Since Paranoid cannot be exported from RB1, I got a CON with the song for use in RB3. Also, as you may or may not know, the RB3 disc contains upgrades for several (600+) pre-RB3 songs. Incidentally, despite being a non-exportable song, RB3 does contain an upgrade for Paranoid; however, since my CON package has a different id/short name, it doesn’t see the upgrade (which, as a side effect, allows me to change the album/art).

 

My question is: is there a way to integrate the upgrade into the CON, or trick it into reading the upgrade (hopefully only the mid and not the dta, I want my album art ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_cheeky.001.gif”>) from the disc? I tried merging the midis in Reaper, but that caused the game to crash on loading the song.

Should just be able to replace the tracks, e.g. delete the original drum track and replace it with the upgraded one. Two of the same track will cause the game to crash on load.

You can do it upgrade style.

The ‘length’ of the .mid track doesn’t really matter for RB as it’s checking the length of the audio file and event positions to manage things, so, that is fine.