ParEdit Guide: Getting Started - CANA-Dan/ParEdit GitHub Wiki

Initial Startup

Go and download the editor from the git hub. The editor is prebuilt, so no need to worry about compiling it; you directly download the source zip.
Click Here to go to the latest stable release Release or,
Click Here to download the latest beta release of the editor. Once you've downloaded the .Zip/.7z file, move it to somewhere you wont forget and unzip it. If you can, its recommended to also install GitHub desktop (or any other git cloning software). This can allow you to get easier updates, without the need to download the entire install every time you wish to update.

Once you open the editor, the first thing you should see is a popup allowing you to choose a location. The location can be any folder as long as it only contains your custom songs and nothing else, or you can make this folder the official paradiddle song folder which would be located in ‘Documents/Paradiddle/Songs’.
If you are on quest, create folder (on your desktop, or documents or something) for levels to go into.

If your location is correct, any levels in your custom songs folder will appear in the scroll box to the left.
you can use the search bar at the top of the scroll box to search for levels, or create your own using the text box at the bottom.

When making the level, it is recommended to name it with both the artist and song name (for example Igorrr - Downgrade Desert), as this can allow for quicker searching of that level if you need to find it at a later date.
Alternatively you can star the level for it to appear at the top of the list next time you refresh.

Some settings that may be worth changing are Threading Count in Audio, and Spectrogram settings. Its generally a good idea to set this to 75% of your CPU threads (with atleast 1 thread open for the system and ParEdit itself). Note: audio threading count is 2x what it actually reads as. 8 means 16 threads are used.
I have 16 threads, so 12 and 6 is generally what I set these two too. If you have a GPU with 8 gigs of vram and 16 gigs of system memory, you can set the spectrogram bins and samples to 512 for each for the best visual quality, and set spectrogram mesh quality to high.

if you want more information on each setting, you can Click Here

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