[pyddr-discuss] Creating songs

[Pavel N. Krivitsky]

Hi,

Take my advice with a grain of salt, since I haven't ever finished a
song. (Where "finished" is defined as "happy enough with it to release
for general consumption".)

> Hi everyone! I'm new to pydance but i'm already a gret fan.
> I've tried to make some songs but, altough the process is clearly 
> explained on the web, i've seen it's a vry time-consuming procedure: for 
> example when I want to try the steps near the end of the song I found no 
> better alternative than dancing all the song!
> How do you do that? Are there any programs that let you dance only a 
> snippet (20-30 sec) of the song?

Here is how I do it:

1) Figure out how many seconds into the song you want to start. The way
I do it is to count the number of beats before that point and use

t = 60*beats/bpm

2) Set the startat value in the header to that value. (If startat
already has a value, add it on.)

3) Insert 

end
GAMETYPE
basic 0

just before where you want to start, with GAMETYPE being "single",
"double", or whatever the type of steps you are setting is.

Then (assuming I didn't forget anything), selecting basic 0 steps for
that song will start it from where you want it to start. When finished,
remove those three lines and remove startat.

In case it's not obvious, the way it works is by making pydance think
that all the steps before those three lines is a different set of steps.

                    I hope this helps,
                    Pavel
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