A pack? Not quite…but you might find this article educational.
There’s supposed to be a Stand-alone Beatles game from the creators of Rock Band coming out this year. Maybe they’ll allow the tracks to be imported into Rock Band like they did with the track packs.
The way they describe it, it sounds like it’s going to be expensive.
Thank you both for the article links. I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see what happens.
Just got my Ion set this afternoon and had about half an hour to play with it. It’s definitely going to take some rewiring of the circuitry in my head, but what a friggen difference! I am so in love with the adjustability and the responsiveness when striking the drum heads! I guess this is considered cheap when compared to other electronic drum kits, but it is, in my opinion, in a completely different league from the kit that comes with the game.
Off to play a little more before bedtime!
Does anyone have any opinions on this expansion kit? I am sorely tempted to buy this like…now.
It looks neat, but I only have interest in playing the drums in the game.
The pedal won’t work with the game without modification. The RB controller wants an on/off signal, whereas that pedal, along with other e-kit bass pedals, give a variable velocity return, so it won’t reliably trigger for game purposes. You can either modify it by taking a reed switch and magnet and gluing them in the right places (Sam Stone did this and made a guide) or get a kickbox from http://rockbandkickbox.com/ which electrically converts the signal to something the game can use.
The brain is basic but functional - it won’t have a ton of samples or fancy features. I have one but haven’t played with it yet - I’m still trying to get better at the mechanics before I start trying to play outside the game.
Anyone else think that the vocal scoring for rap songs is waaaaay too generous? I had the Beastie Boys’ “So What’Cha Want” thrown at me on Medium, and cannot comprehend how that deserved to be my top-scoring song (somewhere over 100,000 points). So far I’ve been able to 5-star almost all songs on Medium even if I’m not familiar with them - OK, this Modest Mouse tune threw me for a loop, I had the volume down and didn’t catch how some of the verses were being sung - but I really do not think I had anything approaching “skills” on the Beasties there.
IIRC the “no pitch needed” vocals in Rock Band were scored too harshly or downright incorrectly. I think they over-compensated in RB2.
Yeah you can actutually scat them
"Scoot-doody-moody-sab-o-tage!
Oh, I don’t know if this has been discussed before, but I had been wondering why some songs like “Living on a Prayer” had different endings in Rock Band than the actual studio recording. I think the reason is that these songs fade out at the end rather than having a definite end. So they apparently needed/wanted to add a clear ending to all the songs in Rock Band.
I think you’re right, since I can’t think of any way to play to a fade out.
However - the clipped on ending to Livin’ on a Prayer is one of the worst parts of the entire game. They should have done a better job - actual bands have to work around a fade out when they play live, so I see no reason why Harmonix can’t do a better job on this.
If I never have to sing Rush’s “The Trees” again, it’ll be too soon. 
I was playing a gig in Montreal and saw “American Woman” (Guess Who), “You Oughta Know” (Alanis Morissette), and “The Trees” on their “Canadian Favorites” ticket. I didn’t know the last song but figured I could wing it. That was so not fun. I bombed the low part at the start and muddled my way through the rest.
I set up a two-song set list in Austin and they sprung a surprise encore option on me at the start. Went with it and it turned out to be Journey’s “Anyway You Want It”. That was a bit of a strain.
The “win a plane” gig has been sprung on me, but one of the set songs is The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” - I put that off for now because it makes me a tad nervous.
What instrument are you playing? Pinball Wizard, like many The Who songs, is pretty “interesting” on drums. 
Yes, “The Trees” sucks mightily.
I’m only singing so far. It sort of feels like cheating since it doesn’t actually require hand-eye coordination (barring the tambourine parts), but when I feel my abdominal muscles grouch at me because of all the breath control work, I don’t feel as bad. It’s been more years than I care to admit since I sung regularly.
I do have to adjust the timing - the display is a bit off from what you actually hear, and I find myself lagging behind the singer.
Singing ain’t cheating. I became the default vocalist because nobody else in the gang had the guts. You don’t have to sing at the top of your lungs, either – I never had any training but the only songs I start to run out of breath on are ones like Wonderwall (I said maybeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee). Just crank up your mic sensitivity.
It’s also the toughest instrument to “wing” if you don’t know the song well already.
When you registered to download the 20 free songs they asked for song recommendations. Anyone know if they released any list of most requested songs?
Singing is tough, my voice starts getting tired after 3 or 4 songs usually. “Man in the Box” by Alice in Chains is pretty hard too.
That one fits really well in my (alto) vocal range, happily. I bottomed out a little on a very low “Save me” but was otherwise OK. I have more tiredness problems on some of the “arena rock”-style songs, typically from tenor-range songs - Journey’s “Any Way You Want It” and Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” were rough. Then there are the ones where you barely take a breath; Squeeze’s “Cool For Cats” and some songs by Disturbed and Foo Fighters are bad for this.
I tend to sing quieter since typically my husband will be playing WoW and using Ventrilo to communicate with people he’s grouped with (it’s on push-to-talk, thankfully, though it still seeps through when he’s talking and has led to requests from guildies for him to film/record me ). However, I had to belt it out a little on songs like “Man in the Box,” Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Know,” and Pearl Jam’s “Alive”.
I’ve got the original Rock Band disc now, but haven’t installed the songs yet. I know 3 songs from the original won’t transfer, but is there any way - for the PS3 - that you can opt out of or delete after transfer any songs? That really long “Green Grass” etc. song does not sound like my cup of tea.
I haven’t read the rest of the thread, but all I have to say is screw Visions. Screw it to heck, dammit.