We're currently organising our staff xmas do, and we were thinking about using Rock Band 3, as I have the previous games, microphones etc.
Since I have a USB Mic and a couple of Wireless ones, I was wondering if you could play Rock Band on No Fail and just blast out songs karaoke-style or whether you'd need to set the players up with Harmonies, and have them work different vocal tracks, etc.
IE can they just straight sing as a solo-player would in RB3 or would they need to harmonise?
Best Answer
Yes, but only in Rock Band 3. This is called "all instruments mode" (AIM) and can be enabled in the per-user overshell settings. That's the menu at the bottom of the screen for each player.
(look ma, no vocalist! keys/drums/guitar/bass)
In AIM, there is no vocalist player with a controller, it's basically karaoke mode. Full easy harmony vocals are always on and scrolling across the top of the screen. Any connected microphone, up to 3, can sing any part of the song -- or not -- at any time. It is completely optional but always on for walk-ups.
There is no vocalist scoring in this mode though, so all you can do is get streaks and see how you do on each vocal segment.
That also means you can either sing lead (blue line), harmony #1 (orange line), or harmony #2 (red line) from any microphone.