The Ultimate Simfile FAQ

[trumaestro]

Originally Posted by 4_teddybears

I have a few questions. Maybe someone can help.

Questions:
1-Is there a way to increase the speed of your song, or is that only done by BPM?
I would not like to have the arrows going so slowly. Sure I can increase the speed before playing in Stepmania, to 2x, 3x, 4, 8x...etc, but once the song is uploaded, it will be ridiculously slow and crammed together.
If not I will have to multiply the real bpm by 4 and space the arrows out myself. Is that the wrong thing to do?

2-Is there a program that will give a breakdown of the BPM in each part of the song?
The program mix meister tells me that the song has 101.5 BMP, but it is obviously an average.

1: BPM only by multiplying it by powers of 2. (1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16...)
1 Part 2: Or.. Press: Home key, spacebar, end key, spacebar, homekey, enter, down to tempo, choose Expand 2x however many times you want. Only works with constant BPM and will leave a time change at the end of your simfile.

2: No; have you tried that BPM yet to see if it would line up? Mix Meister does tend to halve higher BPMs. Either that or there are time changes to be found.

3: Don't double post.