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

[peterkatz]

what the ****?
the note shifter didnt do anything. i need to start over new now.

[guitarsmarts]

ummmm i got as far as gettin my song on to audacity, but i cant download freetar hero its not workin, im tryin soo hard to figure it out but its not workin, can u try to help me out as much as possible, im tired of the same 3 songs =)

[biohazard71]

Hey guys, this guide has really helped me out when making my levels, but I've hit a roadblock and need some help on it. I have two difficulties I recently finished for a song: easy and expert. They were made from seperate .sng's in the Freetar Editor. Now, in FoF, both converted .sng's are in there, but I have one song for the easy difficulty and one for the expert one. Basically, I have the same song in there twice so that both difficulties are selectable. Is there any way to merge these two files so the easy and expert difficulty are in the same song? Thanks.

[Chris Cruz]

Is there a way to convert your MIDI file into a sng file.

[Keith]

Is there a way to convert your MIDI file into a sng file.

At this point in time, no.

[jamieoz]

i know this is going to sound nooby, but im trying to make songs, ive got both programs, but i cant get the right spots to place the notes when i want to put them down. is it just hand eye co ordination to pause the song when i want the next note in place? or is there another way
please help


jamieoz

[SlowDrag]

Good work. This tutorial worked flawlessly. Making a song is another story... Not sure I want to get into that stuff. ???

[zandernoid]

but how do you fret properly? im trying my first one with back in black, but idk how to do it.

[Fiddlefaddle]

Hi I just made a song, have it on the game and everything, Tutorial was easy if you listen to it step by step. I have one problem though, I played my song after 6 hours of grueling hard work to get the solos right and such while I believe the solos are in tact the breakdowns aren't, I had 9 green and red chord in a row spaced apart by 1 little line on the editor and now in FoF it replaces it with only four or five but spread out to cover the area in a 11_1_1_1 pattern instead of 111111111, sorry I don't know the proper lingo but I looked through the comments and such and I want to upload the song as it is really good and extremely difficult. I have the timing right witht he note shifter, I believe I had to shift it -100 all together to get it perfect or something. I tried to edit it in the in game editor but it just places them out of synch and takes over the ones that are already on it. Any help?

Edit: After poking around I realized I made the song at 32 BPS for some reason so I higher the BPm to 320 and added the missing parts, it didn't come out as good as I'd hoped and there is deffinitely no way to perfect this song, lol. I lowered the BPMs down to 200 again after the fix too, because 320 was just insane. Going to add my song now.

[Golden_Ghandi]

To help with this guide. I have created a video tutorial. Download here. http://www.mediafire.com/?7bebrjxd90w And by the way, it was Keith who taught me how to do this so thanks!

[nwru]

Cool. Have you considered putting it on Youtube?

[Mike1204]

I'm getting this when trying to make new songs.

[roxas171]

when i try to open the editor it says could not find the main class. program will exit What do i do?

[nateskate]

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!

how do you download freetar hero

[BlackFate]

how do you download freetar hero

Lol, you shouldn't have quoted that whole massive post...

And are you blind? you dont know how to click on the link he gave you, scrolled down the page, and seen the 'free' button, clicked it, and then scrolled down to see letters and numbers to type in , which will then give you the download link -_- .