Are you an independent musician looking to promote your work? Might wanna check this out: you’ll soon be able to add your own original music to the popular music game Rock Band! Indie artists and bands will use Microsoft’s XNA Creator’s Club to mesh the song’s MIDI file to the format used by the game. The work will then be submitted to other Creator’s Club programmers for critique and then must meet final approval by Harmonix and MTV Games. After they go live the songs will sell between 50 cents and 3 dollars, with the artists getting 30% of the cut! Not a bad business model at all, and there’s the potential for some great publicity for indie musicians....
Tons of details emerge about Rock Band 2
In the past few days lots of confirmed (and some not quite confirmed but it’s looking good) info has come out about Rock Band 2, Harmonix and MTV Games’ follow-up to last year’s smash hit music game Rock Band.
According to a press release by Harmonix, Rock Band 2 is going to be completely backward compatible with the peripherals and downloaded songs from Rock Band. Which is good news for people like those of us in the Knight household who have been purchasing dozens of new tracks through Xbox Live Marketplace (speaking of which, Lisa and I have gotten pretty good at Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville”).
And speaking of instruments, Ars Technica has word that Rock Band 2 is going to boast much improved hardware, like a wireless drum set (with metal-reinforced pedal) and a far better guitar – also wireless – than the one that came packaged with ...