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I will be setting up my end-of-days releases soon myself. I’ve had to take a break from customs for a period of time due to some IRL things happening (mostly good things, but very time consuming), but I’m coming back in full force to help finish with a bang.

 

I’ll post here later with what song I’ll contribute to Week 2, and whatever other week I can contribute to from now until October.

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This might be a long one, I go into a bit of detail here.

 

I was in high school, senior year. I worked as a cashier at Target in the next town and saw people buying the GH1 and GH2 bundles. I didn’t know what that was all about, nor did I really have time to look it up. One day someone brought GH2 to an Anime Club meeting, and I got to see it in action. Looked awesome, so I lined up to try. Decided to try Them Bones, a song I was really into at the time, on Medium. I figured, I can do better than the easiest difficulty in any other game I play, why not this one? I failed. Miserably. Next time I had a turn, I picked Trogdor on Easy. Nailed it. Saved some cash, used my employee discount and bought GH2 soon after.

 

Picked up GH3 next once I was in college. I saw Through The Fire and Flames and how balls-hard it was, and thought it’d make a good training regimen. Eventually I got into the habit of throwing TTFAF on Expert in Practice Mode (while I was still a Medium-Hard player) and playing through it in its entirety once per day. I’ve only ever passed it once, and nailed that intro once, but I learned so much more that I think that was the thing that pushed me to Expert difficulty.

 

Halfway through all that, I’m walking to one of my classes and I see a Rock Band trailer directly across from the KUC (bookstore/restaurant building) and the game looks like Guitar Hero but with more stuff to do. Inside the trailer are four setups, all Xbox 360, running a demo of RB1. There was also a stage facing the KUC building. Anyone could line up and play the units inside the trailer, but you had to sign up as a full band to play on stage, and only from a small selection of demo songs. I went up there twice, once as drummer and once as vocalist. There used to be a section on the RB website that showcased these videos, but not anymore. Anyway, I spent a LOT of time at that trailer during the week it was there, and found myself wanting the game. One of my roommates (I roomed with three other people in an on-campus apartment my freshman year) eventually bought the game, and I played on his version both solo and full-band. Got it for Christmas that year, and the rest is a long and continuing history involving lots of playtime, RBN, personal career choices, tons of money spent on DLC, and customs.

[Arcanon]

There is an instrumental/vocals split track for this available, I think, which I like. This interests me, I rather enjoyed the song and found it quite catchy. Gotta see if I have time to fit this into my schedule.

[Arcanon]

For week 1, I have a ton of conversion ideas, but I’ll most likely do Tonic’s “If You Could Only See” and then also do the fix-up of L’Via L’Viaquez (mainly lyric and guitar fixes) I’ve been putting off forever. I may contribute more depending on time and whether or not my other “conversion wishlist” songs are taken or not. I don’t care who does them as long as they’re done, so I’ll just pick from the leftovers.

 

I can definitely contribute to Weeks 2 and 3 as well, that just depends on what I’ll have left at the time. My focus until the end will be my Parental Advisory pack, RBN rescues, collabs and a couple other packs/songs I really want to get out through C3, so my more “mainstream” stuff will probably be saved for these weeks.

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Awesome! Can´t wait to see what song it is ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> tell me please when u are done!

 

It will be a C3 release (hence my vagueness) so keep your eyes open, it’ll pop up at some point!

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While I am not working on these songs, I will say that as a Latino and vocalist I also want to see more Spanish-language tracks. I’m trying to secure three songs from an AORB artist that would be very fun to play, hopefully I can have them done soon.

 

I’m also working on a song by an artist from your second list, but it’s not the song you requested. It is gonna be a good one though.

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Greetings from MTAC! I had the pleasure of announcing to a packed room that this LK pack was a thing, and plugged C3. The room exploded when I announced King of Rhymes. I did make sure to explain what C3/customs are so they didn’t confuse it with official DLC. Didn’t get to play video though, there was no computer in the room.

 

I caught up with LK after the panel and he was kind enough to record this:

[Arcanon]

Is it acceptable to split drums into a separate drum stem for this part only? Thoughts?

 

I don’t see a problem. I don’t also see much value in that but it’s your call. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

 

It was more to fulfill a request from Blake than a personal preference. I went ahead and made the quick change.

 

Thanks!

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Whatever I don’t address below, I applied. Thanks for taking a look!

 

I have a long gestating “Telephone” chart on me. I’m just too damn lazy to finish up the vocals. I’ll probably rip this thing off if these are the same stems.

 

I think that the instrumental part was re-created by someone. I don’t know who made them, or if these were obtained somewhere, where they came from. But going by some differing patterns (chorus keys being a big one), I’m pretty sure these aren’t the original “Telephone” stems. But hey, if anything here can save you time on your chart, lift whatever you need.

 

Drums

[*]My chart never dealt with that triplet roll pattern throughout, save for at the very beginning. And then, I thought they were hats. I stuck with leaving them out to make the chart a bit more approachable, though I’ll leave this one to you.

 

I’m fine with these as they are. I can’t really explain why, but they feel right to keep.

 

Guitar

• I tried mixing my stems up so the guitar isn’t playing that same pattern over and over. It mixes in those plucking bits every now and again, going back to the harp at the “eh-eh-eh” spots and the outro.

 

I didn’t have too many stems to work with. A lot of the keys stuff was mixed together, and what was left over wasn’t too interesting. I’m fine with how the guitar turned out.

 

Bass

[*]Not sure what to think with the chords in this chart. Probably because mine didn’t have any. I just switched between the more bassy sounding one and that “werbbley” sounding one, not really knowing where I stood on that line. I’ll just say you took the more creative approach and rip that off.

 

I’m not sure what the studio stems sound like, but mine had enough of a combination of sounds that I felt each needed its own gem to stay sonically consistent.

 

HARM1 (apply to solo where applicable)

[*]M69.1.12″summon all your” all sound like D#.

 

There’s some weird variation here. I changed some stuff, but not all of it.

 

HARM3

• [*]M14.3.62: I’d argue that “I’m handsome” is actually pitched. And in the right spot, too.

 

There’s super slight variation, but more for the fun factor/intent of the line I’d like to keep this part unpitched.

 

[*]M89.1.06: Oddly enough, this “Schoo-” doesn’t really exist. You can probably take that spot from the first time and mix it in.

 

It was actually the M37 “Schoo-” that didn’t exist. M89 had it loud and clear in the stems. Mixed things around to fix this.

 

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Updated and finalized. Mostly. I’m giving up on the custom venue for the moment, I’ll add one at a later date. For now I just took the autogen, and tweaked the chorus parts for preview video purposes (I’m making a teaser video for LK’s appearance at MTAC this weekend that we may or may not be able to show there). (Never mind all that, the autogen was so good I just tweaked that and got a finalized venue out of it. Yay!) Other than that, Ryan’s fixes are applied, and the charts are done and set to ship. OP will update when I’ve uploaded the new version in a few. New version uploaded!

[Arcanon]

Drums are finished now, gonna go with what I have unless someone sees anything off.

 

I hate myself for not having enough time left tonight to finish reducing the bass for the Yami section and then add Overdrive. Luckily I get off work early tomorrow so I can get all that done fast for the preview video. Then I can finish this song off, and add custom venues for the whole pack. Shouldn’t take me long to do.

[Arcanon]

My understanding is that it doesn’t really matter where they fall on the scale. In-game talkies all look the same regardless of their placement.

 

This is correct. Spoken/growled parts are authored as talkies/non-pitched notes, and the actual note in the MIDI doesn’t matter as long as you properly mark the note as a talkie like Lyra described above.

 

That said, in a song with mixed talkie/sung parts, I would pick a note you already used for a sung part to author your talkies in. I don’t think it affects the displayed range, but it makes the job easier (for me at least) and it’s good to err on the side of caution.

[Arcanon]

My opinion of it is, I understand the reasoning for this as it mirrors what I’ve always thought of customs. As great as it is to have UGC creators doing their thing, whenever possible, the official releases should always be supported first and foremost. It’s the reason why I never even touched customs until RBN stopped completely.

 

Here’s my thoughts on the matter though. Despite the mainstream songs I worked on/am working on here, I’m seeing C3 as a place where I can release songs that don’t have a chance of making it on Rock Band in any conceivable way. For example, a Journey six-pack, while unlikely to be an RB release anytime soon, is still in the realm of possibility for the series. The Parental Advisory and LittleKuriboh packs I’m working on, on the other hand, don’t have a chance in hell of ever being RB official releases for obvious reasons, even if RBN became a thing again. C3 is pretty much the only organized-release place where these customs can be distributed. If RBN ever came back, I planned on taking as many of my songs as I legally could off here to gun for official release once again, but the PC/LK/etc songs would always be here, and I’d still be making and releasing similar songs here on the side. C3 fills that niche for me of being a source of songs I normally wouldn’t see on Rock Band, and even taking away the mainstream stuff I feel it would still serve that purpose.

 

Because of that, as long as C3 provides a platform for releasing these kinds of songs, I will continue to author and release customs while I enjoy RB4 and everything it has to offer. I feel like C3 would still have a place in the Rock Band community long after RB4 and its DLC launches, at least as long as Harmonix doesn’t see fit to pull the plug on us.

[Arcanon]

I will continue to not understand the appeal of screamo, and an album cover featuring three (four?) very punchable faces isn’t helping. To each his own though.

 

I know they use the term “screamo” in their video titles and “album” titles, but it’s really more metalcore than anything. For the most part their stuff is in the same vein as Punk Goes Pop stuff, only with a tad bit more screaming.

 

Also, if it helps you want to punch them less, they’re all pretty chill dudes. They love the songs they cover, they love what they do, and they are happy to give me multitracks to make these customs. I’m definitely gonna do more of their stuff for sure.

 

There will be no cat punching!!!

 

“Cat Punching” is the name of my Pussy Riot cover band.

 

I’m not sorry.

[Arcanon]

Just noticed this. I don’t know what your latest build looks like in-game (at work, can’t check), but your Visualizer says “Pop Goes Punk” instead of the other way around. May need fixin’.

[Arcanon]

Venue’s done and I fixed a small drums issue. I think we’re all set to go here!

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