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Yes, temporarily offline, we’ll be putting it back up shortly.

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You don’t download official DLC from our database, please read the rules if you don’t want to be banned.

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No discussion of piracy, as per rules.

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Well I am not 100% sure that my own method for charting tempo mapping is fine (at least to me the results seem ok) but the way I see it the tempo map has nothing to do with which instruments you want to chart. I make the tempo map before anything else. I put typically one marker per measure (bar), on the first beat. I look at the audio wave in Reaper to see where the peaks are, and while those peaks are typically caused by the drums being hit, you would need to look at those peaks even if you were not charting drums at all, because ALL instruments are being played at the same tempo.

 

Just to underscore the good point made, you don’t have to author drums to use drums for tempo mapping purposes. In fact, you should always use them, even if you’re not authoring them.

 

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Oh… so if we author a heavy metal song, it’s more important to provide a version playable with a single kickdrum pedal than a more faithful one with all kickdrum notes?

It’s not “more important”, it’s the standard. Rock Band 3 is played on a single pedal kit, so all official songs and therefore all authoring rules have and refer to single pedal versions. So your base/standard version needs to be playable on the stock kit, no matter what. It doesn’t automatically mean you have to reduce double pedal: there are songs not that fast that are played on a double pedal kit and in game have been authored with all notes (Disturbed had a few of those).

 

Now, the proper way to do this is also provide a 2x version, mainly because you’re probably gonna author it anyway and then reduce if needed, and Magma automatically creates the 2 needed files. But you should never include a 2x Drums track on a standard version of your songs.

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“1x drums” is the norm, there is no “1x” because it’s the basic version. You don’t have to do a 2x version, but the normal playable version is required, yes.

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If you have a keyboard music sheet available, the work is first reading from the sheet and copying the notes into the Reaper track, and then removing or wrapping notes to fit the RB keyboard range. The music sheet already tells you the correct notes pitch, timing and duration! Unless someone doesn’t even know how to read the symbols from a music score (which can be learned in an hour) it is not hard work.

 

I find it harder to make the guitar chart by ear, because you have to figure out the notes exact timing, you have to come up with a choice of chords that makes sense, carefully listen to strumming pattern variations, wrap all riff and solo notes into only 5 lanes, all while keeping all of your choices consistent throughout the whole songs. It requires more decision-making than transcribing ProKeys from a music sheet.

 

The difficulties of charting ProKeys (and main vocals, for what matters) are generally overrated.

If I send you a song to do pro keys for, can you author it and time yourself?

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We had to remove the very basic and apparently inoffensive Like system because people were abusing it to dislike songs as opposed to charts or even authors. You can imagine how a flagging system could be abused. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”> But more importantly, there would be no way to moderate it: we don’t have the resources to download each flagged song, test it and report on it. It’s also a solution in search of a problem: full band songs are usually free from glaring issues, and authors who deliver full band customs that are really subpar are usually quickly identified by the community and tuned out

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Don’t use irrational time signatures or those that make little sense like 1/1 or 2/2, CAT or not ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif”>

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no pending request, send it again

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Record unhidden with URL removed, so you can update it

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You told us the Rock Band version could very well be the version you used, so we had to remove it. If you go back and make sure what you used was not taken from the RB4 version we can unhide it, but we went with what you told us. Just make sure the source is not RB4 because a check will be done.

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Not a CAT issue

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I probably gave up on that because it’s not a very frequent scenario and that part of the docs was probably a declaration of intents only. If somebody can crack the pro keys to 5-lane keys automatic or semi-automatic conversion I look forward to analyzing the code ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”>

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For anything related to this to exist it’s fundamental that it remains about using customs in the game. No discussion of porting over official HMX content, etc. As long as this is treated as much as an exploit like the way we load customs in RB3 it’s fine. NO DISCUSSION whatsoever of unencryption though: that would lead to a ban for sure and also we might go further if we feel it’s needed.

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