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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Ensiferous3
Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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They look nice but does the tempo really fluctuate that much? It seems every 1-2 measures there is a slight tempo change which doesn't make much sense.
Good job otherwise though! _________________
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, it looks weird, but there are loads of tempo change events in the files.
But maybe I should interpret that in some other way?
I do know that it's hard to play 100% in tempo when recording music, even with a click track, so I assume they compensate for some drift when they map out the notes. |
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SThorpe
Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 2500
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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that's cool man, those solos are awesome, cant wait to practise those, no hidden things stored in the demo then? |
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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No hidden stuff, no. |
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Anthrice
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 128
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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If you could post the ones for hard, specifically YYZ hard, I would be your biggest fan.
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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There you go. |
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Riff
Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 104 Location: Champaign, IL
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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I think the layout is great. The fixed size measures make the charts look more like sheet music which is a good thing imho. Here are my suggestions:
- Use a config file that allows the colors to be customized for all items. Particularly the note colors, the "staff" lines and the background. Allow switching between at least two sets of color configurations, one for viewing and one for printing.
- Allow configuration of the positioning of measure numbers so that they can be displayed underneath the measures or on top of each measure
- Allow disabling of the line above the staff that is displayed above star power groups
- Come up with some heuristics for determining if a measure should be rendered using double or quadruple width. This will be necessary to ensure that measures with a large number of notes do not end up unreadable.
- What might be really cool is to to provide a second rendering mode where the note heads are replaced by standard musical notation symbols.
- Most importantly, allow the program to take as input any midi file so that I can create charts for my custom songs without having to burn a DVD.
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Riff,
All your configuration suggestions are on my todo-list.
Regarding rendering standard notation symbols, if it's note durations you're after, I have some ideas for that.
Dynamic measure widths will be implemented because, as you pointed out, some songs (like Texas Flood) has some bars with lots of notes.
Right now the program only supports archived files (.ark/.hdr can be located anywhere, disc or hdd,) but of course I can add normal file open for .mid files. Hadn't thought of that need. |
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Riff
Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 104 Location: Champaign, IL
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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I don't really care too much about standard notation. I just thought it might be interesting. I am mostly concerned about being able to change the colors so that they look good when printed on a laser printer. I prefer a dark background and white staff lines when viewing the charts on a monitor but that sucks for printing, especially when I want to annotate the charts with a pencil or pen.
You should also take care to use the PPQN value stored in the midi files when rendering the data. There is no guarantee that the PPQN will remain at 480 in future versions of the game.
As far as tempo goes, here is my idea for reducing clutter. Allow configuration of a tempo delta value that will control when tempo changes are rendered. The starting tempo is always printed and stored in a variable called "tempo." Traverse through the file, comparing tempo changes to the tempo stored in the tempo variable. If the new tempo is more than "delta" away from the value stored in "tempo" then render the new tempo value and update the "tempo" variable with the new tempo value. Setting the delta threshold to 1 would cause this algorithm to render all tempo changes. Setting the threshhold to a higher value would eliminate successively larger swings around a centered tempo value. In practice the delta value would probably never be set higher than 20. _________________
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I already use the PPQN value for everything.
I'll add that tempo delta setting also, good idea. |
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ES942
Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: |
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You Really Got Me - Expert Guitar
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:51 am Post subject: |
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Cheers ES, I found the bug and re-rendered all the note charts.
Please let me know if you find any other errors in them! |
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SThorpe
Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 2500
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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how about showing hammer-on/pull-off notes, it's not neccessary but it's a cool little thing. |
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Genga
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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lookin good mate _________________
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