Mix and MIDI Setup - Revision history

Doa at 04:17, 25 January 2024

2024-01-25T04:17:52Z

Doa: /* Tempo Mapping By Hand */

2023-05-01T17:32:57Z

Tempo Mapping By Hand

Doa: /* Tempo Map */

2023-05-01T17:30:31Z

Tempo Map

Doa: /* Instrument files */

2023-05-01T17:28:20Z

Instrument files

Doa: /* Rock Band Mix vs. CD Mix */

2023-05-01T17:27:08Z

Rock Band Mix vs. CD Mix

Doa: /* MIDI file setup */

2020-10-07T18:11:42Z

MIDI file setup

Doa: /* Mixing Tips/Tricks from the Harmonix Mix Team */

2020-10-07T18:11:18Z

Mixing Tips/Tricks from the Harmonix Mix Team

Doa: /* Adding or Removing Time After Tempo Has Been Mapped */

2020-10-07T18:10:00Z

Adding or Removing Time After Tempo Has Been Mapped

Doa: /* BEAT Track */

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BEAT Track

Doa: /* Tempo Mapping By Hand */

2020-10-06T16:51:56Z

Tempo Mapping By Hand

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 #Setting up the EVENTS track
 #Setting up the BEAT track
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 After these three steps are complete, you can start authoring your instrument parts.

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 === Mixing Tips/Tricks from the Harmonix Mix Team ===
 * Compression is key, especially for vocals. There’s so much noise going on in the game with the crowd and sound effects, that a subtle or nuanced part in the music can get lost. Compression will make sure that everything in your song gets heard.
 * It’s important to make sure that the playable part is the most prominent in the mix. You can go about this a few different ways: turning up the playable part, or lowering the TRKS file. Sometimes, if a song has a lot of parts and you’re frequently switching between them, you can use EQ to slightly reduce the high end (around 6-8khz) of the soundfiles being sent to the TRKS file for that instrument. It should make the playable part cut through the mix.
 * Brightness in the mix is important. Since the tracks you’re working with usually will not have gone through the final mastering process, you should run your tracks through a multi-band compressor (like the ReaXcomp in Reaper) and then add a little boost with an EQ at about 8-10k. This will give your mix a little bit of that professional sheen.
 * If you want the bass louder in the mix, don’t just turn the bass up - this usually muddies up your mix sound. Try using EQ: bring down the low end (20-60hz), and boost the low mid-range (600-1000hz) of the bass signal. That will help the bass cut through so that a bass player in Rock Band can hear what they’re doing.
 * When choosing which parts to make playable, always remember to choose the parts that will be the most fun to play.
 == MIDI SETUP ==

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 ==== Adding Time ====
 * Select how much time you want to add by moving your playhead to where you want the additional time to begin, holding shift, and clicking on however much space you want to add.
 *Run the "Time Selection: Insert space at time selection (moving later items)" action from the Action list. That will add blank space and shift everything (MIDI items, tempo markers, etc) later.

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 BEAT Track Notes:
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 If the Custom actions mentioned above won't work for you song (if it has no drums, or no drum hits or other discernable transients on the downbeat), or if you want to make micro adjustments to your tempo map, you can add additional tempo markers at any point and adjust them by hand. To do this hold shift and click on the tempo envelope to add a tempo marker (Figure 7):
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 And then drag that marker up or down to adjust the tempo (Figure 8):
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