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Postby anthman852 » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:20 pm

This guide should help you if you are having trouble getting songs synced right in freetar.

The first thing you need is a BPM ANALYZER

Download it and open it.

Go to Import Music Files and select a folder(Your song must be a mp3 or it will not recognize it)
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As soon as you open the song folder the program will start analyzing the songs.
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Now open up the calculator on your computer.
Type in the number it gave you for the song you wanted.
Divide that number by 60. This will give you your BPS :D

Now this is where it gets confusing. You have to multiply that number by:
2 if your song has only Quarter notes
4 if your song has 8th notes
8 if your song has 16th notes
16 if your song has 32nd notes

Once you have your number go into freetar and go to Edit/Song Properties and enter your new beats per second (with three decimal points) here:
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Now you can place notes exactly were they should be :cool:
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Postby Puppetz » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:23 pm

In my oppinion is that whatever BPM you use in ingame editor and freetar isn't helping anything, only helps in dB, as you can place them on the line and change the bpm between the notes, as you can't do it in freetar...

But this should help noobs abit...
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Postby anthman852 » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:30 pm

It helps in freetar too. In Freetar you can only put notes on the lines it gives you. Just like dB.
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Postby Puppetz » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:34 pm

What do you do if there's a sequence of 10 notes... and the first one is at 100bpm, and then slowly move to the end at 90bpm?!? How can you manage to do anything without moving the notespacement?
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Postby anthman852 » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:39 pm

That is a downside to freetar but that is why the program gives you the AVERAGE BPM. That way you can be somewhat synced up. :cool:
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Postby ghen » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:54 pm

freetar was helpful for me with my first song. figuring out BPM was wayyy too much for someone that isn't musically inclined like myself. I could see this tutorial being very nice for those just starting out but still want a song thats pretty darn close with the beat lines.
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Postby Puppetz » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:44 pm

It doesn't have to be even close to the beat lines just because of the average, it can be up to 7 seconds of a beatlines, for example in Black Sabbath songs I noticed it and many other classic songs... 60's & 70's mostly... novadays songs are done one computer so they have an exact BPM...
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Postby SketchMan3 » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:30 am

This is somewhat similar to my guide for a more accurate BPM (in my sig), except it's more user friendly and easier to understand.

Good job. At least this is better than having a tempo of 100 for every song.

Don't forget to override the notes.sng BPM with the actual BPM that you calculated with Mixmeister when converting it to notes.mid.
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Postby anthman852 » Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:15 pm

What is that supposed to mean ??? I just go ahead and covert and it works fine :D
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Postby vedicardi » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:52 pm

My 2 cents:

Freetar sucks ass. I know from experience having made 30-40 songs with it.
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Postby dadudemandude » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:23 pm

vedicardi wrote:My 2 cents:

Freetar sucks ass. I know from experience having made 30-40 songs with it.

I've made lotsa songs with it 2, and to be honest I found it the best program ever, until I started to get used to dB.
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Postby vedicardi » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:44 pm

It's easy, but inaccurate...
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Postby rednano12 » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:17 am

Simple for the average n00b
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