Syncing Your Simfiles

Be it an official DDR, ITG or unofficial simfile for your own project.
What StepMania build do you use in syncing your simfiles?

I use the following:
StepMania 3.9+ Redux
StepMania 4 b6
StepMania 4 Alpha 5
StepMania 3.9 (original - what I mean the vanilla 3.9 ones)
StepMania 3.9a
StepMania 3.9 (AldoMX's build)
OpenITG (with ITG 2 and 3 theme installed)
Dance With Intensity

All of them have the GlobalOffset default to absolute 0 except for SM 3.9a.

OpenITG
I do not use the recording feature.

I always use Stepmania 3.9+Redux for Syncing simfiles

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StepMania 3.9 final

StepMania 3.9+ Redux
then I've become bad at syncing after too much IIDX

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Honestly, it shouldn't matter what build of Stepmania you use to sync your files. If you adjust the settings to match your hardware, then when you sync a file, it should play fine in any build.

ddreamstudio is my weapon of choice, since I can sync visually against the actual waveform (I have a horrible sense of offset). It also has a handy lowpass filter which makes basic syncing almost trivial - a beat at the beginning of the red here, count a few off, another beat at the beginning of the red there, autofill and tweak, et voilà.

I don't step anything in ddreamstudio though - oITG is the program I like for that.

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I'm expecting an awesome response from silenttype01 because I really like the simfiles that that person produces.

I use OpenITG and a decent ear, but I don't think that's really enough sometimes.

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No, a decent ear is not enough.

hahaha what.


I also use dreamstudio. Telperion has shown me his method of syncing with that program and I have found it to be a pretty good method. He uses a low wave filter, but I switch it up between low and high wave filters. It was the only way for me to sync e-motion's ogg file for an ITG machine.

Before dreamstudio, I used the inferior stepmania offset adjustment. I still use Mixmeister to find a bpm for songs that have a constant bpm.

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I've been also using that one too.

But anyways, does anyone know how to get the offset of a music (what I mean is when the first measure comes up, the music plays automatically?)

ddreamstudio? Looks like I'll have to look into that.