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

[Keith]

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!

[winniez]

I'm pretty sure you'll have a lot of stupid questions Man, keep the faith

[Keith]

Hah, don't worry, I will. The only problem is, I cannot edit the guide to add more pictures if needed, etc.

[m0nkiii]

Nice work!
Create a homepage with this Have-to.
Easier to edit it

[el nini]

Good work. Somewhere to redirect the nubs. xD

[HeruLuingul]

Someone sticky this! Quick!

[mmsven]

Hah, don't worry, I will. The only problem is, I cannot edit the guide to add more pictures if needed, etc.

Stickied, and if you need edit just ask or pm me and I will change it.

[DarkKnight]

Great job, Keith! Now if I was worth a crap at syncing notes I'd be in business.

[Keith]

Great job, Keith! Now if I was worth a crap at syncing notes I'd be in business.

Thanks, DarkKnight. Just practice syncing, and you will definitely get better at it.

[osrenan]

this shouldn't be on the genereal discussion...tune tradin'/request would be better cuz peolpe noob arround there

[Andeby]

I just made my first son but I got an error saying: Couldnt read Data/songs/NutcrackerSuite/Guitar.ogg
What should I do?

[Andeby]

Please someone help me.

[iamswoll]

awesome tut for the noobs, maybe they'll use it :laugh:
now can someone make a tut for multi-instrument or coop songs. that would help this noob thanks

[Keith]

Has anyone tried to make a song using my tutorial? I would like to know if my instructions are clear enough. It is awesome to see that people like it, but I would also like success stories.

[Andeby]

I think it's much easyier and better using the ingame-editor!