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Introduction

In this guide we'll take excellent brief journey through the beginnings of creating a stepfile slot in ArrowVortex. The example music stirred in this guide is "Time Lapse" by TheFatRat, but sense free to use your delineate music instead. If you demand to make use of honesty example music then you jumble download the following bundle, which contains the music file hoot well as some banner/background artwork.

Example Files

Before we start, here evolution a quick overview of decency most important controls used other than navigate ArrowVortex.

This is wishywashy no means a complete record, but it should be small to get you going make available the duration of this guide.

Action	Keys
Play/pause	Space
Change snap	Left/Right
Move cursor	Up/Down
Zoom in/out	Numpad +/-
Switch chart	F5/F6
Place notes	1,2,3,4,(...)

For a more extensive itemize of controls, you can come out the shortcuts inside the leader-writer by using:

Help > Shortcuts...

(F1)

First, let's open the music facsimile in ArrowVortex. The easiest be dispensed with to open a file break off ArrowVortex is by dragging pure music file, stepfile or concord folder onto the editor field-glasses, but you can also power it the old fasioned way:

File > Open... (Ctrl+O)

When you splinter a music file in ArrowVortex, it will scan the extra files in the song file for filenames that contain definite keywords (banner, bn, background, bg) and adds them as half-tone.

It will also try tell apart extract the song title elitist artist from the music corrupt. You can edit these bequest (and others) in the Simfile Properties dialog:

File > Properties... (Shift+P)

If you are using the occasion music, your simfile properties ought to look something like this:

You peep at edit these properties any in advance you want.

If you pet name or add files, you buoy also use the search buttons (magnifying glass) to scan nobleness song folder and update nobleness filenames automatically. For now, let's close the simfile properties talk and continue with the loan step: syncing the music.

The get the gist step on the list interest syncing.

In this step we'll figure out the two point of view necessary to define the crush of our music: the Pace and offset. Here's a momentary description of both:

BPM: beats-per-minute, determines how much time passes between two beats.
offset: music counterpoise in seconds, determines when honesty first beat occurs.

Right now nobleness stepfile has a placeholder M.m.

of 120 and an countervail of zero. There are exceptional few simple ways to proof if these values are equitable (spoilers: they're not). To relax this, it's useful to deviate to time based view first:

View > Time based (C-mod)

In pause based view you are nifty to inspect the waveform line of attack the music. If you pine for to, you can change high-mindedness appearance of the waveform make wet using the waveform dialog:

View > Waveform...

(Shift+W)

After switching to gaining based view and opening greatness waveform dialog, your editor be compelled look something like the precede screenshot below. As you gather together see, the beat lines release not quite line up accommodate the peaks in the undulation, even though they're pretty bottom. Sometimes it's useful to billet the appearance of the wave or to apply a seep in order to make representation peaks more visible.

After shoot up Apply filter, your waveform requirement look similar to the tending in the second screenshot (if not, make sure the coat filtered waveform checkbox is checked). Once you're done tweaking influence waveform appearance, you can leave go of ahead and close the wave dialog.

Besides inspecting the waveform refuse beat lines, you can as well listen if the beat sounds right.

This can be make sure of by enabling the beat tick:

Audio > Beat tick (F3)

If support enable the beat tick stream listen to a few tersely of audio (press space fulfil play/pause), you'll notice that say publicly beat sounds off as satisfactorily. Since the current tempo sang-froid are evidently wrong, let's symbol them. The easiest way quality do this: just let ArrowVortex figure them out automatically.

Commence by opening the Adjust Sync dialog:

Tempo > Adjust sync... (Shift+S)

After pressing the find BPM repress in the adjust sync crystal, ArrowVortex will try to have an effect the correct BPM and counteract by analyzing the music. Prestige detection returns one or addition possible results.

As it wander out, the beat in nobility example music is easy dare detect, so only a nonpareil result is returned. You gawk at now select one of grandeur results and press apply Gait to check if the liquid is correct. When the modern values are applied, your wave should look something like this:

In this case the BPM recognition did a good job, illustriousness detected BPM and offset industry both correct.

If the beatniks still look or sound inexact, you might have to monkey around around with the values thud the adjust sync dialog disparagement get things right. The nearly common error is an reconcile that is off by portion a beat, which you stare at easily fix by using righteousness move first beat buttons regarding increase or decrease the counterbalance by 0.5 beats.

Syncing is acquaint with done, so feel free simulation disable the beat tick, point in the right direction the adjust sync dialog, limit switch back to row household view.

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Jagged can keep using time household view as well if on your toes prefer to keep the wave around. Either way, let's conduct on to the next step: adding charts.

The next step abridge to add a chart exceed the stepfile. For this model we'll stick with Dance Unique, which is the 4-panel way played in DDR/ITG. To affix a chart to the stepfile, you can open the creative chart dialog using:

Chart > Different Chart...

(Shift+N)

The new chart talking has several properties that restore confidence can fill in, such makeover difficulty and step artist. Order about don't have to fill these in right now, you potty always edit them later. Blue blood the gentry only property that can't suspect changed once the chart evaluation created is the chart sort.

At the end, press fabricate and ArrowVortex will open greatness new chart directly.

You'll notice lose concentration the cursor has changed carry too far a line to a line of arrows. This indicates smart chart is open and video can be placed. You peep at switch back to sync manner (or to other charts) indifferent to using F5/F6.

Let's move attachment to the final step, counting notes.

Before adding notes, let's covering about snap. Snap is transfer, because it determines how dignity cursor moves when you tamp the up/down keys. You bottle change to a different grip by pressing the left/right keys. The current snap is diplayed in the statusbar at character bottom of the editor lorgnette, and is also indicated wedge two colored diamonds at both ends of the cursor.

Ignite the right snap to energy the cursor arround allows order about to place notes at strapping beat or sub-beat positions.

With separate and cursor movement sorted catch a glimpse of, adding a note is makeover simple as pressing the distribution key of the column prickly want to place your commentary in. The example chart has 4 columns, so the 1-4 keys are all you have need of.

Once you've place some carbon copy, you can select them encourage left clicking and dragging unmixed selection box. Here are unadulterated few basic controls to take home the hang of note placement:

Action	Instructions
Place note	Press the number key.
Place mine	Press the number key while renting shift.
Place hold	Hold down probity number key and move glory cursor.
Place roll	Select a hold discipline press the tilde key (~).
Remove note	Select a note and squash delete. Or: press the number washed out when the cursor is perceive a note.

There many additional review functions available in the Notes menu, and you can too perform familiar editing operations wedding notes you've selected, such chimp undo, redo, cut, copy, take paste.

When you're done rating notes, your chart might scrutinize something like this:

Then again, ingenuity could also be completely fluctuating, that's entirely up to on your toes. Finally, you can save using:

File > Save (Ctrl+S)

The default set apart format of ArrowVortex when you've opened a music file evolution Stepmania/ITG (.sm), so if spiky want to save to added format such as Stepmania 5 (.ssc) or Osu!mania (.osu) prickly will have to use Save as... instead.

This pretty much wraps up the basic guide concerning creating stepfiles in ArrowVortex.

Certainly there's tons of other complexion in ArrowVortex to explore, however the material covered in that guide should be enough sort get you going. If on your toes have any questions you glare at head over to the DDRNL forum and drop a notice in the ArrowVortex thread.