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They need to get cranking, ToneLib seems to hitting all the marks for core interface. As much as I like Rock Smith and how it created the .parsc file format, it's about to get run over by other software that can read that format.

Learn to read sheet music and where the notes are on your guitar. You'll feel like you have been set free . You can play your solo anywhere on the neck and take advantage of different tonal properties in different registers. You also get score info missing in tabs making things much much easier. Come-on, let's Pump Some Nylon!

They have come a long way in design and usabllty since the start. A lot of effort seems to have be in the note reconginition engine. At the start RS had problems with note reconginition and intonation. As you have probably noticed now your guitar can drift quite a bit out of tune and RS will still pick up the notes. One can hope that this will allow RS to handle bottle neck slide in the future along with other new features. Unfortunately RS code seems to be in a somewhat fragile state with all manner of misfunctions, especially using manual tone switch. I think they have come the farthest of anyone in making this work. I would just like to see a total rewrite to fix core functionality and user interface. Alas as long as RS is primarily written for console first and ported to PC then RS will probably remain constricted in what it can do. That's sort of my pet peeve with having to put up with the clunky game console/game-pad interface on a PC.

When asked a developer did say that something was coming and that it would take, "more than a month and less than two years." I agree that the code is probably pretty patched together at this point and forking the save file means a major rewrite of code. I'd be willing to shell out money for a new version but I think others are thinking more along the lines of another update and that's probably what's coming. Saw something on YouTube about a program in development that uses a Note Highway and Guitar Pro files. Interesting end run around copyright issues, or maybe not. As they say, "If you want something done, you got to write it yourself."

Was hoping to stir up some discussion on how to give Rocksmith a better future. I know most of the developers hang around Reddit and not here.

Not enough screen real eastate leads to a information jam-up. We don't need the Phrase Location Bar when the highway is in motion. It could be set to... 1. Turn off automatically when we are playing 2. Do a TAB Crawl Display when playing or highway stopped. 2..Do a Standard Notation crawl when playing or stopped. When the HIghway is stopped, please remove the huge Block Letters the cover the lower right quadrant of the Note Highway. Pitch bends need a small notation next to the note such as, 1/2 or 1 or 1 1/2. Do something with the RHYTHM NOTATION PLEASE! FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT !!!!!!!!!

Yes the problem with the Riff Repeater is not how it was executed but what it was intended to do. Old fossilized dudes like me learned on sheet music. The passage you want to work on is on the there in front of you, you can see the entire passage. Riff repeater is apparently not meant to be played when stopped as big block letters pop up covering the highway. That and you can't see mush of the passage. There was someone that hacked Rocksmith and it shows a pop-up transparency next to the highway with tabs. Photoshop or for real he's shown a direct road map to a better Rocksmith. Video guitar lessons under utilized. You you can go out to You tube and find what you're looking for just as easy. Perhaps no reason to add on? I don't know, they could just be carried forward and fleshed out with but perhaps the time is better spent reworking the interface. I'm talking some small implementation of computer learning and fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic has been used for years to control elevator speed, why not use it to control Note Highway speed instead of the finite speed jumps in tempo the computer throws at you. Same with tracking you're progress. Session mode is doing something like that it just need to be brought forward for the Highway. I have used the tab converter when I can't figure out what's happening passage or rhythm wise. Thumbs up or down of you find it easier, that's the main crux of my argument. For many guitar pedals are a big part of covering tunes but RS does not go into teaching in this area. Yes you can look up the pedals used in a song. At minimum how about having a easy way (easier) to visually reference the chain with a hot key. Learning pedals is not part music theory but a critical element for guitar players. Alas for copyright reasons the pedals and amps are given nonsensical names. So close but yet so far! RS was meant as a transition from Guitar Hero, I get that. Guitar Hero in itself is in the spirit of Japanese computer party games. Does RS work in the intended spirit of a party game? I'm thinking only only if you have prior guitar skills before you come to the party. Perhaps RS could shift a bit away from 'party mode' philosophy and find a wider audience yet still retain some of the pure 'fun' aspect. I see plenty of people one Youtube ripping through RS songs with serious skill. Well, the band played on while B.B. King fixed the broken string. Try that in RS and Mr. Snarky voice will sneer "Unacceptable Performance." Mr. Snarky voice needs a dose of A.I. or needs to leave the studio. If only RS had competition nipping at it's heels. That ain't ever going to happen because of the burden of stupid copyright licensing. Copyright licensing makes the internet a content sparse medium and games like RS few and far between. I can't see why RS could not be opened to mod authors. It would not affect the RS revenue stream and would greatly enhance the game. It's not like people do not have experience modding the Gamebyro engine. Well, the RS crew is working on something in the future. I'm sure they want the game to evolve as much as we do. Like everything out there, they are working with resource limitations handed to them. If I had a Way-back Machine I'd go into the past and tell them not to tie their copyright licenses to the date on the title screen '2014' cuz ya took your 'Clean Slate' and busted it.

Let me start by saying I've been messing with guitar for about 20 years. Now, as much as Rock Smith can help get people started, it's current interface seems to impede progress as experience increases. Note Highway, geeze that thing can be a pain in the butt. Like a bunch of us, when the going gets tough the tough have to go to Guitar Pro to figure out the score. Too many notes jammed to fast with the note spacing of the Note Highway jammed together and only being able to see a fraction of what is coming up. Let's get this straight, the Note Highway is not 'sight reading.' Sight reading involves running through the entire score before you play it for the first time. At least please allow Rocksmith to do tabs which leads to the next part. Rhythm, I don't have to go into what's wrong with that as this is the biggest fail and really a shame. Any type of complex chord rhythm and Rocksmith just can't. Well, can't and even simple rhythms can be a pain to figure out. Back out to Guitar Pro to figure it out. We need tabs or at least stroke direction arrows. Some of us have more than one guitar and bass, Rocksmith does not think so. The biggest problem is the fricking gain adjustment. Give us a hot key manual gain adjustment from the note highway screen that includes a Gain Meter! I know it was simplified for beginners but I think we can handle it. ASIO support please please please. I don't have a problem using Rocksmith cables but by the gods, why is Rocksmith looking for one unique identifier number before it will use the usb cable. Rocksmith has so much potential to be a serious learning program combined with fun. It could be updated to something great without losing the beginner aspect for which it was created. P.S. what would happen if real AI programming where used to judge progress instead of hard coded switches? What would happen if Rocksmith was under regular updates based on user feedback?