Required:
- C3CONTools: http://customscreators.com/index.php?/t ... 518/page-1
- MagmaC3: http://customscreators.com/index.php?/t ... 32-072815/
- Reaper v4.22: http://www.reaper.fm/download-old.php
- C3 Automation Tools (CAT) for Reaper: http://customscreators.com/index.php?/t ... ion-tools/
- C3 RB3 Template and RBN Tools for Reaper: http://customscreators.com/index.php?/t ... orials-etc
- Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/
- Reaper Audio Scrubbing:
- Go to Options -> Preferences -> Playback
- Set Looped-segment mode to be from -30ms to 30ms
- Set 'When moving edit cursor via action or control surface' to Scrub
- SaveClipBro (Converting Youtube Videos to AVI): http://www.saveclipbro.com
- Genius (Song Lyrics - Most with labeled song sections): https://genius.com
- Hyphenator: http://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/
- RBN Practice Sessions: http://docs.c3universe.com/rbndocs/inde ... e_Sections
- RBN Venue Camera and Lighting: http://docs.c3universe.com/rbndocs/inde ... And_Lights
- Rock Band Song Database: https://rbdb.online
Recreating Rock Band tracks using Reaper
- Get song audio file(s)
- Convert video of Rock Band chart to video file
- Recommended Youtube: Spectro's Rock Hero (He does many full band songs with Pro Drums)
- Recommended format: AVI using XVID codec (http://www.saveclipbro.com)
- Newer codecs are less stable in Reaper, causing them to not play correctly until Reaper is relaunched.
- Open Reaper and C3 Rock Band template
- Disable Snap and place audio file to start at 3.1.00
- Find song tempo/BPM
- Recommended Site: SongBPM.com
- A lot of modern and electronic songs have fixed tempo
- (optional) Set start tempo to match start BPM
- (optional) Set count-in to match BPM
- Place video file in separate track and view with View -> Video Window
- Sync video instrument chart with audio
- Keep in mind that if audio has variable tempo, the video may get out of sync due to having a fixed framerate
- Recommended to write down changes to the position of video file at the points of desync so you can resync the video easily if you're working on it later
- After, I recommend muting the video track's audio by setting Volume to -infinity
- Enable Snap and Chart instruments
- Extend all tracks to end of the song so you don't have to do it later
- Open RBN Preview FX to see a preview of what your chart would look like
- Can either chart manually or use Virtual MIDI keyboard
- Manually is recommended so you can recognize patterns easier and copy-paste notes to save time.
- MIDI keyboard notes played by hand won't be fully synced to the Reaper chart and would need to be adjusted/cleaned up manually anyway.
- Manually is recommended so you can recognize patterns easier and copy-paste notes to save time.
- Recommended to start with Drums as it's a good way to see if the tempo has been mapped properly
- Remember to chart Overdrive, Unison Overdrive, and Drum Fills
- Keep in mind Rock Band will convert the last drum hit into the green crash cymbal automatically, so some green crash cymbals in the video may actually be a different drum hit.
- After finished, place more Drum Fills throughout song
- Try to evenly space them between Overdrive sections
- Remember to chart Overdrive, Unison Overdrive, and Drum Fills
- (optional) Chart Vocals
- Fastest way is to use Virtual MIDI Keyboard
- After finished, re-align notes to adjust for human reaction speed delay
- Recommended lyrics site: Genius.com
- Hyphenating Lyrics site: http://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/
- Remember to Replace the Dash "-" with a Dash-Space "- " to separate properly in Reaper.
- Some words don't hyphenate properly (usually names and contractions), so go through and separate/add new lyrics, then re-align the lyrics to notes
- Remember to Replace the Dash "-" with a Dash-Space "- " to separate properly in Reaper.
- When adding/editing lyrics in Reaper, make sure your new event is set to "Lyrics"
- If missing lyrics (usually grunts, exclamations, and other sounds), add and re-align to push lyrics down to the next notes.
- If missing notes, add or split charted ones and re-align
- Put lyrics into lyric phrases
- Usually Overdrive phrases occur every 5th phrase.
- If not properly syncing lyrics, recommended to convert to non-pitched using CATTools
- If working on pitched vocals, remember to convert non-pitched to pitched (if applicable)
- Fastest way is to use Virtual MIDI Keyboard
- Adjust EVENTS track
- In order for the Lighting Autogeneration to work properly, at least one each of the following sections must be included:
- [prc_intro], [prc_verse], [prc_chorus], [prc_bridge], and [prc_outro]
- http://docs.c3universe.com/rbndocs/index.php?title=Practice_Sections
- EVENTS must also have [music_start], [music_end], and [end] Text Events
- [end] must be the very last thing in the midi
- In order for the Lighting Autogeneration to work properly, at least one each of the following sections must be included:
- (optional) Do Venue lighting and animations
- Fill out BEAT track
- Do reductions on instruments for lower difficulties
- Can do it manually by copying previous difficulty and removing as needed
- Can use CAT Tools to do them automatically
- Can do it manually by copying previous difficulty and removing as needed
- Use CAT Tools to add animations for drums and instrument idling
- Render audio files
- Mute all tracks and unmute only audio you want
- This is to prevent the Vocals preview beeps and other audio from being recorded
- Select File -> Render, then choose to render as Stems or Master Track depending on what audio file(s) you have
- (Optional) Merge click track with audio
- Mute all tracks and unmute only audio you want
- Export MIDI
- Remember to Embed Tempo Map in midi
- Open Magma and place .mid file into it
- Fill in song data and difficulties from Wikipedia and Video/Rock Band DB
- Place audio file(s) into designated places
- If 3 Drums track, select Kit, Kick, and Snare on drop down. Most drum tracks are drums3=Kit, drums2=Snare, drums1=Kick
- If 2 Drums tracks, Select Kit and Kick with drums2=Kit and drums1=Kick
- If there is only 1 audio track, place in Backing
- To generate lip-syncing, place audio into Vocals, then right-click Dry Vocals and "Convert vocals stem to dryvox"
- If there are Harmonies, right-click and select "Copy lead dry vocals here"
- Change Vocals track back to silence if there is no separate Vocals stem
- Adjust preview timer so recognizable part of song is played when hovering
- Press Build Song to convert to rb3con (X360)
- (optional) Use C3CONTools to convert to other consoles (Wii/PS3).
COMMON ERRORS:
- Overlapping/Misaligned notes
- Happens especially with variable tempo songs, copy-pasting notes will be very slightly misaligned
- Cat Tools unable to reduce
- Occurs if project had not been saved yet or if name of path/project has incompatible characters.
- Easiest way to fix is to make a new project with the template, copy-paste the instrument you want to reduce, save the project using a simple name in a simple directory, reduce, and copy the result back into your project.
- Occurs if project had not been saved yet or if name of path/project has incompatible characters.
- Video not playing/frozen in Reaper
- Make sure you have video codecs installed
- Recommended: K-Lite Codec Pack
- If video was playing, but is now frozen, exit out of Reaper, end the Reaper process in Task Manager (under Processes or Details), and relaunch.
- Recommend using older codecs like AVI/Xvid for better compatibility with Reaper
- Make sure you have video codecs installed
- Silent audio gives file not found error.
- Sometimes occurs when you don't have a full multitrack and use silent audio
- Right click audio track and select appropriate silent audio