Hey everybody welcome to rock gamer your number one stop for all things rock band 4, guitar
hero live and amplitude related and today we had some more news from the world of rock
band 4 Today we had Playstation Access give us a really great in depth look at the new
instruments . Um it’s actually our first look we’ve had of the new instruments.
Any video you’ve seen of Rock Band 4 of people playing the game they have been using
Playstation 3 instruments so this is the first look at the PS4 instruments and lets look
at peripheral by peripheral.
Now the microphone is a new cosmetic design I actually like the new design.
It looks more like a real microphone it’s going to be heavier so it will feel more like
a real microphone and feels less like a toy like the previous one’s have.
It’s going to have a longer chord length at 15 feet.
And It samples 48 khz and is 16 bit which means if you played the old Rock Band’s
and you shout into the microphone it would be all muffled and the game couldn’t really
pick it up.
But this new microphone is going to do a better job of picking it up whether your are screaming
into the microphone or whispering into the microphone.
So that’s going to be a great thing to have.
So lets go and talk about the new guitar.
So the new guitar has a bunch of new features I think most notably when you look at the
cosmetic design of it’s got more of a red kind of finish to it.
The neck of the guitar has been reinforced.
So if you take an old Rock Band 1 guitar and you try to bend it around the neck you’ll
see that they bend pretty easy or if you try to press the actual body of the guitar it’ll
press and indent.
They’ve actually done a better job so you can’t actually do that.
The other thing you’ll notice is that the buttons are a lot quitter and there’s actually
better response to the buttons so no matter where you press the buttons when you’re
playing the game you’ll get the same kind of response and actually feeling like you’re
hitting the notes and the game is actually registering the button presses.
And that goes for both the solo buttons and the buttons that are higher up on the neck
of the guitar.
The other thing that’s improved is that the tilt sensor is much better so it’s much
easier to activate overdrive.
The autocalibration has been improved . The guitar is now wireless so you don’t need
a dongle It connects directly to your PS4 through Bluetooth which is nice because the
ps4 only has two usb ports.
The other cool thing is that it only requires two batteries instead of 3 so just like the
drums you get about 40 hours of gameplay.
So if you play an hour hour and a half a month a day you can probably get a month out of
playing on a single pair of batteries.
The other thing that is really neat is that the five way effects switch you know where
you can change between the different guitar effects is much quieter and the strum bar
is now improved.
I wished the video would have maybe shown what the strum bar sounds like or how it presses
down because I’m not a person who likes the strum bar on rock band controllers I prefer
the guitar hero strum bar.
Lets talk a little bit about the new drums.
So talking about the new drums some of the new features is that the new cymbals are much
improved and they do a better job of picking up cymbals hit and crosstalk really shouldn’t
be an issue.
I don’t know if you played with the old rock band 3 pro drums you know you’d hit
the cymbal and it would double hit sometimes or they would activate different drum pad
Or you would have cross talk where hitting the cymbals would activate the snare and you
would lose your streak . This time around this shouldn’t be an issue.
Also The bass pedal has now been reinforced better so you really shouldn’t be breaking
that bass pedal.
I remember when Rock Band 1 came out a lot of people were breaking that bass pedal largely
because it had no steel plate on it.
. The other thing that’s been improved is that the drum pads a lot people would play
the old rock band kit and like hit the same spot over and over again and it would leave
an indent into the pads and this time they have reinforced that.
They have better shock absorbers.
And that shouldn’t be an issue with the new drum kit.
The other thing that’s improved is that only 2 batteries are required instead of 3
and this drum kit just like the guitar connects wirelessly through Bluetooth so you won’t
need a dongle to use it.
One thing to note I know that some people were asking is that you cannot use the rock
band 4 instruments on rock band 3, but if you do have the old pro cymbals you can just
plug them directly into the new rock band 4 kit and they should work without any issues.
The other thing is that you can still add a second kick pedal or another pedal to control
open hi-hat with that.
The other thing they talked a little bit about was availability at launch.
Harmonix said this and now the representative from madcatz has said it.
If you guys want Rock Band 4 on day 1 for either xbox one or ps4 you need to pre-order
it.
So go to rockband.com/preorder and go put your name down to be notified when rock band
4 pre orders go live.
Otherwise you may not be guaranteed the game.
The last thing I noticed too is that and I should have said it earlier is that the pro
cymbals may not be available at launch.
The madcatz representative said if they are not available at launch they should be shortly
after.
The other thing he mentioned is that the pro cymbals would be included in the box with
the bundle so If you do buy the band bundle you won’t get the pro cymbals you’ll have
to buy them separately.
That basically does it for today’s news.
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