Clarification

[dragonflyr]

Yes. You can't just take any MP3 and make note charts from them.

if you chart to just any mp3, whenever any player misses a note, the audio for the WHOLE song will drop out. it'll sound like crap.

[Knucklesdude]

No, the author could make that single mp3 the audio for all tracks (guitar, bass, drums, bass drum, background, etc.), so when a player misses a note, they will still hear the song.

This method is the norm when modding Guitar Hero II or III, because it would really suck to have the whole song drop out.

[davidshek]

No, the author could make that single mp3 the audio for all tracks (guitar, bass, drums, bass drum, background, etc.), so when a player misses a note, they will still hear the song.

I wasn't so much referring to the point about audio dropping out when you miss a note, so much as I was talking about how incredibly difficult it is to author note charts for some songs when you don't have isolated instrument tracks.

[Knucklesdude]

I wasn't so much referring to the point about audio dropping out when you miss a note, so much as I was talking about how incredibly difficult it is to author note charts for some songs when you don't have isolated instrument tracks.

Well I was addressing dragonflyr's post, but that's very true. As a drummer, sometimes it's easy to get bass and the bass pedal mixed up and overall it's simply much more difficult to interpret the notes.

[NiwirBigal]

So it's extremely difficult, but possible?

[Knucklesdude]

Oh yeah, people do it all the time. ScoreHero.com has an intense custom song community set up, as well as FretsonFire Fan Forum for the same type of thing.

[dragonflyr]

No, the author could make that single mp3 the audio for all tracks (guitar, bass, drums, bass drum, background, etc.), so when a player misses a note, they will still hear the song.

This method is the norm when modding Guitar Hero II or III, because it would really suck to have the whole song drop out.

true .... but it's not "real". (kinda a hack job)

there should be an audio "penalty" when you miss a note. just leaving all the audio playing no matter what is kinda cheating, imo.

but, yes , i guess if you just wanna play along with a tune and go for a score, i see your point.