News and announcements from That Authoring Group

[Coach Z]

<-- Mac user. Can't run Pro Drum preview window either.

Isn't there somebody in TAG who *can* run it? It's a must.

[Coach Z]

I, for the life of me, cannot get that thing to run.

Can you get the test.pl working? So you get a popup in REAPER that says "API test" and "Test OK"?

If not, send me a PM and let's work through it - I had the same problem until I finally tackled it a few weeks ago and beat it down.

[Happy Dragon]

Just wondering if there's any information that can be shared on the Order of Voices song that was announced earlier in the year.

Thanks.

[lvmathemagician]

Devin doesn't have a divine right to do whatever he wants with the game just because he made a concept album. I love his music and his sense of humour, and I think the extra voiceovers he did for the game are great and I agree with not having them charted on vocals. I also like the idea of causing the venues to go crazy to enforce the concept of the album, but there has to be a line somewhere. For me, and it seems like others agree, charting vocals where none exist is definitely beyond that line.

Art must follow the rules. If art doesn't follow the rules, it must be punished!

[Oscarvarium]

Art must follow the rules. If art doesn't follow the rules, it must be punished!

People are misguided or misinformed to think that people are against the idea of the ghost vocals because of blindly following the rules. I love the results of twisting the rules on songs like Footloose and Fancy Free, Bang-on-a-can and Rockapella, and as I mentioned in the very post you quoted I'm fine with most of the odd things Ziltoid does, but I see the ghost vocals as being annoying and unenjoyable.

If this kind of thing isn't up for debate during the PT/PR process then what's the alternative? Perhaps everyone should be able to do whatever they want with RBN tracks, even if it makes the song annoying and frustrating to play?

[LuigiHann]

I haven't played the tracks in question, but I feel like there must be a happy medium. ZTO did a pretty decent job of only charting ghost vocals where they corresponded with something, and I feel like as long as they stay true to that then it should be okay. All this I'm hearing about Boner and Penis do sound a bit more worrying

[FairwoodStudios]

I haven't played the tracks in question, but I feel like there must be a happy medium. ZTO did a pretty decent job of only charting ghost vocals where they corresponded with something, and I feel like as long as they stay true to that then it should be okay. All this I'm hearing about Boner and Penis do sound a bit more worrying

That is the happy medium. The ghost vocals on ZTO are less "something fabricated from nothing" and more "misrepresenting what's there on purpose". In context of the concept, folks have been pretty okay with that. There are a few pushing that a little further (and as much as it fits the style of humor, the "boner" thing is kinda too far IMO) but the project's avoided the biggest excesses and dangers of the concept. Still, walking a line ain't easy.

[ForToday777]

"Turning Sheep Into Goats/Systematomatic" by Rishloo was released this week and is now available in the Rock Band store on Xbox 360 for $1 (80mps)

[Pankrazzo]

Why aren't the harmonies charted in "Turning Sheep Into Goats/Systematomatic", is this 2010 or what? :P

[SeymourDuncan17]

Why aren't the harmonies charted in "Turning Sheep Into Goats/Systematomatic", is this 2010 or what? :P

There are uncharted everywhere on RBN 2.0!

I guess they thought they didn't warrant the effort.