Authoring du clavier pro

Conseils d'ordre général

Pour la piste expert, l'authoring doit être, rythmiquement et musicalement, une transcription exacte de la partie de clavier jouée par la main droite. A partir de là, on utilise une combinaison de changements de ligne, d'enveloppement des notes et d'ajustement pour adapter la partie de clavier aux contraintes posées par le jeu.

Changements de ligne

Puisque l'authoring pour le clavier pro est une transcription à peu près exacte de la partition, charter est relativement direct. Le challenge vient des changements de ligne. La piste de clavier pro affichée à l'écran ne montre qu'une 10ème (par exemple de Do2 à Mi3), et la plupart de chansons dépassent un tel intervalle. En raison de cette limitation, on utilise des marqueurs de changements de ligne pour se déplacer parmi les différents intervalles.

Les marqueurs contrôlent quel intervalle est affiché:
- note MIDI 0 ("C2-E3 Range" sur le template) déplace vers l'intervalle C2-E3.
- note MIDI 2 déplace vers l'intervalle D2-F3.
- note MIDI 4 déplace vers l'intervalle E2-G3.
- note MIDI 5 ("F2-A3 Range") déplace vers l'intervalle F2-A3.
- note MIDI 7 déplace vers l'intervalle G2-B3.
- note MIDI 9 ("A2-C4 Range") déplace vers l'intervalle A2-C4.
Essayez d'utiliser en priorité les intervalles C-2 (C2-E3 range), F-2 (F2-A3 range), et A-2 (A2-C4 range), qui sont les plus faciles à lire dans le jeu.
Si les changements de ligne peuvent être évités, ou si une section fonctionne mieux dans un intervalle différent(l'intervalle "E-2" de E2 à G3 est le plus utilisé), c'est tout a fait acceptable.
Les notes noires ne peuvent JAMAIS être utilisés pour un changement de ligne, placez les marqueurs sur des notes blanches uniquement.
Afin que la chanson débute dans le bon intervalle, toutes les pistes pro DOIVENT avoir un marqueur d'intervalle (changement de ligne) au début de la chanson, avant que la partie de clavier ne débute.
Commencez par transcrire toute la piste, puis ajoutez les marqueurs quand ils sont nécessaires.
Le changement de ligne se produit à l'endroit où le marqueur est placé. Cependant, vous devez placer le marqueur environ une mesure AVANT que la première note située en dehors de l'intervalle en cours ne doive être jouée. Essayez de le placer le plus tôt possible, à un endroit où se trouvent des notes appartenant à l'intervalle en cours et à l'intervalle suivant.
- CA:
- ET PAS CA:

Because range shifts make gameplay more difficult, we try to keep them to a minimum. This means that you should avoid shifting for single notes or chords. Try not to shift unless there is at a bar or more before shifting back.
Often lane shifts occur on repeated notes, or sustained notes since this is easier to parse, rather than placing them on a new section.
There are going to be cases when octaves, voicings, and melodic lines will need to be fudged. It is often better to shift a higher set of notes or chords down an octave to fit within the current range, or to change a chord voicing if the top note or two of a chord is out of range.
If you do run into a scenario where you need to move notes into a different octave, make sure the placement still feels natural to play. If you find yourself with a giant jump up or down, you might need to remove the note entirely.
Notes should never be displayed outside the current range. Your lane shift needs to be completed in time to avoid notes showing up outside the current range.

Wrapping

Sometimes, because of range constraints, long melodic lines will often need to be wrapped, similar to the way we wrap notes for the 5-button guitar/bass. When doing this, be sure to wrap in a spot that makes both rhythmic and melodic sense and be sure to observe the interval jumping rules as the apply to different difficulties.

UNWRAPPED:
WRAPPED:

Overlapping Gems

In both Pro and 5-lane keyboards, we are allowed to use overlapping gems to represent broken chords.
Generally, there should be no more than four overlapping notes at a time. If there are more than four notes in a broken chord, the first note will need to end before another note can be added.
Overlapping notes should not span more than an octave. If a broken chord spans more than an octave, the first note will need to end before a note outside the octave range can be added.
Overlapping gems are allowed as follows:
- Up to 4 notes in Pro Keys Expert / Hard & 3 notes in 5 lane Expert / Hard
- Generally no overlapping notes are allowed in Medium. In some rare cases we will add 2 note overlaps if they are spaced out over a ¼ note or more.
- Not allowed in PK Easy or 5K Easy

Expert Pro Keys

The Expert Pro Keys part should be authored between C2 (48) and C4 (72) on the PART REAL_KEYS_X track.
Expert Pro Keys (PK) should be an exact melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic transcription of the Right Hand (RH) keyboard part of a song. If there are sections in which the Left Hand (LH) part can be added, then that is allowed, but the part must be playable with only one hand.
Expert PK can contain up to 4-note chords, within the span of an octave (12 semitones).
Sustained notes need to leave space before the next note(s) to give the player time to move their hand into position. For most simple transitions, like a single note to another single note or a single note into a chord that uses that note, leave a 1/16th note space. When transitioning between two chords or between a chord and a non-complementary note, leave an 1/8th note space.
Lane shifts are allowed in Expert PK, but not required; if a lane shift would be used for just one or two notes in the middle of a larger pattern, it may make more sense to "fudge" those notes into the visible lanes rather than use a very short lane shift.

Hard Pro Keys

The Hard Pro Keys part should be authored between C2 (48) and C4 (72) on the PART REAL_KEYS_H track.
Hard Pro Keys should be a reasonable version of the Expert part. Start by removing extraneous 16th notes, grace notes, and any left-hand part that may have been included on Expert.
Hard PK should only contain 2- and 3-note chords, within the span of a 7th (11 semitones).
Try to avoid interval jumps larger than a 7th between subsequent notes. If a jump that large is unavoidable, leave twice as much space between the two notes (i.e. pull back sustains or further reduce the part).
Make sure you remove any text events and solo/glissando/trill markers when you copy down the notes from Expert. Only Expert should have this data.
Sustain lengths should be the same as Expert, except where reduced due to interval jumps.
Lane shifts are allowed on Hard PK, but make sure to remove lane shifts that are no longer needed after reducing from Expert (except the initial "which lanes should this song use?" note).

Medium Pro Keys

The Medium Pro Keys part should be authored between C2 (48) and C4 (72) on the PART REAL_KEYS_M track.
Medium PK should be reduced to the basic rhythmic core of the song. There should be a space of a 1/4th note between each playable gem.
All sustains should be pulled back to leave a 1/4th note space before the next note(s). If this would make a sustain particularly short (shorter than 3/16ths in duration, for most BPMs), it may need to be pulled back into a 1/16th note to prevent awkward "stubby" sustains in-game.
Medium PK should only contain 2-note chords, and only within the span of a 6th (9 semitones). If it's impossible to reduce chords to this spacing due to awkward chord voicing or a string of difficult chord changes, reduce them to whichever single note is most prominent.
Try to avoid any interval jump larger than a 6th. If a jump that large is unavoidable, leave extra space for the player to move their hand. (Like Hard, this may require pulling back sustains or further reducing the playable part.)
Lane shifts are not allowed on Medium PK. Harmonic voicings will need to be shifted to fit within the visible 10th (16 semitones) of your choosing.

Easy Pro Keys

The Easy Pro Keys part should be authored between C2 (48) and C4 (72) on the PART REAL_KEYS_E track.
Easy Pro Keys should have roughly a half note worth of space between playable notes.
Sustains in Easy Pro Keys, however, should be the same as Medium Pro Keys, barring any necessary reductions (see below).
No chords are allowed on Easy Pro Keys. Reduce all chords to the most prominent and musically sensible single note.
Try to avoid any interval jumps larger than a 5th (7 semitones). If a jump that large is unavoidable, leave extra space between notes for the player to move their hand. Like Medium and Hard, this may require pulling back sustains; if you do this, remember to remove any "stubby" sustains.
Lane shifts are not allowed on Easy PK, and the visible range should match that of Medium.

Sections de solo

La note MIDI 115 (G7) est réservée aux sections de solo.
Les solos de clavier doivent être dictés par la musique, ce qui peut prêter à controverse. Evitez de mettre des marqueurs pour de petits fills et des lignes mélodiques répétées, et réservez les pour les solos évidents.
The solo marker must start at the same time as the first note (note on) of the solo, and end at the same time as the last note of the solo (note off)
Si une chanson termine par un solo, faites terminer le marqueur dès que possible. Cela laissera le temps au score du solo de s'afficher à l'écran avant la fin de la chanson.

Glissando lanes

Glissando markers are placed on F#8 (126), on Expert difficulty only.
Glissando lanes should be placed over glissandos in a song that are reasonable to play. We try to only use them for glissandos that are a quarter note in length or longer.
Glissandos need to be authored in the PK part. The notes within a glissando should be white notes and evenly spaced between the beginning and end of the glissando. This is not always melodically accurate, but it looks cleaner.
Glissandos work by turning off the scoring system for any notes below a glissando marker. This means, that all the player really has to do is hit any notes within the marker to be scored for it.
Glissando markers are not usually placed over the first note of a glissando. We do this to encourage the player to actually attempt to play the glissando, instead of just mashing keys for free points.

Trilles

Les marqueurs de trilles (note MIDI 127 (G8)) créent des événements dans le jeu qui offrent plus de liberté pour jouer les sections rapides avec deux notes jouées en succession sur deux touches différentes.
Ces marqueurs autorisent le joueur a jouer rapidement sans les forcer à jouer la rythmique qui a été chartée. Tant que le joueur dépasse les 160 BPM, il pourra continuer à jouer librement. S'il tombe en dessous de cette limite, il devra par contre jouer la rythmique prévue.
Cette limite de 160BPM est incontournable et arbitraire, et dans certains cas utiliser un marqueur de trille ne sera peut être pas aussi satisfaisant pour le claviériste que de jouer la rythmique prévue.
Les notes doivent être chartées en fonction du rythme de la chanson, et le marqueur de trille placé au dessus d'elles.
Les marqueurs de trilles ne fonctionnent qu'avec des trilles de deux notes, à partir de 3 notes le jeu buggera.

Keyboardist Animation

Keyboard animations should be placed on PART KEYS_ANIM_RH and PART KEYS_ANIM_LH respectively. They should be placed between C2-C4.
The majority of keyboard parts are RH only. In these cases the authoring from the Expert Pro Keys part can just be copied into the RH keyboard animation track. If there is a LH keyboard part, it can be authored in broad strokes, but make sure that it lines up to the rhythm of the song in a reasonable way.
The most challenging thing about authoring keyboard animations, is that the character only has 3 octaves to play with on the keyboard in game. This means that the center octave is shared by both the right and left hand (ie: C2-C3 in the RH animation shares the same octave as C3-C4 in the LH animations). If there is a LH part, you may need to cheat the RH higher and the LH lower in the range to avoid clipping.
An easy way of creating the animation tracks is to initially transcribe the entire keyboard parts for the song including LH. That way you will have all the parts you need for Expert authoring as well as animations.

Overdrive

L'overdrive est placée sur la piste clavier 5 touches de la même façon que vous le placeriez sur la piste de guitare ou de batterie. Pour les claviers, vous devez placer des marqueurs d'overdrive identiques sur la piste PART KEYS et sur la piste expert pro PART REAL_KEYS_X. Référez vous au document Overdrive et Big Rock Endings pour plus de détails.

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