About
Rhythm Authors LLC
On July 17th, Harmonix Music Systems announced plans to open up the Rock Band Platform for all musicians to sell their music as game playable tracks through the "Rock Band Network." Using Microsoft’s XNA program as a framework, musicians will be able to author charts for their own songs and potentially upload them to the Rock Band Network store. Unfortunately, authoring music into enjoyable Rock Band charts is no easy task and the significant time commitment could turn off many bands to the project. Harmonix recognized this potential stumbling block early on and knew that they needed to get someone from outside the company to get the ball rolling.
On January 26th of 2009, Harmonix contacted Joseph Cirri from ScoreHero.com with news of some extremely classified… news. Harmonix wanted to show Joseph, and a few of his trusted staff (who happened to have Guitar Hero customization experience), something they were working on that would change the face of rhythm gaming forever.
Speculation abound; Joseph Cirri, Sean Feica, Andrew Dovichi, Greg Litvin, Andrew Funk, Dave Barley, and Nick Bruno traveled to Boston on March 2nd, 2009 for the first meeting concerning what would eventually be known as the Rock Band Network. Harmonix explained what the Rock Band Network was going to be and how they wanted our help with getting the community off the ground.
After months of discussion, Rhythm Authors was officially born as a business on May 11th, 2009 out of a speculated need for experienced Rock Band chart authors. Rhythm Authors was publicly announced alongside the Rock Band Network on July 17th, 2009.
Within the first week of being officially launched, Rhythm Authors was contacted by over a dozen different bands and has officially signed 8 of them for a total of 21 songs!
Once the Rock Band Network beta officially starts, Rhythm Authors will begin testing these songs in the game and submitting them through the approval process. It is our goal to be able to release a large majority of these songs with the official public launch of the Rock Band Network. During the beta period, we will hone our skills and processes, provide help for registered XNA members, write up detailed documentation about our processes and workflow, give insightful feedback to other songs submitted for review and set the standard for what constitutes a quality Rock Band Network submission.
On January 26th of 2009, Harmonix contacted Joseph Cirri from ScoreHero.com with news of some extremely classified… news. Harmonix wanted to show Joseph, and a few of his trusted staff (who happened to have Guitar Hero customization experience), something they were working on that would change the face of rhythm gaming forever.
Speculation abound; Joseph Cirri, Sean Feica, Andrew Dovichi, Greg Litvin, Andrew Funk, Dave Barley, and Nick Bruno traveled to Boston on March 2nd, 2009 for the first meeting concerning what would eventually be known as the Rock Band Network. Harmonix explained what the Rock Band Network was going to be and how they wanted our help with getting the community off the ground.
After months of discussion, Rhythm Authors was officially born as a business on May 11th, 2009 out of a speculated need for experienced Rock Band chart authors. Rhythm Authors was publicly announced alongside the Rock Band Network on July 17th, 2009.
Within the first week of being officially launched, Rhythm Authors was contacted by over a dozen different bands and has officially signed 8 of them for a total of 21 songs!
Once the Rock Band Network beta officially starts, Rhythm Authors will begin testing these songs in the game and submitting them through the approval process. It is our goal to be able to release a large majority of these songs with the official public launch of the Rock Band Network. During the beta period, we will hone our skills and processes, provide help for registered XNA members, write up detailed documentation about our processes and workflow, give insightful feedback to other songs submitted for review and set the standard for what constitutes a quality Rock Band Network submission.