I wrote a blog about why you shouldn't worry...

[CoWmAn]

about the vocal part of Rock Band. I'm sure it's filled with mis-information, but It was a blind guess, and hopefully will help people realize that Harmonix actually *knows* how to do Vocals in a video game.
http://www.rockbandgame.com/index.php?do=/public/blog/view/id_47/
 
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[BlingShyne2]

<P>about the vocal part of Rock Band. I'm sure it's filled with mis-information, but It was a blind guess, and hopefully will help people realize that Harmonix actually *knows* how to do Vocals in a video game.</P>
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<P>Dude, My girlfriend plays the American Idol version of Kaoreoke Revolution and thats all it does, is detect pitch.</P>
<P>My girlfriend can sing pretty damn good, but if she follows the pitch notes in the game she sounds stupid. and if she sings it her way then she gets a ???ty score but it sounds better.</P>
<P>I personally don't like the way the these games do vocals, as long as you can hold a note you win, and it sounds like ??? and it makes playing this game at a party pretty weak.</P>
<P>I'm personally not to thrilled about the vocal aspect of Rock Band, because there are alot of songs out there that are awesome but the singer can't sing worth a ???.</P>
<P>Like Institutionalized.&nbsp;Suicidal Tendancies blew up California, made there own style, and there ???ing punk gods, but we all know Mike muir can't sing worth a ???.</P>
<P>Minor Threat, RATM, and ???ing Dead Kennedys? I don't think any of those ground breaking bands could hold a note if they tried.</P>
<P>Have you ever heard the original Freya? The lead singers voice cracks like&nbsp;a 12 year old boy. But check my myspace: <A href="http://www.myspace.com/blingshyne2">http://www.myspace.com/blingshyne2</A></P>
<P>So what are we looking at? White snake? Poison? Panic&nbsp;at the&nbsp;dick hole? Jewel!?</P>
<P>I always put my faith in harmonix and I'm sure they'll pull this off, but right now I don't see how. Unless you don't get points for singing.</P>

[CoWmAn]

<P>Harmonix didn't make Karaoke Revolution: American Idol, so that's probobly why she doesn't sound good. </P>
<P>Also it doesn't matter if your girlfriend sounds good or not, if she can't do the song in the right pitch and still sound good then she's not a good singer.</P>

[tbradshaw]

<p>I dunno, I think there's a little bit more to what BlingShyne2 says than you're giving him credit for.&nbsp; There are a lot of songs where the tone and inflection are more important than the pitch.</p><p>While I deny it to most of my fellow computer nerds, I did a little time in junior college on a vocal music scholarship and when the discussion regarding popular music singing came up the message was clear: it's not about quality, it's about distinction.&nbsp; Unique and/or interesting voices can be just as appealing as "proper" vocal work and often make things more successful.</p><p>I just recently played Karaoke Revolution for the first time, we picked up the XBox version at a local EBGames after finding out about Rock Band.&nbsp; The best example of this phenomena that I can think of is when I first tried a shot at "Brick House."</p><p>I'm decent at singing, but I'm typically not that great at karaoke just as a simple matter of range.&nbsp; Eh, I'm a tall goofy bass.&nbsp; So I'm playing "Brick House", having a good time, and--of course--I'm doing big gravely scoops on "house".&nbsp; It sounded great, the crowd loved it, but it scored poorly.</p><p>I don't have any idea how to improve this, but I could foresee having a mode where it's true "karaoke" (unscored) for the vocals while the rest of the band jams in traditional fashion.&nbsp; At least then my musician friends that sing in local bands and already have their own distinctive vocalization styles will be able to front for my poser Rock Bang group.<br></p>