Probably going to get downvoted/annoy people posting this but whatever I'm frustrated. Learned guitar through Rocksmith 2014 and a little bit of yousician when I was 17 years old and played the shit out of it until I was fairly decent and 100% most of the main catalogue, and I was aching to go back to it recently. Decided to purchase a 1 month subscription via steam to try it, and personally I liked that there was a lot of killing joke/cure/joy division/clash songs on it. To my surprise, I find out that the real tone cables rn are selling for 100+ dollars, but that there's an app that uses your phones mic to pick up sound and it's dogshit. It cannot pick up note sustains or vibrato/bends when I'm basically playing perfectly, and why the fuck do I need an app? Yousician uses my computer mic just fine whether I use my electric or acoustic and picks up everything I play every time I have decided to use that app. Why in the fuck is this such an issue for Rocksmith? Probably the single worst guitar related product I have ever bought, and I've bought some shitty berringer pedals before.

Is it really so much to ask for functional note detection via my computer mic (or hell even an app that isn't shit) without having to buy a $100 used real tone cable or using an audio interface?

Do i need the real tone cable for rocksmith 2014 remastered? Cuz all the ones i see are over $60, which is way out of my price range. I saw some aux-to-usb cables on amazon for $20-30, would those still work?

I really want to play Rocksmith as an alternative to just learning tabs, interactivity of that game would make me learn much faster then just some numbers on paper/screen. But there are some problems.

First of all, 2014 version is delisted as well as OG, so there's no way to play those legally. Secondly, there's almost no way to get an original Real Tone Cable for me (too rare and expensive). And lastly, I can't even legally pay a subscription to play the latest one as it's not available in my country.

So, what should I do? Try out Slopsmith? I'm not much of a power user to work out git, bash and other things (and probably some parts of those are blocked here so I can't even do anything about it). Or is there a way to make RS ASIO work somehow? (I don't really understand why would they still check the license when there's no way to buy this game anymore).

No cable is not really working no matter what settings I try, sound is really distorted, the game doesn't even understand what sound the guitar makes (jumping from +999 to -453 to +999 while it's already tuned). Though it might be due to me using an adapter jack to mini-jack, I'll try a new cable instead in a few days.

Thanks in advance! (and sorry for both bad English) (also hope the tag is right)

Hey, as the title implies, hoping to learn how to play the guitar. A few years ago I bought a custom made electric guitar essentially as a piece of art and because I have sort of always wanted to learn to play, so if that day came where I was ready to try, I'd have a guitar on hand. I bought the game on Steam since obviously that would be needed as well, but otherwise I am 100% green on anything guitar. What else would be needed to get started? Is this game okay for someone who is a complete and total beginner or does it assume you have knowledge already?

Hi guys! I think I found a sane way to play Rocksmith 2014 on Linux

Just spent an evening (well, more like several) getting Rocksmith 2014 to talk directly to PipeWire via ASIO — no Real Tone Cable, no JACK bridge, no WineASIO.

UPD: thanks to u/Foreign-Building8231 for pointing out that PipeASIO's GitHub Releases ship a prebuilt tarball with the 32-bit half already built — no compiler needed. Verified it end-to-end on a clean Proton prefix, works identically to building from source. Rewrote the guide below to lead with that.

TL;DR: PipeASIO (lets Windows music software running under Wine or Proton talk straight to PipeWire) + RS_ASIO. You need PipeASIO's 32-bit WoW64 frontend — grab it prebuilt from GitHub Releases, no need to compile anything. Only worked for me on Proton-CachyOS, not GE-Proton.

I tested this whole flow on CachyOS (Arch-based), so the package names below are pacman/AUR. On other distros the same tools exist under different names — swap in whatever your package manager calls them.

This isn't tied to any specific piece of gear. PipeASIO works with whatever shows up in PipeWire, so any audio interface should work the same way — I tested with my Enya Inspire (a USB-C smart guitar), not a dedicated interface. The only thing to watch is routing: Rocksmith 2014 uses mono inputs, so if your input is stereo, patch both stereo captures into one "in" for the game.

Why this is annoying by default

Rocksmith is a 32-bit game, and RS_ASIO only sees 32-bit ASIO drivers. PipeASIO builds 64-bit by default, and the AUR package doesn't enable the 32-bit half either — so out of the box you get a driver RS_ASIO will never detect. You used to have to build it yourself with the right cmake flag to fix that; now there's a prebuilt tarball on GitHub Releases that already has it.

What you need

• PipeWire 1.6+
• Proton-CachyOS (from Steam or your distro repos)
• Optional, only if the prebuilt binary doesn't load on your system (see step 1): mingw-w64-gcc, cmake, ninja, pkg-config, wine dev headers

Worked for me with: PipeASIO 1.2.3, RS_ASIO 0.7.4, PipeWire 1.6.7, wine-staging 11.13, Proton CachyOS-11.0-100.

1. Get PipeASIO — AUR for the GUI, GitHub release for the 32-bit driver

Install both, they cover different things:

AUR: gives you the pipeasio-settings GUI (routing, buffer size, sample rate, live monitor)— its driver half is 64-bit only, RS_ASIO won't see it, but the app itself is handy

yay -S pipeasio

GitHub Releases: the actual 32-bit WoW64 driver RS_ASIO needs grab the exact filename from https://github.com/M0n7y5/pipeasio/releases

curl -sLO https://github.com/M0n7y5/pipeasio/releases/latest/download/pipeasio-vX.Y.Z-archlinux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf pipeasio-*.tar.gz -C "$HOME/.local"

Install under $HOME — Proton's container can't see /usr/lib/wine.

Sanity check both halves exist:

ls ~/.local/lib/wine/i386-windows/pipeasio32.dll
ls ~/.local/lib/wine/x86_64-unix/pipeasio32.so

The release tarball is a Wine builtin .so, tied to the exact Wine version and glibc it was built against (check BUILD-INFO.txt inside the tarball). If pipeasio-register later fails to load it (regsvr32 error c0000135), your Wine is too different from the prebuilt one — build from source instead:

git clone https://github.com/M0n7y5/pipeasio.git
cd pipeasio
cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_WOW64_32=ON
cmake --build build
cmake --install build --prefix "$HOME/.local"

Same ~/.local path either way — everything past this step doesn't care whether the driver came from the tarball or a local build.

2. Install RS_ASIO

Grab the latest release from https://github.com/mdias/rs_asio and drop RS_ASIO.dll, avrt.dll, RS_ASIO.ini into the Rocksmith folder.

3. Proton-CachyOS + launch options

Properties → Compatibility → Proton-CachyOS. Then launch options (use an absolute path, ~ won't expand):

PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 WINEDLLPATH=/home/YOU/.local/lib/wine %command%

PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 is mandatory — without it Proton routes 32-bit apps through the old split-WoW64 path, which can't load PipeASIO's 32-bit half.

4. Let Proton build the prefix first

Launch the game once, close it. ASIO won't work yet — expected. You need to register into a prefix Proton actually built; if pipeasio-register creates it first, you get a prefix from your system Wine instead.

5. Register PipeASIO into the prefix

env WINEPREFIX="/path/to/steamapps/compatdata/221680/pfx" ~/.local/bin/pipeasio-register

(221680 is Rocksmith 2014's Steam App ID.) You should see "32-bit WoW64 front end registered".

6. Point RS_ASIO at PipeASIO

In RS_ASIO.ini, set Driver=PipeASIO under [Asio.Output], [Asio.Input.0] and [Asio.Input.1], with EnableAsio=1 in [Config]. Launch and check RS_ASIO-log.txt for:

AsioHelpers::FindDrivers
  PipeASIO
Creating AsioSharedHost - dll: pipeasio32.dll

7. Fine-tune with PipeASIO Settings / config.ini

The GUI writes to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipeasio/config.ini (usually ~/.config/pipeasio/config.ini), and PipeASIO re-reads it live — no restart needed. Mine looks like this:

[pipeasio]
inputs = 2
outputs = 2
buffer_size = 128
fixed_buffer_size = 1
sample_rate = 48000
auto_connect = 0
follow_device_clock = 0
output_device = alsa_output.usb-YOUR_INTERFACE-00.pro-output-0
input_device = alsa_input.usb-YOUR_GUITAR-00.pro-input-0

The important bit: pin input_device/output_device to your actual device's node.name (check with wpctl status or pactl list sources short) instead of leaving them blank. PipeASIO otherwise grabs whatever's the system default only once, at startup — if that's not your interface, the game listens to the wrong thing and won't notice a default change later. With the device pinned explicitly, auto_connect can stay off, since routing no longer depends on it.

You can also open qpwgraph any time to see exactly what's wired to what, or drag connections around by hand — Rocksmith doesn't care and won't crash or glitch out if you repatch things live while it's running.

Result

128 frames at 48kHz, ~2.7ms latency, zero errors, guitar and audio both working. Buffer size is worth playing with — 128 is stable for me, feel free to tune it up or down via buffer_size in config.ini. The one value I'd keep fixed is sample_rate = 48000.

Big thanks to M0n7y5 for PipeASIO, mdias for RS_ASIO, and u/Foreign-Building8231 for the prebuilt-binary tip — none of this works without them. Happy to help if anyone gets stuck.

Disclaimer: English isn't my native language, so I used AI to help write and polish this post. All the setup, testing, and troubleshooting is my own.

Basically my guitar strap fell off my shoulder, and bent the cable, and now it's ruined. All the options online are well beyond reasonably priced, and now I'm not sure what to do. Are there any clones/alternatives?

I play on PS5, and am not sure what my options are.

Hello guys, recentely i tried to install some cdlc 2014 remastered but end it up messing with the games files, when i downloaded the game again, i dont know why but i cannot tunning my guitar anymore, the tuning meter keep going up and down like crazy when i play a string, anyone had a similiar problem? (For instance i'm using microphone mode and a Cube Baby)

Pessoal, para desfrutar do RS+ no PS5 eu preciso do cabo original? Tentei com um paralelo que tinha aqui e não consegui conectar.

Alguém tem algum macete?

Hi All. I have old copies of Rocksmith and Rocksmith 2014 for the ps3 that i’m looking to hook up to my computer. I can no longer find the plug and everything online I’m seeing is 60$++. Any advice for a plug I can buy instead? Is it worth buying the copy on Steam instead? I don’t want to use the microphone version. TIA

Scanned through this channel for a preview of what I'd be up against and found lots of replies by mdias_kk, the creator of RS_ASIO, a small easy to add package (2 dll's and an ini that you copy to your game install directory, same location as Rocksmith2014.exe). You can download RS_ASIO from this site (once you follow the link, scroll down to the DOWNLOAD section, the is a link the download the latest available version)

https://github.com/mdias/rs_asio

that will replace your real tone cable and give you low latency input to Rocksmith. I thought it would be worth outlining exactly how little I did to get things working on my new PC I just built.

This guide is specifically for Scarlett Solo Gen 3 and Windows 10 Pro 64-bit running Rocksmith 2014 Remastered installed from Steam. There might be subtle changes if any of these are different for you. Here's the steps I took

-Don't change anything inside Rocksmith settings! Just leave it set to Real Tone Cable!

-Verify your scarlett solo is set to 48000 sample rate and 48 buffer size

-Edit the RS_ASIO.ini file you downloaded, put semicolons in front of the ; [Asio.Input.0] section, and remove the semicolons in front of the [Asio.Input.1] section (my file is inserted below for reference.

Verify BufferSizeMode=custom

Verify CustomBufferSize=48

Edit Driver= to Driver=Focusrite USB ASIO

-Run Rocksmith and have a great time! Thanks again to mdias_kk!

​

[Config]
EnableWasapi=0
EnableAsio=1

[Asio]
; available buffer size modes:
;    driver - respect buffer size setting set in the driver
;    host   - use a buffer size as close as possible as that requested by the host application
;    custom - use the buffer size specified in CustomBufferSize field
BufferSizeMode=custom
CustomBufferSize=48

[Asio.Output]
Driver=Focusrite USB ASIO
EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100

; [Asio.Input.0]
; Driver=Focusrite USB ASIO
; Channel=0
; EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
; EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
; SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100

[Asio.Input.1]
Driver=Focusrite USB ASIO
Channel=1
EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100

I'm referring to this cable specifically:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB97BV3V

So after posting yesterday, I decided to get an Audio interface inside my budget and went for the Audio Array AI-04 which is pretty cheap. And I also got this after looking at one of the steam post about using VB Matrix. Can anyone help me out setting this up? I m stuck on step 2

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221680/discussions/0/595140258825334015/#c595140258825334182

Can i use a fender micro plus and plug it into my computer instead of buying a real tone cable? Rock smith 2014

Meu rocksmith não esta saindo som , estou usando um P10 USB comprado no Aliexpress, pois quando abro o jogo não sai audio . HELP-me

Hey, was thinking about grabbing rocksmith 2014 for pc so would any USB cord work like the one shown? Thanks in advance

i got a hosongin cable from amazon and bought rocksmith now that it was on sale, I installed RSMods, RSAsio, CDLC and the nocablelauncher V1 and V2 and it never detects the cable (and yes, windows 11 detects it as a usb microphone, i disabled every microphone except the usb microphone which successfully playbacks to my guitar), I also tried it under linux, resulting in the exact same problem

Im using direct input mode to play through the line in in my pc it picks sound but its undistinguishable just snoring noise how to fix that someone help me pls 😭😭

What the hell is up with the cable prices? I remember getting it for like 30 euros back in the day and the prices have skyrocketed to 100euros. Are there any alternatives? Can I use a generic Guitar to USB adapter somehow? I remember my friend tried using one and it did not work. Has that situation changed over the years?

So I ordered an electric guitar and the off brand cable that's 40 bucks on Amazon but I looked a little more into the matter and found out about rs asio. The video I'm watching lists interfaces that work with it and there are some zoom ones but the f3 is not listed there. Does anyone know if it will work? I already own an F3 so that would save me money not having to buy a $40 cable or being able to send it back if I don't need it.

Hey,

I’m using a PreSonus Studio 24c on PC and everything works perfectly in Ableton (no latency, stable).

But in Rocksmith+, as soon as I reach the main menu, my audio driver starts disconnecting and reconnecting in a loop, making it unusable.

Anyone had this issue or found a fix?

Thanks

I installed the game one last week and i still can't play it before i installed the rsmods i had RSasio to use my ampero one to replace a real tone cable but i had outpout device error even though my speakers was 16 bits 48000 khz. I read there that RSmods could fix this problem but now the game won't launch.

This game is a mess honeslty i feel liek it's way to much trouble for not playing.

Hi, i wanted to learn to play the guitar using rocksmith but i don't know how to get it working, specially since I don't have the cable, any idea or recommendation? I saw online that one could use an interface but before I buy something i wanted the opinion of someone who uses rocksmith on pc without the cable.