TomSawyer2112

How about Rush, Geddie Lee has a lot to offer on Bass, in almost every song, try Villa Strangiato, it's not death metal or headbanger though

An additional harddisk costs less then 60$, and my Rocksmith files take less then 40gb of a 700gb hd, so what's the point? Use best quality whenever possible, don't reduce size of your mp3, use constant bitrate, I like to see 20mb cDLC, and frown at 3mb. In case of missing preview, file sizes are not doubling, in fact they get shorter.

Recommend linkin park, really easy chords, new divide and similars

Best way to start is to adjust volume of the mp3 right from the start in Audacity, in such way that the isolated top and bottom peaks of the wave form touch the window border. Some rare peaks (5-10%) may overide the borders, but not too many, because sound gets deteriorated, specially the heights. Check this with headphones. From that on, you have a constant volume parameter on which you can rely to adjust the volume in RS as recommended above. Tone adjustment depend on their gain/presence in the amp/pedals/cabinets adjustments. Mostly the values lie under 25, for bass even under 20. If your song has a lot of low fret / low string notes, make it louder. If it has more hi-string/high frets, make it lower. It may even be useful to use two different tones, for high and low notes, which are exactly the same, except for the volume. However every tone that tends to be acoustic needs a lot more volume up to 40.

I recommend that when you get these crashes, isolate the songs you played or wanted to play last in a subfolder of DLC. Move this folder out of the DLC folder if you don't play these songs. If you really want to use these songs, check customsforge, there may be a new or other version. You can also import them in the Toolkit and repack them, so they get that default tone. Check also if you have songs with same name which conflict. Names can be changed in Toolkit. Check list of problematic songs here That's the way I get rid of hangs, but I never had that many. I would also check the Harddisk (i.e Harddisk Sentinel) for bad sectors, which can corrupt song and program files.

I would like to see more Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell, specially "Die Young"

I have this on my list, but no promise when I can start working on it.

I'm also stuck with several projects. I like your initiative, we should make more team work here at cDLC, also it may not be so easy to work on same projects. I particularly like your blackmoore's night releases, so I may check "Wish you were here". I'm still reworking "manhatten" my notes on paper were quite different from yours, so I decided to tab them in GPro. For a novice tabber, this is very timeconsuming, with great learning effects, to understand these damn art.harmonics. Some measures sound better then yours, others not so good, a matter of pauses, sustains and staccatos. I'll sent you the file by the end of this week. I'll think I will add it as an additionnal arrangement and keep yours.

Testing is a very time consuming repetitve process, specially because starting rocksmith is sooooo slooooow. And you have to exit Rs to reload a changed psarc file, which you must not forget to copy in the DLC folder. And if audio exclusivity is on, sound is cut off or lowered in EOF or GP, GPA, mulitasking is not always possible. Believe it or not, in very fast scales, like John5, notes seemed ok in Eof (av delay well adjusted), but in RS in RR with a speed of 1, they where out of sync. Missing (grace)notes also become very obvious. One major problem to seek and erase minor errors that make a great intuitive playable cDLC is that EOF has no real RS 3D preview and that you can't stop your cDLC in Riffrepeator and rewind to check the details I wrote about. I would recommend that charters make a video playthrough in the final stage before release, which they can move frame by frame forward/backward to check these stupid fret hand and finger position changes, and which arpeggio is required or not, and remove these strange notes in slides, place notes on more intuitive playable strings, i.e to make bends easier, instead of fret 2, set on lower string on fret 7 or 6.

@ firekorn I have about thirty cDLC I did which are not released. Some are hard to do, I'm not satisfied with the notes, some parts are good, but too many are not. When I don't like to play, why share them ? There is a quality requirement, and that is self-criticism I'm just waiting to get more experience in charting. In fact I feel I need more ear training, achievable by youtube teaching lessons. Sometimes working too long on a song blows your mind, requiring some distance. But 2 month should be enough to check back with new ambition. Riffrepeator, DD, tone volumes, acoustic tone, merging lead and rhythm notes are easy corrections to do No one asks for difficult corrections : like tabbing notes yourself if they can't be found. Of course, I sometimes use private messages for songs I care. That's exactly why I came to the conclusion of an "autofollow" flag for charters. And Test play is required : 90% of charts are not right, notes are not positioned on the right strings, slides have unplayed notes, fret hand positions are not correct, arpeggio's or ghost notes are missing, finger positions change when they can stay in position...

I can't agree more. It's easy to loose sight of the last 5-10 cDLC downloaded, you play 2-3, and then, some weeks later you stumble upon the forgotten. It shouldn't be possible to thank, unless you have played it once. But who can resist first enthusiasm? But why are so many charters ignoring important corrections? Some seem to be in a kind of altered state, where releasing more becomes obsessionnal. I overcame this addiction. B) They don't like to spoil time with past releases. More seriously, I think they forget to follow their own release, they don't get the messages. I would recommend the site administrators to add an "autofollow" for each Charter to his submitted cDLC.

Bet won, but why use the metadata "Sort" instead of the real name

Lost your bet :P . true give same result, it displays the metadata in the log, but doesn't use it. ex. Old Filename: D - beneatthe - v1_p.psarc New Filename: D - beneatthe - v1_p.psarc Artist: Dream Theater Song: Beneath the Surface

Maybe you got a corrupted psarc like I do, the log won't help because it crashed before logging, so only the last renamed action is in the log file. Check by "dir" dos command which file comes next to last log file, and remove it from the folder

Great tool, saves me a lot of time finding out and renaming several hundreds of old cDLC, I archived in case of somebody asks for them, or in case they were better then later releases. :o I give you some feedback (log file) to nourish your ambition B) Some minor problems, because these few files can be renamed manually using the log info. I used Artist-Song-Separator: " - " Space-Character: " " Use-Metadata-Version: True Use-Metadata-DD: True Zero-Pad-Version: false - Short file names are not renamed Old Filename: A - B - v-v1_p.psarc New Filename: A - B - v-v1_p.psarc Artist: The Agonist Song: Business Suits and Combat Boots Old Filename: Arc - Do - v1_p.psarc New Filename: Arc - Do - v1_p.psarc Artist: Arctic Monkeys Song: Do I Wanna Know Old Filename: D - beneatthe - v1_p.psarc New Filename: D - beneatthe - v1_p.psarc Artist: Dream Theater Song: Beneath the Surface Old Filename: Rock - WDC - v1_p (3).psarc New Filename: Rock - WDC - v1_p (2).psarc Artist: Funeral For A Friend Song: Waterfront Danceclub Special Characters are lost (french, croatian ...) Old Filename: Téléphone_ça_c'est_vraiment toi_v1_p.psarc New Filename: Tlphone - Ca Cest Vraiment Toi - v1_p.psarc Artist: Téléphone Song: Ca (C'est Vraiment Toi) Maybe you have to set a "code page", ie 850 The "The" I normally remove the "The" in The Beatles to rename Beatles, The This way all names are sorted together, whether "The" is used or not. Bet you can't solve this :P The Toolkit will soon manage the "The" issue in its name fields Program crash with no log info on a corrupted .psarc file, which I could only identify by a "Dir" dos command to see which file followed the last renamed file in the log info. Hey, fellows, don't forget to "THANKS" the newbie Darrken, wish we get more of newbie contributors, and little less leechers. :ph34r:

About the language: I guess a charter will tag his release with the language name.So searching by Tags is a possibility. When tagging a release, it would be fine to read suggestions how to "tag" efficiently. Better would be a List of common Tags to select. About the difficulty, Lead may sometimes be impossible (Buckethead), while rhythm and bass of the same song may be easy. Those behind Dynamic Difficulty and RocksmithtoTab showed the way to estimate charts. I'm sure their experience will help to create and add a new automated function to the Toolkit, which estimates difficulty level of arrangements.

After spending some time with a cDLC, I may realize notes are not on beats, tone is bad, sync is off, dd works badly, missing bass, vocals. I come back to customsforge to inform the charter, and I realize I had informed him 2month ago, and he didn't care, and has a hundred similar cDLC... I would like to know the charter before spoiling 20 minutes to realize the cDLC is worthless. EOF gives the opportunity in Song Properties to add text, but this text is not displayed in RS2012/14 (with the name of the song). Same for the Option "Track/Rocksmith/Popup messages" was not updated to RS2014 version. When I start to play a cDLC, I start in RR with slow speed. By the time notes are showing up, and lyrics start, I would have time to read who made the chart, which normally makes me think : oh no, not he again, or else, great glad he made this, what else did he do. For a bad charter, I would put the cDLC in a folder "to be corrected", instead of asking. I correct cDLC most of my time now, which does not give me much time to work on releases. So yes, I do sign my cDLC's in lyrics, and inform about other things, like versions, bonus arrangements, adoption, credits to Tabcreators. But I respect the integrity of lyrics, no mixing with comments. I can't follow people saying : No don't - :blink:- like some military command. Yes I do! And those who share my reasoning, please do like I do. B)

Yes, what I meant to say is - the position to the nearest grid may be random, which makes grid snapping sometimes unpredictable, with R +ctrl+shift - sustains are moved, but they are not shortened to next grid as with R +ctrl+shift Useful to know for tech-notes at the tail of sustains. Tech-notes are not grid snapped moved with notes

About grid snap shortcut keys : G: grid snap off/on G +shift : grid display , . cycle grid snap settings (on/off; 1/4 to 1/48) With grid snap on: R +ctrl +shift : grid snap selected notes (and shorten/lengthen their sustain!) to closest grid, randomly forward or backward [ +ctrl : move selected notes without shorten/lengthen sustain to previous grid snaps (Quertz ü, Azerty right to "p") ] +ctrl : move selected notes without shorten/lengthen sustain to next grid snaps (Quertz +, Azerty right+1 to "p")

I doubt this Egyptian scale video will be very useful to beginner's, I may be wrong, but this requires intermediate knowledge (about chords, cage system, basic scales) to exploit it. However to progress, Rocksmith-only won't help you, except Session mode. RS is a fantastic introduction to E-guitar, and it allows you to play with a band. That's all, it does not help you to improve and correct technique, on the contrary, it will teach you keeping bad habits. Youtube lessons are a must, however, it's a giant recycle bin. And all these "fast food" five minutes lessons don't offer a progressive or a complete program, so it's a great idea to create playlists of well done video's by topics and levels. Why not start with a Pentatonic minor and it's scale sequences, and related chords and arpeggios ? Here's a 90 minutes video from Pebber Brown (one of Buckethead's teachers) that covers that large topic, including a pdf sheet I'm currently gathering Youtube lessons, separating levels and topics, as I'm helping parents to get their kids interested in guitar play. So I'll keep an eye on this thread. B) But please keep it structured.

nice idea, how about giving it more flexibility : I prefer names of the following structure Buckethead - Gory-Head-Stump_v1_p.psarc or Buckethead - Gory_Head_Stump_v1_p.psarc or Buckethead - Gory Head Stump_v1_p.psarc giving the user the possibility to choose word separating characters.

Muscle memory ?? Doesn't exist! In fact it's an automation process. The more you train certain patterns of scales, the less your brain has to tell your fingers what to do. All comes down to reflexes that are commanded not by the brain, but by nerves in the backspin. Patterns of notes don't care if they are played on lower or higher frets or strings, memorize them and play them anywhere. Besides speed is a coordination process of left and right hand. It may be that your fingers on the fret are faster sometimes than the right picking hand, so learn economy picking. Technique is important, keep all fingers close to or even on the fret, pick or fingers close to the strings. Any excessive movement is loss of time ( check youtube tutorials) The younger you are, the easier, faster and long-lasting this process, so don't loose time training scales. Unluckily I was born much too early :(

Thanks, so Rocksmith doesn't support staccato, (cut offs) which confirms my criticism of Rocksmith being to permissive in rhythm to give a decent feedback. When I play with headphones, my children only heard the "acoustic strings" without the music, and they told me it sounded faulty even with 98%. :o

I've test r1350 with options checked in Win8.1 "Make the keyboard easier to use (ease of access center)", In EOF these options don't influence the behavior of shift/ctrl anymore, except if you turn on "Sticky Keys". So don't. Another Question (resulting from the Sticky Keys Syndrome): EOF allows a lot of undo's and they often happen out of current display view. Would it be possible to see in the information panel what was the last action (to undo / or redo)