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Rocksmith 2014 CDLC problems… In my testing so far. I’ve found, a lot of issues with CDLC’s. I don’t want to name names for a few reasons. Some CDLC creators are inactive. And some CDLC creators simply don’t care or are too inexperienced. But nobody deserves any hatred for any of this. They need to be made aware of the issue. There’s one thing I will not tolerate on my CDLC’s. That is negative behaviour and insults. I would consider either of those to be a sentence such as ‘Lol, this CDLC is bad, kill yourself please’ In time, yes, I will. Now, no. But it isn’t helpful or encouraging at all. Tell me what I can improve on or tell me if the CDLC is good, so I know what I need to do to the CDLC or not. Before we start, I’m going to put the disclaimer out there. You can’t make me or anyone do anything you want. It’s their choice as to what they do. Forcing someone to do something won’t work. Onto the issues. Sections. It is so important now, more than ever. I think 25% of CDLC’s I’ve deleted have had no sections at all. It’s a shame because it’s useful for many things. Learning parts of the song, dynamic difficulty, skipping long intros. And most importantly since the Remastered edition of Rocksmith 2014. It is required for the camera to move over the note tracks. I don’t know why this is. I hope there is a fix for this in the future. I also see a lot of sections starting halfway through the song or just after the intro. I don’t know why. Tones. There’s a few issues within this area of the game. First one being the most obvious, a terrible sounding tone. I’ve heard a lot of tones which are either too loud or too low. It’s important to make sure you can hear your tone and hear the song. And sometimes tones just don’t sound like the song at all, which in any case, you should use the best tone you have for overdrive, distortion, clean etc. That’s what I do all the time. I can’t create tones at all, the only two songs I created a tone on are FamilyJules7x Another Winter, and I attempted to make one for Xenoblade Those Who Bear Their Name. They weren’t great, but they did sound similar to the song. But that isn’t the most important thing. It’s important it has the right volume, and sounds as close to the arrangement’s tone as possible. The next issue with Tones is the locking tones issue. It seems to have been fixed mostly in Remastered. There is a bug where Tones lock on PC’s with low end CPU’s. I played Rocksmith 2014 on a notebook for 3 weeks, and the tones kept locking up. Back in the day when I had my PC, the tones locked on certain CDLC’s. I remember a CDLC or two which locked the tone. It’s important you test your CDLC’s and all of its arrangements before releasing. The only time you don’t need to test it is when the arrangements are not modified. The last issue with tones is tone changes. Some CDLC doesn’t have any tone change at all. There’s no issue with that, however, if you’re playing the song and you want to hear it in whatever tones the song is played in, it kinda makes you want to play it with that tone. Dynamic Difficulty. Probably the most important part of Rocksmith 2014. I came into Rocksmith 2014 with no guitar experience at all. And damn did I suck at it. I found CDLC’s a few months later, and decided to download some. I got some of my favourite songs on there, and discovered they had no dynamic difficulty. There’s me as a beginner, trying to play a sweeping technique which is impossible and there is no dynamic difficulty. I literally threw my guitar across the room at this point. Through one hour each day of practise over three years, I can play basic sweeping, but I always play on 100% difficulty now. And it is very important there is dynamic difficulty because beginner players want to learn parts of the song, but it’s capped at 100% difficulty. And that really sucks. With the Custom Song Creator Toolkit, now there is an auto generate Dynamic Difficulty option in the configuration. When you import your PART_REAL_??? arrangements, they will be Dynamic Difficulty generated on compiling the CDLC. I recommend it because as a beginner, this is what almost made me give up on playing electric guitar. Vocals. This is a tiny one, but it’s not a must have option. I don’t know about anyone else, I hate vocals. That isn’t why this is an issue though. I like to hear certain vocals, because some people have great singing voices. My favourites being Chris Letchford, Ronnie James Dio, Ozzy Osbourne, the ZHIEND lady. I’m always curious what the lyrics mean in songs, and what they’re actually saying because I focus so much on stringed arrangements, I forget there’s vocals. It’s always nice when I play a simple bass line and I can look up at the vocals in the top left screen in some CDLC. But some CDLC doesn’t have it. I can understand if perhaps Ultrastar Creator didn’t exist back then or it was more complicated to import vocals. But it is very easy to make vocals with Ultrastar Creator. I even import Japanese vocals which can be hard, but they’re not all hard. And some vocals take multiple tries or they are missing some lines. That’s fine, take another try, or find another website with the lyrics, and try again. If you can’t for whatever reason find lyrics, try writing them in yourself. The vocals can be fun to have though, especially if you’re doing a Rocksmith 2014 Talent Show round your house or something. God I wish I had friends *sob*. CDLC really gives more options and CDLC without vocals is kinda… meh. It’s worth adding because you never know where they can go. You might even get a Guitar + Vocals cover on a Yngwie Malmsteen song or something on YouTube using Rocksmith 2014. Or perhaps a Les Claypool cover + vocals. Plus if you’re in a band where you’re a lead guitarist and vocalist and tell your bandmates they are noobs. You want to make them feel like noobs by playing two things at once. Scroll speed. This issue is rare. But there is some stupid scroll speed added to CDLC. One of my favourite songs had a slow scroll speed. Which is extremely hard to play. Some had a tiny jump forward. And that is still annoying. Scroll speeds should always be default 2.0. Because if you’re sight reading that song for the first time, it’s gonna be tough to remember notes if they go too quick or too slow. So please take it into consideration to not adjust the scroll speed unless it is REQUIRED. That’s all the issues I can list so far. One smaller issue is tabs, but there are not many CDLC creators which can one, read a tab, and two, edit a tab. I see a few tab which are imported from a midi and uploaded without any edits. And a CDLC creator comes along and uses that tab not knowing how bad the tab is. If you can, learn to read and edit tabs. If notes are higher than five notes apart, they are in 90% of cases not correct. Or if you can’t play it, nobody else can. The only cases where far spread notes are apart is okay is when it’s tapping or in a solo. But a riff that goes constantly up and down the fretboard and holy crap that looks so wrong when you do that with your hands. That is usually a sign the tab is not right. Also, if you don’t know why I called Chris Letchford a vocalist. I believe the Scale The Summit slogan is ‘Their strings are voices’ so… you know. Categorized as a vocalist then.