Questions About EOF Functions

[Sygenysis]

I skimmed through the documentation a while back, so there's a bunch of things that I don't know how to do within EOF.

Firstly, how do you link mid tracks to the audio, so it dampens the audio for that respective track when you miss a note?

Secondly. is there any way to "add" measures to the mid? As in, if you add a leading silence to the song after you've worked on it (something I used to do, not anymore though) I know nothing else will change, but can you add more measures instead of dragging the whole note working field (or what have you) to where you created the silence?

Also, is it possible to copy notes from one tempo, then paste them adjusted to the same tempo, appearing at the same "points" in the measure? When you copy paste vocals, for the most part, it does that, but with any other instrument, it pastes it as if it was in the different tempo, obviously.

Pretty sure I had more questions, but I think I can live without them, and even without this stuff, I guess, since I kinda have. Thanks for the response before you actually send it, and too bad, I'll thank you again when you do.

[raynebc]

There's no one to one relationship between chart audio and a track in EOF, you just load one audio file to use as the chart audio for the project and if you want to change it, use the "Load OGG" function to load a different audio file. If you are using audio files that are not synchronized with each other (ie. how maxi singles often have a normal mix and then an "off vocal" track, which don't always have the same amount of lead in), you can change the first beat's position (ie. the MIDI delay in Song Properties) and EOF will keep track of each audio file's MIDI delay separately so that when you load the old OGG file again, the delay is changed back to what it was for that file.

I don't know what you're asking for as far as adding measures. When you add leading silence, EOF offers to reposition all chart content to keep it synchronized. If you don't use that option, the chart sync WILL change because of the operation.

If you want to paste notes so that they keep their same distance from each other in seconds instead of beats, you must use the "old paste" function. Keep in mind that this function will not force pasted notes to keep their original grid snapping and that is the difference between it and the other paste function.

[Sygenysis]

Sorry, I definitely could've articulated my questions better. That's what I wanted for the pasting, thanks.


But yeah, I know about having different active tracks in EOF, but I meant, how do you make it so that when you play the song and miss a note, the audio cuts out? I thought it did it automatically if you use more than one track, but I've also played songs with one track that do the same thing (which sounds pretty bad, but whatever, their prerogative, I guess).

The other question, I have an image that might clarify things, not sure though.



So I have a song in the first instance where I've added a leading silence, but I want it to be like the second instance, except when I do this, it moves all of the notes. That's not quite what I want, so is there any way to do what I've done in the third instance (by ctrl + dragging the first measure) by making the first measure start at the leading silence without moving all of the notes?

[raynebc]

The audio cutting out when you miss is a feature of whatever game you're playing and how the chart author set up the audio. If the chart has a separate audio file for each instrument, the game can mute just the one track when notes are missed. Otherwise the entire audio track gets muted. This can probably be disabled, or it can be prevented by making the instrument track and the backing track the same file, or making the backing track the full song and the instrument track a silent audio file, both of which were tricks people used in the Frets and Fire days to prevent the game from muting the entire song when notes were missed.

To go from picture 1 to picture 3, you can use the "Beat>Reset offset to zero" and selecting no when asked whether or not to fill in the gap with evenly sized beats. This will fill in that space with one large beat. If you answered yes, EOF will fill in the space with as many beats the same size as the first beat that will fit, and then fill in the remainder of the space with a smaller beat.