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  1. Hey all. Long post ahead, but Cliff's Notes version is that I'd appreciate comments / testing / advice on my first custom. ARTIST...................: Cranberries, TheALBUM....................: No Need to ArgueTITLE....................: ZombieVERSION..................: v1.4INSTRUMENT(S)............: Bass and vocals (for now)TUNING...................: E Standard A445CUSTOM TONE..............: Sorta - Copied a clean tone from Joe Satriani - Love ThingDYNAMIC DIFFICULTY.......: No, probably won't addDIFFICULTY LEVELS........: 1RIFF REPEATER............: I think so, but lacking in plentiful section divisionsSCROLL SPEED.............: 2PACKAGE ID...............: Cherub RockPLATFORMS................: PCLinks here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2GRHIrNcVrSY0tjUkxCSmtTN0U/edit?usp=sharing (PC, v1.55, see below for update info) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2GRHIrNcVrSbUU0dllnVVZvQTA/edit?usp=sharing (PC, v1.4 original semi-public release)(files are provided for educational purposes only; fair use) I have messed around with EOF and the Custom Toolkit a bit before, but I decided it was time to try actually making a full custom. I teach English to High School-age students here in Thailand, and I like to do a few music listening exercises every year. One of the songs that I taught in my classes was Zombie by the Cranberries (common Karaoke song in Thailand). Then recently, as a treat for the end of the school term I brought in my PC with Rocksmith 2014 and took requests for songs to play along with on my bass. I justified doing that for English class because the students could sing along karaoke-style; and I got a good fun class out of it. However, I had a lot of students ask me to play Zombie since they remembered studying it earlier in the year, and it wasn't available as a custom song. So, I decided to make that my first project to see how well I could figure out the whole custom-making thing. I play bass -- don't have an electric guitar here in Thailand with me -- so I concentrated on doing that chart first. I found a good tab and the bass line is pretty simple so I thought it would be an easy(ish) way to start out. Well, it turned out to be trickier than I imagined. A big part of that is my noob-status I'm sure, but I ran into a few other snags. First, there are quite a few different BPM numbers listed for the song through various sources. That should have been a red flag for me, but I discovered that the song definitely wasn't run through any sort of stabilizing software after being recorded in the studio, so the beat and tempo varies quite a bit with the human drummer / rhythm section. Took me quite a bit of work to sync it all up with all the variation, but I think it is pretty close to being properly in sync now. Second, I had a heck of a time figuring out how to get slides to work and show up properly in the game. The first note in the bass track is a slide from the 12th fret on E down to open, but EOF complains if I try to set the destination fret at 0. So in the meantime, I set it as a slide from 12 to 1. That works for now, but I am sure there is a more elegant/correct way to do that. Third, in my self-testing on early versions I heard a fair bit of dissonance. It made me think that maybe my tab was wrong, but when I play along with my source tab in Guitar Pro it sounds great. Then if I switched from that over to playing along with the recording, and it sounded off. I eventually decided that the studio recording must be in a tuning a bit sharp or flat from standard E, A440. I did some googling and found other people that discovered the same thing, but couldn't find anybody posting what the correct offset should be. So, I fiddled around with my tuner set for a few different offsets to A440, and eventually settled on +5Hz, A445. With that tuning, the dissonance goes away, at least to my non-perfect ear. But anyway, if you have a good ear I'd appreciate thoughts on whether that tuning sounds correct or needs further tweaking. Fourth, I actually got relatively pleased with how the bass part works in-game, and that got me intrigued with putting in lead and rhythm guitar parts too. The tab I use sounds good, but separates the guitar into 3 parts (technically 4 but 2 of those are just for stereo pan). AND, I have been a bass-only guy for so long that my ear for guitar parts is definitely less than stellar. Add in the erratic tempo throughout the song and the long gaps between guitar parts since it is divided up so much, and I have been pretty fully lost in trying to sync up the guitar parts. Also, when I try to get the first notes in sync, it seems to screw up the sync in the bass track that I worked so hard to get set well. Is that because of the opening silence I added? It sure would be nice if I could just fit the imported guitar pro guitar tracks to the beat sync from the bass track, and seems like that it how EOF does/can/should work, but I'm a bit gunshy since my early efforts screwed up the bass track and I had to redo it. And finally, I'd like to add more riff repeated sections/phrases, but that whole system in EOF seems screwy to me. Is there a trick to that process? Minus the guitar tracks and lack of more divided sections/phrases, I think the file linked above works reasonably well. I do think that the tab I used is missing a few strum variations to keep it from being really perfect, but it sounds close to me throughout. And in spite of trying to sync/anchor pretty much every beat to keep up with the erratic tempo, I do notice a few places where I could get it matched better. But anyway, any comments / suggestions / criticism / advice would be welcome. Depending on whether or not I can figure out how to import the guitar parts and get them to use the bass track sync, I may also be happy to get a hand from a more seasoned custom-maker to add on lead and rhythm guitar parts. I can provide my source tab and other files, although maybe it would be just as easy to use the toolkit to unpack that stuff from the psarc file (minus the GP5 tab anyway)? Thanks for any feedback!
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