So, one of my current projects/intrests is Rock Band, I love playing Rock Band with friends (especially drums). Recently this interest was tied in with another I had a while ago, and that's the XNA Games Studio platform that Microsoft released. Harmonix recently realease the Rock Band Network (RBN) to open beta.
RBN is essentially a means for small/independent or local bands to create their own tracks for Rock Band, sell them online and make some money getting their name out there. A friend of mine, who is a member of an awesome little band called Junkbelly, recently recruited my help in authoring a song for the RBN.
This is no small task, but I've made a good amount of progress so far. The basics of it are that almost all elements of the track are controlled by midi events, not just the note tracks but the crowd, the lighting, the camera effects, even the character animations. What I've got done so far is beat-mapped the entire song, tweaked some engineering of the song (because there's a lot of game noise, the actual song tracks need to be a bit... crisper in order to stand out from the noise) and have about 1/2 the expert drum track authored. It's slow going now, but I've already learned a bunch of tricks to help speed things up.
Anyway, I'm off to Hawaii for a week tomorrow, so there probably won't be any progress made on this until after I get back. Hopefully I'll get a blog post done while I'm there, though.
Keep on rocking, people!
Friday, February 12, 2010
I am such a spaz.
No, no, it's true. I move from one interest to another more often that some people bathe. A few months ago, it was blogging (and we see how long that lasted). Now, it's... Well I'm gonna talk about that in a bit.
Anyway, I had a thought this morning (actually, I had many, but none others worth mentioning), why not use the blog detail my interest du jour so I can have a record of all the things I like, complete with links, insights and discussion all in one place? Clearly, this blog will exist purely for selfish reasons, but what blog doesn't?
In fact, I'm gonna set myself up a reminder to update my blog at least twice a week. Reminders always work for me, for a couple months anyway.
Anyway, I had a thought this morning (actually, I had many, but none others worth mentioning), why not use the blog detail my interest du jour so I can have a record of all the things I like, complete with links, insights and discussion all in one place? Clearly, this blog will exist purely for selfish reasons, but what blog doesn't?
In fact, I'm gonna set myself up a reminder to update my blog at least twice a week. Reminders always work for me, for a couple months anyway.
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