how do i add a solo section to a note placement file

[macgyver1102]

the songs come with a files called notes.midi and as i have noticed in the new fofix distrobution some of the songs have a little secton of the song where it says that its in the guitar solo (like in rockband) and i have a few song where i would like to place something like that in an exsisting song notes file it will be so cool if its possible

[amak11]

Easiest way to do what you want

Download EOF from here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=32725

import the midi into the program(when it ask for audio, go to same folder as the midi and use guitar.ogg), scroll to where you want to add the section. click on the first beat (the line) of the solo.

at the top of the program Beat>events> add type in "solo"

do the same thing at the end of the solo, remembering to click the last beat of the solo, except type in "solo_off"

file>save

now you have a solo

I hope this helps

[Magna Carta SUSAltd]

It also helps to select the notes you want to be a solo, then Notes>>Solos>>Mark.

[amak11]

Doing that means you have to mark star power too. The way i suggested prevents him from having to mark star power.

[macgyver1102]

its fine i'll go with what amak11 says and let you know what happens (i'm using a linux distro and the eof tarball wasn't working so i decided to use the windows32 version under wine it works alright but i haven't used it enough yet to see any bugs but if these bug (if any) persist i just might boot into windows (i hate doing that)

-- Edit: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:11 pm --

eof isn't working for me what files do i have to install before i try to install eof (im using linux what are the packages i need to install first)

[amak11]

That is a question i would yeild to one of the developers of EOF, as i am a windows user through and through. Sorry about that bud

[Jpop fanatic raynebc]

I put together a wiki article for building EOF in Windows:
http://code.google.com/p/editor-on-fire ... in_Windows

With some luck, the process may be similar for Linux.

[macgyver1102]

its easier if the guide has links to linux tarballs and sources not windows its hard to keep up with the titles

[Jpop fanatic raynebc]

I hardly see that its difficult to get the packages. All the steps have been laid out quite plainly, with appropriate links to all dependencies. In your case:
MinGW- not needed on a *nix environment, the native GCC can be used
Allegro- link goes to *nix download page
DirectX SDK- not needed on a *nix environment, only the Windows build of Allegro uses DirectX
zlib and libpng- link goes to a page with an obvious link to the sourceforge page, where the two packages are available by name in an alphabetical list
libogg and libvorbis- link goes to *nix download page
MSYS- not needed on a *nix environment
CMake- link goes to homepage, whose download link goes straight to the *nix download page

It was a wild goose chase for me to get all the needed pieces, so that's why I put the article together: To make it easy for others. If you'd like to make minor adjustments to the instructions for a *nix environment, please send them to NewCreature or me and we'll put them up on the EOF Google Code page.

[macgyver1102]

okay i'm sorry for that last post then, but you have narrowed down all of the packages that i need and the pones i could just go on without this is very great thanks again

-- Edit: Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:34 pm --

Easiest way to do what you want

Download EOF from here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=32725

import the midi into the program(when it ask for audio, go to same folder as the midi and use guitar.ogg), scroll to where you want to add the section. click on the first beat (the line) of the solo.

at the top of the program Beat>events> add type in "solo"

do the same thing at the end of the solo, remembering to click the last beat of the solo, except type in "solo_off"

file>save

now you have a solo

I hope this helps

how will i know if it worked before trying it in frets on fire can i do that or do i just have to try it and hope it works

is there suppossed to be some sort of hightlighting between the beggining and the ending of the solo

ps: i'm not much of a tarball kinda guy (well not yet installing scripts plugins and software from source can be a bit irritating and tricky but i bet with lots of patience and failing to do so enough times i bet i'll get the hang of it, anyway i'm running windows xp in virtualbox this helps a little until i get eof in linux running, well thanks for the help i'm gonna try it out now if it worked then i'll let you know

what are the difficulties does amazing mean hard or expert

-- Edit: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:40 pm --

i just tried it like you said (only when i was reading the instructions which is something i rarely do) i found that at the beginning of the solo your suppossed to put solo_on not just solo but it doesn't matter and the ending tag was solo_off like you said but heres the thing nothing happened even after i opened it back up in eof and looked at the beat to see that the solo_on even was still there what is the deal here im getting imaptient with this thing what am i doing wrong

you made it seem so simple in your last post remember i'm doing all of this in windows xp in virtualbox

[Jpop fanatic raynebc]

Here's the complete source of all known information regarding making solos in EOF:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7236

Everything I posted in that thread is verified, and if it doesn't work, then it's a problem with your FoF installation. Using text events is easier and more backwards compatible with older versions of FoF. If you use MIDI marking (ie Solo phrases in EOF), you must create at least two manual star power phrases in the chart or FoF will not detect the solo phrases as solos (this is by design). If you decide to mark the phrases, just select all notes you want to be in a phrase (using CTRL+click or Shift+click) and mark the phrase. With text events, you just start the solo on one beat marker and end it on another.

Amazing means Expert.

[macgyver1102]

is ther an eay way of seeing if star power phrases are already there or do i have to go through each beat one by one

[Jpop fanatic raynebc]

You can use Beat>All Events to see the contents of all text events for the chart. Selecting one of them and clicking "Find" will seek to the beat containing that text event. This is useful for verifying text marked solos.

As far as checking for MIDI marked star power, you'll have to browse through the entire chart to find them. You can use CTRL+PgUp/PgDn to scroll one screen's worth of chart at a time, which should make it a pretty quick process. Just watch for the silver colored notes, which is the color given to star power notes. If you just want to know if there is at least one MIDI marked Star Power or Solo phrase, you can select any note (at least one), and then open the Note>Solos or Note>Star Power menus. If "Erase All" is not grayed out, then there's at least one phrase of that kind in the chart.

-- Edit: Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:51 pm --

I modified the instructions to make Linux build instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/editor-on-fire ... F_in_Linux

Please let me know if you find inaccuracies or discrepancies in what it says versus what you ended up doing to build it for *nix.