Another late night, another PYC RBN update.

Tonight I tackled the guitar charts. I had already written a decent Expert chart, but it needed quite a bit of tweaking, mainly to make it flow better and to make sustained notes make more sense. Despite playing a LOT of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, there’s still some difficulty in making your own note charts to spec, no matter how many you’ve played.

Tonight, with the discovery of the custom keymaps and Rock Band preview plugin, I’ve gotten all the Drum charts done. The aforementioned preview plugin lets you see the notes you’ve charted, or “gems”, scroll down a “gem” highway much like in the game. It’s amazingly sweet to see this as it makes all my work seem like it’s been fo’ realz, ya’ll.

I didn’t think I’d get there, but Expert Guitar and Vocals are pretty done.

Vocals were quite the beast, mainly because I had NO guide as to what the notes are. Kathy just sang her melody atop her known chords and my known leads, but I never knew what notes she was actually singing. Well, when you need to make a MIDI chart of that, it’s all trial and error. Thanks to Robyn for helping me out with the first two verses and choruses.

I have completed a serviceable note chart for Expert Bass. Whew. I had less source material to go on, so I had to do more manual editing of notes than with drums (but not too much more).

Tomorrow, I aim to make a decent Expert Guitar chart, which will be both fun and challenging since I get to transcribe part of a rhythm guitar, lead guitar, AND solo guitar (wheeee!).

I’m making note charts for Pure Yellow Colour’s “Six More Weeks of Winter” in order to eventually upload to the Rock Band Network for fun and (very small potential) profit. In the end, you will be able to go online to the Rock Band Music Store and download the track I made, just like any other, and play it on your XBOXEN THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY (and maybe the PS3ZLE, too).

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Nebyoolae – Majicking

Sometimes it’s OK to just rock really loudly in an electronica fashion. That’s exactly what Majicking is all about.

You may remember some old tracks I did under the name Majic. They were the first electronica pieces I’d ever tried after doing countless guitar recordings. Ever since I got Logic Pro and its mountain of loops and synths, I’ve been toying with tons of ideas.

Welcome to the final genesis of all that noodling.

P.S. I created a new Twitter account just for announcing stuff like this. Unsurprisingly, it is Nebyoomuz.

Nebyoolae.com is now a full-on Cake app. What this means for you, the visitor, is that adding functionality will be a lot easier for me and more fun for you. In the near future, I’ll be adding search capabilities, song commenting and ranking, and more tagging support for songs.

I love this iPhone app.

Nebyooweb is live! Just point your browser to http://nebyooweb.com and feast your eyes on what I’ve done.

http://kotaku.com/5139847/listen-to-the-jrpg-soundtrack-of-the-jrpg-that-doesnt-exist