Making a custom, am I doing this right? :3

**HurrDeeDurr** · Joined: 28 Mar 2013 Posts: 13

So let me give you a walkthrough of what I'm doing and you can tell me if I'm doing it right so far.

I got an instrumental version of Drake - Headlines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9yNOhDeEck and I'm trying to make a karaoke version of it. I'm not going to charting any instruments because I'm just interesting in doing the vocals (to learn with). Also, I know the song has some pitched parts in it, but I'm just learning the program first so I'm going to be trying to do it all in talkies.

So:

1. I open Reaper.
2. File > Project Templates > RBN2 Template.
3. Insert > Media File > Headlines (Instrumental).wav
4. I get confused at this part. I drag the waveform to the very start of PART VOCALS and put it in the GAME VOCALS row. Like this:

When I double click PART VOCALS I get this:

Which is obviously where I can chart the vocals by clicking on shit, but I'm mystified as to how I do talkies here. There doesn't seem to be any option, unless it's "PHRASE MARKER", but that doesn't seem right.

And finally, is this how I do lyrics? By just double clicking down here and typing stuff? :P

(Just ignore the placements, lol, I was doing an example).

To be honest I'm just totally guessing at this point, so if I'm totally wrong just tell me :3

**espher** · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:52 pm Post subject:

Can't see your images b/c your host is blocked by my filter here at the office. There's a doc on the RBHP spreadsheet that touches on some of the vocal stuff, which is doubly good with Creators being down, but I'll give you a tl;dr:

You insert lyrics by double-clicking at the bottom, typing your lyric (or partial lyric for multi-syllable words), selecting Lyric as the event type, and hitting OK. Make sure it is lined up with the beginning of your note.

To turn a note/lyric into a talkie, add ^ or # at the end of the lyric (e.g. you chart "this" to E3, so to make it a talkie you make sure the lyric is "this#"). There's a little more nuance to which talkie thing you use but I did say this is the tl;dr version.
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**HurrDeeDurr** · Joined: 28 Mar 2013 Posts: 13

**HurrDeeDurr** · Joined: 28 Mar 2013 Posts: 13

Right so in the PARTS VOCAL chart I have these little things, a random line about a second long on "Phrase Marker" and another one on C3. Are these important?

Also at the bottom I've got three vertical lines that say "[Idle]" and "[Play]" and "Lyric". What are these for?

**espher** · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:27 pm Post subject:

They're placeholders in the template. You can delete them.

[Idle] and [Play] are some of the animation markers you'll need to get custom animation tracks working. The Creators docs touch on these, so hopefully they'll be up soon, but they essentially determine the animation state of the character performing that instrument part.

Lyric is likely a sample of a lyric event.
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**farottone** · Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Posts: 164

1) Don't have your audio file start at 1.1.00 or you'll regret it. Notes shouldn't generally appear before 3.1.00 (before any purist jump in: notes shouldn't appear before seconds not beats, but 3.1.00 allows for a nice count in).
2) You don't have to insert lyrics in Reaper. I do mine in a TXT file and import, that way it's easy to fix any issue.
3) Leave some space between your notes: not only you need it for gameplay but it's very very unusual for any singer not have any pause between notes, so try to listen carefully to the audio and stop the note as soon as the singer stops carrying the note (and in the future will learn to treat vowels sounds in a different manner, etc.).
4) Listen to Espher because he's very good at vocals.

**HurrDeeDurr** · Joined: 28 Mar 2013 Posts: 13

**HurrDeeDurr** · Joined: 28 Mar 2013 Posts: 13

Bumpity bump I need help with this.

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**farottone** · Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Posts: 164

**HurrDeeDurr** · Joined: 28 Mar 2013 Posts: 13

Jeeeeeeeesus I'd be dead without you guys.

The thing is, I want to learn this because I ALWAYS see people on other sites asking how to do shit and I want to learn because then I can teach them

Unless they're fucking technologically impaired or something and don't know how to turn on a computer.

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