Beatles Rock Band features multi-mic support, harmonious performances?

Wouldn't it be great if you and your mop top-clad friends could all sing together in the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band? According to a rumor found in the latest issue of Game Informer, Harmonix is doing just that: including multiple-microphone support for players to harmonize on the tracks. Not much else is given, but a NeoGAF forum poster who last week claimed to have played an early version adds that three mics were being used -- one for each instrument -- and there was also a new harmony trainer mode to ensure your vocal talents were up to snuff. We'd advise a good bit of skepticism, no matter how much sense it seems to make or how many of you dreams would come true if this turned out legit. In the meantime, you can go back to deciding which of the Fab Four you're gonna pretend to be first when the game launches on September 9.

[Via Joystiq]

Read - Multi-mic support
Read - Harmony trainer

[sk @ Apr 16th 2009 7:34AM]

Unfortunately for Rockband the Beatles was no Rock band.

[SewerShark @ Apr 16th 2009 7:35AM]

You care tell me why?

[Greg @ Apr 16th 2009 8:47AM]

@sk

The Beatles all but invented rock with "Helter Skelter", widely regarded as the first 'metal' track.

[sk @ Apr 16th 2009 9:13AM]

Greg, one rock song does not make a rock band. Technically they are not.

[Uchiha Sasuke @ Apr 16th 2009 11:57AM]

@ sk

Shut the "F" up! The Beatles pretty much influence all genres of modern music aside from RnB's and Country (I don't consider this a music). And fyi they ARE a rock band, just because they don't have ponytails and wear leather vest doesn't discount that fact. Go back to listening your Marilyn Manson crap.

[sk @ Apr 16th 2009 12:14PM]

@Uchiha Sasuke, I wrote something, but never said anything. So how do you suppose I shut up?

[Frankenstein Black @ Apr 16th 2009 12:49PM]

"Gaze upon these immortal Rock Gods, young whippersnapper"...

[sk @ Apr 16th 2009 1:05PM]

@Frankenstein Black, are you quoting a real rock band?

[SewerShark @ Apr 16th 2009 7:34AM]

Ok, I like rock band, but that's too much.

[UK31337 @ Apr 16th 2009 7:47AM]

Sounds good.

BUT ME WANT CARNIVAL OF LIGHT :'-(

[Jon @ Apr 16th 2009 7:51AM]

The Beatles suck : )

[Taylor @ Apr 16th 2009 7:57AM]

Prepare for low-rank bombing in 3, 2...

Also, knowing that practically every pop band and more than half of the rock bands after them were influenced by them, directly or indirectly, might change your view on them. If you've listened to a record in the last 30-40 years, you've heard Beatles, in the same way that if you've watched comedy in the last 30 years you've seen Monty Python

[strider_mt2k @ Apr 16th 2009 7:52AM]

Sweet Loretta Fat,
She thought she was a rocker
but she was a frying pan...

[Greg N. @ Apr 16th 2009 7:53AM]

first

[Xenhas @ Apr 16th 2009 8:03AM]

to fail

[Indefinite Implosion @ Apr 16th 2009 8:06AM]

Laaaaaaaaaaaa

[ethertoad @ Apr 16th 2009 8:42AM]

Laaaaaaaaaaaa (Slightly Lower)

[Rocketboy @ Apr 16th 2009 9:00AM]

Laaaaaa...

(Terribly Off-Key, but that's ok, because I'm banging someone in the band.)

(Ironically enough, this applies to both The Beatles, and Wings.)

[SteveJ @ Apr 16th 2009 8:45AM]

The big question is will Beatles Rockband for Wii include support for SDHC cards? If so, sales on the Wii will be strong at least for the game-only, even among non-Beatles fans. FYI, Rock Band 2 does *not* support SDHC cards even though the Wii now does, and with no apparent support for patching on the Wii (yet?), the only solution will be a new version of Rock Band, and here we have one. If they are fitting in improvements like dual-mic support, then perhaps they will manage to support SDHC as well. One can hope.

[tcc3 @ Apr 16th 2009 9:08AM]

I think the bigger question is importing into Rock Band. I don't think we've heard a definitive answer on that.

[spencermorse @ Apr 16th 2009 9:39AM]

@sk and Jon:


ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!??? The Beatles were/are the shiznit in this hizzie of modern day crap we all call "pop." In accordance with Greg and SewerShark, whether you like it or not they practically INVENTED modern-day music (and the tech involved in making it). The very first music video was MADE by the Beatles; HOW can anybody say that they don't like the Beatles, or that they're not a rock-band?? Have you ever seen the great NES bumper-sticker on cars that says, "Support your roots?" If you have, then it's pretty sad; Jon and sk, that you don't support your roots, no matter WHAT music you listen to.

[sk @ Apr 16th 2009 10:33AM]

How sad for you to think that way. The Beatles copied others that came before them. I would call them an ancient pop band. Check your facts before posting. There where others that had video recordings years before the Beatles.

[Zak @ Apr 16th 2009 11:28AM]

sk: Really? Who were they copying when they did Sgt. Pepper? How about the White Album? You may not like The Beatles, but it is a fact that they are largely responsible for moving music in general forward.

[Dave @ Apr 16th 2009 11:01AM]

i think only one of my dreams would come true if that happened

[macgregger @ Apr 16th 2009 11:05AM]

Pete was the best Beatle

[ehisforadam @ Apr 16th 2009 11:38AM]

I want to low rank you for a horrible pun, but user icon is taken from a Powerthirst video, which is full of win...I'm so conflicted. I guess you get to survive, for now.

[macgregger @ Apr 16th 2009 4:08PM]

"horrible pun" is an oxymoron... there is no such thing.

[Eric @ Apr 16th 2009 11:06AM]

While I disagree about them creating the first music video (the Jailhouse Rock scene in the film of the same name was the first, in my opinion), you can't deny that they were a rock band. They may not have sounded like the bands of the 70s or 80s, but they were certainly a rock band. It was a format called "rock and roll," in the early years. For some reason, the "rolling" part of music died in the 70s.

If The Beatles weren't a rock band, Chuck Berry didn't play rock and roll. And, as we all know, if you called rock and roll by any other name, it would be "Chuck Berry."

[Ed Zeronian @ Apr 16th 2009 1:24PM]

Finally!! someone hre who knows what they're talking about. The Beatles are about as Rock as Rock band gets. I do agree that early on a lot of what the Beatles were doing was copying others like Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, and Buddy Holly but if this is a bad thing then they should force those little non-talent twits on American Idol to write they're own material. (There is a little splash of talent on that show, but for the most part its a glorified karaoke night)

[markyatlga @ Apr 16th 2009 12:53PM]

Great pic of the Fab Four. RIP John, George.

[G. I. @ Apr 16th 2009 1:22PM]

The Beatles is a slimey piece of shite.

[jim @ Apr 16th 2009 2:13PM]

If you don't think the Beatles are a rock band, let's take a look at some other artists that are featured in the RB series.

The Beastie Boys? Not rock. Alanis Morissette? Not rock, and... not even a band. Neither is Serj Tankian. Devo? Questionable. Toby Keith? There's a whole track pack for this country artist. The Dixie Chicks? The B-52's? And there's even a downloadable song coming from ... The Jackson 5. That's right.

The Beatles have songs like Birthday, I Me Mine, All My Loving, Taxman, Back In The USSR, Glass Onion, Can't Buy Me Love, For You Blue, Octopus's Garden, Come Together, Day Tripper, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, Doctor Robert, Think For Yourself, Drive My Car, Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey, Get Back, Help, Hey Bulldog, Paperback Writer, I Am The Walrus, I Saw Her Standing There, I Wanna Be Your Man, I Want You/She's So Heavy, Revolution, Sgt. Pepper, Yer Blues, and more that are total rock songs.