Happy Holidays everyone! As some of you may have already seen, we launched a new song pack and a regular update for Paradiddle last week, so here's a more detailed look at what's new.
We're beyond excited to announce the launch of the Avenged Sevenfold Song Pack for Paradiddle on Meta Quest and Steam! Known for blending metalcore, hard rock, and progressive elements with their powerful melodies and intricate guitar work, the legendary Avenged Sevenfold arrives to Paradiddle as its 2nd song pack, following the King Gizzard song pack we had earlier this year.
Take a tour through Avenged Sevenfold's discography with 6 songs in multiple difficulty levels, and a variety of exclusive content: a new environment, 2 new drum skins and a new pair of sticks. Lose yourself in the cosmos and dive into the band's ever-evolving sound as your surroundings react differently to each of the 6 songs.
Full song list:
- Cosmic (7:31)
- Hail to the King (5:06)
- Shepherd of Fire (5:24)
- A Little Piece of Heaven (8:01)
- Nightmare (6:14)
- Bat Country (5:12)
A new environment - Cosmic:
1 new pair of sticks
2 new drum skins
🎶 (Beta Release) Notation Updates: Sheet music view for highway songs:
You can now play any song by following drum notation instead of seeing the highway! You can activate the notation view from the song settings, in the Highway Layout section.
The system includes options such as separating hand and feet hits, or separating drum and cymbal hits. You can have the note colors match your drum colors to enhance readability or disable it for more realism.
Since we don’t have the actual sheet music for any given song, the system does its best to figure out what the notation representation should look like. If you have any suggestions on improvements or can point us to examples in songs where a given section doesn’t seem to make sense, that’d be a huge help for us in improving this system.
🥽 (Quest-Only) New E-Kit Toggle and MR Drum Improvements:
We have completely reworked the MR drum mode where you can connect your electronic and/or acoustic kits to play Paradiddle.
- Instead of individual MR toggles for each drum, there's now a global "E-Kit" toggle you can find in the menu toolbar.
- MR drums are now compatible with lessons.
- We also have a new drum substitution system for MR kits: if a song uses a drum your real kit doesn't have, the app will do its best to substitute it with one that's close enough (so a missing Floor Tom might be mapped to your existing Tom 2, for instance).
We're still looking for ways to improve our MR drum system, so please let us know if you're running into any frustrations with setup.
🤏 (Quest-Only) Hand Tracking UI Branch
On Quest, you can now switch to the "Hand Tracking" release channel to enable hand tracking for UI interactions. This is mostly useful for those of you using the app with a real drum kit, as you now won't have to constantly switch between your real sticks and controllers. We didn't want this to be on a separate release channel, however had to go with this approach to minimize accidental controller -> hand switching for players using virtual drums as there's no way for apps to turn hand tracking on/off as they're running. The controls are similar to standard hand tracking controls you'd see on Quest: you can click by pinching, and bring up the menu by doing the system gesture (look at your palm, touch your index finger and thumb) on your left hand.
Feedback, reviews and artist suggestions appreciated!
Please let us know if you have any feedback on the new song pack and updates, either good or bad. Do you have any suggestions for artists we should collab with? Let us know!
If you're able to leave a review on the either the app or song pack, that would also be greatly appreciated. We want to make sure we can get the word out about the song packs to as many people as possible!
Enjoy, and thanks for your continued support throughout 2024!
- Emre
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