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== Audition ==
Audition mode should be mostly self-explanatory. You can auto-play any tracks (including all of them, if you wish), or play local multiplayer with other people.

=== Transfer === 
You first need to transfer a song to Audition Mode via Magma V2.0 running on a PC. Details of this are covered on the [[Magma]] page.

=== Audition Setup ===
The setup screen allows you to select a mix of human controlled parts and autoplayers, choose venues and difficulties, and turn on and off drum fills.
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Navigate through this screen with up/down on any connected controller. Note that No Fail mode is always enabled for Audition mode.
* Drum Fills: Press "A" to enable or disable drum fills.
* Venue: Press "A" to cycle through four different venues (small, medium, large, and arena) as well as a blank venue for quick testing.
* For each player slot, you may add a human player (if an appropriate controller is connected) or have a computer autoplay the part.
** Press "BACK" to choose Human or Computer autoplay. This will only be possible if there is a valid authored part in the song being auditioned.
** Press A to cycle through appropriate track types. Audition mode will only allow parts that are present in the song and not already assigned to a slot.
** Press Y to choose difficulty.
When you have set up the options to your satisfaction navigate to "Start Audition" and press A
=== Playback ===
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Ingame playback for Audition Mode is almost identical to regular Rock Band 3 gameplay, except for
* No Fail mode is always enabled.
* All Instruments mode is not supported.
* A small debug window will display the following information:
** M:B:T This shows the current song time in the standard MIDI reference of Measures:Beats:Ticks. When reporting issues with authoring this information makes it easy for the author to locate the song section with the problem.
** Elapsed and Remaining are the time elapsed and time remaining for the song.
** Section: The current Practice Mode name. This is the only way that the auditioners may review and approve that the Practice Sections as authored are correctly placed and named.

== Cheats ==
During Audition Mode playback, the following cheats are available:

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* Left Trigger:	Camera Cycle
** During audition, pressing the left trigger will cycle through cameras focused on specific band members, in order to make it easier to check lip sync and guitar/bass playing animations.
** The order of the cameras is: Main Camera > Guitar Player Hands > Guitar Player Face > Vocalist Face > Bass Player Hands > Bass Player Face > Drummer Face > Main Camera.
** On some venues, and when transitioning from certain main camera shots, the cheat cameras may be dark or focused incorrectly on their targets. There are two workarounds:
*** Use the D-Pad Up and Down to slowly zoom in and out when cheat cameras are active.
*** Return to the main camera and wait for a medium or long shot before transitioning to the cheat cameras.  
* Right Trigger:	Deploy All Overdrive
** Any parts that have half a bar of overdrive or more will deploy.
* Left Bumper:	Skip Back
** Skip back 12 seconds. Some animations may not resume playing immediately after skipping. Also note that if the song playback is stopped it will resume playing at 1/4 speed following a skip forward or back. This is required to correctly update the in game UI.
* Right Bumper:	Skip Forward
** Skip forward 30 seconds. Same caveats about animations and playback speed as above.
* Dpad Left: Slow Down
** Each press of Dpad left decrements the speed as follows: Double >  Normal > Half > Quarter > Pause.	
* Dpad Right: Speed Up
** Each press of Dpad right increments the speed as follows: Pause > Quarter > Half > Normal > Double.
* Dpad Up: Keyboard Synth Volume Cycle
** If a Rock Band Keyboard peripheral is attached this cheat will play a synth tone corresponding to any key presses. This cheat is intended to help keyboard authors check their authoring versus the actual keyboard part in the game.
** There are 4 different volume levels, as well as off. Each press of Dpad Up will cycle through the volumes.
* Dpad Down: Vocal Guide Pitch Cycle
** This cheat will generate a synth tone that corresponds with the MIDI authoring for each vocal part. It is intended to help vocal authors match their authoring with the actual notes being sung. 
** Each press of Dpad down will cycle through the parts: SOLO/HARM1 > HARM2 > HARM3 > Off

== Known Issues ==
* HOPOs do not show up for guitar/bass tracks unless you have a guitar controller attached to the slot being played. You can still use autoplay, you just have to have a guitar connected.
* After 2-3 plays of a song [previous] and [next] events stop registering when playing in a venue. In order to work around this problem, restart the song in a different venue.