May 3, 2012 – Queensrÿche’s “Promised Land” and GnR 4-pack
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Thank you so much Farottone. I’m going to really enjoy playing these new songs. Just started playing some of your Rush albums on Pro Drums and am having a blast. Keep up the gods work!
I noticed on xbox360iso site there is a version of Welcome to the Jungle in Farattone’s thread. Is that version different than the GHtoRB version? Thanks
I noticed on xbox360iso site there is a version of Welcome to the Jungle in Farattone’s thread. Is that version different than the GHtoRB version? Thanks
At the time, me and the GHtoRB3 guys did the same song without knowing the other party was doing it. But now it doesn’t make sense to re-release mine when there’s already a version out.
Am I correct in understanding that “Community Spotlight” simply draws attention to songs from the spreadsheet, and the announced songs haven’t actually been changed? I jumped on this week’s CS tracks back when they first went up, but I’ll re-download if anything has been updated.
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While we are kind of on the topic of the Community Spotlight, I did have one request/suggestion. When I was trying to find the info on those custom community songs (meaning what instruments and difficulties were charted and how difficult the song was) I had to go to a few different places to find that. If you guys made one of those awesome little card things for each Community Spotlight song you feature like you do for your releases that would give all the info anyone needed at a glance right there in your post. Since that definitely is one of the factors for me personally whether I get a song or not, it’s incredibly useful. The spreadsheet doesn’t show how hard each song is (the YouTube videos happened to have that info but will they always?) and YouTube may not always show the whether its full band and/or all difficulties or not. Even though I have been through that RB Customs spreadsheet many times and gotten what I think I will like, I am definitely interested in what you guys consider a “good” custom and will check out your recommendations. Thanks!
It’s certainly something we could look into. Essentially, for something to be featured as a Community Spotlight feature, it needs to show a reasonably high level of quality for what it contains. If it’s complete, these means it has most of the bells and whistles you should expect from one of our releases; if it’s not (e.g. x-only, guitar/bass only but all difficulties), what is there needs to be pretty polished and it needs to be the type of stuff that is notable in its content or in its potential to be updated and released as a full band custom (by someone, be it the original author or someone else).
It can be flawed, but it should still be notable. If we were doing reviews, it’s something we would consider at least a 7.
at least part of that is going to be worked on soon
unfortunately, I don’t see any way of detecting what difficulties a song has charted beyond opening it in reaper and comparing the charts. even a midi parser would see that EMHX have charts, but do we really want to start comparing note by note to provide the final result = “this is an x-only song”? I at least don’t see the use in that.
but seeing what instruments are charted and the chart difficulty tiers…i do…so I may be planning to do something about that.
unfortunately, I don’t see any way of detecting what difficulties a song has charted beyond opening it in reaper and comparing the charts. even a midi parser would see that EMHX have charts, but do we really want to start comparing note by note to provide the final result = “this is an x-only song”? I at least don’t see the use in that.
You know what? It’s a matter of counting the number of Note events between notes 96 and 100 and comparing to the total count of the 3 lower ranges. If there’s a MIDI parser than can give you the notes count, it’s actually very easy to do that, come to think of it. If total count is bigger than, say, 10 (because some charter just place some notes on the chart to satisfy Magma) and it’s lower than the prevoius difficulty level (starting from Expert), the difficulty is authored.
at least part of that is going to be worked on soon
unfortunately, I don’t see any way of detecting what difficulties a song has charted beyond opening it in reaper and comparing the charts. even a midi parser would see that EMHX have charts, but do we really want to start comparing note by note to provide the final result = “this is an x-only song”? I at least don’t see the use in that.
but seeing what instruments are charted and the chart difficulty tiers…i do…so I may be planning to do something about that.
I see. I guess I didn’t even realize how much work it would take to verify all of the info that goes on that card when you aren’t the one who charted the song. Also, I wasn’t sure how much you guys looked into the custom songs that are picked as Community Spotlight songs before espher clarified it (like if you literally checked if there were multiple difficulties/instruments charted or if you just trusted the info on the spreadsheet which is fine as I think one of you said at one point it was maintained by one of you or someone you know). Again, that was just a suggestion, as I can definitely find all that info through the sources available so this isn’t something 100% necessary as the info is out there. I was just being lazy I guess haha. Thanks for the clarification.
unfortunately, I don’t see any way of detecting what difficulties a song has charted beyond opening it in reaper and comparing the charts. even a midi parser would see that EMHX have charts, but do we really want to start comparing note by note to provide the final result = “this is an x-only song”? I at least don’t see the use in that.
You know what? It’s a matter of counting the number of Note events between notes 96 and 100 and comparing to the total count of the 3 lower ranges. If there’s a MIDI parser than can give you the notes count, it’s actually very easy to do that, come to think of it. If total count is bigger than, say, 10 (because some charter just place some notes on the chart to satisfy Magma) and it’s lower than the prevoius difficulty level (starting from Expert), the difficulty is authored.
that’s going to give a lot of false negatives. if a song is very easy, expert and hard charts might be the same. that’d result as being x-only by that analysis. same thing the other way, an author may have made very minor changes but the charts may be x-only really and it might come back as being emhx.
i’m not saying its doable, I just don’t think the amount of work that would need to go into it would be worth it.
but if you can show me otherwise, i’m down to collaborate on some coding.
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