The full breakdown of hardware and software sales in the NPD September results is available now. The publisher also pointed out that Rock Band 2 sold 363,000 units on the Xbox 360 since launch on September 14, a performance which helped the platform generate USD 167 million in third party revenue. Simply return to the main FoF screen and select “Play Game.” Your song will show up with the 3 pre-installed songs under the name you chose for it in Step #7 above.ĭid you try this out? Let us know what song you used and how it worked out.Microsoft has responded to the NPD sales results in the US for November by hailing the company's success in the music games genre, both in terms of units sold and also for tracks downloaded.Īccording to a statement Microsoft has labelled its Xbox 360 platform as the "preferred stage" for games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, noting that Xbox Live has "delivered more than 80 per cent of the downloadable songs for music games, currently averaging 3.8 million music downloads per month," making a total of 45 million music files to-date.Īdditionally the Xbox 360 has sold almost 2 million copies of Rock Band in the US market so far, a figure that Microsoft points out is "almost 1 million more than the competition combined," while life-to-date sales have passed the 4 million mark, which represents over 50 per cent of the franchise sales "this generation" - in other words, not including the success of the games on the PlayStation 2. You are not ready to rock out to your own creation. Once you have the song the way you like it, you press the “Esc” key and choose “Save song.” Your song is now ready to played in Frets on Fire. Every note that you press on the XBOX 360 guitar will be captured by FoF.Īfter you’ve run through the song once, you can go back through the timeline to add more notes or fix any mistakes. Official pre-GH3 Guitar Hero and Rock Band Charts. This will start the song creation process. 75 SONG STEMS PACKS Corporate Band Stage Instant Download 149. When you’re ready to capture your song, put on your XBOX 360 guitar and press the “Space” bar on your keyboard. Review by Alexandru Dulcianu on October 6, 2014.
Type in the name for your song and press “Enter.” After your MP3 to OGG conversion is complete, open Frets on Fire and select “Song Editor” OGG file that FoF’s Song Editor can use.ĥ. Press the “Convert” button at the top of the Convert to OGG window Here you see that the Cherry Cola MP3 file is waiting to be converted.Ĥ.
Drag your MP3 file into the Convert to OGG window in Blaze Media Pro Open Blaze Media Pro and select “Conversions>Convert to OGG”ģ. This is the software that you will use to convert your MP3 file into a FoF-friendly OGG file.Ģ. OK, here is what you need to do to get your own songs into FoF: If you haven’t, check out my previous post. I am going to assume that you installed the FoF app and guitar already. I created my songs without any of this however, having some would probably help.
I’m using “Cherry Cola” by the Eagles of Death Metal. An MP3 file of the song you want to create.
I used the free trial version of Blaze Media Pro. This takes your favorite MP3s and converts them to the OGG format that FoF uses. So instead of pecking out each note individually with your keyboard, you can play along with your favorite songs and have FoF capture what you played. And with the XBOX 360 guitar connected to your PC, you can create these songs in real-time. FoF includes a song editor that lets you import your favorite songs, map out the notes and then play your creation within the game. One of the coolest ways to get songs into Frets on Fire is to make them yourself.
OK, so I’ll assume you’ve got Frets on Fire working on your PC with your XBOX 360 guitar.
In the first post, I showed how to use your XBOX 360 guitar with Frets on Fire. But the main draw of the game is its ability to play community-made songs, which has resulted in a large fan community around the game as well as a resurgence in popularity for the genre. The Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 versions of the game are set to be similar and will arrive on March 29 in the United. This is the second in a series of posts I am doing on Frets on Fire/Guitar Hero. As its name implies, Clone Hero is a Guitar Hero Clone, much like its predecessors, Frets on Fire, Phase Shift, and even modded Guitar Hero 3 on PC as well. Guitar Hero: Metallica is being developed for a variety of gaming systems. This is the second in a series of posts I am doing on Frets on Fire/Guitar Hero.
Create Frets on Fire songs with your XBOX 360 guitar