Copy and paste whole note sections

[Joel_Overbeck]

I'm importing tabs from guitar pro. A song I'm trying to chart has four to five different original guitar "lanes" in guitar pro. I'd like to chart a lead version in Rocksmith that has parts of different guitars; for example, play first guitar until it mutes, and replace the silence in that track that lasts for several seconds, sometimes ten to fifteen, with notes from another guitar lane that would seem reasonable. Is this possible? If so, how?

[raynebc]

EOF will let you copy and paste notes from other pro guitar/bass tracks and even from another EOF window. Here's one way you can do it:

 

1. Open your project in progress (ie. the one that has all of your work so far) in one EOF instance (we'll call this EOF instance 1).

2. Open another instance of the same EOF executable that you used to start instance 1 (we'll call this instance 2).

3. In instance 2, import each of the tracks you are interested in from the Guitar Pro file.

4. In instance 2, find a part you want to use for your combination arrangement. Select those notes (you can click one note to select it and hold SHIFT when you click another note in order to select all notes from the former to the latter) and copy them (CTRL+C).

5. In instance 1, seek to where you want the notes to go. You can seek forward or backward with the Pg Up and Pg Dn keys in order to get the seek position lined up just right, because you want notes that start on beat markers in instance 2 to end up that way in instance 1. If you need to paste notes starting from part-way into a beat, you can set an appropriate grid snap value (with the , and . keys) and use CTRL+SHIFT+Pg Up/Dn to seek in intervals of a beat (ie. 1/8 is a half beat, 1/48 is 1/12 of a beat, or you can set a custom grid snap value with "Edit>Grid snap>Custom").

6. Once you have seeked to where you want the notes to go, use the paste command (CTRL+V). If the notes didn't paste the way you wanted them to, you can undo it (CTRL+Z) and try again. Keep in mind that the paste function will space the notes out so that 4 beats of notes from instance 2 will paste as 4 beats of notes in instance 1. Depending on the setting of the "Erase overlapped pasted notes" preference (File>Preferences) if you paste on top of existing notes they will either replace the existing notes or merge with them (ie. if you paste a note on string 1 onto a note on string 2, they will combine into a chord).

7. Repeat steps 4 through 6 as many times as needed to create your combined arrangement.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

[Joel_Overbeck]

I followed your advice and managed to put a solo into a Weezer lead track that didn't have it and in the process of doing it for another song. You guys have done an amazing job with these tools, above and beyond. Thank you very much.