Rock Band Network: Developer Quotes and Clarification

[Knucklesdude]

Hmm, I think it's a little peculiar there is only one genre for metal.

There will have to be very many metal bands squeezed into that metal title. An extreme metal genre would probably be nice.

[redlummada]

Still a pretty big bummer that I won't be able to be a part of this, just because I own the game for PS3. Even though I've spent well over $1500 on RB hardware, software and DLC, I still get crapped on for owning the PS3 version. I understand that there is some cooperation required from PS and Nintendo to make it happen on those systems but it's still a bummer. Oh well, not much I can do about it...keep hounding PS and Nintendo HMX.

[rockdude]

I have a question for Harmonix, will all the software needed to make a RBN song be available for free to the community? And how much different is the Reaper software from Pro Tools?

also the rhythm authors service looks really cool but are more details going to come out on how exactly we must have a song mixed right because i dont know how it should be done to meet requirements?

[Swivle]

Hmm, I think it's a little peculiar there is only one genre for metal.

There will have to be very many metal bands squeezed into that metal title. An extreme metal genre would probably be nice.

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Yes, there will be song info for RBN. In fact, we have more info for RBN songs than we do for DLC songs (we added an author field, a subgenre field, and a few more)

You can add subgenres.

[SenorLarry]

I have 2 questions:

1. Are songs required to be submitted, or can they be kept on one's own console? If they're not, then does the author of the non-submitted songs have to have the right to them to just play them on his own console?

2. By signing up for RBN when the Beta begins, are you given access to the authoring tools, or do you have to buy them in addition to the membership?

[HMXEnosity]

i know all the details will come out soon enough but i really want to get jump on figuring out how things work. My question is about how charting works, like what if i have a previously recorded song that my band record in ProTools 8 and some of the song tracks were recorded with virtual instruments and some were live instruments, how do i then chart this song in reaper? like what are the requirements for this master track to be charted?

You'll need wav files. Each instrument that you plan to chart must be isolated and saved as a wav file.

1. Are songs required to be submitted, or can they be kept on one's own console? If they're not, then does the author of the non-submitted songs have to have the right to them to just play them on his own console?

2. By signing up for RBN when the Beta begins, are you given access to the authoring tools, or do you have to buy them in addition to the membership?

1. You don't have to submit anything if you don't want to.

2. Magma will be made freely available. Information on Reaper can be found here: http://www.reaper.fm/

[BootsMegamix]

I like this idea, however my only concern is having seen the subpar quality that comes out of the custom GH/RB/FoF scene, I'm a little skeptical about how some of these charts will turn out.

[cherokeesam]

I like this idea, however my only concern is having seen the subpar quality that comes out of the custom GH/RB/FoF scene, I'm a little skeptical about how some of these charts will turn out.

No doubt there'll be some chartmeisters who are better at this than others; but it's not like there haven't been controversial charts even from the pros at HMX (and Neversoft, for that matter). Charting is guesswork, not an exact science; but maybe there'll be a rating system on RBN where players can let you know who the *good* charters are as opposed to those who consistently turn in shoddy work.

[BootsMegamix]

No doubt there'll be some chartmeisters who are better at this than others; but it's not like there haven't been controversial charts even from the pros at HMX (and Neversoft, for that matter). Charting is guesswork, not an exact science; but maybe there'll be a rating system on RBN where players can let you know who the *good* charters are as opposed to those who consistently turn in shoddy work.

Yeah, I agree with you on pretty much all points. When I used to make customs, some of the charts that I did really did boil down to guesswork. If you had a riff involving more than 5 notes, you had to improvise somewhere, which is an acquired skill more than anything as some people are better at it than others. I felt for the most part I was pretty good at it. Looking back at old charts, I see areas of opportunity for improvement, however I guess a perfect chart is rare.

It'll be very interesting to see where this goes. Hopefully a serious rating system will be in place, as that was one of the biggest frustrations I had was people going "OMG I LUV THIS SONG BEST CHART EVERRRRRRRR" and either the timing or the chart would be anywhere from half a second off sync to not even in the same ballpark as far as note placement.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really hoping this works and I hate to be a Negative Nancy but there's just too much that I can forsee going wrong with it. I'll have to wait a few months until it drops to see whether or not I'm right.

[Phydeaux]

You'll need wav files. Each instrument that you plan to chart must be isolated and saved as a wav file.





1. You don't have to submit anything if you don't want to.

2. Magma will be made freely available. Information on Reaper can be found here: http://www.reaper.fm/

I am considering my purchase of Reaper, but I do have a question. Reaper is available to work on both Windows and Mac, and while I prefer to work on the Mac side -will Magma be PC only? I presume if I'm having to use PC Magma I'll have to have done the work in PC Reaper.