How to make Custom Music for Mario Kart Wii WITHOUT Brawlbox (Audacity, Looping Audio Converter)

This is a video that I have wanted to make for some time now, considering that Looping Audio Converter is a much better program to use when making BRSTMs compared to Brawl Box. Brawl Box is pretty outdated, and it's about time that people start using Looping Audio Converter instead.

0:00 - Intro
2:02 - Single Channel BRSTMs
17:31 - Multi Channel BRSTMs
23:22 - Useful Features of Looping Audio Converter
25:21 - Using BRSTMs in-game
30:11 - Outro

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[E.J.W]

I've been making BRSTMs for the game for many years and it's interesting seeing other people's methods of creating them. I've been doing it the old fashioned way but instead of using Audacity to find and cut the loop I use a browser application to find, edit, and test loops for songs.

In Audacity I always changed speed to 15.000 and then did a pitch shift of -10.000, which I think is somewhat close to the tempo and pitch of Mario Kart's final lap music.

A handy tip I learned with the loop editor is that the last 3 numbers of the loop start and loop end point are always the same for perfect loops. Once you're close to the loop point, start adjusting the fourth and/or fifth number till it sounds seamless.

[mumbles]

Super good video, you go in depth and explain how to use looping audio converter thoroughly. well done

[MKWNerd]

I found this tutorial like 6 months ago and it is the best by far, thank you so much! :)

[Bakizel]

Thanks so much for this video. For Koopa Cape I suggest making the fourth stream silent (channels 7 and 8) because the game plays Streams 1 and 2 together with 4 (Stream 4 is the "wub" synth) so having Stream 4 be a copy of Streams 1 and 2 makes it sound too loud in-game.

[mkwmag]

you’re the reason i figured out how to use brawl crate and create brstms lmao

[contra]

you are great for helping us with this video, thank you

[MKMikeOfficial]

Super helpful & quality vid brodie! New sub 💪

Quick question as well: In making a multi-channel BRSTM (currently doing Moonview Highway), when I export from audacity and then go to the Looping converter tool (ver 3.1), I follow all the steps you put down then open it in audacity and don’t have any layer options. Am I missing something?

[angusw]

I might give it a try someday. It seems pretty easy.

[RabbidTheNabbit]

Great video, but whenever i export the amplified wav file in audacity, it sounds quieter than the original file?

[dededead]

So whenever I export a file from looping audio converter, it just seems that it ignores the custom looping point I make and it shows in brawlcrate that the "is looped" option is off. Think you know what's happening?

[michaelschneider]

Very nice tutorial. But something strange happened I've never seen before. Not sure if it has to do with brstms or if I did something wrong. When i went to play an offline CTGP race, the only audio that was playing was the character voices, and the first 2 laps of music. Everything else is silent. Would you happen to know the reason for this?

[itzSamito]

Hayo, great tutorial. I've been following along but when i get to export the final lap in LoopAudioConverter I get a error code which saus (An error has occured. For more dettails, run from cmd.exe and write a log file: LoopingAudioConverter.exe 2 > log.txt ) i'm not really sure why i get this error

[Mxxntain.]

My brstm comes out as a single channel brstm, and not as a multichannel, and I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

[einBirnenbaum]

16:58 For me it says on the loading Bar and its stuck on it for ever = *name of the file*: Applying effects

[paradoxking]

might be a little late but what version of audacity did you use

[terncito]

Good tutorial! but only one question, how can i custom loop a strm song?

[Penguino_E_Table]

The "use advanced mixing options" setting isn't appearing for me in audacity. Are there any workarounds or alternatives?

[VistyMe]

When I try to do multi channel BRSTMs, they never loop at all, they just end. I made sure to copy and paste the files in Audacity too. How can I fix this? Also happy new year

[greenbean]

I'm following the instructions in the video but when I try to export the BRSTM i get the following error message:
Could not encode (RSTMExporter) - Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. The BRSTM doesn't save so I'm not really sure how to fix this issue

[dededead]

This guide worked when I madr a single channel brstm but when I try to make a multichannel brstm audacity says that my tracks will be mixed down and exported as one mono file. When I loaded it in brawlcrate it doesnt have any channels, know what im doing wrong?