Chicago - T-Mobile / Rock Band Network Connect Present: The Creators Club Professional Development Workshop

T-Mobile Rock Band Network Connect presents a series of comprehensive, professional education and networking workshops across major markets in the United States. Each event will connect music and game industry professionals with the recently launched Rock Band Network content initiative and introduce them to the unique authoring process involved in creating downloadable content for the music video game "Rock Band."

These FREE events are designed to provide a general understanding of this exciting new opportunity. Each workshop will present an overview of the Rock Band Network and will look at some of the related new features coming for "Rock Band 3." It will demystify the authoring process and its tools, show the workings of the content approval pipeline and provide some insights to those looking to invigorate their businesses by bridging the music and game spaces.

September 29^thChicago Panelists to include:

Mike Howes , Director of Sales  Victory Records

Evan Mercier, Director of Street Promotions  Victory Records

Victory Records, Inc. is the top independent rock label in the United States and one of the world's leading privately-held independent record companies. www.victoryrecords.com

For more information and to register go to www.pyramind.com/rockband/register.

SPACE IS LIMITED and seating will be based on a first-come first-serve basis.

Please be advised that you will be entering a third part site to RSVP for this event. Any information you provide will no longer be controlled by The Recording Academy.

Event Schedule:

6:30 p.m.      Registration and sign in

7-8 p.m.          An Introduction to the Rock Band Creators Network. What does it mean to music professionals?

                        How do they engage with RBN?

                        Mini Panel with Rock Band Network Executive Producer Jeff Marshall and artists and label reps,                                         followed by Q&A

8-9:30 p.m.    Overview of the Authoring Process: Creating your stems and using Reaper, Magma and                                                  online tools for converting music tracks into a game play ready file

                        Case Studies and Q&A

9:30-11 p.m.    Networking: RBN Gameplay, Mixer and sponsor demos.

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