Rocksmith

[Killed_by_Death]

Yes, I have it on PS4 & PC. You can add Custom DLC for free, on the PC version.

 

[AshInAmsterdam]

I have it on steam, actually play it mostly on OS X it ins great on MacBook Pro retina under OS X and Windows if anyone's wondering.

I've played guitar a long time so in some ways this is more an alternative method of learning actual songs than how to play but there's always something to learn, and I'm learning it through this!

Well worth a purchase, though I think the expansions are quite pricey but that's just me - it must take a lot of work to get the songs ready for the software.

 

[JPeeBass]

Dag gummit. Now I gotta go to the mall and sit on Santa's lap and ask for the PC version of Rocksmith instead of that Red Ryder BB gun! BTW, do you have a link of where I can download these songs for FREE?

 

[Killed_by_Death]

You can get a Steam code for RS2014 on the net for under $20.
Customsforge is the site for custom songs.

 

[Quantized Harmonic]

Uh, guys, I mentioned the CDLC (customs). Anyway, @JPeeBass , you have to put in a file that will allow you to use customs songs. There is a tutorial you can follow online: http://customsforge.com/topic/901-how-to-use-custom-dlcs-in-rs2014/. You basically download D3DX9_42 and place it into the base of the Rocksmith 2014 folder. Once you have done this, you use the customs forge to download a song (it will be a p.psarc file; for example: Band_on_the_Run_p.psarc) and you put it into the DLC folder (which is accessed from the Rocksmith 2014 folder). Then you can find it in the game

-You access the Rocksmith 2014 folder through this process: (Drive - my case example) G:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Rocksmith2014
-Note: Not all CDLCs will be perfect, some are crap whereas some are beautifully made. These are made by the community after all - I need to get back to one I'm working on. Heck, you can download the Dark side of the Moon album, in its entirety, as a single track. And it plays perfectly, some guitar tones could be fixed but for bass, so great

--Oh, another thing to note, you pretty much have to get the Cherub Rock DLC. This is because the way a custom works, is it uses a DLC as a bypass but the track and audio inside it are replaced by files that the CDLC creator has intended. The reason for this specific DLC is that in the community, the creators 'map' their work attached to a DLC and Cherub Rock came with the special pack of Rocksmith, so they had assumed that most people have it. Of course, you can buy it separately (I did).

You can talk to me for any help and I can help with any knowledge I know of

Custom DLCs: Sign In - CustomsForge

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I was just trying to help a guy troubleshoot his PC version for use with CDLC, and it turned out he hadn't bought Cherub Rock. So, we wasted a lot of time.

 

[Quantized Harmonic]

Oh man, no way
Well, at least you worked it out heh
I remember last year (January) when I tried to do the custom thing and I needed the file (D3D) to allow customs but at the time, it had been removed from so many main sources that I had to obtain it from a dropbox that someone else put up. Took a while finding that...

 

[5544]

I might put RS2014 on the PC some day, so I will come back to this thread to see how the CDLC is installed.

Not a waste of time for posting

 

[Quantized Harmonic]

Heh, no worries man. I just thought I would chime in to say about it, anyone can use this info now, although, it's inside this thread
We should pin this info But hey, there's always online and the official forums for the game. The customs forge too.

 

[El Spearo]

I made a simple splitter, from my bass to my splitter, one signal goes to the pc and the other one to my rig. I have a lot of CDLC songs loaded, sometimes i spend 3 or 4 hours just playing random songs.

It's also a bit of fun trying to recreate sounds with my pedalboard

 

[Reo]

I only have the PS3 version so no fan made dlc for me. However, I have found that you can find a lot of the custom dlc and regular dlc posted as Youtube videos. It doesn't give you the scoring, obviously, but gives you an idea of how the songs are played. The trick is finding videos from people who are good at the game. Nothing worse than finding a song you like and trying to play along only to find out the person recording the video is probably getting a 75% accuracy score. The missed notes can really throw you off.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I picked up a RealTone cable yesterday & started playing the Steam/PC version again. If all goes well I will go ahead and buy the PS4 version again. I've got about $100 worth of DLC on the PS4 version, so it's worth it to get the game running again.

 

[Chili_Time]

i play RS with my guitar primarily and it is a fun way to learn songs and having the game do the guitar tone changes makes this quite a fun game to play. For bass I'm learning to read music notation with the Hal Leonard Bass Method books so I don't play much RS with the bass. I guess you could say I am studying bass and just play guitar on RS to take a break and have fun, and it is a lot of fun. RS got me started playing an instrument and made it fun so I owe the developers a great big thank you.

 

[Nickweissmusic]

I just got it yesterday and played around for a bit. Pretty awesome game, once I figured out how to turn the onscreen tablature the right side up (upside down?). Now that it's been out for a while, is anyone still playing? Any interesting features or tips that people have discovered?

I wouldn't recommend learning tab "right side up," as you see it, since that's not how you'll ever see it written online or otherwise. Just stick it out and learn it normally, which seems upside down to beginners. Your brain can make the connection in a few days, after a while you won't even notice it being weird anymore.

The reason tab looks upside down is so it follows the contour of traditional notes more closely. Think of it this way, your bass is actually the thing that's upside down, because the lowest *sounding* string is physically above the highest sounding string. In traditional notation Low notes are written lower on the staff than high notes are, so similarly, your lowest sounding bass string (or any guitar type instrument) is represented lower on the TAB staff.

Do yourself a favor and learn TAB right from the beginning, it's already WAY easier than note reading, and there are literally tens of thousands of free tabs available to to learn in the future, as well as in magazines, music books, etc.

 

[Gorn]

I wouldn't recommend learning tab "right side up," as you see it, since that's not how you'll ever see it written online or otherwise. Just stick it out and learn it normally, which seems upside down to beginners. Your brain can make the connection in a few days, after a while you won't even notice it being weird anymore.

The reason tab looks upside down is so it follows the contour of traditional notes more closely. Think of it this way, your bass is actually the thing that's upside down, because the lowest *sounding* string is physically above the highest sounding string. In traditional notation Low notes are written lower on the staff than high notes are, so similarly, your lowest sounding bass string (or any guitar type instrument) is represented lower on the TAB staff.

Do yourself a favor and learn TAB right from the beginning, it's already WAY easier than note reading, and there are literally tens of thousands of free tabs available to to learn in the future, as well as in magazines, music books, etc.

I haven't played or thought about this game in years but the upside down I'm talking about is the way tabs appear everywhere. The game reverses that by default. So when I said upside down I meant I set it the way tabs appear everywhere else.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I have found that you can find a lot of the custom dlc and regular dlc posted as Youtube videos.

That's what I do when I'm considering buying a DLC. I've never bought when they're first released, and get them later on sale. Just recently Steam had a 40% off sale on more than half of the songs.

 

[Nickweissmusic]

I haven't played or thought about this game in years but the upside down I'm talking about is the way tabs appear everywhere. The game reverses that by default. So when I said upside down I meant I set it the way tabs appear everywhere else.

Really? That's pretty annoying. Never played it myself. Good on you for changing it, that's pretty lame for the people who don't know.

 

[Nickweissmusic]

Ha ha, just realized your OP was from 2015, it popped up as new in my feed since somebody commented recently, The zombie has risen!

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Ubisoft designed the software for absolute beginners, so if someone picked up a guitar for the first time & plugged it in, they'd be confused as to why the top string is on the bottom in the note highway.
It's easy to switch it anyway, for folks who are accustomed to reading tablature.

I'm getting back into it now w/o getting frustrated like before. Getting some sun & getting my vitamin D levels up has helped a lot, not to mention a new playing position so I don't get a sprained arm.
I've been trying to coach myself through a textbook on bass, but just like before it's very dry & difficult to relate to actual playing. I keep reading these books hoping that someday a light will come on, but alas not yet.

add:
I missed their Twitch feed last week, but they have one every Thursday where they run through the new DLC for the week.

 

[INTP]

I wish Rocksmith had a version that showed Standard Notation.