These were some things I encountered during the making of my CDLCs or testing of other peoples CDLC. Might be helpful to others  :)

 

Q: My CDLC doesn't show up in game!

A: See http://customsforge.com/topic/901-how-to-use-custom-dlcs-in-rs2014/ . If downloaded CDLCs do work you might have added the wrong app id.

Another reason might be that your 'DLC Name' is the same as another one. Choose a different name in this field in RCST.

 

Q: Rocksmith doesn't show difficulty bars in my CDLC! All the cool CDLCs have them!

A: Do you even have different difficulty levels? If not, make them, or let DDC create them. If there are, there are probably too much sections (over 100). Make less sections. In DDC, you might increase phrase length for this. See http://ddcreator.wordpress.com/dynamic-difficulty-creator/eof-rules/ .

 

Q: Riff Repeater acts weird: it doesn't start or go to a next section.

A: Did you set seek granularity in Wwise when encoding the song to .wem? See http://rocksmithcustoms.wikispaces.com/ .

 

Q: When playing my CDLC, tone drops to barebones (no fx), no matter if you change to saved tones with 1,2,3 and 4 keys you got barebones tone. If you exit the song issue will still persist and you have to exit and open again RS2014.A: You probably didn't add a custom tone for the arrangement.

 

Q: The song I'd like to chart has five strings, how do I get them in Rocksmith?

A: FInd out the tuning of the bass. It's often BEAD instead of EADG. You can change the tuning according to the following steps: http://customsforge.com/topic/4750-going-low-a-workaround-to-get-bass-notes-below-c1-to-register-in-rocksmith/?p=34837 . You have to move the notes from the 5th string to the 4th string (+5 frets) since Rocksmith doesn't work with a 5th string.

 

Q: My bass arrangement shows vertical green lines!

A: That's because you feed Rocksmith a 5-string-bass-arrangement. You tell it to show which fret on the 5th string to put your finger on, but Rocksmith only works with 4 string max. for bass arrangements. See previous question.

 

Q: Notes show up too fast in the beginning! I'm not ready yet!

A: Add a leading silence. See http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50892 .

I think I've experienced all of these. This is a great list! 

 

For the last one, I think adding that tone should be a crucial step. You shouldn't even be able to generate the file unless you add a tone. Otherwise you have to restart RS to get all your tones back.

More Qs:

 

Q: The song I'd like to chart has five strings, how do I get them in Rocksmith?

A: FInd out the tuning of the bass. It's often BEAD instead of EADG. You can change the tuning according to the following steps: http://customsforge.com/topic/4750-going-low-a-workaround-to-get-bass-notes-below-c1-to-register-in-rocksmith/?p=34837 . You have to move the notes from the 5th string to the 4th string (+5 frets) since Rocksmith doesn't work with a 5th string.

 

Q: My bass arrangement shows vertical green lines!

A: That's because you feed Rocksmith a 5-string-bass-arrangement. You tell it to show which fret on the 5th string to put your finger on, but Rocksmith only works with 4 string max. for bass arrangements. See previous question.