Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

[PMS~dballin4]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

maybe that's it. I never bothered using high quality mp3s cuz its stepmania and lol who cares. also, i never cared about stepping every sound in a song cuz im a stepmania geezer and we didnt do **** like that.

[N.T.M.]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

maybe that's it. I never bothered using high quality mp3s cuz its stepmania and lol who cares. also, i never cared about stepping every sound in a song cuz im a stepmania geezer and we didnt do **** like that.

It's not so much about stepping every sound as it is stepping everything accurately. It also depends on what part you're stepping. You also have to find an optimal speed for whatever part it is. If it's drums you can usually step them at .3x perfectly, but if it's guitar it'll usually sound like a skittle-note fest mostly composed of inaudible sounds at 1x speed. I usually step guitar at .7x unless they're isolated notes.

[PMS~dballin4]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

this is also why I used to finish file for a 2 minute song in less than an hour

[N.T.M.]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

this is also why I used to finish file for a 2 minute song in less than an hour

Synthesized? Even then that's extremely short. I usually put a few hours into every file of mine.

[Shashakiro]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

Precise technical accuracy is almost completely pointless at that speed. If you have to go lower than .3x just to figure out what the right note value is, then the section is either too fast for anyone to play without mashing, or too short for it to matter.

If you're going to spend serious time on a file, your time is much better spent testing it and improving the general fun factor, patterns, etc, than making sure that none of your arrows are a thousandth of a second off.

[PMS~dballin4]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

I really don't know what you mean by a synthesized song. vsnares/flashbulb fast bursts? darude synths? electronic music in general??

I've got a fairly long music background though so it's easy for me to hear if things are in tempo or not (and when playing whether I'm sharp or flat). I also didn't care about being perfect down to the 192nd cuz that's not what makes sm fun imo. horribly off is no good, but do like shash says and use your time better.

[N.T.M.]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

Precise technical accuracy is almost completely pointless at that speed. If you have to go lower than .3x just to figure out what the right note value is, then the section is either too fast for anyone to play without mashing, or too short for it to matter.

If you're going to spend serious time on a file, your time is much better spent testing it and improving the general fun factor, patterns, etc, than making sure that none of your arrows are a thousandth of a second off.

All valid.

I really don't know what you mean by a synthesized song. vsnares/flashbulb fast bursts? darude synths? electronic music in general??

A perfectly consistent tempo electronically generated.

[Patashu]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

in the far reaches of the future, half man half machine stepmania elite will be playing your files and they will be doing ridiculous attacks on j7.

every sound must be within 5 milliseconds of its true location or they will quit out and rate your file negative infinity forever

[N.T.M.]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

in the far reaches of the future, half man half machine stepmania elite will be playing your files and they will be doing ridiculous attacks on j7.

every sound must be within 5 milliseconds of its true location or they will quit out and rate your file negative infinity forever

Damn right!! Finally somebody's thinking ahead here =P.

[skyfox_]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

ITT:sync your sht close as possible and make it fun

[who_cares973]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

A perfectly consistent tempo electronically generated.

then why would you need to check for sync at .1 unless the bpm was or the offset was off

[N.T.M.]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

then why would you need to check for sync at .1 unless the bpm was or the offset was off

Extremely fast bursts can still be tough to tell. I mean I'm pretty sure. I just wanted a way to ascertain their accuracy.

ITT:sync your sht close as possible and make it fun

I'm a perfectionist though =P. Even if nobody will notice it, it'll bug me forever .

[dood gone krazee]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

Just go get DDReam Studio, it'll make all your syncing problems go away...

https://www.ddreamstudio.com

[N.T.M.]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

Just go get DDReam Studio, it'll make all your syncing problems go away...

www.ddreamstudio.com

Is it tough to use? How does it work? Do you use it in addition to the standard SM editor?

[who_cares973]

Re: Stepping songs at .1x speed rate or less?

Its pretty much the sm editor+