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Charting Standards (2025) To improve the overall standard of CDLC going forward, we are implementing a clear list of what constitutes the 'reasonable standard'. For charts created in 2025 onwards. Charts from before 2025 are not being randomly deleted or going anywhere. Reported charts however are bound to these new standards and any updates you do must follow at minimum the Required: section. If you are unsure about certain components that make up a CDLC, you are more than welcome to ask questions in the #creators channel in the CustomsForge Discord server. Required: - Charts must have 10 seconds leading silence, and roughly 2 seconds of silence at the end of the track. (Adjusting your audio files in a DAW, like Audacity before you start the project is usually the best practice.) - Charts must be made using a decent audio file. (Ideally sourced from a reputable place like the official band website/ Bandcamp and not a rip of the YouTube music video) - Charts must be made with sufficient accuracy transcription wise. - Charts must be synced adequately. - Charts must be set to the proper tuning. (Using tools like Tonart can help you detect the true tuning of a song if it's not 'standard A440'.) - Charts must include tones. - Charts must have manual Phrases and Sections set. - Charts must have Dynamic Difficulty. (can be generated using the DLC Builder) - Charts must be made using the latest tools available. EOF/ Charter and the DLC Builder - The DLC Builder does a validity check of the arrangements and will give you a list of ''issues'' it has detected which you should fix before uploading to CustomsForge. - The DLC Builder also sets certain values, like the Scroll Speed and the Song Volume, automatically for you to match the ODLC standards. It is in your best interest to leave these to what they are set to by the tool. (Go to File > Configuration > and ensure the ''Calculate Volumes Automatically'' box is checked) Failure to follow the above list can result in your chart getting reported, and potentially removed if not amended. Repeated failure to follow the above will also result in your upload privileges being revoked until you can prove you can create CDLC that are up to current day standards. Expected: - Accurate Fret Hand Positions. (Don't rely on auto-generated FHPs) - Proper chord fingerings. (Don't rely on auto-generated chord fingerings) - Note sustains are visually appropriate and have at least a 1/32 gap between the subsequent note. - Correct pitched vs unpitched slide usage. - Manual Handshapes where appropriate. - Lyrics that are accurate. - Charts include a path for Lead, Rhythm and Bass. Nice to have: - Verifying chord names. - Referencing live videos/ artist playthroughs to help with accuracy. - More defined tones to match what is in the song. S-Tier: - Further fine tuning to make charts almost equal to ODLC standards: ODLC looking charts guide Further Advanced charting technique guide Uploading charts to CF / Ignition: - Proper spelling of artist and song. - Include music video (if available) as well as Song Duration and Year. - Correct tuning and appropriate tags/ genres. - Include a Mac (m.pasrc) file if possible. - Author notes that has information about the chart, not the song itself. (no big copy/ paste from the artist Wikipedia page.) Extra guides: DAW/ Song Audio guide DLC Builder guide Rocksmith bass tuning guide Firekorn's written CDLC how-to guide

I come from the Rock Band modding community and am mostly used to using REAPER for all of my charting. I find EOFs UI to be archaic and difficult to work with, especially since I can't place notes by using the right mouse button (which is the default on literally any other MIDI editing software). Not to mention that the documentation that comes with EOF is very vague at what exactly to do when creating songs for Rocksmith. I know this all sounds kind of nitpicky, but it's genuinely unpleasant to use the program for any length of time for me.

Hopefully this is the right place to post this. Recently I've been working on charting a song that's in drop D. There's three different guitarists, the latter of the which shows up for a solo in the end. I've been working on putting the "main" parts of each of the guitars all into one tab so that people playing will get the full experience of all of the solos. However, in the last solo, he's tuned in Eb Standard. Is there some way I can change the tab around, or change some sort of settings in EoF to help adapt for this? I admittedly don't know that much about guitars, or tuning for that matter, so I apologize in advance if it's a dumb question. I also have GP6 if there's anything I can do in there to fix this problem.

Hi all, I have assembled in one HTML file a list of all Smithy and CDLC-related posts that served as my steep learning curve into the authoring of a CDLC. Of course it is impossible to capture all of the golden nuggets on that site and increasingly on this brilliant new site and some new information might become available that may eventually render these links obsolete but I have listed all things I found useful to get me from A to Z and perhaps it can be helpful to new charters to zero in more quickly on aspects they would like to master and save them the effort seeking out the info. http://www.mediafire.com/view/gbn3ya4hhn4jz5g/Berneer's_Smithy_Bookmarks_for_Community_-_1March2014.html Happy charting. Berneer