Guide To Making Your Own Song for Frets on Fire - *Freetar Editor Method For Making Songs*

[richiebruhhh]

hey, im new to frets on fire, as of today
and i had to try out the freetar editor
now, i've never played freetar before
but i was a pretty big stepmania fan
and im OBSESSED with guitar hero
so yeah
its been my dream to make my own songs for guitar hero
and now...i can

but one question
after i finish the folder
how do i upload it to either megaupload or sendfile?
do i need to convert the folder to a .rar or something?
sorry, i feel like an idiot for asking, but after i find this out, ill be contributing songs like crazy, even my band's songs

so yeah, answer me as soon as possible please
thanks!

[AADude]

Try putting the folder in a .zip or .rar file and uploading it there. You can then use like ripway.com, megaupload.com, etc. to upload your file. Good luck.

[richiebruhhh]

thanks
ill try something
im having fun with freetar editor
i made 3 songs already, two of them are of my band!

now to try and upload them

[richiebruhhh]

allright, got it
i didnt know i can convert into .rar with winrar
but yeah, i just posted my first tune

[Thirdwave]

There's absolutely no excuse for Freetar guy to not make this run on a mac. Java is portable, it works on every OS. He could at least link to the the libraries.

[cris1r]

I just made this guide for anyone that wondered how the hell people made songs for Frets on Fire. It would be awesome to get my guide stickied.

1. Download Audacity Here.
2. Download Freetar Hero Here.

3. Open a .mp3 song in Audacity.
4. Click file>Export as Ogg Vorbis. Save this to your desktop.


5. Open Freetar Hero.
6. Click file>new song.

7. Open the .ogg song you created with Audacity.


8. Place all the notes in the place corresponding to the song.


9. Click file>save as.
10. Save it as the song name.

11. Go to http://www.nukular.ch/foftools and click the button that says "Freetar Hero SNG to Frets on Fire MID converter."

12. Click browse on beside the difficulty you think your song is.


13. Click convert and save the file notes.mid to your desktop (for now)

14. Open your Frets on Fire folder and go to data>songs.
15. Create a folder with your songs name.
16. Open the folder you just created.
17. Move the notes.mid file into the folder.
18. Now, copy the .ogg file you created a while back.
19. Paste it into the folder once. Rename this "song" (without the quotes)
20. Paste it into the folder once more. Rename this "guitar" (without the quotes)

21. Now open notepad
22. Type what you see here

[song]
name = (song name)
artist = (song artist)
cassettecolor = (cassette color #XXXXXX where as X=a number or letter)

23. Save this file as song.ini and place it into the folder with the other files.

This is what the folder should look like by now.


24. Open Frets on Fire, and rock out to your creation!

what do i open freetar hero with??

[matosh.lee]

the fretar editor i downloaded doesnt say new song. or anything. its strange. anything?

[mmsven]

what do i open freetar hero with??

Are you ******* retarded? Don't ****ing quote a mile long post.

[matosh.lee]

the link you put up went to winwar for the thing that said freetar to me. and every time i convert the song to save it says that its a video/audio file for windows media. and when i play it it does the song in piano keys.

[matosh.lee]

how do you upload songs?

[Andizarr]

yay i made my first song. and personaly i think its awsome for a first song. im just so happy it works. i used to use the fof editor and it would always cut out notes and some notes u couldnt play. but now ive found the truth

thx alot.

[poison]

Great guide man! Cheers for making it, I'm now using Freetar editor rather than that sh*tty FOF editor.

[Mask]

i think i may be retarded, but how do you all know which notes to play while fretting in freetar? i don't play guitar or any music at all really...so i can't tell which note is which. if there's any kind of program that can distinguish notes in an mp3 or something, that would be a ridiculously big help (i think to all of us).

i just really want to contribute to the site, so any help would be appreciated. even if you tell me i just can't make songs

[barak81]

thx man and coming from a noob it helped me out big time

[peterkatz]

Try using the Frets on Fire MID Note Shifter Here.

Just try shifting all the notes in a positive direction, if that doesn't work, try a negative direction.

I have not expirimented much with this, but I think that is what it is for.

It seems to do nothing...

yea all that does is make my guitar part sound like a piano and it sounds all off key and stuff. im having the same problem as whoever said when that they played the song they made, it seems slower and its not synched right. can someone help?