HOLY SHIT I FINALLY FOUND A NEW FOOLPROOF GAP SYSTEM

Thats pretty damn technical, you lost me towards the end with the exacts and such

I don't even understand the purpose of GAP's... Care to explain them?

If you don't understand the purpose then I hope you never make a simfile for anything outside of FFR. It determines if the song is onbeat/sync or not. It determines if the song has yellow/orange arrow syndrome or not.

uhhh...that explanation doesn't make much sense. The length of time between notes is determined by BPM. And most people are smart enough to sync a red/blue note with their gap rather than throwing in some arbitrary gap and then tossing 32nds in to make the arrows onbeat.

Yes, but gap works by milliseconds, and 32nd notes are 32 milliseconds nomatter what.

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That's the idea, genius.

This new gap system helps me sync files perfectly now.

Guys, expect FOTBB ver2 soon. I also found a cool edit bpm plugin that helps me with some of the harder to find bpms.

And if you don't know what Yellow/Orange Arrow Syndrome is, look at Moogy's Max300 Wave Mix.

do one with the rock guitar verson, that one sounded cooler than the one on the piano

Yeahhh...No idea what you're all talking about.

I should make a stepfile. Then I should remake it so it doesn't suck.

Arch, I am going to have to disagree.. Here is the reason why, 32nd notes have nothing to do with time but are rather a slice of time based on the BPM of a song. Each note has no defined millisecond length therefore a 32nd note has no defined length either.

For those of you asking what gap is, think of it like this. Imagine 2 timelines. the top one is when the steps start and the bottom one is when the music starts. So normally they both start at 0. This is fine for some songs if you are not picky but there are a couple factors. 1) mp3 files have a really small gap in the front before the music starts and 2) some songs don't start their beat until a few seconds into the file. What you must do is tell that top timeline (the arrows) that the beat doesnt start until X milleseconds and then start the releasing/processing of the arrows (stepfile). This value is what we know as the gap value. Naturally 1000ms is 1 second. Use an audio editing program to look and see exactly how many seconds until the music or beat starts.

If a song needs gap and you don't enter it, you will see that the beat is shifted forward or backwards in the timeline or even worse. Not having the correct BPM or Gap usually makes for a disaster of colorful arrows across a not so accurate stepfile.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Interesting... thanks synth.. that helps... oh and Arch0wl... too late I've already made 4 that are uploaded on bemanistyle... my 3 newest ones uploaded here for ffr. So 7 stepfiles in total...

eh??! i need it O.O i hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bpms. half the time i screw up the bpm by a fraction and it goes all offbeat.

and....gap is basically just to make the song start on the first beat of the dwi file so you can keep it perfectly onbeat. no?

fotbb v2 lol sweet

i have no damn idea what ur talking about. ill just smile and nod. actually i sorta know, since i play in a professional orchestra n all, so i understand the 32nd note/rhythm thingy. so yeah, for anything else ill just smile and nod.

A BPM detector? Give meh! I'm sick of getting the bpm off by like .1 because I use winBPM and then having the entire stepfile off by like a quarter of a beat .

you can get one from download.com...its BPM studio or something, it works well