Hi, folks.

I'll be using this thread to maintain the latest versions of EOF in one place. To start, download and extract EOF 1.8RC13:
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof

You can keep that zip file handy to avoid downloading it more than once. When I release a new hotfix, all you have to do is replace the files from the above zip file with the ones from the hotfix.  The latest hotfixes get posted in the same place:
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof

*If you use a non QWERTY US English keyboard layout, and keyboard controls/shortcuts aren't working for you, please make a post describing what keyboard shortcuts aren't working, and what the Info panel says the "CODE" and "ASCII" values are after you use each of the keyboard controls in question.

I used to make Mac releases, but Apple dropped support for 32 bit applications so the user base dwindled away and I can't port the entire application to 64 bit at this time.  The latest Mac build (2-7-2025) is here:
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof/download/17
Unless you have oggenc and LAME installed (these don't come with the Mac build for licensing reasons), you won't be able to have EOF automatically convert from MP3 to OGG when you create a new chart. If you have trouble getting those set up on your system, here is a package that should get them installed and usable by EOF:
http://www.t3-i.com/apps/eof/downloads/eof_utilities.pkg

Please provide any and all feedback, including bugs and feature requests. If possible, also please review the included documentation (manual, tutorials) and let me know if you find any room for improvement there. Eventually I plan to add a Rocksmith authoring section to the pro guitar tutorial, but the community's knowledge of the Rocksmith songs' makeup changes pretty quickly so it's hard to know when particular features are considered fully known. For any features that ARE fully known (like anchors), please feel free to remind me if they aren't incorporated into EOF yet, in case I missed any information being passed around on this forum or the Google group.

Note: If you are reporting a bug, please specify which hotfix (date) you're using. I release hotfixes on a somewhat random schedule, sometimes more than once per day, so the issue being reported may have been fixed in a release you haven't tried yet.

cheers

Can I request small improvement to shift+T(midi tones) feature?

I'd like to have palm mute\harmonics sound rolling using this instruments:

 

27. Electric Guitar (clean)

28. Electric Guitar (muted)

31. Guitar harmonics

It's not that I can't use cdlc2tab and then listen all in GP or similar programs, I'm fine with this, but I thought it couldn't be that hard and It would be nice to have this features in EOF :D

 

and now with that new logic on note length, I'd like to have note durations set to midi output too, but that's too secondary task.

If you feel like it's easy to you to implement I'd like to help more

:)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "rolling using"? I'm not aware of MIDI itself having any capability of sounding muted/harmonic notes.

 

Also, new Mac binary is posted, courtesy of th1rtyf0ur.

@@raynebc, I'd like to apply those instruments to notes with that techs, like palm mute and harmonics and use clean as default one (i'm using acoustic instrument to get soft sound for midi tones and piano for bass

Speaking of MIDI tones. Is it just me, or do they play out of sync?

they can be depending on the midi software (the basic MS GS synthtable is known for their 200ms delay...).

 

You can go check Coolsoft virtual midi synth which have a really low latency.

Windows' built-in software MIDI synthesizer has pretty poor timing. As firekorn mentioned, you get much better results from a third party software synth or a hardware synth.

Just tried out coolsoft's synth. Better, but still very delayed. Wonder if it's possible to add a delay compensation feature to i guess send notes X ms before it is supposed to. Also is there a hotkey to mute the waveform audio?

 

I did notice that bends/slides don't work though. I did find a few bugs in my gp5 import that I needed to tweak caused by ghost notes, so I guess it is still pretty handy.

EOF already has a separate configurable delay for the MIDI tone feature (in File>Settings), you'll probably just want to make sure this value is less than the AV delay if you need to send the MIDI notes to your synth earlier. There's no hotkey to mute the chart audio, but you can lower the volume in "Song>Audio cues".

 

Bends and slides do not have any special MIDI tone functionality, so that's expected functionality for now. Implementing that kind of sound effects would be way too much effort compared to just using Guitar Pro's superior synth playback for the tablature.

Hi, folks. The latest hotfix (r1415) is in the first post. Changes are as follows:

*Fixed some bugs with Rocksmith import logic that is used when importing a file over the command line or via the menu when no project is already loaded.

*Renamed the "GH Import" menu function to "Guitar Hero Import" and assigned the H hotkey to it.

*Fixed memory leaks that could occur during failed Guitar Pro or Rocksmith imports.

*Added the ability to import Guitar Pro and Go PlayAlong files via the command line or when no project is already open. EOF will prompt which pro guitar/bass track to import the content to.

*Improved RS export's high density detection to look at the distance between the start of a repeated chord and the end of the previous chord, instead of using the start position of the previous chord.

*Added a "Chord density threshold" preference that defines the maximum distance a repeated chord can be from the previous chord and still be allowed to RS export with high density (repeat lines).

*Added a "GP import truncates short chords" preference that works the same as "GP import truncates short notes", except that the latter now only applies to single notes.

*Added a "Apply crazy to repeated chords separated by a rest" preference that does what it implies if the distance between the distance between the chord and the one that precedes it is greater than the minimum note length preference (or 2ms, whichever is larger) and that preceding note is not selected (ie. not still being edited). The purpose of this preference is to display repeated chords as boxes instead of repeat lines if there is explicitly space between it and the chord it follows.

*Made the "Display semitones as flat" song menu item a permanent setting (like a preference).

*Added a "Save FoF/Phase Shift files" user preference to specify whether Frets on Fire, FoFiX or Phase Shift related files (notes.mid, song.ini and script.txt) are created during save.

*Added new instrument numbers that can be configured in eof.cfg (while EOF is not running) for MIDI tone playback of palm muted guitar notes (eof_midi_synth_instrument_guitar_muted) and harmonic guitar notes (eof_midi_synth_instrument_guitar_harm).

@@raynebc, I'm so excited !
Thank you, I'm gonna try it right novv, vvovv, vvhat a day :D

Hi, folks. The latest hotfix (r1415) is in the first post. Changes are as follows:

*Fixed some bugs with Rocksmith import logic that is used when importing a file over the command line or via the menu when no project is already loaded.

*Renamed the "GH Import" menu function to "Guitar Hero Import" and assigned the H hotkey to it.

*Fixed memory leaks that could occur during failed Guitar Pro or Rocksmith imports.

*Added the ability to import Guitar Pro and Go PlayAlong files via the command line or when no project is already open. EOF will prompt which pro guitar/bass track to import the content to.

*Improved RS export's high density detection to look at the distance between the start of a repeated chord and the end of the previous chord, instead of using the start position of the previous chord.

*Added a "Chord density threshold" preference that defines the maximum distance a repeated chord can be from the previous chord and still be allowed to RS export with high density (repeat lines).

*Added a "GP import truncates short chords" preference that works the same as "GP import truncates short notes", except that the latter now only applies to single notes.

*Added a "Apply crazy to repeated chords separated by a rest" preference that does what it implies if the distance between the distance between the chord and the one that precedes it is greater than the minimum note length preference (or 2ms, whichever is larger) and that preceding note is not selected (ie. not still being edited). The purpose of this preference is to display repeated chords as boxes instead of repeat lines if there is explicitly space between it and the chord it follows.

 

 

Thank you! lots of great improvements :D

 

Edit: I think you can improve the 'Apply crazy to repeated chords separated by a rest' function by making an exception if the previous chord is a palm or string muted chord. What do you guys think about that?

Edited June 15, 201510 yr by SmellyOrc

Wow, you went all out raynebc! Many thanks!

 

Basically SmellyOrc, you wish to see chord boxes instead of repeat lines when alternating between mutes and normal chords despite the preference to show repeat lines after a rest? Not sure I understood you.

I want a repeat line even if there is a rest between chords, if the former chord is a palm/string muted chord. palm/string muted chords don't ring out, and when you have a lot of switches between muted and non-muted chords, it could clutter up the screen. For example, this is how something like that is currently imported:

 

http://puu.sh/ipHRe/6bcd59a092.png

 

 

In essence, those palm-muted chords don't need a crazy status, because they don't ring out anyway.

I guess we'll see what others think. In guitar tab the palm muted notes wouldn't be authored with rests anyways so it comes down to how individuals prefer to author palm mute sections.

I guess we'll see what others think. In guitar tab the palm muted notes wouldn't be authored with rests anyways so it comes down to how individuals prefer to author palm mute sections.

 

True, and disabling that function and setting the chord density threshold to a low value would do the same anyway.

i usually author palm muted chords as repeats. There are situations in a few Metallica songs for example that need a crazy on some but in most cases a repeat fits best i would say.

Thanks for everything, can I ask something else?  The "Click to change dialogue focus" option is checked by default.  It there a way to make this unchecked forever?  It re-checks itself whenever I close the program.

 

Another thing, when adding handshapes using CTRL+SHIFT+H funny stuff happens when adding difficulty levels.  Something easily repeatable is this: When manually creating a new level for a section that has a handshape, the higher level section will usually switch to arpeggio. 

 

I don't know exactly how to repeat this, but sometimes when adding levels the handshapes will just disappear and CTRL+SHIFT+H won't work anymore for certain notes.

 

Not too important since we have a DD creator now.

The "Click to change dialogue focus" option is checked by default.  It there a way to make this unchecked forever?  It re-checks itself whenever I close the program.

Fixed.

 

Another thing, when adding handshapes using CTRL+SHIFT+H funny stuff happens when adding difficulty levels.  Something easily repeatable is this: When manually creating a new level for a section that has a handshape, the higher level section will usually switch to arpeggio.

Fixed.

 

I don't know exactly how to repeat this, but sometimes when adding levels the handshapes will just disappear and CTRL+SHIFT+H won't work anymore for certain notes.

Let me know if you find out more about this.

Here is an example file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eczxxabm65i4lsp/Test06-15%20-%20Test06-15.rar?dl=0

 

In the difficulty level 1 tab there are four notes.  If you select them and CTRL+SHIFT+H, the purple bar doesn't appear and the handshape isn't written.  They are toggled crazy though.

How can we configure EoF to have the previous behaviour ? because for example, if I got a chord played multiple times followed by the same chord fret hand muted. this fret hand muted chord is displayed as a new chord with all x on each note previously i would have only a box with one x

How can we configure EoF to have the previous behaviour ? because for example, if I got a chord played multiple times followed by the same chord fret hand muted. this fret hand muted chord is displayed as a new chord with all x on each note previously i would have only a box with one x

 

That should not be happening. First off, because when you update, the default settings are the same as any previous versions, and there should not be any change in behaviour. If there are, Press F11, disable "Apply crazy status to...." and set chord density threshold to 10000 (10 seconds) ms. But don't set it to 10000. That's silly. 1000 is good enough, and probably too much already.

I can't think of any reason the export would have changed since the previous hotfix, the new settings are not enabled by default and the same default low density threshold (10s) is in effect. Check to make sure the muted chord isn't marked with crazy status or something. Otherwise if you send me a project file I could see why it's exporting that way.

 

Here is an example file...

I'll check it out shortly.

Here is an example file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eczxxabm65i4lsp/Test06-15%20-%20Test06-15.rar?dl=0

 

In the difficulty level 1 tab there are four notes.  If you select them and CTRL+SHIFT+H, the purple bar doesn't appear and the handshape isn't written.  They are toggled crazy though.

I've fixed this. This was due to some old logic that existed since before arpeggio type phrases could be defined on a per difficulty basis.

Cool thanks dude.

 

A million more thanks for the dialogue focus thing.