We're going to first setup Editor on Fire to our preferences to create songs for Immerrock.
1. If you haven't already launch Editor on Fire by double clicking on eof.exe file.
2. Select Files -> Preferences -> Preferences or press F11.
3a. Change the Color Set to Immerrock.
3b. Change Top of 2D Pane shows: RS Sections+Phrases
3c. Select OK.
4. Go to Files -> Preferences -> Import/Export
5a. Untick 'Save seperate Rocksmith 2 files'.
5b. Untick 'Save FoF/CH/Phase Shift files'.
5c. Tick 'Save separate Immerrock files'.
6. You are done with Setup! If you want to learn more about configuring Editor on Fire by selecting Help -> Manual.
Let's get started with our custom song finally!
1. Start by selecting File -> New.
2. Navigate to your Custom Song project folder. Ours is:
D:\Immerrock CDLC\Folksong_Kumbaya\
And select Folksong_Kumbaya.wav and select Open.
3. Fill out the song information and select OK.
4. Change the location of the new song to 'Use Source Audio's Folder'.
5. In OGG Settings, Encoder Quality, just leave the default value, and select OK.
A command prompt window will appear. It may take a moment for it to finish. Once it's done, it will close itself and your view of Editor on Fire will change.
6. As a final step, select Song -> Waveform Graph -> Show or press F5.
Our next step is going to be to import our Guitar Tab. However, we need to import it to the correct track.
1. Go to Song -> Track -> PART REAL_GUITAR_22.
Notice how we now have 6 'lanes', as well as the tuning for the chart. Ensure you select the Expert tab.
2. Select File -> Import -> Guitar Pro or press F12.
3. Select the file Folksong_Kumbaya.gp5
4. You'll be asked if you want to import the time signatures. Select Yes.
5. And select the GGLead track. And select Import.
You will now see notes appear in the lanes. These notes however, are NOT SYNCED to the music.
Syncing to beats to the music is probably our most important step. Thankfully Editor on Fire gives us many easy ways to accomplish this.
Two utilities to double check beat syncing are
- Metronome. Edit -> Metronome or press M.
- Claps. Edit -> Claps or press C.
The Metronome will play a click sound every Beat (The vertical lines with arrows on top -->). While Claps will play a click sound on every note.
Feel free to use these as you wish, depending on the situation and what you find more intuitive.
Its time to take our first listen to our work in progress song.
1. Turn on Claps by selecting Edit -> Claps or press C.
2. Select play on the Green Arrow on the Top Right corner or press Spacebar.
2b. You also have controls to go to start, fast backwards, fast forwards, and go to end.
You should hear that the notes come in too quickly, before the music.
A good place to start is to grab the beat in the 2nd measure with the mouse, and drag it to the left to when the chords of the song come in.
Press play again, and keep adjusting that 4th beat, until you hear the claps of the notes match with the music.
Seems like we get good results at 110BPM (Beats per minute). When you are in the wild making your own custom songs, you will have to find out by trial and error. Some songs have very clean beats, others rush and drag with the feel of the music. You might have to edit the beats multiple times.
We know the song is at 110 BPM. So let's set the first beat to exactly 110 BPM.
3. Select the First Beat by clicking on it.
4. Navigate to Beat -> BPM -> BPM Change.
5. Set the BPM to 110 and select OK.
Notice that the 4th Beat, has the default 120 BPM. Let's delete that change.
6. Select the 4th Beat with 120 BPM change.
6a. Select Beat -> Delete Anchor
You should see something like this.
At this point, we have enough to export your custom song and start playing it.
Exporting Your Custom Song
Before we generate our custom song, we must first define the 'Arrangement' of our current track. This will tell EoF and IMMERROCK whether a track is Lead, Rhythm, or Bass.
1. Make sure the Song -> Track has PART REAL_GUITAR_22 selected.
2. Make sure you have *Expert selected.
TIP. The asterisk (*) character, is informing us that we have notes under that track/difficulty.
3. Select Track -> Rocksmith -> Arrangement Type -> Lead
To generate or export your Custom Song so it's playable in IMMERROCK is very easy.
4. Select File -> Save
EoF will have generated your custom song for IMMERROCK inside your eof project folder. For us the path looks like:
D:\Immerrock CDLC\Folksong_Kumbaya\Folksong - Kumbaya - Expert\
You can grab the generated Folder \Folksong - Kumbaya - Expert\ and copy that to your headset to try out.
We have a Guide on Installing Custom Songs.
Song Sections are allow you to open the Phrase Refiner for your custom song and practice a section (Or multiple sections) repeatedly.
It's important to note Song Sections are applied for all arrangements in the custom song.
We'll split our custom song into a few sections.
1. Start by selecting the Beat with the very first note.
2. Select Beat -> Rocksmith -> Place RS Section or press Shift + S on your keyboard.
3. You can select Tag for the section. We'll keep it simple, and select Verse and OK.
Notice a Red Line gets drawn where we placed our section. As well as the Section text.
4. We are going to place a section at Measure 5 - Beat 3. Just before the 10 second mark. By selecting the beat and pressing Shift + S on the keyboard.
5. Another at Measure 9 and 3 Beat, around 18.5 seconds. Selecting the beat and pressing Shift + S on the keyboard.
6. And finally on Measure 13 at beat 3, just after 27 seconds. Select the beat and pressing Shift + S on the keyboard.
You can always check out all the sections in your song by going to Beat -> Events -> All Events. There you can also edit the texts for each section.
Saving your EOF project, will re-generate IMMERROCK files. If you look at the folder for your custom song, it will now contain a Sections.txt file.
You can also fill in additional song information. This can be displayed during Song Selection in IMMERROCK, and will be used in a future IMMERROCK update to sort and filter songs.
1. Select Song -> Properties or press F9.
A new window will pop out with extra information. The ones worth filling in are dotted in red.
- Song Title -> Kumbaya
- Artist -> Folksong
- Charter -> 'Enter Your Name'
- Album -> 'Leave empty for now'
- Genre -> Camp, Gospel, Spiritual
- Year -> 1920
- Diff -> 1
And select OK.
Saving your EOF project, will re-generate IMMERROCK files. Inside your custom song folder, Info.txt would have been updated.
You can also add lyrics to your songs. To do this, we must change tracks from PART REAL_GUITAR_22 to PART VOCALS, where we are going to add and edit lyrics.
1. Select Song -> Track -> PART VOCALS
2. To insert a new 'Lyric Note', position your mouse on the 1st measure and 2nd beat, in the text gap and press 1 on your keyboard.
3. Type in the lyric "Kumbaya, my Lord" and press OK.
You'll see a small grey note near the timeline. We need to extend this note to cover the length of the sung phrase.
4. With the note selected, use the close bracket key ']' to increase the not duration or use the scroll wheel on your mouse.
Play the song to get a sense of how long each lyric line is sang.
TIP! To see if the lyric is well placed, you can use the Special Playback. Press S+Spacebar to play the audio only from the selected note. Holding S will loop indefinitely until released.
Next, we need to mark the sentence as a Lyric line.
5. Select the lyric. Then select Note -> Lyrics -> Lyric Lines -> Mark, or press Ctrl+X.
You'll see the lyric line getting a blue highlighter with the same length as it's duration.
We have to repeat the same process for each new lyric line.
6. In the middle of Measuer 3, insert a new lyric by placing your mouse at the correct time, press 1 on your keyboard. Enter the lyric "Kumbaya" and select OK. Mark the line with Ctrl - X, then extend the note for as long as it should be.
7. Add a "Kumbaya, my Lord" lyric line at the middle of Measure 5.
8. Add a "Kumbaya" lyric line in the middle of Measure 7.
9. Add a "Kumbaya, my Lord" lyric line at the middle of Measure 9.
10. Add a "Kumbaya" lyric line in the middle of Measure 11.
11. Add a "Oh Lord," lyric line in the middle of Measure 13.
12. Add a "Kumbaya" lyric line in the middle of Measure 15.
TIP. Don't forget to set the duration for each lyric note, as well as to mark them as individual lines using Ctrl - X.
Saving your EOF project, will re-generate IMMERROCK files. Inside your custom song folder, you will now see a Lyrics.txt
Editor On Fire Vocal Tutorial
We only covered the basics to get lyrics in your custom song. But Editor On Fire offers many different ways to import vocals and lyrics.
You can find an additional tutorial on Editor On Fire Vocals by selecting Help -> Vocals Tutorial. A tutorial HTML page will open in your default browser.
You can add a cover image to your custom song. All that is needed is an image inside our custom song folder.
IMPORTANT. Cover images must be named 'Cover' for them to be recognized.
Accepted image formats:
- .png
- .jpg
- .tiff
For this custom song, we provided you with an image file. Find the image file:
T_AlbumCover_Folksong_Kumbaya.png
Rename it to:
Cover.png
And drag it to the Custom Song Folder.
You can find your Custom Song inside IMMERROCK. Navigate to the Song Catalog menu, and scroll to the bottom.
We hope you found this Quick Guide to creating Custom Songs for IMMERROCK helpful and quick.
Do you still have questions? Or do you want to share with others the amazing custom song you just made? Please do so at our Discord Server. We'll be happy to help you out and to try out your songs!
