Babymetal updates

Babymetal DTX updates:

Most of these are not originally made by me. I have gathered them together, added videos/album covers and updated some of the note charts that I felt weren't accurate.

• AKATSUKI「紅月アカツキ」
• AMORE －蒼星－
• Distortion
• ギミチョコ！！- Gimme chocolate!!
• イジメ、ダメ、ゼッタイ - Ijime,Dame,Zettai
• KARATE
• メギツネ - MEGITSUNE
• Starlight
• Syncopation「シンコペーション」
• Tales of the Destinies

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X-Japan updates

Updated DTX files to Art of Life, Rusty Nail, Scars, Kurenai, Week End, Tears

What has changed:

• Added BG videos to most
• Fixed BPM issues
• Changed all format to DTX files
• Corrected many drum notes

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I'm back!

It's been a while but I'll be refreshing some of my old DTX files and posting them on here in the near future.

It's nice to see the DTX community still alive on Discord after all this time.

DTX: Dir en grey - LOTUS

Dir en grey's latest single. I really like the way Shinya never follows orthodox rhythms in his drumming. It's part of what makes their music quite unique.

Download (24.3 MB) - Under Japanese > Dir en grey

Keysound explanation for GDA/DTX FIles

A great video by Billkwando explaining how keysounding works for simfiles.

DTX: 陰陽座 - 組曲「九尾」～殺生石 / 紅葉 / 魔王 / 蛟龍の巫女

4 New DTX songs by Japanese Metal band Onmyo-za.

Drums extreme/double bass DTX versions only.

組曲「九尾」～殺生石 (Kumikyoku "Kyuubi" Sessho-seki) / 32.7MB

紅葉 (kureha) / 26.0MB

魔王 (Maou) / 34.6MB

蛟龍の巫女 (Mizuchi no Miko) / 31.3MB

They can be found under the GDAMania Files Section under Japanese > Onmyo-za

DTX: Galneryus - Destiny

Been a while since I made a DTX. This one's the single from their 2010 album "Resurrection". Video included from their live DVD. Very crazy drumming indeed.

Download (50.8 MB) - In Japanese > Galneryus

DTX: Yui - Good-bye Days

I've revamped haiyabusa's version of the song into a full DTX with the updated video from the movie Taiyo no uta. Probably the easiest DTX I've done in years. I didn't touch the keysounds, as I never use them anyway.

I've also posted the real PDF drum score of Good-bye Days at drumpdf.

Download (18.0 MB) - In Japanese > Yui

DTX: Thomas Lang - Balkan

Thomas Lang's recording of Balkan, from a very obscure CD by some composer called Conrad Schrenk, and featured on Lang's drum DVD "Creative Control".

I'd previously made a short version of the simfile, but to me the song had lost it's soul without any double bass (or that crazy middle guitar solo section). There's only the original double bass version.

There is a video of the song here.

Download: Balkan DTX (15.9MB) In Instrumental

A.DOGMA - ULTRA EXT VER. [10,000 COMBO]

Someone must've been on crack whilst making this.

I like the difficulty name: Ultra Extreme. It's an understatement.

Lots of great simfiles

Having finally had a couple of days off and the time to dig around the Simfile sharing and the Requests forum, it's suddenly occurred to me that there's a LOT of high quality simfiles on the site.

Back in the day there were hardly more than 4-5 good GDA makers out there, but looking at how active the forums are now, it's great to see such a good collection of simfiles!

New site: Drum PDF

Kung Hei Fat Choi, Happy Year of the Tiger everyone!

Thanks to pedropete's DTX to MIDI program, I've managed to make a couple of real drum scores from DTX files. They can now be found on my new site: http://www.drumpdf.com/

Head over now to check it out!

DTX: 恐怖の右脳改革 [Special Long Version]

One of the bonus tracks from the recent GuitarFreaks & DrumMania V6 Official Soundtrack.

This is the first time I've used DTX Creator instead of GDA Creator to make a DTX. All in all, I think this song took about 12-15 hours to make over a span of 3 weeks. My poor right (and left) brain is fizzled after making this.

Drums 1BD and 2BD version only. (16.0 MB)

Download Mirror 1 (GDAmania)

Download Mirror 2 (Mediafire)

DTX: Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember

From DT's new album Black Clouds and Silver Linings. This double bass in this song is incredibly difficult. It constantly shifts between 8th beats, 8th beat triplets, 16th and 16th beat triplets. Check out the blast beat near the end of the song!

I cut out some of the solo section because the drums are really repetitive in that part, but this simfile still clocks 13+ minutes.
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Acid Rain on the new kit

I don't know how Mike Portnoy can play that drum solo (at 2:37) so cleanly and accurately. It always sounds like mush when I try to play it.

Papa's got a brand new bag

My new kit arrived at long last after Parson's Music "forgot" to deliver it last week. V-Drums for V-Day.

The amount of cardboard they used to pack the kit in is pretty astonishing... guess it's still better than polystyrene.

It's sound quality is a zillion times better than the TD6, and mesh is ahhh.. nice and quiet. I can finally do some blast beats without waking the neighbour's dog.

How does it fare with DTXMania? The best part is having a cymbal to use as an escape button so I can quit a song without reaching for the keyboard? Priceless.

On second thoughts, the kit WAS darn pricey.

Video Tutorial: How to make a DTX simfile

If you are interested in making your own DTX file but aren't sure how to go about doing it, this video is for you. To see the video more clearly, select HQ (high quality).

To begin you must have the following:
GDA Creator*
DTXMania*
Drum sound files*
An image editing program (e.g. Photoshop)
A sound editing program (e.g. Adobe Audition / Audacity)

*These are available in the GDAmania Files section under accessories.

The future direction of DTXMania

According to the DTXMania blog, the author is aiming to do the following (translated from Japanese):

* I want to use it for a more real basic practice.
* I want to improve the degree of freedom of the performance more.
* I want to ease the management of the tune more.
* I want to return feedback to the data author more.
* I want to appeal for the player more.
* I want to support IR more.

I think Internet Ranking would be an awesome feature. It would definitely attract a lot of people to the game. This was exactly what happened to DMGF when e-amusement appeared around 9th mix. Let's hope we won't have to wait too long.

Drummania V5 encore/special stages DTX

Just spent about countless hours editing the DTX files for all the encore stages in V5. None of the original DTXs were made by me. I simply added video, graphics and synced them to the soundtrack version of the songs.

Part 1: Download
流氷の去りて Rin To Shite Saku Aya no Godoku (fixed)
凛として咲く花の如く ryuuhyou no sari te
Dynamis
FORCE Interval Build
VANESSA-転生編-

Part 2: Download
TENGU (fixed)
Blue Forest
A.DOGMA
Rock to Infinity
For the Final

If you notice anything wrong with the files, please leave a comment.

Converting a Youtube or Nicovideo for DTXMania

As I was editing the V5 encore stage simfiles, I learned something new, so I'll share it with you guys. Here is how to turn an online music video into something suitable for DTXMania. Most of the steps I followed using this article. Here are the steps I took.

1. Convert your video into an FLV and download onto your computer.
I used Toshichan Green Tune to do it. Some sites can convert directly into an AVI, but I don't recommend it as it will cause problems at a later stage. If you get a 404 error, play the video first.

2. Convert your FLV into an AVI.
I used FLV extract for this step (refer to the article above).

3. Load your AVI into VirtualDubMod.
I ran into problems opening the AVI in Virtualdubmod, even though I followed all the settings for installing and configuring ffdshow in the article. So I installed TMPGEnc, converted it into MPEG first and then I could open it.

4. Crop your video in Virtualdubmod.
To crop and resize, you will need 2 filters. Go to Video > Filters > Add filters. Use null transform to cut out unwanted parts (use the cropping button). The second filter is Resize - the DTXMania video width / height is 272x352. Under streams you can also disable the audio stream since you won't need audio.

5. Encode your video to a new AVI.
You need the DivX codec. I used 1-pass 780kbps to compress a 2 min video to about 10MB. Save it into the directory you are making your DTX in.

6. Use GDA Creator or DTX Creator to add the video to your DTX
I won't go into the details here. If you need help with this step, please ask in the GDAmania forums.