Rock Band 3 title update adds in smoke machine support

When is a patch not a patch? When it's on a console, apparently, and becomes a mandatory title update. Rock Band 3 is due for a doozy, increasing your options for triggering overdrive on various instruments, fixing the PS3 keyboards distortion, and adding support for the ill-fated, smoke-machine sporting stage kit.

According to the Rock Band forums, the update is already up on Xbox Live, and should hit the US and EU PlayStation Networks within a day.

See the full patch notes below.

Thanks, Joystiq.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES
- The audio distortion (also referred to as a buzz, hiss, or squawk) that some PS3 Keyboard players experienced has been addressed.
- For users experiencing trouble deploying Vocal Overdrive in certain audio setups, OD can now be deployed using the Back button on the controller. NOTE: this only works while in a valid Overdrive deploy section.
- Overdrive can now be deployed using a Pedal with both the Mustang Pro Guitar and the Keyboard peripherals.
- Scoring is disabled after a song has been paused multiple times (this prevent players from artificially inflating scores using the pause function).
- The translucency of the track surface has been adjusted to make note gems are easier to see against the venue backgrounds.
- Based on fan feedback, limited functionality for the Stage kit has been added to Rock Band 3. Please note that this 3rd-party peripheral is no longer officially supported, so we cannot guarantee full functionality with every file format (RB3, Pro-DLC), but basic functions should be reenabled.

ONLINE CHANGES
- PS3 Voice Chat not properly working with headsets has been remedied.
- Audio no longer distorts for remote players when whammying sustains in an online session.
- To prevent blank tracks from appearing in online multiplayer, all members in an online multiplayer band must own the Pro upgrades to play a song with DLC pro upgrades.

MUSIC LIBRARY AND STORE CHANGES
- Pro Guitar songs now sort themselves into the correct difficulty tiers.
- Pro upgrade availability will now be more accurately reflected in the Music Store.
- The following songs are now correctly appearing in the Music Library.
- Anvil - 666
- Anvil - Metal on Metal
- Anvil - This is Thirteen
- Dinosaur Jr - Pick Me Up
- Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon
- Guess Who, The - Hand Me Down World
- Guess Who, The - No Time
- Tenacious D - Rock Your Socks
- Avenged Sevenfold – Afterlife

PRACTICE MODE CHANGES
- An issue that prevented holding sustain notes on keys in the trainers has been addressed
- Breakneck Speed now works in Practice Mode.

CRASH FIXES
- Fixed a Character Creator crash related to a particular eyebrow asset or the generation of a random character.
- Fixed assorted minor crashes, as well as minor scoring and text bugs.