20240719

• Support for encrypted Rock Band MOGG files
  • RB 1-4 (except TBRB)
  • MOGG files in songs can be decrypted by Quick Convert
• Export support to Rock Revolution DLC (360, RPCS3)
  • Supports guitar/bass/drums
  • Pro Drums can be converted to 6-pad or 4-pad modes
  • See README for instructions on how to load songs
• Fix regressions in PS3 output of RB Quick Convert
  • Song rating and song ID patches were not working since version 20230625
• Fix RB Quick Convert to encode all pack songs.dta files as Latin-1 for consistency
• Small timing fixes for several cases of reading/writing MP3 files
  • Affects GH3 + GH:WoR import/export, CH import, osu import
• Name/label improvements to reduce confusion for PS3 users converting Xbox 360 RB files
  • Text on launch console listing common functions for each button
  • Renamed Batch Process to Batch Recompile
  • When recompiling from RB to RB without changing speed, a popup warning will recommend using Quick Convert
• Note Shuffle (5-lane + drums) modifier in RB Quick Convert
• Improvements to RB2 export
  • Use Magma "MIDI export" mode in all cases, significantly faster
  • Onyx-generated lipsync, like RB3 export
  • Include some more RB3 features: freeform lanes, harmony vocal tracks, harmony lipsync files
• Import RB3 .milo_xbox format venue tracks
• Import venue and lipsync from RB4 format songs
• Include RB3 update MIDI files to apply when importing pre-RB3 songs
• Ability to convert 5-fret charts to drums (GRYBO -> KRYBG)
• Fix including empty metadata values when converting to .sng, which cause errors in CH
• Fix another type of MOGG encrypted by older C3 CON Tools to load correctly on PS3
• BPM display in 3D preview
• Updates to Elite Drums (formerly True Drums) MIDI format spec
• Import songs from:
  • Guitar Hero III leaked beta
  • Rock Band Wii .wad files
  • Rock Revolution PS3 .pkg files

Special thanks to Maxton for encrypted MOGG and Bink support.

20240202

• Add a tab under Quick Convert for conversion of CH files between folder and .sng, plus audio reencoding
• Fix an error in the format of generated Clone Hero .sng files
  • Created files happened to work in CH but would break Chorus Encore processing
  • Previously created files can be fixed by running through the above CH Quick Convert tab
• Fix a few audio processing bugs when importing from GH2 (360) and Neversoft GH
• Process Neversoft PS2 .HED files more correctly

20240120

• Support separate instrument audio for GH:WoR export
• Support drums using GH-style audio with separated toms and cymbals
  • Imported/exported for GH:WoR, Phase Shift, and DTX formats
• Fixed 5-lane drums being incorrectly condensed to 4-lane when exporting to games that support 5-lane (GH:WoR, CH)
• Import songs from the following game discs:
  • Guitar Hero II (360)
  • Guitar Hero World Tour (360, PS2) + 360 DLC
  • Guitar Hero Smash Hits (360, PS2)
  • Guitar Hero: Metallica (360, PS2)
  • Guitar Hero: Van Halen (360, PS2)
  • Guitar Hero 5 (360)
  • Band Hero (360)
  • Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (360)
• Improve Quick Convert to work better with PS3 files encrypted with the Still Alive ("HMX0756") key
• Fix bug introduced in 20240101 where compile would fail on encrypted MOGG files instead of passing them through unmodified

20240101

• Export support for Clone Hero .sng files
• Option to use Opus audio in Clone Hero output
• Import support for Guitar Hero III PC .sgh files
• Add import/export of loading_phrase for Rock Band songs, supported by RB3 Deluxe
• Support 5-lane drums in 3D preview
• Import album art from Guitar Hero II Deluxe format
• Add Battle Mode powerups to Guitar Hero III songs in the same locations as Star Power
• Fix some rare issues with parsing song.ini files
• Improved some cases of text reduction to Latin-1 characters for RB and other games
• Upgraded GUI toolkit, hopefully fix drag and drop on Linux when running in Wayland (#251)

20230917

• When converting 5-lane Drums to 4-lane, correct Pro Drums tom markers are now added (#241)
  • Difficulties below Expert may not always be correct, due to tom markers applying on all difficulties
• Option to always mix down stems when exporting to Clone Hero format
• Upgraded compiler on Linux to work around a crash on certain kernel versions (#249)
• Fix Clone Hero import to not switch drum lanes over "gravity blasts" and similar patterns from one-pad to two-pad
• Fix an incorrect case-sensitive file search in Quick Convert
• Fix port-gh-ps3 command to preserve FSB files that already contain MP3 audio
• Try to fix 3D Preview shader compilation on some Chromebooks that default to OpenGL ES
• Set version to 30 in all RB3 compile output for better RB3DX compatibility
• Automatically fix some MOGG files encrypted by older C3 CON Tools versions which fail to load on PS3
  • Applied during standard compile and Quick Convert

20230625

• Smoother 3D preview framerate + adjustable FPS in preferences
• Fix a crash when starting a conversion while 3D preview is running
• Fix occasional crashes/freezes when using the folder select dialog on Windows
• Fix import of RB songs that use DTA preprocessing commands such as RB3 Deluxe custom sources

2023-08-29: Updated Linux build a second time to hopefully fix crashes on some kernel versions (#249)

20230425

• Add a function to convert all .chart files in a folder to MIDI
• Use in-order MIDI format for 5-lane drums when exporting to CH format for better compatibility

20230423

• Fix songs using Xbox 360 XMA audio to not produce audio files twice as long as they should be when converting to Clone Hero format
• Fix CH song.ini to have diff_vocals_harm set to -1 if there are vocals but no harmonies
• Fixes to importing DTX files
  • Adjust tempos to match a DTXMania quirk in songs with many tempo changes
  • Better drum lane polyphony that more closely matches DTXMania behavior and spec (#142)
• First test of a work-in-progress MIDI spec for DTXMania-like drums, subject to change
  • New MIDI track is included with CH format export when present
  • Note names and color map are included in generated Reaper projects
  • "True Drums" imported from: Clone Hero (new track format as above), DTXMania, Rock Revolution (7-lane format), Guitar Hero III (drummer animations)

20230402

• Fix an error when converting StepMania to Rock Band due to difficulty tier
• Import lyrics from Rocksmith files as an unpitched vocal track
• Basic support of Unicode lyrics/sections (#200)
  • Imported MIDI files can have text events in either Latin-1 or UTF-8
  • Exported MIDI files use Latin-1 for Harmonix games, UTF-8 for Clone Hero

20230331

• Fix GH:WoR song cache creator overwriting the setlist order of Smash Hits and Van Halen exports (#235), thanks to AddyMills
• Fix audio and chart becoming desynced when converting some songs with XMA audio (360 Rock Revolution, Neversoft GH, Power Gig) to Rock Band (#234)
• Fix PS3 .pkg files sometimes breaking game updates by overwriting existing game version info and banner images
  • Existing RB packages with the issue can be fixed by running through Quick Convert
• Add preliminary support for importing from Clone Hero .sng format
• Several new game formats supported for import
  • Rocksmith 2014 (any platform .psarc)
    • Converts to RB Pro Guitar, autocharts to 5-fret
  • BMS (.bms, .bme, .bml, .pms)
    • Converts to 5-fret, drums, or Pro Keys
  • osu! (.osz)
    • Import osu!mania charts, converts to 5-fret, drums, or Pro Keys
    • Import osu!taiko charts, converts to 4-lane drums with audio samples
  • StepMania (.sm, .dwi)
    • Converts to Phase Shift dance format, or translates to 5-fret or drums
    • Supports stops/freezes (translates to extra MIDI time), but not yet warps

Special thanks to EFHIII's .midi to Clone Hero converter for the logic used in several new conversion steps.

• Pro Guitar/Rocksmith and Pro Keys perform pitch-based conversion to 5-fret
• Also used for lane reduction such as higher-key BMS and osu!mania to 5-fret