Creating songfile
How to create a valid TXT file with necessary metadata?
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How to create a valid TXT file with necessary metadata?
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In this article you will learn how to create an empty song for Ultrastar in Karedi editor. Make sure to download the latest version of the application from here.
We will be working on a creative commons licenced song called Second Time Around by David Amber. Please download the following audio file:
In this tutorial we will just quickly go through all of the steps of the new song wizard. If you want to learn about everything in detail visit page dedicated to new song wizard.
Open Karedi application and go to File -> New... in the menu.
After clicking "OK" button, you will move to the next step - choosing the audio file on which we will be working. Choose the file downloaded from the link at the beginning of this section and click OK.
In the popup that appears, you should specify the artist and the title of the song. In this case it is:
Artist: David Amber
Title: Second Time Around
Leave the format specification version as None for now.
Underneath you can see auto-generated filenames for all of the files that will be associated with our song. Let's stick to the defaults.
Step 3 - Choose output directory
Choose the directory in which your song will be saved and confirm with OK button.
In the next step you have to specify the tempo of the song with BPM (beats per minute) value. You can use MixMeister BPM Analyzer to automatically find it out for you. Just open the application and drag & drop the mp3 file of our song to see the BPM:
Paste the value in the Karedi popup. You will see a warning. If you hover your mouse over it, you will see the following message:
The BPM of the song is too low for comfortable work in the editor so let's double it until it falls in the right range by pressing the button with ">>" symbol:
If you want to learn all about BPM go to this page.
In the last popup you can set any additional information for the song. For now let's just set the GAP value. GAP is the approximate time (in milliseconds) in which the singer starts to actually sing the song in the mp3 file. You can learn the value by listening to the song in any player that you have installed on your computer. For this song let's use the value of 5220.
Let's skip filling the rest of the tags for now. Just click ok after setting the gap.
When you confirm the last step your new song should be now loaded into Karedi:
When you go to the directory you chose in step 3, you should see a new sub-directory for your song with 2 files inside - the mp3 file & the txt file:
Karedi automatically copied the audio to the final directory.
Inside the TXT file you can see all of the metadata that you supplied so far:
Looks good. However our song only has one default note 😞
Let's go to the next lesson to start learning how to actually map the vocal track.
This video was recorded with an older version of Karedi so the screens of New song wizard may slightly differ
