Frontman Requests

[l5klbackfir3]

Hi, just downloaded your Frontman game and think it's really cool. The support for the insturments is extremly easy, everything just plugs in and works unlike FOF. Graphics are not as visually pleasing but it's better for people like me who have the lower end graphics card. Thanx for making this game that I could play on my PC and get better at guitar! There are a couple of things I noticed that I wanted to share, though:

1. I thought the quickplay was very difficult. I would have to say i'm a pretty decent player, I play on expert and know that there are some songs that are going to be harder but I think maybe your rock meter is too hard or something because I miss like 4 notes and it goes down and it takes forever to get back up. I've had to play all of my songs on tutorial mode.

2. I noticed that on some songs when U play and miss notes, the song doesn't decrease in volume, it completely goes off. I understand that maybe it would make us better players but with how hard most of the songs are, it would be better to just decrease in volume because you still want to listen to the song. (That may just be me).

3. My whammy bar doesn't work for either one of my guitars. Not sure if that's just my problem or if the game just doesn't support these. (I have Playstation 2 guitar to a USB convertor and an xbox 360 Xplorer).

Thanx for taking the time to read my concerns. Although I'm sure the programmer had these things in mind when he built it, I just thought I would stress problems that I was having, in case anyone else didn't enjoy these problems as well.

[CJB100]

Wrong Section! You're playing GZ2, not Frontman.

And to respond to the posts:

1. No this is hardly the case. You're just not very good. Im an average expert player and can pretty much play any song i want on expert with the exclusion of a few insane songs. You just got to get better.

2. This is because some songs double tracks and have a song.ogg and guitar.ogg that are the exact same audio file, just named different. So in these cases, the song just decreases volume by half. Other songs just have a guitar.ogg, which causes the song to completely stop when you miss a note. Other songs still, have just a song.ogg, which does nothing when missing a note, so the song will continue playing.

3. That's just the ps2 to usb device you are using. some don't support whammy. unfortunately, the only way to fix this is by downloading drivers for the device. but this still doesn't usually solve the problem. you might just have to buy a new one if you really really want to whammy. sucks, i know. sorry.

[l5klbackfir3]

Thanx so much for replying to my questions, I appriciate it. I'll try that song.ogg problems out so that it doesn't do that anymore because it makes me feel like a complete failure when the song completely goes off on the hard solo parts, lol. Sorry for posting in the wrong section, I wasn't really sure. I do have 2 other things I have noticed that I would like to throw out there.

1. If it is possible please program the game to auto-level all of the songs (ya know, so that everything plays at the same volume). Getting about sick of having to turn up the volume on some songs and on others, turn them down, and my mom hitting me in the back of the head with a frying pan because some are too loud.

2. It seems like my computer doesn't recognize that Frontman is an actual process that is running in front of me and I'm using it because every 12-15 minutes, my computer's monitor will shut off into like a sleep-mode. Maybe something that you can do to tell it that "hey, I'm doing something here, just not with a keyboard"?

[fude]

1. GZ2 is no longer in development. You could try Replaygain, it does just what you want for your files. In short, it measures the peak of the track and either decreases or increases the volume of it. Those who can use command line find it probably the easiest way to apply gain for the files, but for example Foobar has a simple option to use replaygain, I've been using that myself.

2. I have heard about this before and I think the only way is to simply turn off screen hibernation from Windows' power-saving options.