So I’m trying to import SurfingKyogre’s cover of Tearing Through Heaven into FEBuilder, and it just sounds… Completely wrong. I think it’s probably due to missing instruments or something, considering their cover was in the FE8 soundfont, and I’m editing an FE7 rom, but I’m not sure how to go about fixing that if it’s even possible. I have the “All Instrument” patch that’s built into FEBuilder but clearly that isn’t what I need to make this work
I’m currently running a few playtests on both FE7 and FE8 for comparisons.
What I’ve found at first is that FE7 does not have the NIMAP 2 (Native Instrument Map) patch like FE8 does, only the first NIMAP patch. From my understanding, NIMAP 2 is an update of the old patch that allows for better instruments usage for modern sound track creation, greatly helping authors like SurfingKyogre. Works perfectly well for FE8 but, yeah, it does not have support for FE7 (some of the notes do not play in FE7), which is what you are currently in need of.
The second problem was that the instruments pertaining to the Drumsets are missing in FE7, they’re all playing square noises. On this case however, I DID find something that could help you, what apparently is a Drumfix patch created for FE7, by an author named Reik019:
Hopefully the patch above can make at least the Drums play correctly, but in the case of the main instruments of the music covers (Piano, Flute, Guitar, etc), you’ll either need to extract them in a .txt file then manually edit the music sheet to fix each missing instrument one by one, or find alternative music covers that sound great as substitutes (some of the older ones from other authors, I believe there’s several music repos in older topics).
That’s everything I could find, hope it helps and good luck with your project all the same.
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All Instrument patch completely replaces the GBA FE instruments/soundfont with a different set of instruments and samples. Using it will completely change how songs will sound.
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That sounds… Complicated. Sadly, the drums are not the issue at all, and I already have the Drumfix, so I think I’ll just go look for a different song to use. So far this is the only song made for FE8 that I’ve had issues with in FE7, hopefully I’ll be able to find some good replacements.
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