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Welcome to the Lane Breakers charting guide to authoring Rock Band 3 customs! This guide will aim to be a more modern and updated take on the original RBN docs written mostly from scratch to help beginners and veterans alike.

• Tools - What you need to chart and build customs
• Audio - How to mix audio for use in-game
• Tempomap - How to make the audio line up properly with the chart

• Guitar & Bass - How to chart 5-button Guitar and Bass charts
• Drums - How to chart Drum charts
• Vocals - How to chart Vocals
• Harmonies - How to chart Harmonies after learning how to chart Vocals
• Keys & Pro Keys - How to chart Keys

• Overdrive - An important gameplay mechanic and how to implement it
• Events - How to add practice sections, crowd animations and other important background stuff
• Beat - How to customize the Beat track for songs with weird time signatures and the like

• Big Rock Endings - How to add a freeform jam section at the end of a song

• Pro Guitar & Pro Bass - How to chart the mystical Protar

• Venue Basics - How to make a killer stageshow for your chart
• Camera - How to customize camera shots and choreography
• Lights - How to customize the light show
• Post-Processing - How to customize special effects

• Metadata - What to put for the in-game metadata
• In-game Audio - How to set up the audio for use in-game in Magma
• MIDI & Gameplay - That last tab in Magma with all the confusing words in it
• Advanced Building & Troubleshooting - Additional info about building the custom

• In-Game Testing - Checking the chart in-game
• Common Charting Mistakes - Some of the most common things to keep in mind
• Additional Charting Mistakes - More stuff for when something doesn't work quite as intended

• Practice Sections List - List of all supported practice sections
• Genre List - More info about genres and subgenres for metadata
• Reduction Advice - Some examples and suggestions for how to reduce certain things on Hard, Medium and Easy
• Lyrics in Different Languages - Some info about how to chart vocals for songs sung in languages other than English
• Accessibility - Stuff you might wanna keep in mind
• Age Rating Guide - More in-depth discussion on which age rating to pick in-game and such

Part of the info on this wiki is based on the Rock Band Network authoring docs.