3 singers online?

[Aldex]

Dueling is easy. Harmonizing is impossible, because all 3 players can sing all 3 lines. That means that each system would have to keep track of all 3 singer's progress in the phrase INSTANTANEOUSLY and be able to switch back and forth seamlessly. Even standard network latency times would prevent that from working. The only way 3 singers online could have worked is if they made it so singers had set roles, and could only sing their own assigned part.

Yes, locking into a set role (lead melody, first harmony, second harmony) is what I was envisioning. And it's an acceptable tradeoff to me to get online play. After all, guitarists have to lock into bass or guitar at the start of the song and can't change midstream.

[striderblack]

So doing a 3 part harmony could happen online if the three that were singin were all on the same console and the other player was online playing an instrument only.

Yes - but don't be confused - vocals still only counts as one instrument where you can have 1-3 people singing. So technically you can have 3 people in a room playing vocals online with 3 other people playing their respective instruments in different locations. That's the only way to replicate the full 6-person setup.

[BustaUppa]

Yes, locking into a set role (lead melody, first harmony, second harmony) is what I was envisioning. And it's an acceptable tradeoff to me to get online play. After all, guitarists have to lock into bass or guitar at the start of the song and can't change midstream.

After a song you can press a button (back/select I think) to get a detailed vocal breakdown, and for each mic it actually shows how much of each vocal track was sung. So you can try to stick with a single vocal role, then check the detailed vocal breakdown after the song to see how well you did! This is almost like the "locking into a set role" that you spoke of (you just have to use the honor system and it won't affect scoring), unless I misunderstood what you meant!

[Aldex]

After a song you can press a button (back/select I think) to get a detailed vocal breakdown, and for each mic it actually shows how much of each vocal track was sung. So you can try to stick with a single vocal role, then check the detailed vocal breakdown after the song to see how well you did! This is almost like the "locking into a set role" that you spoke of (you just have to use the honor system and it won't affect scoring), unless I misunderstood what you meant!

Yep, I've used that feature; it would be more interesting if, again, three people were cooperating. My rambling is just an uninformed brainstorm on how we might be able to get online harmony by using the dueling system...by adding another voice and controller. Ultimately, only a HMX developer knows whether this can be done or not.