TomSawyer2112

Hope they will finally fit in some video buttons  to move stop play the song in Riff repeator in RS16

What a concept flaw since the stop in RS 12 (waiting for the note to be played) had been removed :angry:

The more I played RS14, the more I got annoyed by bad tones.

Not tones from charters, but the tones RS14 generates on my hifi.

Even official customs sound poor. :huh:

Santana doesn't sound like that, neither does Eric Johnson.

Amp plugins like Amplitube, Guitar Rig, Waves GTR sound so much better on this same hifi.

I envied my friends here who could play RS14 with a Y-split cable connected to the guitar,

to split one cable to RS14 and the other to an effect pedal and their Amp.

I read about some noise in threads by @doctorz and by @Hostilian how to get rid of it, by buying more electronic stuff, costing about 40€ for 1/4" input/outputs.

It didn't convince me because I had real noise in the Amp and in RS14 when connecting a Y-cable...

RS even recorded noise (speakers show waves) without connecting pedals, with the Amp shut off but plugged in.

I start this thread because I couldn't find the tag "ground loop noise"

Thanks to youtube, someone explained that electronic stuff  "fights" for the ground.

The one losing this fight gets current in his ground line, which causes the noise, and is not secure.

To remove this noise, one item has to be connected without ground.

I happen to have an elder plug without ground, and connected the Amp.

And the noise was gone.. completely ... silence, a new world opens, what a difference to play through pedals/ amp.  :lol:

Now, I don't know the risks, specialists warn (should anybody play RS taking a bath, or outside, or during a storm?), 

but if you feel uncertain, don't do it. However many electric items have non grounded plugs (three connectors) desk-lamps, videorecorders, PS2, Hifi Amps, even my TV ... And I guess it's more secure not to have ground then to have an electric current on the ground line, at least for the equipment.  :huh:

Looking for another solution, I found out that some power box (maybe weakly grounded) reduce the noise of the Amp.

Using a laptop with battery also silenced the ground noise, strangely only with the y-cable between the Pedal and the Amp.

But the final (free) solution came when I didn't listen to the specialists (again) 

who say all connected pieces must go into the same power box.

In fact I connected the PC to an opposite wall plug and no ground noise anymore, and no risk  :)

And if that doesn't help, consider the Behringer HD400 Microhd 2 Channel Hum Destroyer

(about 40€ or 25$ / strange currency difference  :huh:)

Linkin'Park's New Divide and similar songs are very very easy

Well, the B-tuning was badly made in the toolkit, it should not be 440hz but 220hz

(to fool RS into accepting B-tuning, tuning in the cdlc must be made an octave higher, (that's why you get 999) then divide the frequency), 

you should report the error on the charters page. Try one of my 2 FFDP customs, B-tuning is working correctly. 

By the way, if you have a 5 string bass, no need for special string or retune,

because the lower string is standard B-tuned.

Though it may be a bit confusing playing all E-standard bass starting on the 2nd string.

But I got used to :)

Thanks for your humour, so rare these days. One last tip.

I used Fraps before, and its captures take so much space because they are not compressed.

I compressed them with Xmedia Recode, another great free opensource video converter.

(that's my 700th post, so nothing is for nothing :lol: )

Ok, then, try to keep to your thread title ;) , and don't throw in other topics,

most topics like wwise problems can be found elsewhere.

There is also a possibility to p.m. users who may be particularly specialized on certain topics in these threads

I'd like to thank our charters, who made this before, may their work not be erased for all of us, and rest in peace on many hard-drives.

So you made me spend all MY time, to make these captures,

because you didn't spend a bit of YOUR time, to write down that initial warning...

No, I'm not pissed off, why did that idea cross your mind.  ;)

So let's finish it, give us your secret warning :lol:

To define an arpeggio you select the notes which are part of the chord to play, and which you have set on the right timing.

Then you select Note-proGuitar-Arpeggio-Mark (or crtl-shift-G)

Then all the notes are assembled (ghosted) on the first note to show the chord in RS ( in a box shape, which I don't like)

Another way is to define a handshape (Note-Rocksmith-Handshape-mark)

works the same way, but doesn't show the chord box, but the finger position on the fretboard.

Sometimes a chord is slowly strummed, kind of arpeggio, playing one string after another.

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/59a6/91efvk0au087wz7zg.jpg

That's what you mean. Position the notes in the right timing.

This can also be defined this 2 ways.

Something that really helped me develop my overall speed and technique was this CDLC: http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/30-hour-workout-r1106

 

At first I could only do the first exercice at 20% of the speed using riff repeater and like 2 weeks later I was on 60%.

I haven't praticed that specific exercice in a while, but I think that I must be at 80% by now. It was also one of the exercices on this CDLC that helped me develop my sweep picking technique.

 

I highly recommend you to try it, that and overall practice on songs will get you faster and better, it just takes time.

These are mainly chromatic scales, with different sequences 

This may increase  dexterity, but not music knowledge. 

Quite boring, robotic.

It doesn't help ear training and remembering scales and their notes.

With only 2 scales (a major & pentatonic minor) at the end, with a simple linear sequence.

So it stops just when the fun begins. :(

Some captures of OBS:

Settings Menu : 

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6eee/6v7b6656hx33rzvzg.jpg
 

Camera Menu:

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0b17/0yx0ez3m6ybb6n3zg.jpg

RS2014 (Source)

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c0a7/o6mb3aacd5vb3hbzg.jpg

And a capture (all upside down) and bad fingering  :D (got it nevertheless)

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e510/3pamypvyi1opsxozg.jpg

Nice to read I'm not alone surviving half a century, and still be a Freebird with a young heart. B)  

I started guitar at 25, but then, schools offered me mainly "Deutsche Volkslieder" and that made me throw my acoustic in the attic.

Youngsters, you don't know how lucky you are with all those youtube tutorials (Pebber Brown, Jim Bowley, TheGuitarNick...) and software like RS.

But why is it that learning gets tougher with aging.

It's about unused neurons ! At about the age of 12, if they didn't make connections with others (synapses),

they feel useless and die. By millions, every year.  :(

That's why the best age to start music is at 6 to 12 ( as well as soccer and other sports, requiring coordination of movement).

The basic chords I learned as a twen, I've never lost them, even though I didn't play for 20years.

What you learn even younger, will not be lost, after some training, former level is achieved quickly.

But it's hard to get better.

I never learned scales, and that's tough now, but a lot of fun, rewarding for the slightest progresses.

RS12 Scale runner is fun, but too linear and notes get not well detected on higher frets.

I currently stumbled upon Free Online Guitar Software, may be interesting, if someone knows a good scale trainer let me know. ;)

Too all Buckethead fans, this weekend on Bandcam.

"Pikes 1-146 are on sale now in the download store for $2 each. Sale ends Sunday, July 5th."

Time to take up his trail, I know it's tough :lol:

OBS was the only software that worked fine straight away.

Nothing to config except the Global Sources.

For RS don't select a micro anywhere, as RS takes exclusive control of the micro.

OBS may record more than 2 sources, Game and Camera, as much as you want to define, and place/size them as you want

It should be possible to record several partial screens of RS, and place them where you want.

It uses plugins, with enhanced potential.

It also supports recording RS with Shadowplay.

check up my definition back here of what a good cDLC is to result in good playability.

You may add your criteria.

For now, my best criteria for downloading are the following :

1. Magna Charter's, with whom I've had a constructive exchange.

2. Rate of releases : there is no way to release 10 cDLC every week, and certainly not for beginners

3. A version 1.01 to 3.0 which means the charter cares about updates

4. A version 1.00 with no comments 

No news = good news = at least a decent cDLC. :D

I'm recording with OBS configured with a standard Realtek digital output, microphone disabled,

RS records the RS cable input (on which it has exclusive access)

and then plays it through its (simulated) amps, and that output is recorded with the music.

This is a topic I'm currently interested in.

Unless you have some real music education, which I've not, it's very tedious to do a custom without a tab.

Writing a GP5 tab is infinitely more work than doing a cDLC.

Those who do tabs, often in teams, have my deepest respect. 

By the way, GP5 can also import Powertabs,

and text tabs, latter with a lot of timing errors, and mostly incomplete. 

EOF's playback of notes is very basic and not very precise,

There is a tool, which allows you to export EOF tabs back to GP5,

to listen what you have built.

To get a good conversion, a difficult starting point is always the beatmap.

The notes must respect the rhythm, to remain playable.

That's the n°1 mistake of beginners.

First you should do some short easy cDLC, with a GP5,

to learn all the possibilities and issues in EOF.

A single acoustic instrument track is perfect to start with, because the wave form you see is the instrument.

Good luck if you like to jump straight into waves with multiple instruments to detect chords and notes.

But maybe you have the cash to work with Sony SpectraLayers to separate the instruments. :lol:

It's such an enormous relief to have all those unwanted tracks removed. (this sigur goggle drove me mad)  

Endless Thanks. :)

I have to report a tiny bug : sorting on the "Select" column results in an error message "Object must be of type String"

Happens in "Sng Pack Mod", select a few songs (1st column) and then sort on this column.

Deleting songs from RS14 and RS12 worked great, as far as I could see,

maybe you could add an option to allow the 2 files being in a subdir of dlc like _RS12,

as this follows your logic of subfolders to create playlists, which I've done before.

I wonder if your tool needs the 2 original files in his folder to restore deleted songs.

And how will this tool be compatible with the "Customsforge Song Manager"?

OBS is by far the best recording software, which I've tried. And it's Opensource.

No need to turn off audio exclusivity, as this is used in RS to record from the RS cable, but not to playback.

What's best is full HD screen cam record, transparency adjustable, and inverse setting.

This means it's possible (with the right cam or guitar position/angle) to record your playing parallel along the RS Fretboard.

Quite funny, to see my missed notes and my bad finger positions.

We don't have intellectual rights on doing a cDLC.

Bad customs should be reported and if truely bad, get a thumbs down.

Bad customs are not the result of bad tutorials. There are more ways to build them, the variability of tutorials is a plus.

Bad customs are simply the result of not investing enough time.

I can put out a custom within one or two hours, or in 20 hours.

And I'm not sure if so many users will notice the differences.

Which means users should become more active in the five star rating.

They are not asked to rate the song, but to rate the playability of the cDLC.

So maybe the site managers should add "Playability : "  to the 5 stars,

because that's what we a looking for. Play!

I worked on a custom, which had all notes moved around on bass and lead.

When I finished the lead, the bass was still wrong, and finally I think I ended up with 2 different beat maps. 

Am I wrong stating that in BPR, different arrangements (bass, lead, rhythm) of a same song can get different beats,

while in EOF they all have the same beats?

When imported into EOF, I guess, only the beats of one chosen modified arrangement will be considered.

To avoid this, it would be advisable

- to compare the GPro Tab directly while modifying the beats (which I didn't)

- to see multiple arrangements simultaneously (maybe an option, someday)

RS2014 levels down whatever the settings, and DD Remover works fine, for the songs I tried.

In case you need it, put the DD arrangement as a bonus or alternate arr. in the toolkit,

and the non DD as main arrangement.

I do this for all my cDLC, to avoid this "selecting all and level up to 100%".

Now I add (+DD) to the RS Song name, so you know there is a bonus file.

Everybody should be happy this way.

I only upgrade if RS2014 works if not ill stay with my current OS. No RS2014 no upgrade^^

I only upgrade if EOF the Toolkit, Guitar pro, Audacity, Goplay along, and RS1 works. :lol: 

And my good old Opera 12.16 :D

By the way RS1 has quite a lot to offer, I still use it,

Their games are much more educational and addictive, just like the Dawn of the Chordead and the Scale Runner