Making Backing Tracks From RockBand Tracks

[richardlpalmer]

Well you're a demanding one, aren't you? Let me get right on that for you.

Here's the RockBand one: http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30926

Here's the GuitarHero one: http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32009

[jephers0n]

I haven't been able to find a song with the separate tracks, however. In particular I'm looking for 'The Offspring - Gone Away', but only the vocal track... All files I have found on the FoF site posted earlier seem to be missing anything other than 'guitar.ogg' and 'song.ogg'

are the FoF ogg's actually Mogg's, or what am I missing here?

[admiration]

can you please give me some website that i can get those .ogg files, especially Nightwish's song

[Wiked]

Hi there richard, this is great. can you also tell me where to download rockband tracks. I tried this with guitar hero, but cant find anything or settings to import the IMF files. if you have suggestions on that they would be mighty helpfull. the IMF files come out as white noise

[Gabriella31]

Do you need a microphone if so could you use an iPod because you can face time and basically same isn't it?   

[HardRocker]

Hey guys. Just type rock band multitracks in Google and you will find them very quickly. It's not that difficult.

You will either get ogg, mp3 or wav files or Mogg (MultiOgg).

In the first case, open Audacity and do import and select all the track (for example : Drums, guitar, rythm, song). then mute what you want.

If you have Moggs, open Audacity and do the same thing, import the mogg file. It's one big file with all the tracks in it.
Then you must set some tracks in stereo because they were split in mono. So listen to all the tracks seperatly and when 2 sounds the same, click on the arrow and select "Set to stereo". Be careful with the bass drum and snare, sometimes they must stay mono, cause if you set them stereo you will have kick left and snare right (many songs here on the site have that problem because the idio** who made them weren't careful.

Hope it helped.

If you still have questions, PM.

[slinker]

There actually are 2 programs available--really VST plugins--that will pull out the separate tracks from an mp3 or wav file that has been mixed down. Celemony Melodyne has Direct Note Access (DNA) technology, which goes into the file and can pull out the guitar or bass or drums, whichever you need it to do. It's not perfect, but it has other tools to help you iron out the tracks you extract to make them sound less phasey and muffled. They offer a 30 day unlimited/unrestricted trial for you to check out. I think it might be just the thing for a couple of you guys.

There's also Sony Spectral Layers Pro that does more or less the same thing but positions the tracks as vector files you can actually grab and move around. I shelled out the bread for this, but if you don't have a badass multicore processor and shitloads of RAM, skip it, or you will sit there waiting forever after every single step.

[slinker]

which game is it that puts the vocals and drums on the same track? That's messed up. I downloaded this big ol' archive of Moggs and they put the vocals and drums and keyboards in the same track. You had a song.ogg, a rhythm.ogg, and a guitar.ogg. Rhythm is the bass, guitar is all the guitars, and everything else is in song. what a freakin drag, man! but i don't know which game they came from inorder to avoid that shit again next time a big juicy artchive floats my way.