TomSawyer2112

Looks like you have to be a Freebird to play Freebird :ph34r:

It all would be so much easier, if we could switch to a real 3D Rocksmith preview in EOF, instead of the GH Preview.

It would make so many things like bends, sustains, handshapes and frethandpositions straightforward.

While charting, we always have to imagine how it will look,

most of the time I have my guitar on the knees while working in EOF to simulate the real thing.

I know this is probably a huge module to develop, but maybe some students are willing to assist the developers. 

I'm an educator in sports, and to reach my youngsters, they must bring in the required qualities :

self - motivation 

self - respect.

If they come for Glory, or think they are better, I give them a hard time. 

About education : I like "Whiplash".

That's about the same for charters : 

"Look I made 100 cDLC, 2000 downloads", chances are they may not be that good,

when main errors from my list can be read unhealed on their pages.

Summersong made 500dl and never worked. Not a quality sign.

After a time of discussion, of patience and waiting,

comes the time of Action.

:D I'm the hunter : be afraid, be very afraid :D

:D Who you're gonna call : Bad_DLC_Busters :D

What's best, lately some users released fake cDLC (Triumph - Just a game, Satriani - Summer song). 

Probably the latest way of getting someone to do it right, without waiting in the request list. :wacko:

When I stumble upon an unfinished cDLC, mostly done by unknown (not yet known, less known) charters, I give feedback and wait.

Some may criticize I shouldn't blame what's free.

Smiling on a nicely wrapped present, containing rotten KFC chickendips? No way!

When there is still no update, I do the update for my own needs,

and why should I not share my correction on the author's page?

I did this sometimes (Muse_Bedroom-Acoustics, BlackSabbath- Heaven&hell, Antonio-Banderas_El-Mariachi ...)

I would like to see some of us rise, a team of hunters, chasing down these bad and dead cDLC, and correct them, if possible.

But what is a bad custom ? I suggest some kind of priority list, based on a playability criteria

Easy to fix (import in Toolkit, EOF, takes less than 10 minutes)

1. Crash, Conflicts

    Low Tuning Error

2. Riffrepeator sections (non-selectable, missing or too large)

3. Tone (nothing worse than a distortion tone for acoustic)

    Tone Volume Balance (multiple tones can be tricky)

4. Empty charts : waiting 3min for the 1st note ? (merge rhythm and lead)

5. Errors in Titles, Artist names, Album Cover, release year

    (making the cDLC hard to find, "The" in "Sort Name" )

For a self-respecting author, no reason not to do.

Lack of polishing (requires more time)

1. Bad readability (sustains cover next notes, blocks in slides, notes too close together)

2. Bad fingering, fret hand positions, arpeggio's (tough subject ;))

3. Missing Ornaments (timing of bends, grace notes, pull off, hammer ons, accents)

4. Notes off the beats (creating bad DD)

5. Non-DD and DD versions not in one file.

6. Missing Vocals

Hard to fix (requires about same time as to redo it)

1. Sync (no way of having fun with unsynced cDLC) 

2. Wrong, incomplete Tabs

3. Missing Instrument lead or bass

4. Wrong Tuning

The author can only fix what lies within his theoretical and play skills.

Obviously, what we most need are tutorials and software to detect chords,

rhythm patterns, and scales.

Feel free to complete the list. :)

Most of them are Text tabs with simple chords, but no information about rhythm patterns and string patterns, it requires more understanding of these techniques. Check out the rhythm part of Neil Youngs Dead man to understand what I mean.   

There is no centralized, regularly updated "In Progress" list, which would be a nice idea to do in the same style of Ignition.

W.I.P. often becomes R.I.P. when the work can't be continued for various reasons.

Teamwork could also be improved. 

Harpoon the Goon added. Thanks to the awesome, @TomSawyer2112.  :D 

Can't keep up to your release rate, you defy Big B, another 4 Pikes he released this WE.

Need some time to play yours and listen to his. :)

I'm afraid this topic will be closed quickly, but we play for free, in our garage here, while those who must pay a license want to make profit out of the artists and have professional charters (probably very low paid). Let's keep the garage closed, while they keep every door open to make more profits, be it hunting freebirds by law, forgetting they would have drowned by now, without our garage.

Be happy, today, I'm going to release a blues, a real fun one to play, must have had a sense of anticipation. B)

When the window to load the arrangement is open, select the arrangement you want to load twice, hold RMB  and move mouse, and Windows will ask to create a copy and adds copy to the name. Can't be more easy.

One major reason to do this is to add same arrangements with different tones.

I find it a bit disturbing that the path (mine may be a little long) takes up space, and the file name can't be identified.

I'd rather see ... (3 dots) as a path and then the filename of the arrangement.

could you do rime of the ancient mariner as the custom is mostly a rb3 chart and it is rubish 

I'm not into Iron Maiden, but some excellent charters did some.

Please ask Nacholede, he likes to redo his own versions,

or Bernixx, Brooklyn_Sounds are trusty charters

@@Brooklyn_Sounds, 2+ days isn't that fast, you know  :rolleyes:

 

but it was ez to fix, since I know what to fix :P

The old man was faster than the youngsters  B)

It's fixed for me :)

This is the working

This is the crashing

I can't say much more except the problem seems to show also in this release.

I noticed this after the latest beta update, checked my custom, rebuild everthing in EOF and Toolkit, wem files.

Everything's fine, until the song is supposed to start in RS14 after tuning.

Then RS14 crashes, quits, without a warning.

The customs seem to work fine generated with previous Toolkit.

I loaded the recent Toolkit beta updates today,

generated a perfectly correct custom which crashes RS14,

without reporting any errors

I'm just linking this thread to mine,

no crack, no pre-amp needed,

just a good pickup and a female to female connector

100% recognition :)

I checked back on Spooky, and gathered what tabs and video's are around, there are only txt charts, variations of similar chords, I would have to manually fill them in, which is a different tedious work, if anybody has a powertab, or guitarpro tab, tell me, thanks.

Yes, I rearranged the files when I removed the ones I've finished,

but the votes stayed at the same place, there weren't so many...

So your vote finished at the first place, unwillingly now for Buckethead.

(maybe you ask the admin to make it possible to move the files of a poll with the votes)

I know BIG B is not your kind of stuff, but while waiting,

maybe you should check my cDLC of his tracks, lot of clean playable acoustics,

not the metal shredder he is known for.

I'm just experimenting a little, and wondered if you could keep a logical hierarchy, up down, or down up, in your menu's 

(main and contextual)

Sections

Phrases

Measures

Beats

Which will make it easier in general to step in.

When a Beat is selected, it doesn't show when it turns blue, when "snapped" to a note,

ok I see only the main Beats are always snapped. 

Great Tool, it took me less then 5 minutes to readjust the beats of Buckethead's Jordan.

And so many of Shinyditto's customs can benefit from this.

Hoping they care ...

Tremendous Job, @Brooklyn_Sounds, so nice to see how far Albums have been done, 

I'll send you a list of available Tabs, for each Albums, to show what's left to be done, and get other charters to step (back) in.

This may take a while, there are about 200 undone, and I've about 20 Tabs of tracks I don't even know to which albums they belong.

And then sometime, we have to worry about the quality of the cDLC, I've in memory that Jordan didn't convince me, 

while @smirocsmo and yours are very enjoyable.

Yes it works as expected, and no error message when generating

Metronome arr. is in the Bonus Lead

I unchecked Bonus Arrangement  in the Toolkit for my DD arrangement,

which appears then in RS14 as "Alternate Lead" (@@Berneer)

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b11e/brw3ihoimphiyg6zg.jpg

It's possible to add more, so I can add Metronome to DD Alternate lead as well, but with 2 Bonus Lead it starts to get confusing.

I wonder if the names "Bonus" and "Alternate" could be changed outside of RS to something more specific like

 "Metronome", "DD"

I agree on the aesthetic, and considering the speed of the scrolling, it doesn't really matter, I just like to experiment to see what can be done to fool software. ;)  I checked a few examples, and can't see nothing against your logic, for slide up and downs with any fingers. 

Even if the FHP jumps back to the previous position after the slide, it tells the player he has to reposition back his hand.

About erasing FHP, warning is sufficiently given in this thread now, and how to avoid it with ghost notes.

The slide above is executed with the 3rd finger, so that the index is placed 2 frets lower on another string.

This is a very common technique, but not so obvious to see and to correct manually.

Not many charters care about it, that's why I asked about improving the automated logic.

I met much more illogical FHP, but I won't publish them at this moment, until solutions with slides have been found.

Thanks.

Another rather strange issue is this chord: 

It shows a fingering 2-3 at FHP 3-4

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/edf6/wc3snqyxbgqfh7lzg.jpg

The correct position is this, correction again fixed in a Ghost note

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7a07/l700244k87xc8xfzg.jpg

When I do an update month later, I happen to forget my manual FHP, and sometimes EOF asks to correct the FHP before saving.

When wife and kids press me to finish :angry: , I happen to generate the FHP quickly, and gone hours of work of manual FHP setting.

By fixing manual FHP in a ghost note, I can generate FHP without a risk. But it would be easier if manual FHP weren't overwritten.