Making songs with midi files - no fretting required

[KenshinHimuraRK]

it will work with ANY MIDI, it doesnt matter where a midi came from, its still a midi. there is nothing special about midi files. they are the same thing as polyphonic ringtones on your cell phone. If its saying something was out of range then you messed something up!

He probably didn't move the notes to C5-C8.

[Naes Draw]

Hey, I'm doing a song this way, and I've gotten to the part when you have to mash the notes into a difficulty; and I have a question. How do you get this spread into 5 slots? Keeping it in the right pattern is harder then it looks.

[nobby76]

Hey, I'm doing a song this way, and I've gotten to the part when you have to mash the notes into a difficulty; and I have a question. How do you get this spread into 5 slots? Keeping it in the right pattern is harder then it looks.

Yes it is... its mainly guess work, if the notes start of low and end high, obviously you do a run from green to orange, or vice versa. If the notes do 2 up then 1 down you can do things like fret 2,3,2 as long as it looks like its kinda following what the audio is playing, chances are it will feel right in the game!


Apart from that, like i said its guess work.

Hope that helps

[c4rlsson]

Lucky me that I got FL Studio will look on this

[nobby76]

as long as you have FL 5 6 or 7 it should be fine! im not sure if FL 4 and lower has all the bits you need!

[Echse]

Hi,
I know I´m a bit late but thanks a lot for this tutorial.
I really want to make my own songs but I never could make my own frets, so this here is exactly what i needed.

Everythings works fine except one thing: I cannot fix the offsnyc because FL Studio won´t play the mp3.

EDIT: I got it ( I had to install a new mp3 encoder)

But now i have a new problem: It seems so that every midi note seems to trigger a new playback of the mp3.
So after the 10th note all i hear is giant mix, nearly a white noise.

[nobby76]

thats probably because you trying to apply the mp3 and the midi notes on the same track! you cant do that!
you should have a track for every guitar you want. so if you want the main guitar, the rhythm and bass you will need 3 tracks for midi instruments. Then you also need a track for the mp3 and you only place 1 note right at the begining ( thats the mp3 activation point) if you place onother note anywhere on that track it will activate the mp3 again. thats whats happening to you.

[Entity07]

your problem with the giant mix is that on the audio channel, you'll see those 16 buttons after the volume knob (4 green then 4 red then 4 green etc). make sure the first one is highlighted and not 'all' of them. otherwise it will repeat each note 16x (i think neway).

lemme know if that works for ya.

[Echse]

Thanks a lot
I don´t know what went wrong but now everything is fine.

Unfortunately I choosed a 12 min Dream Theater song to be my first song and only the first 7 minutes were in sync... I hope i can finish this one.

[nobby76]

your problem with the giant mix is that on the audio channel, you'll see those 16 buttons after the volume knob (4 green then 4 red then 4 green etc). make sure the first one is highlighted and not 'all' of them. otherwise it will repeat each note 16x (i think neway).

lemme know if that works for ya.

Thats what i just said...

Then you also need a track for the mp3 and you only place 1 note right at the begining ( thats the mp3 activation point) if you place onother note anywhere on that track it will activate the mp3 again.

This is actually also written in the tutorial! STEP 6 to be precise!

[JanZuKa]

I gotta try this sometime but i have some questions. Is the program able to separate f.e. leading and rythm guitar and are you able to make long notes?

[nobby76]

you can make long notes short notes, any sort of notes you want :p

[steve_adams2008]

Hey nobby....I'm curious about something. Do you only need the 4 parts or could you use more. For example, have 3 part guitars?

[nobby76]

You can only have UPTO 4 instruments, thats all the games programed for ( as for as i know). But if you wanted 3 of them to be guitars then yeah sure you can do that.. Just use the names Part guitar, Part Bass, Part rhythm or Part Guitar Coop, but you cant have 3 tracks all named Part guitar, that doesnt work out too good!

[lil-xander1]

nice guide.. gonna help me out a lot