Rock Band Midi file format

**erikj9** · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 75

I don't cheat at all on vocal charts, when I do them, i do them almost completely be ear, i might download a .gp5 file for the song if it is fast and notes change a lot.
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**thepoop555** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 316 Location: Austin, TX

just takin a look at the 360 rock band mids in feedback, and was noticing map Handmap_allchords and map Handmap_defaultmellow in greengrass.mid above some events. Any ideas on what those might be?

**TNTX** · Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 1069 Location: Grand Island, NE

**pksage** · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 890 Location: Midwest, USA

If an event looks like an animation event, it is, and therefore doesn't matter on PS2.
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**thepoop555** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 316 Location: Austin, TX

**BHK** · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 189

Has anyone had success with BRE's on customs?

I put just a long drum fill on every track at the same time for where i wanted the BRE, hell i even added mix events again at the time, because i saw those in some offical rock band mids where BRE's began. But all I got was just a long drum fill, no BRE.

So a BRE isn't the same as a drum fill but on all tracks, I have a feeling something else determines it, I'm going to start snooping around and try to find out what else is different between non BRE and BRE songs.

**BHK** · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 189

Good news, I Found out how to get BRE's working, you need to add [coda] right when the BRE ends for it to work, but there is a glitch, it doesnt fully render the fills, it doesnt render it the first 2 seconds while scrolling, so you dont see it as a BRE until like half way through the fretboard (its hard to explain ,but i'll have a video soon.)

**ajanata** · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:

You might have to put a section big_rock_ending there, but I would expect you have already tried it... But that's about the only other thing I can think of.
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**BHK** · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 189

Yeah I put it along with the coda command when I did it.

**jpop** · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

OK, now we know how to understand the midi file format of RB.
But, where can we find the files?
Is there any torrent for that?

**LocalH** · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 1400 Location: MiloHax

**ajanata** · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

I did some premliminary analysis on forced hammer-ons (including hammer-on chords). On expert, it appears that it uses note 101 (expert orange + 1) to flag hammer-on sections, similar to OD sections (meaning this is not "chorded" with the note to be hammered-on, but rather indicates a group of notes which are to hammered-on). I'm looking for test cases on hard to determine if it's hard orange + 1, or if it always has hammer-ons on every difficulty at the same time.
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**ajanata** · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

I still haven't looked for any cases on difficulties other than expert, but they can force strums as well -- note 102 on expert, at least. Float On has a ton of them.
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**ccfman2004** · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 152 Location: New York, USA

How do find the part in midi that tells the background drummer what drum or cymbal to hit?
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