Rock Band: Harmonies Project (Latest: 07/04/03)

**DorkmasterFlek** · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 1968 Location: Toronto, ON

If anybody else is deciding to help out with this awesome project (I have a couple upgrades I did myself earlier while trying to figure out how to make this work which I'll be contributing) and you have some sort of capture device for recording videos, I have a suggestion to make charting the harmonies easier. If you have two guitars and a drum kit, hook up all three in RB3 and turn on All Instruments Mode and no-fail, then play the song in the music video venue and let the instruments miss everything, and record the whole thing. That should take the volume of the instrument tracks way down and make it much easier to pick out the vocal lines. Of course, if you happen to have your computer near or hooked up to your TV, you don't actually need to record the playthrough.
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wlinn751 wrote:

Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

**espher** · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:16 pm Post subject:

**Bigjoe5** · Joined: 27 Apr 2011 Posts: 114

**farottone** · Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Posts: 164

Most of the official DLC and on disc songs and all of the widely known songs have tabs and/or midi transcription available. There's no better way to chart vocals than official transcriptions or MIDI sequenced files, even more so when it comes to backing vocals and harmonies.

**DorkmasterFlek** · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 1968 Location: Toronto, ON

**espher** · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:32 am Post subject:

**DorkmasterFlek** · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 1968 Location: Toronto, ON

Hmm this doesn't seem to be working for me. I'm trying to keep a USB stick with TU5 and an offline profile that holds the dummy DTA and all the upgrade files. I unplugged my HD and built a song cache using just the USB stick. Then I copied the song cache plus all the upgrade files (NOT the dummy DTA because the instructions said to remove it) to the HD and removed the USB stick from the picture. Loaded RB3 again and built the rest of the song cache, no dice. Am I missing something possibly surrounding copying the song cache I built to the HD?
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wlinn751 wrote:

Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

**espher** · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:26 am Post subject:

**DorkmasterFlek** · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 1968 Location: Toronto, ON

Ah ha, I got it! Yes, I did make sure I had TU5 on both the USB stick and the HD. I'm not sure why, but I tried copying over the dummy DTA package as well just on a lark. It worked and the songs read the upgraded number of vocal parts, but trying to load them caused an error saying "song is unavailable" and booting me back to the main menu, presumably because it was the dummy package.

However, I removed the dummy package after I did this and everything worked! I was running through some of the charts in practice mode. It seems like you need to keep the dummy DTA file(s) for the first full build of the entire cache, then delete them. Harmony upgrades, here we come!

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wlinn751 wrote:

Everybody likes Boston on some level. They're like a soul detector. Most people don't know this, but vampire hunters carry a Talkboy containing a snippet of More Than A Feeling. Anyone who doesn't smile when they hear it gets staked on the spot. It works flawlessly.

**espher** · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:48 am Post subject:

**espher** · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:35 am Post subject:

I tried to go 'direct' with the build by moving the dummy .dta right onto the hard drive, and only doing one cache build, but that did not work. It builds the entire package at once, but for a reason I cannot figure out (maybe date order?), it opts to load the RB1 tracks with only one vocal part.

So, having tested it one more time, it looks like the cleanest installation method, for now, is as follows:

1) Delete your song cache.
2) Put the dummy dta package on your USB drive.
3) Disconnect your hard drive.
4) Boot RB3 and rebuild the cache.
5) Shut down your Xbox and reconnect your hard drive.
6) Boot RB3 and build the rest of the cache.
7) Delete the dummy dta package from your USB drive. (moved this step to after a point where the cache does its final build)
8) Installation complete (i.e. Boot RB3 and play.)

If this method doesn't work, the first troubleshooting step is to copy the dummy package to your hard drive before step six (the step Flek said he had to take).

In personal exciting news, I'm trying to use these with my TU4 setup, and I can't get the upgrade to take on the 'fake' Dani California export I had, haha. Guess I'll just repackage that one with a new .dta.

**lawrencein** · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 180 Location: UK

**farottone** · Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Posts: 164

**espher** · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:31 pm Post subject:

**DorkmasterFlek** · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 1968 Location: Toronto, ON