StarXStone
Terrarian
Hey everyone. So this is sort of out of frustration, trail, and error. I wanted to provide a simple version of how you can make your own music. I'm going to do it recipe style so for those who already know can skip a wall of text and get to work.
What you'll need is:
Visual Studios 13
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx (2013)
XNA 3.0 (or) 4.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xf21xalrr3j3xo9/XNA+Game+Studio+4.0.4+(2012).zip (3.0)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23714 (4.0)
Audacity (or any of your own music editing programs)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
(optional) YTP Downloader (not the best option but anything that makes mp3's is fine)
http://www.ytddownloader.com/download.html
*I will edit this post constantly to help everyone who reads this. I will also accept anyone who wishes to post their wave banks to this post if they want.*
Pay close attention
This is the list of tracks for Terraria
01: Overworld Night
02: Eerie (Meteor, Blood Moon)
03: OverworldDay
04: Boss1 (Eye of Cthulhu, Eater of Worlds, Skeletron, Skeletron Prime, Old Goblin Army, Duke Fishron)
05: TitleScreen
06: Jungle
07: Corruption
08: Hallow
09: Underground Corruption
10: Underground Hallow
11: Boss2 (The Twins, Wall of Flesh)
12: Underground
13: Boss3 (The Destroyer, Brain of Cthulhu, Frost Legion)
14: Snow
15: Space
16: Crimson
17: Golem (Golem, Old Pirate Invasion)
18: Alternate Day
19: Rain (Music)
20: Underground Snow
21: Desert
22: Ocean
23: Dungeon
24: Plantera
25: QueenBee
26: Lizhard
27: Eclipse
28: Rain sounds
29: Mushrooms
30: Pumpkin Moon Event
31: Alternate Underground
32: FrostMoon
33: Underground Crimson
34: Lunar Event
35: New Pirate Invasion
36: New Hell
37: Martian Madness
38: Final Boss
39: New Goblin Event.
It's very important to note the wavebank must be the same size or under the size of the original wavebank or the music won't work. current size (20.3 MB).
luckily wav files are small once converted but keep an eye on it. Now lets begin.
First off I recommend a folder named project wavebank or whatever you want to call it. Open it and make another folder named MP3 List. In that folder I would name the next folders in here whatever artist or music theme you'd like to work on. Lets say for the sake of the example I want Banjoo Kazooie music. so I make a folder titled Banjoo. Once I open it up I put all 39 tracks I want in this file.
Now I go back out to where I have my MP3 list folder and make a new one called ready or project in or whatever says (im the start of a project). Now take this folder to the side of your screen and open a new window for the project wavebank folder. If I lost you its ok Ill go over it soon just keep reading. Take the project window and put it on the opposite side and open mp3>banjoo. Now copy the 1st song for Overworld Night over to the other folder and paste it. Once pasted rename the mp3 file 1. Now do this for the next song Eerie and place it in this folder renamed 2. Keep doing this so you can easily rename everything and that way if you mess up or the file is to big you can easily come back to it. By all means you don't have to do this its only to help you in the long run and if you want to keep making more then one wavebank.
Lets review New folder on desktop renamed project wavebank> MP3> Banjoo
Project > 1-39
once you have 1-39 in a nice big list its time to start downloading the programs listed above. XNA is an addon for studio and Xact is inside XNA this is why you need Studio and XNA downloaded. So first download Studio and once FULLY installed. Then download XNA otherwise it'll tell you "hey dude can't install till my homie Studio is here".
Once all is good in your windows hood then search for file Xact. Once you find it create a shortcut and put it on lockdown into your project wavebank folder. Now its starting to feel like a party is happening and your the DJ.
Now download Audiocity or whatever mp3 editor you have that also converts mp3s to wav.
Once Audiocity is finished you can easily upload 1-39 (one at a time) and edit them how you see fit but make sure you cut them so any repetitive beats loop for example. Say I play the music for Gruntys lair i should cut it somewhere in the 40-50 sec mark when the song begins to loop again so that your trimming the excess time off. Once you've played with is and you like the fill save it then convert it into a wav file.
If your feeling really sassy you'll make a folder in project wavebank called done or wav list. It's however you see fit.
Once all 39 are cut, edited, and converted to .wav then we open Xact.
Should look like this
http://imgur.com/vhNWm
I know what your saying now your like woah! Star what is all this it looks C-r-A-z-Y! And it is if you don't know what your doing... trust me it is.
it should look like this:
http://imgur.com/9GHdJ
Now first we need to make a new project:
http://imgur.com/P5oID
DO NOT NAME YOUR PROJECT WAVEBANK!!!
Now save it to that done list folder
After this we want to obviously make a wavebank so select wavebank from the menu and hit new wavebank.
http://imgur.com/vfuL6
Then blame you'll see this new box in the middle. This is your music's own private club. This is where they jam and have a good time together. Drag all your music ONE AT A TIME IN ORDER into this club. Cause the bouncer gotta check eveybodies IDs before they go in.
when your done your club should be bouncing and look like this:
http://imgur.com/Ik8je
now look over and you'll see that we are a little overweight at this club with 250+MB I mean dang dude I come to the club to work out and look good doing it not to look nasty and overweight so now we have to compress oursleves. We are in the club for 5 hours straight and now we need to lose that weight.
select compress and right click> new compress preset:
http://imgur.com/kNE84
NOW VERY IMPORTENT!!!
do this (I don't have a metaphore for it):
http://imgur.com/qhhps
change the ADPCM to xWMA under that window file
Now we want to make sure we compress and loss that nasty weight in the club so select <none> under the compress preset menu thats under general and then select the compress file or whatever you named it just not the <none> file. Make sure you click on Wave Bank again to get out of the preset menu!
Now you'll see your club is about to close down cause everyone lost that weight.
http://imgur.com/GsxEm
now its time to close the club down or build your project. Press f7 or click file>Build.
http://imgur.com/syqUR
Ignore the ugly box chick! She wants your number but you to #Swag for that.
http://i.imgur.com/rGa5x.png
Now go back to your folder and your new sexy swag wavebank should be sitting there for you. if you can't find it no worries simply search for the file and youll find it.
Now huge note before you get way to excited. Backup your original wavebank to Terraria and save it anywhere just make sure it's never going to meet up with your other wave banks or they will catfight and replace the other one.
Now then test it out! If Terraria doesn't play any sound and you go to options and turn the music up but it keeps going back to 0 percent then something wasn't done right and you will have to either start over or you can always message me for help. most of the time its because your club weight is still to big. Remember that 20.3MB you guys thought I was joking but now you want to listen! In all seriousness, if it's to big you'll need to trim it again (now you know why I made you make a MP3 and Done List folder). If you accidently put to many tracks or to few or you just added a track twice this could also be the case. Just try again. It sucks I know but once you do it without watching my guide 3 times you got it dude its super easy. You'll look at my guid after try 3 and be like pffft this stuffs for pre-k I'm already in college senior year, whats up.
If you have any questions, want help, think this tutorial was to fly for you let me know. I also want to thank Sychosis who I don't think has been active in forever andI thank him so much for teaching me. I also want to thank Zealous98 who freakin spent forever working with me to learn everything.
What you'll need is:
Visual Studios 13
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx (2013)
XNA 3.0 (or) 4.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xf21xalrr3j3xo9/XNA+Game+Studio+4.0.4+(2012).zip (3.0)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23714 (4.0)
Audacity (or any of your own music editing programs)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
(optional) YTP Downloader (not the best option but anything that makes mp3's is fine)
http://www.ytddownloader.com/download.html
*I will edit this post constantly to help everyone who reads this. I will also accept anyone who wishes to post their wave banks to this post if they want.*
Pay close attention
This is the list of tracks for Terraria
01: Overworld Night
02: Eerie (Meteor, Blood Moon)
03: OverworldDay
04: Boss1 (Eye of Cthulhu, Eater of Worlds, Skeletron, Skeletron Prime, Old Goblin Army, Duke Fishron)
05: TitleScreen
06: Jungle
07: Corruption
08: Hallow
09: Underground Corruption
10: Underground Hallow
11: Boss2 (The Twins, Wall of Flesh)
12: Underground
13: Boss3 (The Destroyer, Brain of Cthulhu, Frost Legion)
14: Snow
15: Space
16: Crimson
17: Golem (Golem, Old Pirate Invasion)
18: Alternate Day
19: Rain (Music)
20: Underground Snow
21: Desert
22: Ocean
23: Dungeon
24: Plantera
25: QueenBee
26: Lizhard
27: Eclipse
28: Rain sounds
29: Mushrooms
30: Pumpkin Moon Event
31: Alternate Underground
32: FrostMoon
33: Underground Crimson
34: Lunar Event
35: New Pirate Invasion
36: New Hell
37: Martian Madness
38: Final Boss
39: New Goblin Event.
It's very important to note the wavebank must be the same size or under the size of the original wavebank or the music won't work. current size (20.3 MB).
luckily wav files are small once converted but keep an eye on it. Now lets begin.
First off I recommend a folder named project wavebank or whatever you want to call it. Open it and make another folder named MP3 List. In that folder I would name the next folders in here whatever artist or music theme you'd like to work on. Lets say for the sake of the example I want Banjoo Kazooie music. so I make a folder titled Banjoo. Once I open it up I put all 39 tracks I want in this file.
Now I go back out to where I have my MP3 list folder and make a new one called ready or project in or whatever says (im the start of a project). Now take this folder to the side of your screen and open a new window for the project wavebank folder. If I lost you its ok Ill go over it soon just keep reading. Take the project window and put it on the opposite side and open mp3>banjoo. Now copy the 1st song for Overworld Night over to the other folder and paste it. Once pasted rename the mp3 file 1. Now do this for the next song Eerie and place it in this folder renamed 2. Keep doing this so you can easily rename everything and that way if you mess up or the file is to big you can easily come back to it. By all means you don't have to do this its only to help you in the long run and if you want to keep making more then one wavebank.
Lets review New folder on desktop renamed project wavebank> MP3> Banjoo
Project > 1-39
once you have 1-39 in a nice big list its time to start downloading the programs listed above. XNA is an addon for studio and Xact is inside XNA this is why you need Studio and XNA downloaded. So first download Studio and once FULLY installed. Then download XNA otherwise it'll tell you "hey dude can't install till my homie Studio is here".
Once all is good in your windows hood then search for file Xact. Once you find it create a shortcut and put it on lockdown into your project wavebank folder. Now its starting to feel like a party is happening and your the DJ.
Now download Audiocity or whatever mp3 editor you have that also converts mp3s to wav.
Once Audiocity is finished you can easily upload 1-39 (one at a time) and edit them how you see fit but make sure you cut them so any repetitive beats loop for example. Say I play the music for Gruntys lair i should cut it somewhere in the 40-50 sec mark when the song begins to loop again so that your trimming the excess time off. Once you've played with is and you like the fill save it then convert it into a wav file.
If your feeling really sassy you'll make a folder in project wavebank called done or wav list. It's however you see fit.
Once all 39 are cut, edited, and converted to .wav then we open Xact.
Should look like this
http://imgur.com/vhNWm
I know what your saying now your like woah! Star what is all this it looks C-r-A-z-Y! And it is if you don't know what your doing... trust me it is.
it should look like this:
http://imgur.com/9GHdJ
Now first we need to make a new project:
http://imgur.com/P5oID
DO NOT NAME YOUR PROJECT WAVEBANK!!!
Now save it to that done list folder
After this we want to obviously make a wavebank so select wavebank from the menu and hit new wavebank.
http://imgur.com/vfuL6
Then blame you'll see this new box in the middle. This is your music's own private club. This is where they jam and have a good time together. Drag all your music ONE AT A TIME IN ORDER into this club. Cause the bouncer gotta check eveybodies IDs before they go in.
when your done your club should be bouncing and look like this:
http://imgur.com/Ik8je
now look over and you'll see that we are a little overweight at this club with 250+MB I mean dang dude I come to the club to work out and look good doing it not to look nasty and overweight so now we have to compress oursleves. We are in the club for 5 hours straight and now we need to lose that weight.
select compress and right click> new compress preset:
http://imgur.com/kNE84
NOW VERY IMPORTENT!!!
do this (I don't have a metaphore for it):
http://imgur.com/qhhps
change the ADPCM to xWMA under that window file
Now we want to make sure we compress and loss that nasty weight in the club so select <none> under the compress preset menu thats under general and then select the compress file or whatever you named it just not the <none> file. Make sure you click on Wave Bank again to get out of the preset menu!
Now you'll see your club is about to close down cause everyone lost that weight.
http://imgur.com/GsxEm
now its time to close the club down or build your project. Press f7 or click file>Build.
http://imgur.com/syqUR
Ignore the ugly box chick! She wants your number but you to #Swag for that.
http://i.imgur.com/rGa5x.png
Now go back to your folder and your new sexy swag wavebank should be sitting there for you. if you can't find it no worries simply search for the file and youll find it.
Now huge note before you get way to excited. Backup your original wavebank to Terraria and save it anywhere just make sure it's never going to meet up with your other wave banks or they will catfight and replace the other one.
Now then test it out! If Terraria doesn't play any sound and you go to options and turn the music up but it keeps going back to 0 percent then something wasn't done right and you will have to either start over or you can always message me for help. most of the time its because your club weight is still to big. Remember that 20.3MB you guys thought I was joking but now you want to listen! In all seriousness, if it's to big you'll need to trim it again (now you know why I made you make a MP3 and Done List folder). If you accidently put to many tracks or to few or you just added a track twice this could also be the case. Just try again. It sucks I know but once you do it without watching my guide 3 times you got it dude its super easy. You'll look at my guid after try 3 and be like pffft this stuffs for pre-k I'm already in college senior year, whats up.
If you have any questions, want help, think this tutorial was to fly for you let me know. I also want to thank Sychosis who I don't think has been active in forever andI thank him so much for teaching me. I also want to thank Zealous98 who freakin spent forever working with me to learn everything.
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