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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #45 on: February 04, 2013, 05:41:48 pm »
Yeah I had to use Fraps while I had the stereo mix problem. The issue, however, is that early on, VirtualDub did not open Fraps vids and I needed it to convert them to WAV. My other alternative, Koyotesoft video converter (which you should avoid at all cost because new versions got viruses built-in, unlike old ones), only allowed me to convert audio to 256kbps MP3, not even 320K. Later, VirtualDub started opening Fraps vids fine, but recording from ePSXe is a chore when using videos because the song skips every minute or so, while with Audacity stereo mix, it usually skips once through the entire song if it's a long one.

As for Fraps, in Windows 7 there used to be an option to monitor aero desktop which let me record from anything I want, but for odd reasons, it stopped working entirely all of a sudden.

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #46 on: February 05, 2013, 09:26:18 am »
I think I found the problem. In neither version of ePSXe that I have (1.6 and 1.8) do I have the OpenGL driver; and since Fraps only records from OpenGL programs, that's the reason why it's not recording.

--inpost edit--

Tried it out, and Fraps does indeed record ePSXe when the OpenGL Drivers are put into the Patches folder (Easily Googleable), but when Fraps goes to record, the emulator slows down a ton. What was once a 130BPM song turns to a 13BPM song :P

--edit 2--

Fixed it: Now using an OpenGL2 Driver instead of an OpenGL1. Just let Fraps Record at the same framerate as your emulator (for me it's 50fps since I use the PAL version of MTVMG1 - is it 60fps in the NTSC version?) Only problem is that since it records to AVI, the filesizes can get huge - I'm having to convert it to an MP4 (for YouTube), WAV (for Bandcamp) and MP3 (for hosting).
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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #47 on: February 05, 2013, 01:10:49 pm »
Something I noticed with ePSXe is that when you record with Fraps, the emulator speed changes to the same as setup in Fraps. So if you want to record a song, you have to set Fraps to 60 FPS. Else, if you record, for example, at 30 FPS, the emulator plays at half speed. (Note, over here 60 FPS is NTSC. Also screen size is different for TVs so Music 2000 in North America shows fewer sound channels at once on the screen)

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #48 on: February 05, 2013, 03:48:50 pm »
Something I noticed with ePSXe is that when you record with Fraps, the emulator speed changes to the same as setup in Fraps. So if you want to record a song, you have to set Fraps to 60 FPS. Else, if you record, for example, at 30 FPS, the emulator plays at half speed. (Note, over here 60 FPS is NTSC. Also screen size is different for TVs so Music 2000 in North America shows fewer sound channels at once on the screen)
Yeah, that was precisely the reason why when I tried recording earlier, the song slowed down immensely, but not slowing down that the samples were jittery, just that the song played at the slower tempo as if you were the one that turned it down like that.

It is a bit of a pain for me since I work at 30fps, which 50 (the PAL version, and the rate I have to record at) doesn't go in to. One of my tutors (who worked in doing sound for TV before working here) said I should be working at 25, which I suppose makes sense for two reasons: For one, it's what all television programmes here in the UK are aired at (even though movies are filmed at 24fps and from what I've read, NTSC shows are filmed at 29.97fps); not to mention, 25 goes into 50 exactly. That being said, I would still have to convert the video to its new framerate anyway, so I might as well stick with working at 30. tl;dr: framerates lols

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #49 on: February 05, 2013, 05:05:09 pm »
Yeah that's annoying x.x. The best trick is to use an actual copy of Music 2000 on a real playstation and either a capture card or DVD recorder (a VCR can work too if you got new VHS tapes and record in SP mode), but the program crashes sometimes so it's nice on emulators to have savestates. Also if you have a PS2, sometimes the program takes a long while to load samples.

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #50 on: February 07, 2013, 12:02:47 am »
I began messing up with Vocaloid during my free time when I'm not working on something else... I told some people I should cover some brony songs using that software.

Here's a little demo made kinda quick using a midi file. (And yeah you will recognize Eurobeat Brony.)

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #51 on: February 07, 2013, 01:39:24 am »
Did you make the voice in MIDI format or do you mean music? And sadly I don't recognize Eurobeat Brony but I didn't listen to all of it (only the main MLP theme remix)

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #52 on: February 07, 2013, 01:47:20 am »
I mean, I imported a midi into Vocaloid and made vocals starting from that. (Which are all A's right now. Actually I think I imported the wrong track. That was a test anyway.)

Original song: Eurobeat Brony - Luna

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #53 on: February 07, 2013, 02:00:48 am »
Ah ok thanks for the clarification :)

And that song sounds kinda nice.

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Re: Whatcha Making, guys?
« Reply #54 on: February 15, 2014, 01:01:13 pm »
http://juju2143.qc.to/post/76709743372

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