L33tr

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason no one has tackled "Shine" yet? We have the acoustic version from Hullabaloo, but not the original electric version from the Hyper-Music single (although to be fair they are pretty similar). I didn't know if there was some difficulty with the tabs or tones or if just nobody had gotten around to it yet. I wish I had the talent to do it myself but I can't seem to get the hang of the process for creating customs.

I've been out of the game for quite a while but I'll be on spring break soon. Might tackle it then :)

Hey all,

Remember that guitar project I mentioned? She's finished!

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa216/rscalzi/GRETCH/DSCN0928_zpsyilxywfe.jpg

What do you guys think? I've also got a custom in progress as of now, school has been catching up to me a lot lately. It'll be released soon :)

Hey guys,

Sorry for being AFK! I've got some customs in the works. Been a busy summer. Anyways, I saw @@Brooklyn_Sounds Mattocaster project, and incidentally, I've actually been working on my own guitar from scratch, the workings of it are heavily inspired by Bellamy's guitars. I'll post some pics of progress if you guys would like to see :D

Yes but there's no such thing in RS unpitched slide in doesn't exist. Nevertheless this is not a big deal in the custom

Huh?  :huh:

 

Got back from the break :D

I just finished 'Supermassive Black Hole' from H.A.A.R.P. Though I'm confused how we work now. Should I first post the custom here and then wait for your approval or can I release it now?

Anyway, here's the link to it. Just tell me what you think.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwQqQK8UXWZIM3pobHZlTXdlWVU/view?usp=sharing

 

Of course you can release it. Approval is when your song gets approved by us, that the song is finished :)

 

According to the site rules, "Live versions of official content are also not allowed." While I respect @@danielowa for working on the custom, I'm not sure if he is allowed to post it here. I don't like being the bearer of this but someone had to say it.

@@L33tr, it's a transparent .png, you should open it with your default image program and should be able to see it.  :)

Ah, ok. For some reason my Paint.NET wouldn't show anything. Guess it's time for me to update, hm?  :blink:

So you decided to keep the piano part in sunburn ? Not really official like :P Anyway the CDLC is good so not actually a problem. 

 

I'll keep testing when I got time ! Thanks for this nice post !

It indeed is a bit different than an official... but better if you ask me!  :lol:  :P One of my shticks is including "unconventional" arrangements (e.g. Eleanor Rigby strings, Restless Heart Syndrome piano, Undisclosed Desires strings, an upcoming vocal chart...)

Anyways, I'll get to testing our next batch  :)

Edit: I just unpacked the artwork .rar, and it seems that approved4_final.png was corrupted (all it shows is a white rectangle). I downloaded the archive twice and this occurred both times.

@@ExoGenesis91,

@@danielowa did a great job on Undisclosed Desires. I did Isolated System and @@L33tr did Sunburn with the piano transcribed to guitar as well.  :D

Undisclosed Desires was me... :P

Only tested one so far.

Forced In: Main tone could be clearer (i.e. more treble, less bass, tiny bit less mid). Some sections, notably the delay tone acoustic section, have notes that seem correct, but are not locked to the tempo map. Tremolo picking section tone could use a lo-fi pedal. The F# minor chord frame could be a little different (by not barring the 2nd fret, it would allow for more control over vibrato), but that's just a little thing. And never forget to cut your preview to 30 seconds and fade in/out. This should be a requirement for all future updates! :P

@@danielowa, Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what i can do with Starlight if there's no objections.  :D

I object to this! I'm already working on it :P

 

Maybe delete it and download a fresh copy ? That might help. But it's a long shot.

I've tried it. Didn't help. :( They said they fixed it in the latest build but I still got the error.

 

I always revert to an old saved toolkit when this happens. Works for me I suppose.

 

Sorry. No Dead Inside. I can't get the volume of the song and the tones right. No matter what I do it will stay very low. I have set the song volume to -40 in the toolkit and the song still had a very low volume, had to turn my speaker volume to full in case to hear it. However the tones were extrremely loud even on the lowest volume settings in the toolkit. I updated the toolkit and now I get a failure each time. This has made to so upset that I deleted it. @@BHMath , You can do it if you would like to. I give up on it.

That sucks @@Kiscsak98. I can give it a go and see if i can have it up in an hour or so. :D

 

Can you give details on fixing this problem? I encounter it sometimes as well.

Here some info from Matt about a few songs from Drones:

I'm sure @@Shiroo and others already know this stuff :P

 

The Handler features a middle section which harks back to Showbiz (the song).

Matt: The lyrics are almost a question and answer with that song.

The Globalist (sequel to Citizen Erased)

10 minutes long.

Matt: The first half sounds like something from a film, then it goes to a middle section that's metal, then the outro is a big piano ballad.

The album is being mixed by Rich Costey (producer of Absolution and BHaR, he also mixed T2L).

 

The hype train has left the station and I might need a new pair of underwear.  :P 

Showbiz AND Citizen Erased?!

ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN

So, 'Map of the Problematique' is done. I thought I'd finish it yesterday, but I started watching 'Top Gear' instead. :lol: But anyway, I'm waiting for your approval. Let me know if I can release it or I have to change something.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwQqQK8UXWZINWxLQXY4S0lrTFU/view?usp=sharing

Just played it. I would change the D and B string slides to unpitched, so that the slides don't touch the next note (which never happens in official customs). And this is what I meant when I said the tone was tricky... there's an octave shift in the intro, but you charted it as an octave sustain. Granted, this is how it is played, however, the tone should be shifting octaves. The octave shifting in the intro goes -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0 in terms of each numeral being equivalent to one 16th note, where -1 is an octave down, 0 is a C on the 3rd fret, and 1 is an octave up from said C. It'd be rather laborious to do, no?

@@danielowa in my opinion go for the highest quality option there is. Doesn't matter if the size will get bigger. Some people like I do have really good audio systems or headphones and if a song is in lower bitrates it can't significantly decrease audio quality and the pleasure from playing it. I'm not sure how skilled you are with converting and ripping off CD's, but I would highly suggest to download 320kbs rip of Blackholes & Revelations and use the audio from that. You won't get much better quality than that. (not counting flac of course :) )

I always start from flac rips of my CDs :)

Okay, I saw that 'Map of Problematique' is missing. I checked the search and it turned out that it was done by MuseKid. So, I'll start to work on that.

Be careful with MOTP, the tone's a slippery one...

Great guide to cleaning up CDLCs and helping keep them at higher quality. I don't know my way around EoF all too well, though this and other guides are helping, but I was wondering if there is a way to put space between the notes that have sustains touching within EoF so I don't have to go and change all the sustains in Guitar Pro and then import it back into EoF.

In regard to keeping sustains from touching notes, the easiest way to shorten each sustain is setting the grid snap to something like 1/16, selecting all notes (using Ctrl + A, or Cmd + A on Mac), then scrolling down with the scroll wheel on your mouse for one or two clicks. This will shorten each note by 1/16 or 1/8 of a beat, depending on if you scrolled for one or two clicks respectively.

Hope this helps :)

 

Did you guys hear the new song they played last night? (Reapers). Can't wait to play this, sounds quite challenging to chart and put tones to tho!:

 

Wow. Matt sure wasn't kidding when he said that this album will have some heavy guitar solos :D . Amazing!

 

Now THIS is something I'd like to do! :P

Use the unpack option of Tookit, it's exactly the same ;)

Actually, no, it's not. Using unpack does not give the .ogg file needed, nor proper arrangements. The XMLs generated are stripped of tech notes, unpitched slides, link next statuses, etc. Using "Import Package" does this as well.

I could do it, I would just need the eof folders for each custom, if you guys would like :)

Is there a RS2014 stomp-box that can replicate the effects created by a step sequencer? It sounds like this. I've played around with the envelope boxes, but I can't quite get it.

Thanks in advance :)

Any possibility of someone doing a Bass arrangement for Exogenesis Symphony Part 3?

This isn't a requesting topic... you can request Kiscsak to do a custom here, and a request open to everybody would go here.

we're recharting everysong that MuseKid posted and left afterwards. So anything that isn't on the list on the first page is very welcomed :)

Awesome! I've got my eye on a few of them :P

Hahah, I wasn't aware of a discography project! If you guys need any Muse charts (preferably early ones!), I'll be glad to help :)

http://customsforge.com/topic/13688-how-to-add-a-metronome-to-any-song-metronome-bonus-arrangement/

Thanks! :D