Ross

Is this the error where Rocksmith won't start and says something like "the file has been modified or affected by a virus" or something?

Who needs guitar parts anyways, let them just be bass parts :P

Yes I definitely need to get a 5-string too now, that was a bit crazy but damn good idea dave :)

I guess it should work, if you leave the tuning as +0 in eof and the toolkit and set the pitch as 220 Hz the guitar part should be in the bass register.

I think it's either pressing enter or space in the in game tuner.

My ears started ringing in the army with all the guns and mortars going off, it sucked to realize that you're stuck with it for your life. Mine isn't as bad I guess, I mostly don't notice it during everyday life, but sleeping can be a pain sometimes, especially when I'm stressed.

This wikipedia article might be helpful in understanding this fix if someone wants to learn more, especially the table at the bottom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation

Apparently these low bass tunings were working before for emulated bass with a guitar. I'd say this is because a guitar is naturally an octave higher than a bass and then the bass effect of dropping an octave is added virtually, kinda like what sleepy was thinking of maybe. When you tune a guitar to an emulated B-standard bass tuning you only tune your guitar to B1 which is not a problem for Rocksmith, it's still a higher note than the E-string of a bass. Then the virtual bass effect is added. For an actual bass you'd have to tune to B0 which is not normally recognized by rocksmith because of the 0, see the first post.

I'm just probably a bad writer, I get that every time I return an essay :P Let me try to clarify it: let's take a song from In Flames, Deliver Us, as an example (cheers to Firekorn for doing In Flames cdlc's). In that song the bass is tuned to C drop Bb, that means the lowest string is tuned to Bb. Because normally Rocksmith doesn't allow you to tune bass below C you cannot make a correct cdlc for bass of that song, or if you do you cannot play it with a bass. Now with this fix you can have a cdlc of that song where you can physically have your bass tuned to Bb and play it and have rocksmith register all the notes just like any other song. There is no "virtual" tuning or anything. Before Rocksmith was basically incompatible with songs for 5-string basses because normally the lowest string on a 5-string bass is tuned to B or below (and B is just below C). Now with this it is possible and I hope people start making cdlc's for 5-strings, I have been thinking of getting one for myself :)

Either I'm misunderstanding you or you've misunderstood me. Songs in Eb standard have always worked, we are talking about songs that requite tunings below C. Is your bass a 4-string BEAD and you'd like to transpose songs in Eb to be played in BEAD?

Sounds like it actually could be a tuning problem too instead of a sync problem. If you've set the tuning differently/forgot to set the tuning correctly in eof and the toolkit the chart in game will not match the notes that are actually registered by the game. Still you get around 2-16% completion like you said for some reason, possibly from digital noise or something. From what I've experienced, the game does have quite a generous tolerance for notes being off sync so syncing at 25% speed should be more than enough. I haven't looked at the files you posted, sorry if this is obvious, just throwing it out there :)

And the whole point is that now you can have your bass tuned to B or A or whatever and play the songs like they're meant to be played and have Rocksmith register all the notes.

And yes, if you've set things up correctly the in game tuner before playing the song is correct.

Oh yeah wouldn't be a good idea to try to actually tune your bass 6 or 12 semitones up. You just set the tuning setting in eof and the toolkit higher and counter that by setting the tuning pitch setting lower.

Again, sorry about spammong this everywhere but this might be a workaround for this problem http://customsforge.com/topic/4750-going-low-a-workaround-to-get-bass-notes-below-c1-to-register-in-rocksmith/

This is from the song discussion: Thanks again Ross, I just tried ADGC tuning with an offset of -799.89 (277.2Hz). This worked out too. I suppose an offset of -699.79 (293.7) would work for Bb Eb Ab Db Looks like it's working with ADGC, and there are many ways to set the frequency offset for it to work.

OK, if you wanna look at the possible workaround, here it is. Actually I would love to have you test this out on your dlc's since they are in those tunings. http://customsforge.com/topic/4750-going-low-a-workaround-to-get-bass-notes-below-c1-to-register-in-rocksmith/

I made a post in the help& tutorials section http://customsforge.com/topic/4750-going-low-a-workaround-to-get-bass-notes-below-c1-to-register-in-rocksmith/

Today I found a workaround for getting the low bass notes such as low B to work with Rocksmith. I posted a scrappy test song in the database but they already pulled the plug on that, can't say I blame them :). But I got enough data for it to work as a proof of concept, you can see the discussions we had here. Me and a couple of people got a low B note, the thickest string on a 5-string bass to register in Rocksmith. My theory was that the reason Rocksmith hits the wall at C1 is because after that you go into the zeroes, B0 is next. I thought it must be because Rocksmith doesn't like handling those zeroes in there. So could Rocksmith be tricked into thinking it is still in the 1st octave while in reality it's playing the notes that are of the 0th octave? This brings us to the workaround. First off, you fiddle with the tuning in Editor of Fire. There you set the tuning to whatever is your desired tuning +6. (This is now pretty much obsolete, it's better to set it to +12, see the edits) In my test, I wanted the tuning to be in BEAD, the 4 lowest strings on a 5-string bass, so I set the tunings to 1,1,1,1. Because the B-string would be -5 compared to the standard 4-string E-string, I get -5+6=1, and so forth. Then you just chart the song as it is played in the desired tuning. If you have a chart like that already, just change the tuning accordingly and don't transpose the notes. Next, in the Rocksmith toolkit you set the tuning for the arrangement the same as in eof, in this case 1,1,1,1. But here's the trick: you counter the +6 transpose you did in the tuning by setting the middle A as 311.2 Hz in the tuning pitch section. This causes all notes to be 6 semitones lower than normal. Now, in my case the notes displayed for the strings are F1,A#1,D#2,G#2 but because of the different frequency reference the frequencies correspond to the notes B0,E1,A1,D2 in A440, or the pitch reference we normally use. As you can see, we have technically eliminated the 0th octave from the notes. EDIT: I just realized you can probably do this in a more elegant manner. If you set your tuning to desired tuning +12 and offset that by setting the tuning pitch as 220 Hz you'll get the correct letters for the notes, they'll technically be an octave higher and octave lower at the same time if that makes sense :) The reason I went with +6 is because I first tried this pitch offset on the E standard tuning where you start off from 0 and are capped by the 11 semitone limit in EoF, but for B standard -5+12=7 if my math doesn't fail me here :P Important: Make sure you're not using the same tuning in the toolkit for guitar and bass arrengements. We have already seem some snapped strings because the creator edited the "B standard" tuning in the toolkit to be 7,7,7,7 for bass and that also got applied to the guitar parts. You have to have two separate tunings, one normal for guitar and one with this trick for bass, you can look at LittleLui's post further down to see how he did this. In game when you pick the song it shows the wrong note letters for the strings when you are tuning but they will tune to the correct desired note with the in game tuner (the game says the recording is "slightly" flat or sharp, just 6 semitones :P). Now if you've done everything correctly the chart should come out as it should be played in the desired tuning, and better yet, the game actually registers all of the notes. (EDIT: This bit is obsolete with the +-12 method, the notes should be the same. Though it will say it's in A220 tuning instead of A440) I believe this should work the same for even lower tunings, if you wanna have an A string you just set the tuning on that to -1 (edit: 5 with the +-12 method), or a Bb string with the tuning set to 0 (edit: 6 with the +-12 method) for that particular string. Some funny food for thought: the theoretical lowest note you could pull off with this is Gb0 I believe. Now, the maximum tuning you can set in eof is +11, and if you set the tuning pitch as 233.1, or 11 semitones below the standard middle A you could theoretically have rocksmith register a Db0 note, that is just over 17 Hz :P (actually, after what I realized, see the edit, the lowest you can go is theoretically C0 I think) This will need some testing and fiddling around, obviously it's not an intended solution. Then again, the whole concept of cdlc's were not intended by the developer :) EDIT: Here's a video of an actual cdlc by Rockfirstlast made with this trick, seems to be working perfectly. The tuning is C# Drop B Link Update: LittleLui has done a cdlc with BEAD tuning for bass with the +-12 method and it's working. The cldc is No Love Lost by Carcass if you wanna test it for yourself. He also made this comment in another post where he explains the trick in simple steps for already charted songs, might be useful to post it here: where csct stands for the toolkit of course.

I may have found a fix for this just today, need people to test it: http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/bass-low-b5-string-tuning-test-r3282

I may have found a fix for this, need people to test it http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/bass-low-b5-string-tuning-test-r3282

I was tinkering with things and I may have found a fix for the low bass tunings. It will need some testing though,so I made a test dlc. You can find it in the search, don't want to be linking my dlc's in someone else's workshop :)

Maybe you could still provide links to the versions with the original bass tuning for those who want to play it correctly on a 5-string and don't care about the score?

Gotta love the attention to bass :) If only there was a way to get bass only tracks for every song. Sounds, feels and looks great, great quality work!