cos this tapping thing is relevant to my interests (insert dog w/ glasses here)

GetTheLedOut, on 18 Apr 2014 - 9:13 PM, said:

When it comes to your "embedded lyrics" issue, the best solution might have been to select "no" when RS asks if you want to also import the GP file's sections and phrases

Oh, I forgot to tell you! This was indeed the solution to #3! All fixed now, thanks! :D

I see, thanks! The reason that I didn't get it right away was that when I made the srt file in Aegisub, I did split everything into individual words, but somehow that didn't make it in when the file was imported. Sorry about the trouble. I will probably just set it to rs2 only in the future, while I learn to get it right. I'm going to try the EoF word splitter today, and probably Ultrastar as well, just so I know what my options are.

GetTheLedOut, on 18 Apr 2014 - 9:13 PM, said:

  In order to select multiple notes, just click on the first note (then release), then press and hold shift, then click on the last note in the string (while still holding shift). I think only the left shift button on my keyboard works for this -maybe my keyboard is just quirky...

  Above all else, listen to raynebc [:D] He knows his stuff, and has done some epic work on EoF.

 

This was indeed the solution to #7. I use the mouse left-handed because of the layout of my couch, so I normally use the right shit key. I never even thought of trying the left. Thanks! :D

Here it is!

https://www.mediafire.com/?68v6q1cm6oa3s1q

Yes you did! :)

Truth be told, I don't know what the project file is. Is that notes.eof or do you need the whole folder? Whatever you need, no prob.

Hopefully you're able to figure everything out! There's some good advice being thrown around this thread.It was kind of hard for me to tell which questions you might still be hung up on, so it might be worth reiterating that in your next comment :D I'd be happy to chime in where I can. Good luck!

Thanks! Numbers 2, 3, and 7 are the main outstanding ones at the moment. I'm basically ok with 1, 4, 5, and 6 now. I can see that you're a helpy d00d, from your posts around here. All you guys are what make this community great! :D

Edit: I haven't had a chance to try the solution for #2 yet (the EoF word splitter) so I may have that one solved too. I haven't actually counted, but I still don't think that line is as long as some of the others that aren't cut off. I'd be happy to upload the project file if one of the devs would like to take a look.

Edit 2: Actually I just checked it in Word, and "Don’t Don’t Don’t let’s start" is 29 characters with the spaces included.

 

1. Arpeggios. I just can't get this right, even after reading the tutorial numerous times. The first time I tried it, it looked right, but when I went to save, I found out that I'd spent an hour making one giant multi-bar arpeggio. The 2nd time I tried, I managed to make one arpeggio that was highlighted in black, and the next one was highlighted in white, and I could never get it to "close" to move on to the next one.How do you do them properly, and is that the thing that shows the shape of the whole chord, but blue brackets where the upcoming notes will be? That's what I'm looking for.

I just wanted to let you guys, and anyone else having this problem, know that I got it figured out.

The trick is, when you finish an arpeggio, you need to click on something else that isn't a note, in order to deselect the current arpeggio. What was happening with me was, I'd finish the first arpeggio, and when I'd move on to the next one (unbeknownst to me) all the notes from the previous arpeggios were still selected, which is why it was connecting them all into one huge arpeggio. 

 

4. I was trying to reuse an Octave tone from a Muse song, but I changed the cabinet, the distortion, and removed the reverb effect in the toolkit. When pick my custom in tone designer and I load it as an "Authentic Tone" it sounds like it's supposed to, as far as I can tell, but in the song it still sounds totally reverbed out and horrible (for this song anyway). Is that a known issue, a fluke, or are my ears just on crack?

 

The solution to this was to create a new tone in the tool kit, then just note all the settings from the original tone that I wanted, and then just go into the options on the blank tone and recreate those settings. Then I deleted the old inexplicably 'verby tone and named the new tone to match the name of the one I deleted.

Thanks for the help so far guys! When I figure out the other issues I'll post back.

@@MVega I can't touch type, so the fact that you can't copy and paste text into EoF is a total deal breaker for me, lyric-wise (especially since many of the songs are in Japanese, which I don't speak). I'm typing this message right now with both index fingers, whilst half-looking at the keyboard!

Nobody asked for my opinion, but I do my "serious" playing on the 360 version ("career", lessons etc), and I use the PC version for customs playing only. Actually if you look at my avatar you can see my 360 copy there.

I also bought a 2nd real tone cable, and put a loop of blue masking tape around the cord where it enters the plug. I keep that one plugged into my PC and the unmarked one plugged into my 360, so when I pick a plug up off the floor I know where it's connected.

And added bonus is if you wanna play 2 player, you already have a 2nd cable around.

Of course, my computer is set up with my plasma TV as a 2nd monitor, so it's not gonna be practical for you if you don't like playing games on your PC.

I fully understand the feeling where you've poured a lot of effort into a project and just hit a wall regarding your own abilities. You don't want to give it up and just flush all that effort down the toilet, but you've reached a point where you personally are just flat out "done", so it's easy just to push it off and say "here, if anybody wants it".

It's just that quitting before adding tones is like running a marathon and giving up 50 feet before the finish line.....and then asking somebody else to back up and run half the marathon for you. It just seems like an odd place to give up when there are people who are even willing to help carry you for those last few steps.

^This.

No, we all understand exactly what you're saying. We're just trying to encourage you not to just drop the mic and go "I'm out".....but it obviously didn't work.

When I start doing R.E.M. customs, which is inevitable...since they're my favorite band...I will try and check back and see if the link is dead, and if it's not, I'll finish it. However, since Finest Worksong is pretty much my least favorite song (barring most of Monster), it's not going to be the first song I work on.

1. That sounds like the instructions in the tutorial. If I make a video of me trying to do it, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Something's going wrong in the "mark" part of the steps.

2. Did you watch the video? MUCH longer phrases aren't being split, so this is one time I'm inclined to think the problem is EoF, rather than me. Also, I did say that I split each line and then each word in Aegisub. I don't know why it's not working. I will look into the EoF word splitter, cos I don't understand that part of the program at all. I was hoping Aegisub would be enough and it would just import happily.

3. Like I said, I deleted all events....which was clearly a mistake....but how do I delete just the lyrics events without clicking 50,000 times and going blind? Also, I edited my post above to include a link to the tab if that helps to see it first hand.

4. There are only 2 tones in the song. It plays the default the whole time, switches to "Octave" for the solo, then goes back....so if you're thinking I have the wrong tone in there, it's not that. If I'm misunderstanding, please elaborate.

5. Thanks! I'll try that! :D

6. I see. I've just had instances where the guitar "goes bad" in one version, and bass "goes bad" in the other version, and wished I had the 2 individually good XML files to mash together......but that probably wouldn't work anyway, I'm guessing.

7. Just in case I'm stupid, could you walk me through the sequence of events? You hold shift, then click the first note and last note, and that should grab everything in between?

Sorry to be such a painus in teh anus... I just really wanna do this right, and I'm sure future members will benefit from these clarifications as well.

In rocksmith, there are those certain sections you know, where you make the shape of a chord, but hit the notes individually, so no moving of the fingers are involved. How do you add such a section in EoF?

In my experience, it's A LOT harder than the tutorial makes it sound. I actually just was asking about that in another thread, not realizing that's what this one was about. Hopefully I'll have better luck and we can learn together. ;)

Hi Guys,

I have a lot of questions, and I think each warrants its own thread, but in the interest of not cluttering up the forum, I figured I'd put them all in one thread, but each of them is pretty much equally important to me, so try and answer if you can, please. I want to make my customs as good as they can possibly be. If you're in a rush, I'd rather one good answer to one question rather than a bunch of quick stabs at all of them. ;)

• Arpeggios. I just can't get this right, even after reading the tutorial numerous times. The first time I tried it, it looked right, but when I went to save, I found out that I'd spent an hour making one giant multi-bar arpeggio. The 2nd time I tried, I managed to make one arpeggio that was highlighted in black, and the next one was highlighted in white, and I could never get it to "close" to move on to the next one.How do you do them properly, and is that the thing that shows the shape of the whole chord, but blue brackets where the upcoming notes will be? That's what I'm looking for.
   
• How do you fix lyrics that say they're going to be truncated (32 character, etc)? I have one line in my TMBG song that's "Don't don't don't let's start" and it seems to be getting cut off. I timed the lyrics in Aegisub and exported as an SRT, but is there an easy way in EoF to split the line? Also, I split each line into individual words in Aegisub, but for some reason it displays them all as a single line with no highlighting of words. You can see all that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGb5Qv0rDw&feature=youtu.be
  What's weird is that there are lines that appear to be WAY longer that aren't getting cut off. Is it something to do with the apostrophes?
   
• What to do about lyrics that are embedded in the GP file? I did a custom of The Smiths' There is a Light That Never Goes Out, and it has lyrics embedded in the file somehow that get imported in as events, rather than a vocal track...nor does a separate vocal track exist in the GP file. I tried deleting all the events, but that killed the capo support, and apparently the song is completely jacked as a result. I would delete just the vocal events, but there are a MILLION of them. Is there an easy way to either use or delete these lyrics? Here's the culprit if anyone wants to see: http://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/smiths-there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out-tab-s18092t0
   
• I was trying to reuse an Octave tone from a Muse song, but I changed the cabinet, the distortion, and removed the reverb effect in the toolkit. When pick my custom in tone designer and I load it as an "Authentic Tone" it sounds like it's supposed to, as far as I can tell, but in the song it still sounds totally reverbed out and horrible (for this song anyway). Is that a known issue, a fluke, or are my ears just on crack?
   
• This is probably the least important. Is there a way to restart a song project without having to delete the entire folder? I wanted to keep the guitar.ogg and the preview, and the song title if psossible, but get rid of the rest so I can import the GP files fresh, If this can't be done, no biggie.
   
• Bonus question: Is there an efficient way to back up previous versions/ saves of a project, since no matter how many "save as" backups you make, EoF is still gonna delete/overwrite the RS2 files anyway?
   
• How do you select groups of notes with Shift? I've tried, and it just flat out doesn't work for me. I have to control click everything.

I know this is a bunch of stuff and I'm probably going to regret posting it this way, but this is a great community, so I'm hoping I can count on you guys to help me get to the bottom of all these mysteries.

Thanks!

Bill

I normally just import the 2 different parts into 2 different difficulty tabs, cut out the parts I don't need from both (so there's no overlap) then just do Flatten Difficulty and delete the leftover parts from the other difficulty tab after they've been combined into the main one.

But yes, something often goes wrong, lol.....