Hello Rocksmith fans!
Yesterday some new job postings appeared on Ubisoft’s website. This has been happening since the announcement of Rocksmith+ but this time there’s something a bit more interesting than usual.
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We’ve seen other evidence of this before release with this article, but this time it seems a lot more concrete.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Ubisoft Entertainment, a global leader in the video games and entertainment software industry, is currently seeking a Piano Content Developer for Rocksmith+. We are looking for a talented, motivated and experienced person to help establish and grow the future of an innovative music game. Qualified individuals are expected to be organized, with excellent communication skills, and have substantial experience in piano education, transcription, and performance.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Help to develop a music education curriculum that is suitable for beginner, intermediate, and advanced piano players in both classical and modern piano styles
- Compose and record custom Ubisoft-created lesson and song content
- Perform (audio) and record (video) lesson content
- Offer on-call educational and transcription support for different Ubisoft music teams
- Produce accurate transcriptions of piano using proprietary music authoring software
- Review musical transcriptions with thoughtfulness and attention to detail
- Check audio mixes, piano tones, and progression/level development for QA purposes
- Work periodically with QA to ensure reported bugs / issues are relevant to design requirements
- Review Chord Chart arrangements for existing songs with thoughtfulness and attention to detail
- Assist in the moderation of community-submitted musical arrangement
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- Advanced understanding of piano/keyboard in multiple musical genres, including modern, pop/rock, classical and jazz
- Comprehensive understanding of music theory
- Experience in music education
- Broad range of listening skills, including absolute and relative pitch, chord knowledge, and rhythm skills
- Work efficiently with a high attention to detail
- Experience with DAWs, music notation software (e.g. Guitar Pro, Finale, Sibelius), and MIDI is a necessity
- Multi-instrumentalist, guitarist, vocalist
- Composition background
In addition to this job posting there were others mostly hinting at the future of the Rocksmith+ community in regards to Live Streams, Video Content, and the now absent Content Creator position.
I am thrilled to announce that I've joined the team at @DigitalEclipse!
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— Dan Amrich (@DanAmrich) February 8, 2022
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— OCA Ventures (@OCAVentures) February 7, 2022
Onward and upward!
This isn’t the first game to tackle Piano Education, examples such as Synthesia, Phase Shift, and Rock Band 3 come to mind.
Can you imagine some of Rocksmith Remastered’s content with added Piano content? Or perhaps some of the Rocksmith+ content we saw in the beta? Or would you be more excited about some news about tracked vocals? Let us know!
I have been waiting for years for something like this. Synthesia’s midi songs are just boring as hell. I hope this is released in a one time purchase program Like Rocksmith Remastered rather than those money grabbing monthly fees with microtransactions.
I’m waiting patiently waiting for piano, for my daughter. Hopefully she can have as much fun with RS as I have had over the years.
Looks like Collin just filled this position…?
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Do you know Collin Chu?
I do not, but I noticed the LinkedIn just like you
Soooo, with the Ubisoft possibly being bought out, will this continue?
Ubisoft being bought out rumors are happening from time to time. So far so good, Ubisoft main owners found people wanting to just invest their money.
But if the French guy owning the crypted channel finally manage to buy Ubisoft, you will get very different games and you can say goodbye to Rocksmith.
It’s not like Rocksmith is alive anyhow. Why stop support and dlc for rocksmith remastered so far ahead? Rocksmith+ sounds far from ready and the subscription format will throw away half of the fans.
I sincerely hope this example if bad management, if repeated, will not hinder Ubisoft’s future.
i want drum
Damn I wish they could release this already! I would gladly pay 25% of the subscription cost to still have the beta access.
Well that’s one of the 3 smartest things they should do. Other two are obviously do the same for drums and drop the subscription model.
I don’t understand the DROP THE SUBSCRIPTION models. This allows the company to make money, to pay Licenses, Dev’s, Employees, Utilities, Networking costs, building costs, and everything else it takes to run a business. While a 1 time purchase would be great, you’re buying songs anyway. This way, you get them all at all times, whether you wanted the songs or not. But Time is Money. And a few of us, Guitar Geeks, that paid $50 back in the day was not enough to keep them running in the long run.
And it will allow for Non-Hacking of the software as you have to sign in and be online to keep the program registered. “Yeah, that’s what we want don’t want to do. It should be free, the people should be working for free and just work for the privilege of working. Because I’m entitled!” Meh, you mean nothing to them or me.
I’ve gotten back into playing piano after buying a midi keyboard. It’d be a great fit with Rocksmith especially considering they just plug in (so no ubisoft cable needed).
I’m just not a fan of the new subscription service they’ve decided on.
Nobody wants anything to do with a subscription version of rock smith, but nobody is going to argue with having more options/instruments to use with it.