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Fuser is the Frankenstein of music games as Rock Band maker lets you mix songs
By Elise Favis
February 26 at 9:06 AM ET
Fuser puts you in the shoes of a DJ operating a deck in front of a lively crowd. (Harmonix)
Harmonix, the developer behind Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is developing a new music game: Fuser. Rather than playing to the beat of the music and synchronizing your timing to the right notes, this time the music follows your lead.
Fuser lets you be a virtual maestro, the mastermind behind how songs come together. You seamlessly remix vocals, bass, instrumentation and other elements of hit songs from top artists into something completely new.
The game puts you in the shoes of a performer operating a DJ deck in front of a lively concert crowd. On the deck, you can drop different songs into four slots. It’s up to you how you want to incorporate each fragment (like vocals from a Lady Gaga track) into your musical creation.
On the DJ deck, you can drop discs into four slots. (Harmonix)
It’s a concept akin to Harmonix’s DropMix, a musical toy and card game built in conjunction with Hasbro that launched in 2017. In DropMix, you can create your own tracks by placing songs or components of songs (represented as playing cards) on a board to mix musical beats. DropMix required a peripheral to work, whereas Fuser is all digital.
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“With Fuser, we are delivering the ultimate music fantasy game,” Harmonix CEO Steve Janiak said in a press release provided to The Washington Post. “Music today is an experience. It’s not just people listening to albums any more — it’s recording and sharing videos of you singing along to your favorite songs, watching your favorite bands play at festivals and sharing hit music with your friends. Fuser puts players at the center of all that by letting you mix and share some of the biggest hits on your way to becoming a festival headliner.”
Fuser will include over 100 songs across a multitude of music genres, including hip-hop, dance, rock, country and more. It comes to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in the fall.
A screenshot from Fuser (Harmonix)
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Elise Favis is a reporter for Launcher, The Washington Post’s video game and esports vertical. Before joining The Post, she worked as an associate editor for Game Informer, a video game magazine with a circulation of more than 7 million.
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