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What kind of format is WWise using anyway? Is it using a psychoacoustic model as well? Or is it just mp3 wrapped in a different file format? Does anyone know? And raynebc is of course entirely correct in that MP33 isn't lossless. Given a proper encoder, it's indistinguishable from FLAC if the bitrate is high enough because the information dropped is info that your brain can't handle anyway. One example is a very quiet tone after a loud pop - you'd hear it but your brain wouldn't do anything with that info (this is called auditory masking), it'd be filtered out. MP3 and similar formats are using a very complicated psychoacoustic model to determine what information is superfluous and what isn't. I personally encode with 192 kbit/s because I never heard a difference between that and higher bitrates. I'm using LAME exclusively because it's the best encoder there is. Right?

I'd say if you get artifacts, your encoder is broken. What're you using? Double-blind tests have conclusively proven that you cannot hear the difference between lossless and well-encoded mp3.

That happened to me when I did the lines by hand in EOF instead of using Ultra Star Creator, as I should've :) It's actually less work, you just load a text file with the lyrics and sync it to the music. Much easier than it sounds. And you don't have to enter the text by hand! the added bonus is that (for me at least) it doesn't throw everything together like you described.

Ooops. I'm guilty of that :eek: I guess I never really paid attention to that. Not in EOF, not in the game. Sure I know it's there but I didn't think it was important for that to sync up to. I'll pay attention to that in the future, promise!

Thank you, that was most illuminating. I'll try that process. I guess it yields much better results if the song has a less even structure than most I've done so far.

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.

He's got an awesome singing voice! I'm pretty jealous! Anyhoo.... when can we expect a custom? Make one with some advertizing, put in the link to that page or something, and upload it!

Sounds great! Who does the singing?

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 ;)

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: http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/kuso-breakin-nou-breakin-lily-r3275 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...

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.

Most of all: have fun! That's what it's all about!

I'm not sure as I haven't played any live versions, but I figure it would be harder to chart them anyway. It's true though that some live versions are simply leaps and bounds better: Fear of the Dark would be my prime example.

Would be really cool if Tux Guitar had a feature to correct that, to generally move notes around properly when the tuning changes. But it just won't work. At all. It's totally broken. When I change the lowest string, it will usually just throw away all of the notes.

In many GP tabs or tabs in general, you'll often be missing that one super cool lead guitar solo, as well. And you won't find it anywhere.

Yeah we're all lazy sods! That's the answer! Seriously though, it isn't even always sensibly possible. I'm currently working on a song with that exact phenomenon. It does have this nice tremolo stuff going on that first happens in the lead and later in the rhythm section. I thought about moving all of it to one section but it just won't work because it overlaps with other stuff.

Personally, I don't want to learn each song I have to perfection. Sometimes, I just feel like playing a song without getting too hung up on minutiae, and I'll just pick a song and play the notes I can. If someone has bothered to add DD in a sensible way and I get to play the most relevant notes in a way that it still sounds nice, I'm all the happier. I mostly play to relax, not to becoming the best possible player. So for me, DD makes sense. And playing slowed down might get you the low down of how to play the song, but arguably it sounds shitty :-P So if, like me, you're in it for the fun, DD still make sense. I don't mean to say you MUST add DD, just that there's legitimate uses for it.

There's another product called Songs2See http://www.songs2see.com/index.php/en/ It supports digital piano and a few other instruments as well. Both Synthesia and Songs2See have free demo versions available, so you can easily test them out and see what you like. There are probably some other ones too that I haven't heard of. Songs to see is not as good you need a microphone to use it where as synthesia can use a usb cable for midi. Couldn't you use the realtone cable and connect it on the headphone output or the lineout or something of the piano?

Thicker ones. You'd have to make some adjustments to put on thicker strings, though. Like you'd probably have to adjust the nut. If you've got a good shop around, they could do it for you though.

The idea of the preview is that you can quickly recognize the song or that you get an idea what it sounds like. Many songs start with silence or with a very slow beginning that wouldn't help you decide if that's a song you'd want to play at that moment.

Just tried it with the rocksmith cable and it worked. But maaaaan.... Is it just me or does that instructor dude have an annoying scrawny-teenager-voice?

Is that not something Tux Guitar can do, too? It can definitely import midi files...

That exactly. When I changed it from guit to bass, first time it dropped half the notes, the others were on the 22th of the E string. After some fighting I made it keep all notes but they were placed so idiotically it was entirely unplayable. A feature to move the notes around - and a large selection of them simultaneously - would be gold in those instances.

When I did the bass part for my release from last night, I had real trouble with Tux Guitar missing one function: Moving a note to another string and fret. I had a tab file that had a bass track which was configured for guitar. I had to move everything by hand. It was so much work that I really thought about adding that function to Tux Guitar, but then I couldn't be assed :-P

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