Harmonix To Help You Create Your Own Harmony?
With Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour due out in the near future, people are starting to size up the options featured in both games in order to make better decisions on how to spend their cash to get their music fix. Rock Band 2 brings the wide array of song tracks from the original and upcoming game, the drum trainer, and its long standing experience in the genre. World Tour brings its brand name and wider variety of (guitar) peripherals along with one other major thing, a music creator. The music creator for World Tour, while lacking the ability to add vocals, has many music fans eager to make (and recreate) their own songs on the guitars and drums. Stephen Totilo of MTV's Multiplayer blog decided to ask just what Harmonix thought about the fact that World Tour is coming with a prepackaged music creator. PR rep for Harmonix, John Drake, had this to say in response:
"The music creator thing... we're a company of musicians, right? I have a band and a song in the game. We have over 40 bands in the company, 85% of us play an instrument, we really get music. We've talked about doing a music creator. We've actually done them before in other games that we've done like in "Amplitude" and "Frequency" ... We've done the whole MIDI creation thing."We think we can do something really ambitious and really great that's going to speak across all the users of the game, not just hardcore users -- and that will result in some awesome stuff and not just 'Final Fantasy' covers. I mean, I like them ["FF" covers] too. So Harmonix is going to do something great with it [music creation] down the road, we didn't want to rush it out and do it half-assed. This is definitely a full-on project for us. You'll hear more about it soon."
Sounds like Harmonix may have some sort of music creator project in the wings, so I guess we'll just have to wait to "hear more about it soon" (aka Rock Band 3 feature).
PixelPoet
Posted to Video Games on 22 August 2008
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What would be really cool is if this were a standalone game that could be used to make both music and Rock Band-playable tracks. The latter could then be exported onto the internet for people to download either for free or for a price, depending on if its a cover (it would have to be free for legal reasons) or if the artist happens to be really good.