Groove Radar Values Defined

H3llzAngel · 08-18-2006, 09:55 PM

ok obviously freeze is freeze arrows but me and my friend are arguing over what voltage stream chaos and air means

i say stream is just all 4th, 8th, 16th, and so on in a row with no jumps or anything in them.... dont fea like typing the rest

what i realy want to ask is if someone could just state the deffinitions of all of them, please

TIA

Reenee- edited thread title

sylcmyk+ · 08-18-2006, 10:20 PM

Chaos - Irregularity of steps (anything greater than a 8th)

Air - Number of jumps in a song (also known as how much times your balls and tits jumps up and down during a song. lol at jumping dongs)

Stream - Overall density of steps (i guess you can call that running?

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Voltage - Peak density of steps (just look at those pretty 10 feet)

Victamone · 08-18-2006, 10:25 PM

lol. I was wondering that myself for like 2 years. Eventually me and my friends just used ghetto slang terms like "hard ass part" or "gay part". But now I can be like "Yeah that song has alot of gay CHAOS". Thanks paranoivm.

edit: Fixed a part for Paranoivm

sylcmyk+ · 08-18-2006, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Victamone

But now I can be like "YEAH THAT VOLTAGE PART IS HARD"

Saying such in my area can get you in mucho trouble amigo

Tee! · 08-18-2006, 11:41 PM

I don't even look at that, lol, Does anyone use that?

Victamone · 08-19-2006, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Tee!

I don't even look at that, lol, Does anyone use that?

Not really. Even though now i know what they mean.. I doubt I'll actually use them.

Tee! · 08-19-2006, 12:03 AM

lol I like how In The Groove tells you exactly what's in the song. Now THATS useful.

H3llzAngel · 08-19-2006, 10:00 AM

Im still....kinda confused with Stream/Voltage
Isnt Voltage where its all the same type of note but on a long string?

Dont flame me...I had to ask one day...

天の龍 · 08-19-2006, 12:52 PM

Stream is the overall density of steps, while Voltage is the peak density.

Let's put it this way - stream is the measure of how few "breaks" there are in the noteset, while voltage is a measure of how insane the steps actually get.

This is an example: Healing Vision: AM has high stream, but low voltage, because there are notes all over the place, but thy're mostly 8th notes - so theres no bad density in the song.

So Deep has high stream AND voltage because there isn't a gap in the note string AND the notes, especially at the end - get pretty cramped. The same applies for bag - constant notes that are all squished (alot of 16th and 32nd notes).

All in all - higher stream means more movement, voltage equals really high movement at some point.

「dj.TK」 · 08-20-2006, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by H3llzAngel

Im still....kinda confused with Stream/Voltage
Isnt Voltage where its all the same type of note but on a long string?

Dont flame me...I had to ask one day...

Stream is song steps & jumps / length of song (time) eg lovin you and love this fellin have low stream, which most of the harder songs such as CSFILSM and most of the 10's have a high reading.

Voltage is the peak amaount of steps at any one point (lots of arrows in a short amount of time). Songs like The centre of the heart which has one spammy bit in comparsion with the rest of the song results in a high voltage reading. Bag doesnt have a high voltage 青龍☆, its all pretty set out, the only high-voltage part is about 80 steps in.

The only fault I can see in this system is the voltage reading is a bit wrong with songs with variable BPM changes. Sakura registers a huge voltage reading, but this is because it has a lot of dense arrows in the slow bit. You dont hit them any faster than arrows in the fast stream, but because theres a lot of arrows bunched tightly in comparision with the rest of the song its gives a large reading, same deal with healing Vision also.

Starmony · 08-20-2006, 05:47 AM

no i dont think that the whole Sakura thing would be a fault, although its the same speed, the arrows are alot more condenced causing it to be harder to read so it should be more voltage.

「dj.TK」 · 08-20-2006, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Neighbor Totoro

the arrows are alot more condenced causing it to be harder to read so it should be more voltage.

But you arnt hitting them any faster than anywhere else in the song, thats my point. As for difficulity reading it, thats just personal preference. Voltage is hitting lots of crap in a short space of time, you dont in sakura tho, thus my note aout the variable BPM voltage readings.

DirtyNeedles · 08-20-2006, 12:34 PM

oh, so that's what voltage means.

i've wondered that forever.
screw air. </3 400bpmjumpstreams

JasonMath · 08-21-2006, 02:40 AM

I knew what air, freeze, and chaos were, but I didn't know about the difference better stream and voltage either! That makes sense, since there are so many steps grouped together in high-stream songs (which usually makes them quite tiring).

JasonMath

moop · 08-21-2006, 09:53 AM

http://www.ddrfreak.com/library/dictionary.php

i hope that clears things up for you guys..