Broken Pitched Phrase in "My Iron Lung"?

**IndestructibleSD** · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 1382 Location: Boston, MA

Not sure if this has been noticed before, but while squeezing My Iron Lung, I realized that there's a broken pitched part of a phrase that has a few weird characteristics.

Phrase: "A twentieth century bitch."

- The broken word is "A"
- The arrow turns red as if you're missing the pitch, even when you're hitting it precisely
- The outer edge of the arrow is vaguely green, as it would show on any other correctly hit pitch
- No points are awarded for hitting the phrase with the correct pitch

It doesn't impact the ability to hit the phrase considering it's the shortest word in the entire phrase, but I figured it was an interesting find.

Have any other pitched phrases been discovered to have broken words within them similar to this instance?

Considering the shortness of the word, I had trouble capturing a clear picture of the actual event, but you can see for yourselves by playing the song, or by going to 1:25 in this video.
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**killzonedout** · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 3061

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What.

How the hell did that slip by QA?
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**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

**Icemage** · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 3200

Maybe the charted pitch line is so short that it breaks the engine? Looking at the chart, it seems to be less than 1/32 of a measure long.

Compare and contrast to, say, Bad to the Bone, which also has lots of itty-bitty pipes, but which do register properly.

There might be something interesting in the RB1/RB2 vocals parameters as well; Deimos posted some neat numbers quite a while ago.

http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20597&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=74

Maybe if the note itself is shorter than the pitch slop value, the engine breaks and gives up?
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**IndestructibleSD** · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 1382 Location: Boston, MA

I haven't played it within the RB1 engine yet to see if it has the same results there, so if someone wants to run through the song a few times and see if the same effect persists, that would be helpful.

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