Inside RBN Article

Damian Boyer may just be famous, someday.  Who is he? Glad you asked. Damian’s the first non-audio team member of Harmonix to use the RBN tools (Reaper and Magma) to author a track for his band.

When we went to the Harmonix training program, they used one of Damian’s tracks as an example to show us how things worked.  He’s written a great article detailing the process, and pointing out some things that may cause your track to fail during compiling.

The article’s hosted on Rock Band’s Zine, and can be found by clicking here.

An in-depth look at the authoring process

As we get closer to the launch of the Rock Band Network store, it’s become more evident how this process is going to completely change the way bands distribute music to their existing and new fans.  Since we got involved I’ve been fielding a great number of questions about the process, and how we, as a company, are handling the authoring of tracks.  A great number of bands have shown a lot of interest, but still feel it’s too early to dive in.

On the other hand, a number of people that we’ve spoken with plan on authoring the tracks themselves, once the program opens its beta to anyone who wants to be involved.  We’ve tried to dissuade people from doing so, not because we want to do the work for you (and get paid for it), but because the process is much more complicated that some people are anticipating.

Joystiq has put together a pretty comprehensive article on the process, what’s involved, and has a fairly good write up on the process as a whole.  That article can be found here.

10 Years Tweets For Support

Rock band 10 Years saw our poll (to the right there) to see who fans want to be in Rock Band Network, and tweeted about it. We’re trying to get in touch with the band, to fill them in, and get them started now. We’d love to author their tracks, especially since we’re such big fans.