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[PC, Steam] Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY $4.48 (70% off) @ Steam

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[PC, Steam] Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY $4.48 (70% off) @ Steam
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ADDZY on 20/12/2024 - 15:08 store.steampowered.com (1616 clicks)
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Rocksmith 2014 Remastered is back by popular demand! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, it's a fantastic way to learn guitar or bass at your own pace, now available in an all-new 2024 edition. Get ready to rock (again)!

In 2023, Rocksmith 2014 Remastered was temporarily removed due to the expiration of our music licensing deals. While we believe Rocksmith+ offers the ultimate destination for learning guitar, bass and piano with its extensive music catalog, we have also heard the Rocksmith 2014 community’s feedback. You asked for Rocksmith 2014 Remastered to return, so we did just that! We have been hard at work to deliver a special version giving you the choice to own your songs and enjoy popular features like Guitarcade and Session Mode.

Introducing Rocksmith 2014 Remastered Learn & Play Edition!

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION?

While Rocksmith 2014 Remastered Learn & Play retains all the core features you love, we’ve replaced all licensed songs with a collection of tracks and exercises from our popular downloadable content bundles. This includes:

• Bachsmith and Bachsmith II
• Classic Melody Song Pack
• Rocksmith Easy Exercises, Vol. 1 & 2
• Rocksmith Intermediate Exercises, Vol. 1 & 2
• Rocksmith Advanced Exercises, Vol. 1 & 2

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  • SnowDragon on 20/12/2024 - 15:27
    +8

    Oh wow they brought it back. Keys for this game were going for crazy prices ($100+) when it got delisted.

    Thousands of custom DLC songs available online.

    • BinaryPirate on 20/12/2024 - 15:45
      +1

      If I didn't already know I really really sucked at guitar I'd be so over this.

      • michaelpls on 20/12/2024 - 16:11
        +12

        Hey everyone sucks when they're starting out. I've been playing since I was a kid and had this mindset about a certain technique (sweep picking) "ahh, I suck at it.." "I'll never be able to do that so I won't even try". About 6 months ago I decided I'd just force myself to practice, everyday, the same boring arpeggios over and over again for half an hour every day, no excuses. Now it's second nature to me.

        Anyway TL;DR
        If you want to learn, you can! And this is a great game/program to help.

        • BinaryPirate on 20/12/2024 - 17:25
          +1

          I appreciate your reply. However, while I was once a passable piano/xylophone/keyboard player, my repeated attempts to learn guitar were always undermined by my lack of fine motor skills, though I did okay at bass for a while.

      • superroach on 20/12/2024 - 16:21
        +3

        This is like the perfect game to not suck at the guitar

      • WorstAgreeableRadish on 20/12/2024 - 16:53
        +4

        I also suck at guitar, so this is like Dark Souls for me.
        Struggle, frustration, and then huge satisfaction when I finally play a song well enough. (profanity) yeah!

    • tabboy on 20/12/2024 - 17:11

      I just downloaded and installed this but I don't understand how you get more songs. When I try search nothing comes up in the program….

      • SnowDragon on 20/12/2024 - 20:10
        +1

        It's not in the game itself. Google "Rocksmith custom DLC"

        • 0 0 0 on 20/12/2024 - 21:25
          +1

          I installed something off GitHub. Looks like it is currently downloading 62000 songs!! Going to kill my entire month's download limit!

          • yamumma on 21/12/2024 - 01:39
            +5

            @0 0 0: Download limit? Are you a time traveller from 2005 or something?

            • 0 0 0 on 21/12/2024 - 05:17

              @yamumma: Lol 5g home internet that's why. Cheaper than NBN and 4 times faster

              • TEER3X on 21/12/2024 - 06:54

                @0 0 0: How much are you paying, speed and limit?

                I pay $75/m through more Telecom and get fibre internet 250/25 but my discount through CommBank expires soon.

                • 0 0 0 on 21/12/2024 - 10:59

                  @TEER3X: $59 with employee discount for real-world speeds of about 400/35 1tb data. Actual speeds vary based on location and network capacity and some people are getting close to 1gbps.
                  Even without employee discount the price is extremely competitive with NBN 100/40 plans.

          • BartholemewH on 21/12/2024 - 03:55

            @0 0 0: Link pls.

        • tabboy on 21/12/2024 - 15:30

          I downloaded the CDLC installer patch (followed instructions here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ugO3Ut4P8) but when I try and run it I get an error saying "CustomsForge doesn't support pirated / stolen copies of Rocksmith 2014". I just bought it online though lol

          Ah update, looked at the pinned comments and custom forge are working on a fix now….

    • Franc-T on 20/12/2024 - 21:15

      I forgot I had this,I started holidays today - bought some packs etc now!

  • ilove on 20/12/2024 - 16:38

    how to connect via a audio intereface? instead of tone cable… (which I have but it's like a wweird non usb connection????

    • Ramrunner on 20/12/2024 - 16:49

      Both real tone cables I have have a connector on the end of the cable to turn the round plug into a USB.

      You can get the full cable at JB

      https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/rocksmith-real-tone-guita…

      • phaminator on 20/12/2024 - 17:00

        Damn so need to spend an additional $39 to make this compatible! Would you say it's worth?

        • phaminator on 20/12/2024 - 17:01
          +1

          PC User? If you don't want to buy the RealTone cable you have three options to get third party interfaces to function properly;

          Direct Connect Mode Basically microphone mode, but with the tone effects included. If your device works for Microphone Mode, it'll work for Direct Connect Mode.

ASIO Device Support - aka, THE fix for Focusrite owners. Video Tutorial - also covers recording gameplay when using RS_ASIO Older Behringer Device owners - use the legacy Behringer ASIO drivers - you can find them as part of this video. Behringer Uphoria users "UMC" - use the proper drivers for your device as they include a native ASIO driver

The Old No Cable Launcher This method is all but redundant now, except in a few cases with non ASIO compliant devices that have multiple input channels. Has some uses in certain multiplayer setups still, but generally speaking is the least favorable option.

          Mac User? Read this then please.

          You also have the option of replacing your cache.psarc file with this one, which enables the Direct Connect Mode. Links to another thread about this method.

Or if your interface has too many inputs for that to work well, this method using loopback may be a usable option.
      • ilove on 20/12/2024 - 17:09

        i have the cable just missing the usb connection part. it should be somewhere

    • Aureus on 20/12/2024 - 17:11
      +2

      You can connect to audio interface. In fact that is the only way that I would recommend you do it. Almost 0 latency.

      It isn't supported, but pretty easy to do. Just search on Youtube for instructions.

    • EthicsGradient on 20/12/2024 - 21:46

      If you have an audio interface that supports ASIO, check RS_ASIO on github, and r/Rocksmith if you have issues with it.

  • Widget on 20/12/2024 - 16:49

    Curious, have any of you guys used Rocksmith to learn guitar?

    • Jackson on 20/12/2024 - 18:45

      So I am a mostly a self taught intermediate player, and I got Rocksmith for xbox, but when I tried it, it just felt like a slow waste of time. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance, but these days if you have developed any technique at all, you can just watch youtube tutorials and they are easy to follow. Maybe someone who had a better crack at Rocksmith can give a contrasting or supportive opinion?

    • SnowDragon on 20/12/2024 - 21:25

      I thought I'd learn it via this since I play a lot of games and especially liked guitar hero. I kinda skipped a few steps and just played songs and found it got difficult quickly wanting multiple fingers on multiple strings which turned me off a bit.

      I'm sure if you actually used the games tools which shows chords etc it may help.

      I found Justin Guitar (a Tasmanian!) and learned the basic open chords and exercises through him. Going back to Rocksmith after having learned the basic chords it makes more sense when you see a D or E chord appear and your fingers move to them out of instinct.

    • The Candyman on 21/12/2024 - 00:37
      +3

      Yes, I've got 1000 hours in it since starting in 2019. I wouldn't say I'm great at it or anything, and the game won't teach you really anything about theory or scales or even what the notes are on the fretboard. But I can play tonnes of songs now and sight read songs I've never played before in the game.
      My best piece of advice if you do give it a go is to use practice mode and play the songs at 100% difficulty, then slow the song down so you can actually learn it properly. The gradual difficulty thing in the game by default is completely useless and will actually make learning much harder

  • jong on 20/12/2024 - 17:21
    +4

    So, this is basically Guitar Hero but using a real electric guitar or bass as the controller, and really playing the notes to play the game. It's apparently pretty good at teaching you guitar.

    The original game came with a bunch of popular songs, and there were more available via DLC.

    Ubisoft didn't like that approach as it's too user friendly, so they stopped paying for licences for this game, which is why it now comes with generic songs and there's no DLC available.

    However, I'm informed that there's something called "piracy", which lets you install thousands of DLC songs from the web into this, and learn to play Nirvana or Dethklok or whatever. Apparently, there's every professionally produced track they've ever sold, plus community created stuff.

    You're supposed to use a "Realtone" cable, which is a proprietary guitar to USB interface, but there are workarounds for that, too.

  • monky on 20/12/2024 - 17:52
    -1

    Just a heads up this game has AWFUL compatibility with modern operating systems and audio interfaces. If you're serious about actually learning, the real-tone cable they sell for this adds an obscene amount of round-trip latency.

    And even after modding in songs, audio interface compatibility, hardware fixes, etc- You've still gotta compete with Ubisoft's long-winded UI design and control layouts, driver audio-exclusivity, awful note detection; and if your output is even slightly hot or has a crackle, you might even blow your speakers/eardrums out with certain pedal presets! :)

    • EthicsGradient on 20/12/2024 - 21:55
      +5

      ASIO interface support is via mod (RS_ASIO) and works extremely (!) well with very low latency. My personal experience (which is strongly mirrored by other users) is that there is pretty well no issue with modern OS - I've been playing the game since Win 7 and frankly it's got better with each release of Windows. There are occasional glitches when major windows updates drop. But these break all sorts of programs (e.g. Elden Ring had a conflict with a kernel system for 6-9 months if you followed MS advice on a memory protection setting). Typically sorted in a few days to weeks.

      Note detection is not great, but is still better than most out there. UI is dire, but you get used to it. Comments about blowing kit apply to nearly everything you hook up to PC audio.

      TLDR: There are problems, but not nearly as bad as you claim, and there is little that competes on overall capability.

      Good enough to get you started, great if you are crap like me and have no mates to learn/jam with. I've been using it and the first version for more than a decade.

      • thecloudking on 20/12/2024 - 22:43

        So, have a bass collecting dust. Bought this as it's cheap. What do I need to get cable wise to do this RS_ASIO method? That guitar-usb cable?

      • monky on 21/12/2024 - 10:08

        If you don't mind me asking, what audio interface are you using for Rocksmith? I've got an Audient EVO 8 and it was only a complete nightmare to setup and configure— Again the long-winded UI of the game makes it extremely annoying to quickly test and tweak settings.

        And my 'claims' come from a regular hobbyist guitar player trying to enjoy Rocksmith with official hardware and over $300 in purchased charts over a decade— On windows 11, using an OFFICIAL real-tone cable, I simply cannot launch the game I paid for.

        Don't support Ubisoft.

        • EthicsGradient on 24/12/2024 - 22:16

          (sorry for the late reply - Chrimbo season!)

          I wasn't disputing your experience - sorry I worded my reply that way and also sorry that your experience has been more than a bit shit. I should have phrased it better: Lots of people have had very good experiences with RS, some people like yourself have had ongoing issues (which: fair!).

          On your question - I was pretty positive about the RS interfaces on the back of two real tone cables, both without problems, and a Focusrite Scarlett (basic but does the job). The scarlett was mildly painful to setup, but mostly required following the instructions and then tweaking buffers.

          Impressed you got the Evo 8 running at all - it's not listed as supported on the RS_ASIO page!

      • yobeets on 21/12/2024 - 16:38

        Rs_asio doesn't work with this new build on steam and the creator doesn't currently know if he will be able to patch it - https://github.com/mdias/rs_asio/issues/471

        • EthicsGradient on 24/12/2024 - 22:17

          Looks like there is a workaround already!

  • Freewheelin on 20/12/2024 - 18:07
    +2

    chainbrain will put a video up on youtube soon. an updated one that answers all the questions everyone asks about interfaces, cables, cdlc, etc.

    • tabboy on 21/12/2024 - 19:08

      Post here when he does I'm interested :)

  • Kiro on 20/12/2024 - 19:14

    Let's see if AliExpress has the cable for cheap….

    • yamumma on 21/12/2024 - 01:28
      +1

      There are. I bought more than one, but in the end grabbed a Focusrite Scarlet off marketplace for bugger all. Much better solution.

  • ph88 on 20/12/2024 - 20:19

    Do you need to log in to poopisoft to play?

    • EthicsGradient on 20/12/2024 - 21:55

      Annoyingly, yes.

      • ph88 on 22/12/2024 - 20:34

        Thats a shame for me, thanks for the reply!

  • lordezekiel on 20/12/2024 - 20:39
    +3

    Most important info “we’ve replaced all licensed songs”
    And by replaced, they mean removed.

    • EthicsGradient on 20/12/2024 - 22:01
      +1

      Kind of. The licenses for the original 60 or so songs have expired (and so has a lot of the back catalog). It's hard to blame Ubi for this - they negotiated access to the tracks for 10 years and that's over now. Blame shitty licensing structures.

      Where this is a bit grubby is Ubi realised they have a back catalog of tracks they are licensed to sell for anywhere between months and 6-ish more years. By re-releasing RS2014 without any of the tracks in the original package, they can keep selling DLC for as long as their agreements hold. 1200 songs today decreasing by 3-5 per week over the next 6 years.

      Depending on how you look at it: Smart cash grab/Grubby cash grab/Opportunity for those who didn't pick the original and motsa DLC to get at least a part package. Definitely urgent desire from Ubi to extract as much money as they can though.

      • yamumma on 21/12/2024 - 01:35
        +2

        The absolute best DLC track was Repack by FitGirl. Can recommend looking that one up.

      • lordezekiel on 21/12/2024 - 09:17
        +1

        Wasn’t blaming, just reiterating pertinent facts.

  • 0 0 0 on 20/12/2024 - 22:39
    +1

    Ok so looks like the custom DLC patcher doesn't work on the latest exe file and throws an error claiming the version is pirated. Hopefully this gets fixed.

    The game feels unnatural for me. I'm used to reading tabs and I can't memorise the colours of the strings. Honestly if it was scrolling horizontal tabs then I'd find it easier. Im trying much harder to learn how to play the game based on the vertical scrolling and colour coded strings.

    That being said I hope that the patch gets fixed as I'm downloading the massive back catalogue and keen to work out if I can learn songs from this game. Otherwise it's back to tabs and YouTube

    Edit: I'm using a cheap Guitar link USB guitar interface. The calibration complains my guitar input is too loud but playing the game seems to work.

    • Yub on 21/12/2024 - 08:12

      I've heard it helps if you invert the strings.

      • 0 0 0 on 21/12/2024 - 10:55

        Yeah just saw how to do this. Will give it a try

    • tabboy on 21/12/2024 - 19:06
      +1

      Watched this video and it looks like they are aware of the issue and working on a fix now… Top comment explains.
      https://youtu.be/67ugO3Ut4P8?si=1Po2T1LqTD3Hk3FQ

  • Aerith-Waifu on 21/12/2024 - 03:07

    So you can use your real Guitar and still able to learn this?

    • ilove on 21/12/2024 - 09:20

      yes. off line disconnected mode.

  • FimpBARGAIN on 21/12/2024 - 09:14
    +1

    Thanks so much for sharing this. I bought rocksmith when it first came out for PS3 (never played it if course). Didn't even occur to me that it also came out on steam figured I just missed the boat.
    Now I finally have a use for my untouched guitar and that fancy cable 😍

    • loginid on 21/12/2024 - 09:22
      +1

      I have the cable from ps3, will it still work with this ver?

      • jinx405 on 21/12/2024 - 10:56
        +2

        Yes it will!

  • jinx405 on 21/12/2024 - 11:05
    +1

    Excellent to see that Rocksmith 2014 is back!

    For those on the fence, I would like to share my experience with the game/software. TLDR: it is an amazing way to properly learn to play guitar or bass, especially from the very beginning of learning an instrument. Rocksmith nailed that hybrid of gaming and learning to play an actual instrument.

    I was the drummer for our “weekend warrior” band. When the bassist left a few years ago, I thought “why not try a new instrument?” and decided to pick up the bass guitar. I used Rocksmith to learn how to play it, supplemented with looking up tabs on Ultimate Guitar, YouTube etc for songs that were not available on the game. From the basics of how to hold the bass guitar and fretting, right up to complex chords and slap bass technique, Rocksmith has it all. I can now comfortably play bass guitar in a band on stage, and I probably spend too much money on bass guitars and effects pedals.

    When you’re learning how to play a song in the game, you can slow down specific parts of a bar/measure/song to a pace that you can comfortably slowly learn and practice it. You can then slowly speed this part up to match you skill level.. and eventually, you can learn to play the entire song full speed. This feature differentiates the game from other traditional guitar/bass learning methods we are used to (I think - I'm not up to date with other instrument learning software).

    The game also has minigames that gamifies practicing techniques, such as scales, hammer-ons/pull-offs, etc. It is a great way to practice/learn skills that would seem boring to do otherwise.

    Another noteworthy point is Custom DLC from CustomsForge, where you can download and load up songs not available as official DLC. But I think another poster mentioned that this doesn’t work with this version of the game any longer?

    https://customsforge.com/

    I hope this helps!

  • n1x on 21/12/2024 - 17:22

    I'm just following some tutorial to get things going and it seems this version of Rocksmith doesn't support Direct Connect Mode as an input, you either have to have a special cable or use Microphone. Am I missing something?

  • 0 0 0 on 21/12/2024 - 21:15

    Ok so for those who wanted to use Rocksmith with custom DLC but can't because the patcher doesn't work with the new version, try https://tonelib.net/jam-overview.html

    It is a standalone music app that allows you to open the Rocksmith custom DLC and gives you full control. View in normal guitar tab or play in 3d mode like Rocksmith

  • SnowDragon on 23/12/2024 - 11:09

    Ah should have really read the fine print with this - it has no licensed songs.

    Hopefully they'll update the CDLC patcher and we can play custom songs soon. The exercises are a pretty good way to get started but they don't sound that great.

  • Gravy on 27/12/2024 - 10:04
    +1

    Anyone tried using Rocksmith with a Positive Grid Spark 40 amp connected to the PC via USB?

  • 0 0 0 on 05/01/2025 - 23:48

    For those looking at a cheap digital audio interface to connect your guitar or bass to PC have a look at the Lekato headphone amp multi effects unit. Plugs into the guitar jack and has a micro USB to plug into your PC or Mac. Works much better than my other cheap audio interface and doubles up as a multi effects unit and headphone amp. I think I paid around $40 for mine.

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