RockGamer Studios took an intensive course in Rock Band authoring at Harmonix HQ in Cambridge, MA. Only a select few individuals were offered the chance to be personally instructed by the game’s development team. We’ve learned tricks from the masters that have helped raise the quality of our products one step above the competition. Our team members have worked for top-tier video game companies such as Electronic Arts, THQ, and Ubisoft. We understand the game development process. We know what gamers are looking for, and aim to deliver a top-quality gameplay experience with every track. Members of the RockGamer Studios authoring team have shared the stage with world-famous artists such as Sting, Jethro Tull, Mötley Crüe and the B-52s. We know what it’s like to play in front of thousands of fans, and our mission is to recreate this adrenaline rush on the virtual stage, using the cinematic and lighting tools available to us. Most members of our authoring team have hundreds, if not thousands of hours of Rock Band playing experience. The team includes some of the most proficient “technical” Rock Band players in the world… as well as two members of The Gurn Killers, the reigning 2008 Rock Band national champions. What does this mean to you? Let’s just say we’re very passionate about what we do, and it shows in the quality of our work.

We are an experienced team of individuals designed to work together with musicians, bands, and record labels to bring music into the Rock Band gaming platform through the Rock Band Network. Through streamlined processes, focused expertise, and quality control measures; our team aims to maximize sales and exposure for songs and artists as quickly as possible. Aside from original recordings, we professionally author all content required for submission, including: multi-track stem mixing, note charts, in-game camera, staging, animation and lighting events in order to deliver a fun, accurate, and musically engaging experience for all gamers to enjoy. Joseph Cirri, Sean Feica, Andrew Dovichi, Greg Litvin, Andrew Funk, Dave Barley, and Nick Bruno traveled to Boston on March 2nd, 2009 [four months prior to RBN being announced] 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.

Track Authors has been involved with Rock Band Network since the very beginning. We’ve been working with Harmonix since day one, and are dedicated to helping Rock Band Network reach its full potential as a music distribution outlet. We want to author great music into great tracks, because we love Rock Band. We want good music, and beautiful gameplay. We focus on not only charting your song correctly, but making the stage show beautiful and accurate. We work to make your track fun to play in the game as well as as musically accurate as gameplay allows. We spend days working on the finer aspects of your track. We customize the lighting, the closeups on the band, the smoke, the pyrotechnics, and everything else that can possibly be customized in the game. We will work with you to ensure that you are satisfied with the Rock Band representation of your music. It’s important to us that you are happy with the end result. We will also assist you in promoting your tracks once they are available in the Rock Band Network store.

Music Game Authors is a company formed in the wake of the huge news that Harmonix and MTv were opening up the development of rock band music downloadable content (DLC) to interested 3rd party developers such as Music Game Authors as well as any interested individuals, bands, record companies, indie labels. We are commited to providing world class services to our clients, that will consist of up and coming bands, well known artists, and small to large indie labels. Music Game Authors consists of several individuals (and growing) that have experience in the music industry, game development, web development, marketing, search engine optimization, graphic design, animation and video production, sound recording, sound production, musicians ( the company organizer has been a percussionist for 15 years and has played with some top artists and been in the studio with some of these artists). Every member of our creative and marketing teams are highly skilled individuals and all have pledged to give each project we work on the fullest attention to detail.

Rock Your Own Band (RYOB), established August 2009 in Milwaukee, WI, was created on the heels of Harmonix’s press release heralding the Rock Band Network. Created by guitarist/songwriter Jaek Pachniak, the company serves as a solution to musicians and labels interested in distributing their music through the RBN. RYOB has a mission statement of providing the highest quality charts for the most affordable prices, quickest turnaround, and strives for 100% satisfaction for its customers. RYOB’s staff blends real-band experience with classical training and a love (if not obsession) for rhythm games.

Bombsite Studios was started in April of 2009 after the announcement of 3rd party development opportunities for Rock Band 2 DLC (downloadable content). After spending many years in the game industry, our team saw an incredible opportunity to work with the creators of Rock Band (Harmonix, MTV Networks) to get more music – from local bands and labels, to big names and major players; in short, anyone into Rock Band 2. Comprised of a team of seasoned and creative individuals with years of experience in video game production as well as music, animation, lighting, pipeline development, debugging, web design, and rawking out, Bombsite Studios is the perfect choice to chart your original music for the Rock Band Network.

Are you an independent musician? In a band? Are you looking for an easy way to bring your recorded music to the wildly-successful and industry-changing Rock Band rhythm game franchise? What makes RBN so exciting, and also a bit daunting, is that your songs will be created using the same advanced charting and animation system that Harmonix uses. This is where Noble Rhythm comes in. We are proud to join the ranks of creators who have assembled the right mix of computing, gaming, audio production and sequencing skills required to master Harmonix’s professional-grade authoring tools. What makes Noble Rhythm unique is our philosophy, our approach, and our easy-to-use, fully-featured song upload interface. The Rock Band Network was envisioned by Harmonix to grant anyone the opportunity to sell their music on its award-winning rhythm game platform, and Noble Rhythm has adopted the same mission. What this means is that we are determined not to be a content gatekeeper. We’re artists too; we’re not going to pretend that we’re a record label. On the other hand, we’re also not going to pretend that you’re buying a product. When you upload your music to Noble Rhythm, you become our creative partner; a collaborator, not a client or a customer. Noble Rhythm has created a robust account system that gives you an easy and secure way to upload your master recordings, song information, and lyrics.

Welcome to MyRBN, your portal to the Rock Band Network. This is the place to come for info regarding our involvement in Harmonix Rock Band Network. We are scouting for bands that want to get their music to a new audience, and playable in the premiere music game, Rock Band 2.  Are you a musician?  Do you have a band?  Are you recording music?  Are you trying to figure out a way to get your music to a larger audience?  Look no further, contact us (the people at MyGGGO) with our new branch, MyRBN, and we will work with you to get your music into the new Rock Band Network.

With an extensive music and audio engineering background along with programming experience, as well as a passion for great music and games; Audio Four Games possesses all the necessary skills and tools to take full advantage of the Rock Band Network. Audio Four Games will work with recording artists, music labels, and music distribution companies to bring their music to the Rock Band Network in an effort to bring the best possible interactive entertainment experience to fans, and to increase music exposure through the Rock Band music platform.

Gamer Beats was formed by a small group of video game industry professionals, with design and production experience spread across such companies as EA, THQ, and F-I. We are all quite crazy about music and Rock Band, and so decided to pursue our passions and become a Rock Band charting group. Gamer Beats will initially focus on bringing well known bands in under-represented genres to the RBN, in addition to helping indy bands we love share their music with a wider audience.

When the initial excitement of the Rock Band Network announcement finally sunk in, we knew that there would be bands interested in getting their music in Rock Band, but might not have the knowledge to make that happen. We are a small company, dedicated to exploring interactive music, gaming, and new business models. We pride ourselves on faithful and fun music translations. You’ll always know who you are dealing with here, we like to keep it personal. No corporate art in the offices, only limited-edition, silk-screen rock posters We love to talk about music and video games. Drop us a line.

We turn your music into playable tracks for the best-selling game Rock Band. The Rock Band Network is a revolutionary system that will allow bands, studios and record labels to create and sell playable game content from their master recordings using the same professional tools used by the makers of Rock Band.

We here at Interactive Music Productions knew we could make a difference when Harmonix announced the RockBand Network. We are working with several bands in our local and regional scenes to help give them greater exposure and an entirely new connection to their fans. Let’s not forget a potential new revenue stream. The world is more connected now then ever. This allows us to share our skills with that world. We are able to work with any band that has their own music and dreams to be heard. You supply the song, we handle the rest. We are a small group at this time, but have the hopes to grow as this new medium grows. We are a few individuals working side by side to get the music heard. There are many companies out there that can help and, if you don’t choose us, please choose someone or get yourself on the network. Here at Interactive Music Productions we believe nothing is more important than being heard.

We believe in empowering musicians. Not all musicians have the time or know-how to get their music in the Rock Band Network. Our business is doing the work for you so you don’t have to. We will provide the translation for the tracks for a flat fee and assist you in setting up the Microsoft XNA Creator’s Club. After we are done, you get to keep all your royalties from Rock Band Network sales. You did the work to create the music, and you deserve all the fruits your creation bears.

Never Say Die is a group of experts in mastery of the game, film directing audio mixing and recording, animation, lighting techs, and computer specialists. Not to mention we all are fans and avid Rock Band players. We all share a common interest in darker and louder music. From Metal, and many of its sub genres… Goth Metal, Death Metal, Thrash, Symphonic to Punk, Post – Punk, Goth and Industrial. Music that has been a part of our daily lives. We feel that this genre of music has been put to the way side by the game , that when this opens up , we will jump at the chance to help get the music we love out there.

Our goal at Alt-Strum Productions is to be the forerunners in a new age of digital distribution and artist promotion for the music and gaming industries. Working through Harmonix and the Rock Band Network, we will personally author, from an artist’s original work, programmed content which will be sold as playable Rock Band tracks to an audience of millions that might otherwise go untouched. We will also promote the Band and sales of the Rock Band tracks through our website and other viable channels. We believe that the music gaming industry is poised to be the next revolutionary form of interactive digital distribution and our goal is to assist bands from every genre into making that transition, reaching more potential listeners and ultimately promoting themselves and their sales in all forms of distribution.

The Authority are situated a stone’s throw from Harmonix headquarters in Cambridge MA, and maintain close ties. The three Authority founders, having prepared The Slip’s “Even Rats” for Guitar Hero 1 (considered an early Guitar Hero classic) were invited to take part in the closed Beta testing for the Rock Band Network (RBN). After extensive training with Harmonix, and subsequently Authoring many songs for the initial release of RBN, The Authority were included on Harmonix’ exclusive Recommended Authors List, a group of fewer than twenty-five people worldwide.

We are a small company dedicated to providing the best Rock Band experience for your music. We are located in the live music capitol of the world, Austin, Texas. We are a close knit group of computer geeks, video game nerds, and music snobs. We are dedicated to crafting the best Rock Band experience for your music.

We’ve spent the last 15 years working as full-time musicians. During that time frame we built our own studio and have been recording various bands and our own side projects. We know music and the music biz better than anyone and working with the Rock Band Network has been very natural and fun for us. All of those hours of transcribing music as a kid has really paid off now.

Meltdown Productions is a full-service production and sound design company. As a husband and wife creative team, Patrick and Kristen utilize their education and experience to deliver a unique and top-of-the-line result.

Little Cow Dog has one mission: to get your band into Rock Band. With the introduction of the Rock Band Network, bands everywhere have the opportunity to get their music into one of the most popular and influential video games of the past decade.  When you hire LCD, you’re hiring veteran musicians who understand the fundamentals of both rock music and the Rock Band video game. We’ve spent countless hours listening to rock and playing video games because that’s what we love. Fortunately for us, the Rock Band Network presents the opportunity to make a living doing both.  We’ll take your multi-track recordings, turn them into video game awesomeness and help you earn more revenue from your creativity.

iStave was founded in September 2009 to be the leader in the authoring/charting songs for bands to get their music on Rock Band Network (RBN). We are comprised of musicians (some currently in bands themselves) together with rhythm game enthusiasts (addicts, really!!) to bring the highest level of expertise to the charting process. We love music and it shows in our our passion for creating the truest possible representation of our client’s music on the Rock Band platform.

We’re a small little group of musicians, gamers, and engineers. We’re a younger crew, with a number of college students. We take stuff seriously enough to do a good job while trying to stay kids at heart. We believe doing a good job is more important than making a ton of money. We believe in giving the little guy as much love as the big guy.

Electric Flannel is thrilled to announce that we will be developers for the Rock Band Network, an innovate new platform of downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series. Our team of experienced developers, musicians and engineers will be making premium-quality content featuring great music from great bands, and we are committed to providing more and more bands with the opportunity to have their music featured in this innovative new platform. The first Rock Band Network content will be available in early 2010 for the Xbox 360 video game console.

We love Rock Band, and we love music so us at Corbomite Games formed relationships with several Israeli rock bands and record labels in joint efforts to produce and sell songs through the “Rock Band Network”. So we opened up LehakatRock.com, a portal for our songs portfolio.  Making songs for Rock Band is so much fun, especially since we’re a group of musicians and an avid Rock Band player. Combining our skills in creating and designed games and our musical talents gives us the best approach to creating the best arrangements adapting exising song into Rock Band gameplay.  Lehakat Rock, which literally means Rock Band in Hebrew will become the leading portal for Israeli Rock Bands and artists to announce and promote thier bands and songs to the Rock Band gamer community and will include announcements and details about the bands and songs that are planned to be sold through the Rock Band Network.

octave(ABOVE) is the very first company in Southern California offering track authoring services for Rock Band. With our help, your music could be accessible to everyone with an Xbox Live account and a set of wicked plastic instruments.  Getting your songs in to Rock Band is a no-brainer for any group or musician looking to increase overall exposure and sales. Chances are, you’ve already fantasized what it would be like if it were possible to see your own songs in the game. Now, it is possible, and there’s good reason to be excited.

For more information, see this thread over at the RockBand.com forums.