The Rock Band Thread - Rock Band 4 coming 2015 [PS4/X1]

[Psychic]

As you may have seen in our recent announcement regarding the release of Rock Band Blitz tracks as singles, Rock Band DLC production has gradually slowed over the past five years. We have managed to maintain a consistent release schedule for a staggering 275 consecutive weeks, releasing over 4,000 songs for the Rock Band Platform, but in recent months we’ve scaled production down as we’ve transitioned resources onto other projects. With several new titles in development and developers needed to usher these new games along, April 2nd will be the last weekly DLC release for Rock Band.

http://www.rockband.com/blog/rock-band-announcement-new-dlcreleases-ending-in-april

[bear]

Well that sucks. Hopefully they sign off with something good.

[TigaSefi]

Muse?

[Buffalo]

Something good, he said.

[Neo Cortex]

Which worries me a tad, does that mean the end of Rock Band as a franchise, or merely a bit of a break?

[BID0]

I think it's the end of the franchise

Doesn't sound like the PS4 or next Xbox will be supporting BC of DLC so they'd have a hard time continuing anyway. It's been on life support this last year anyway, time to turn the power off.

[Corazon de Leon]

RIP in peace Rock Band. The break from MTV and EA was always going to spell it's doom, I think. I'll need to collect as much of the good DLC as I can over the next few months in case they turn off the service completely.

[Neo Cortex]

Its been emotional guys

[BID0]

DLC for 26th February: Staind, Queensrÿche, and The Flys



The Flys – “Got You (Where I Want You)
Queensrÿche – Silent Lucidity
Staind – It’s Been Awhile
Staind – So Far Away

DLC for 12th March: “Weird Science” and “Rosanna”



Oingo Boingo – Weird Science
Toto – Rosanna



Remaining Official DLC

26th March
3 Pack

2nd April
1 track



PAX East Panel Discussion - Rock Band Behind the Music: A Music Gaming Tell All

With over 4,000 songs released during a 5 year run of weekly DLC, Rock Band has included songs by a veritable who’s who of the greatest musicians in the history of rock. Rock Band’s catalog includes hundreds of artists, and there are countless others that they attempted to get in the game. Oh, which bands? Yep, them. Oh yeah, them too. Definitely those guys. Interested in hearing more? Join Harmonix for a candid look behind the soundtrack of the highest rated music games ever released, as they finally respond to long burning community questions, comment on unreleased projects, and dish on all the dirt behind your favorite music games.

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233938

[Madness]

RIP in peace Rock Band.

[Dangerblade]

The 2nd April track is American Pie.

[TigaSefi]

Oh nice!! It was a bitch to play in GH cos it's just constant strumming so I wouldn't expect it to be any different. Oh hope they keep Whiskey and rye in this time

[BID0]

Why Didn't Muse Make It Into Rock Band?
"Not everyone wants to be in Rock Band."

“You look increasingly uncomfortable,” Harmonix’s John Drake says. His boss, Chris Rigopulos, who’s been listening to a very candid and still lighthearted Drake discuss the nightmarish challenges of Rock Band music licensing, is clearly discomforted.

He responds with a deadpan “I am.”

On April 2, Harmonix will have released 4,254 songs across 281 consecutive weeks. The last Rock Band DLC song? Super appropriate. In celebration of its accomplishment, and to inform fans in attendance at PAX East 2013, the Rock Band developer detailed the exhaustive process of how those add-on tracks come to be.

It was a very blunt explanation.


Chris Rigopulos keeps it tame to start. “It all starts with a song,” he says, which is typically credited to numerous individuals rather than their singular band entity. They get a manager, the manager cuts a deal with a publisher, and then the record label creates an album. That’s the Neverminds and the Who’s Nexts of the world – the things you buy, listen to, and love. After a record’s out, and you want it in Rock Band, Harmonix starts trying to acquire the rights. This is where it gets messy.

Sometimes those rights are split between band members with bad blood, who don’t agree with the idea of a music video game, or vary by country. Sometimes band members go off the grid or get their own manager. Sometimes those artists retain fractions of the song’s rights, and unless they all agree to the licensing process, it doesn’t make it into Rock Band.


A helpful diagram with fun pictures and scary lines!

“We did like 4,000 of these things, Drake says. “It’s terrible.” The crowd laughs, but it starts to understand.

The sad truth, Rigopulos admits, is that “not everyone wants to be in Rock Band.” Even if they do, and everyone agrees, there’s another painful step: Where are the master recordings? If Harmonix can’t find those, it can’t create individual tracks for players to rock to – and that just doesn’t make Rock Band work.

Drake, Rigopulos, and the rest of the Harmonix panelists lamented the numerous announcements that never came to be. Nevermind and Who’s Next, for instance. Those entire albums were planned to release on Rock Band, as were numerous Metallica songs.

Sometimes, a lot of the stuff above gets in the way.

Harmonix is very open about the fact it shouldn’t have made announcements when it did. “We made mistakes, we did our best to deliver on what we stupidly promised,” Drake says. Rock Band: Japan and Pearl Jam: Rock Band were full-blown titles in deep development before they were canceled. Japan had unique characters, venues, animations, and more, but “small living spaces plus big hardware” doesn’t fly in relatively small Japanese homes. Pearl Jam, which based itself on various live shows, and features flashy imagery based on the band’s album covers, was supposed to release in 2010.

Those problems mentioned earlier are tough to overcome sometimes.

Guns N’ Roses didn’t work out, either. Neither did Muse, despite fans’ 616,738 requests via RockBand.com’s request submission form. Pink Floyd couldn’t come together for Rock Band songs, either, and the Led Zeppelin Rock Band that never was featured ridiculous imagery, like warriors and horses, in a super-stylized cartoonish look. Harmonix got as far as creating a convincing intro cinematic, but no further.

With panelists mentioning labels like Interscope and publishers such as MTV by name, it’s no wonder Rigopulos was a tad uncomfortable during his own panel. But the intent wasn’t to burn bridges and talk trash – Harmonix simply wanted you to know exactly why your requested songs never made it into Rock Band. The developer takes the blame for early announcements and undelivered promises, but much of the time, frustrating though it might be, nobody is really at fault that we never got Muse (and [your favorite band here] in Rock Band.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/24/w ... -rock-band

[BID0]

[Fruits Punch Samurai]

http://www.rockband.com/blog/informatio ... -licensing

Due to licensing, removal of older tracks has started up. No more Metallica and more to come.

[bella6]

Do you know who are the best rock bands of all time in world? I searched on it and found some interesting results.

[mcjihge2]

Im trying to play this on a different console with my gamer tag (that "owns" all the dlc), And im trying to import the songs from blitz to rockband 3 but theyre not showing up. Its been ages since I did it, but how do I export the blitz songs into rock band 3?

Thanks

[bear]

Im trying to play this on a different console with my gamer tag (that "owns" all the dlc), And im trying to import the songs from blitz to rockband 3 but theyre not showing up. Its been ages since I did it, but how do I export the blitz songs into rock band 3?

Thanks

There should be track pack in your download history called Rock Band Blitz. You shouldn't need to go through Blitz to find it.

[BID0]

What bear said. I think when you run Blitz for the first time it asks you if you'd like to download the tracklist.

[Herdanos]

I ordered a Rock Band Wii keyboard/keytar on eBay a few days ago. Supposedly brand new. Around £14 with delivery. Should arrive today/tomorrow, looking forward to giving it a good play on Saturday.

Anyone familiar with the pro mode at all? I don't have a pro guitar so have never played it (Rock Band 3 only, right?) but am thinking to try it with the keyboard, although I'll probably start on regular mode to get used to the new controller.