Sync Techniques

[Virus881]

I opened this thread to share our synching techniques.

Mine is to have calculator in hand. I start to record some beats in 1/64 (green arrows) and then I compare this quantity of steps with the beats marked, making a proportion and calculating it in the calculator.

[-Yukari-]

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I just get the right BPM and then put the correct arrows down. Simple, I know. Stepping in 64th (which is green, by the way) may not sync you correctly every time anyway.

[buizel8888]

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I don't step cool songs. I step highly generic things that have no changes in the BPM whatsoever, then I use mixmeister.





oh wait, now I see why I haven't made a good file yet though the pokerap was pretty cool

[who_cares973]

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using record to sync is the worst method of all time

[bluguerrilla]

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I use this: http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm

Then I round to the nearest whole number.

Then I put in a bunch of quarter notes in the file and press F11/12 with F4 on until it sounds right.

Then I put quarter notes through the entire thing and tweak the bpm until it's just right.

Sometimes I have to tweak the gap afterwards too depending on how much I have to change the bpm.

For dynamic bpms... I stop stepping the file 1/4 of the way through because I'm lazy.


Also, mixmeister sucks and is never right don't use it.

[who_cares973]

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i use a tap along bpm finder

do it like 5 times on a song then get the average out of the 5 bpms that i got

[buizel8888]

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Also, mixmeister sucks and is never right don't use it.

it is right for songs that are completely static and at a very easily findable bpm, IMO (aka something that is a multiple of 10)

[dood gone krazee]

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I use DDREAM Studio. Best program I've used thus far to sync.

[who_cares973]

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ive tried DDREAM

cant use it it feels wierd

[Patashu]

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Also, mixmeister sucks and is never right don't use it.

I use mixmeister; I think it's only gotten the bpm wrong for me once, and it was on a weird song (which I don't even think is constant bpm now)

[N.T.M.]

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For skittle notes and for finding the exact beat offset I'll slow things down to about .3x the normal song speed. Doesn't sound that slow, but it seems more like 1/20th ^_^. You can also notice pitch differences easier that way.

[dore]

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guess and check

[who_cares973]

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guess and check

dore wins

[arrekusuof93]

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I use DDREAM Studio. Best program I've used thus far to sync.

This is slightly off-topic: The last time I tried to step my song w/ DDReam Studio it would crash when I tried to save. It didn't do this all the time, but it did it enough. I ended up having to finish the rest of the file in just the SM editor (oh my God that's horrible, right?).

EDIT: I might as well poke in something that's on-topic.
I use the aforementioned http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm to find BPMs. I would use my physical metronome, but I lost the little bastard.

[jimerax]

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any tips for easy BPM tricks