UPDATE (oct 2020): A potentially superior option now exists: https://efhiii.github.io/midi-ch/
Further tutorials will come.
This tool generates an automatic chart from your FL Studio .midi files. Using this to chart FL Studio songs speeds up the process when starting to put the chart together.
- Quickly generate a basic chart that you can tweak
- Basic charting algorithm – e.g. lower pitched notes charted green, higher pitched orange
- The note timing will match your midi, will be perfect
- It charts starpower & Sections
Steps
Export the midi file using FL Studio
Go to piano roll and press file > export midi
Convert the midi into text
Copy & Paste the generated text into the chart.text file
Copy from “MFile” to “TrkEnd”
- Ensure there is one blank line/space after the pasted text, or it will fail to convert
Open the Autochart Tool
Press 1
Enter “chart” as the name
Select the track (always “1”)
This will generate a chart file
Paste the .chart file into the folder with your Song
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Open in Moonscraper to tweak! See the settings.ini to configure more (minimum note length, chart star power, section distance);
See the video below for reference.
FAQs:
Q: My chart is blank!
A: Make sure there is at least one space/line after the pasted text in the chart.txt file or it will not convert
Q: is there a way to export all patterns into one chart?
A: in FL, make an extra layer and copy/paste all of the patterns into one. Then, export the midi for that layer
Q: is this only good for FL Studio songs?
A: No. Try any song. There are midi files out there for most songs too… just google any song followed by .midi
Clone Hero Autocharter Tutorial video
And what to do if I want to use the same MIDI to generate charts for, say, guitar and bass and have them import into the editor normally?
Not sure – I would follow the process above for each track and copy/paste using two instances of moonscraper. This tool is fairly limited. If you can get it working, let us know!
I can’t export the midi.
I can suggest a couple basic things but it shouldn’t cause you any issues… in FL, make sure you are selecting the notes first before pressing export MIDI. If you still have issues, update FL studio. Hope you get it working.
Just tried this, chart is blank, does not work for me.
^^Same
The chart is blank I know the midi file has data but when converting it into a text and then .chart file the data is lost please help.
Hi Relbakin – could you possibly post a video of the process you are following? I’m keen to improve this guide soon. I will be able to see where it is going wrong and will fix this.
just tried using this with a fresh midi and moonscraper can’t open the chart file for some reason.
The auto charter tutorial for Clone Hero here is quite good, and I want to thank you for sharing this fantastic tutorial here. I would like to know what other people think about this tutorial, though.
It gets stuck on ‘charting notes’
Would there be any reason to why i cant get the autocharter to even open to use? like is this old stuff? was trying to see what all i could do with charting
https://efhiii.github.io/midi-ch/ – check this out. I’ll make a new Autocharter guide soon, I’m just speaking to the developer to see if some improvements can be made. This autocharter is superior and I think you’ll get it to work easily.