![]() As you progress you unlock new nametags, Call of Duty style, as well as extra customizations for your virtual guitar including finishes, tuning pegs, and different fretboard markers. We’re given lessons on everything from correct posture whilst sitting right through to your first open chords, with each video covering everything in the kind of detail you’d expect from any respectable online guitar lessons platform like Fender Play or Guitar Tricks. Next, we dive into the ‘Intro to guitar’ section, where new guitarists are brought into the fold through a mixture of traditional video content and the classic Rocksmith gameplay. It’s a great way to get your head around how the game works and is similar to real-life warmups we’d use before a show or recording session. ![]() ![]() With the speed at 100% and note-by-note off, we proceed to chromatically run over all the notes of the fretboard, to a rather demented-sounding backing track that’s sure to annoy parents and partners alike. To a rather demented-sounding backing track that’s sure to annoy parents and partners alike It highlights which peg you need to turn, handy for those unfamiliar with different headstock types, and is a great practice builder, as you should be doing this before any song in your set or take in a recording session. Before we proceed, however, we’re asked to tune up by the game using its chromatic tuner. With this feature engaged, you have to hit the correct note or the track won’t proceed, hanging around until you nail it. There are two options before you begin, the first is speed, which allows you to half the pace of the piece. Thankfully, there's an option to reverse the order of the strings if you prefer, or even utilize a TAB view, which gives you a more traditional layout to play from. For someone who’s used to reading TAB, which represents these strings the other way around, it’s initially confusing, but that’s probably a case of old dog new tricks. The noteway gives you a view of the fretboard as if you were looking through the back of the neck, with the low E at the top and high E at the bottom. Ubisoft Rocksmith+ review: Learning platformįirst up are some warm-up exercises, which also double as a useful way to get your head around the ‘RS Noteway’ if you’re unfamiliar with it. Picking the appropriately named Rekt Shred, Echo Lead setting, we dive into some of the lesson content. Some of these settings somehow manage to make even a dark Tele neck pickup sound overly bright, but there are also some really usable sounds present with delay, reverb, and even octave effects available. There’s a massive range of sounds that cover everything from Fender-type cleans right through to full-on gritty Marshall-style distortion. Using either your regular instrument cable or the Real Tone Cable gives you additional settings to customize your tone, and the game reverts to this default setting for exercises and lessons. The Rocksmith+ Real Tone Cable is just as easy to get up and running, installing automatically to our PC with no input from ourselves, and immediately picking up our Tele plugged into the other end. ![]() We found that it performed admirably, registering the audio with no annoying crackles and pops It’s incredibly easy to set up, and after playing with the buffer settings to reduce the latency we found that it performed admirably, registering the audio with no annoying crackles and pops. Just to make sure to cover all the bases, we tried two methods, starting with our Fender Telecaster which we plugged into a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface with a regular instrument cable. ![]() You can use an audio interface if you have one, the Rocksmith+ app to use your smartphone as a microphone, or you can use the Rocksmith+ Real Tone Cable sold separately for around $28/£23, which Ubisoft provided us for the purposes of this review. During the initial phase of the game, you’re given several options for choosing how you want to play your guitar. Installing Rocksmith+ on our PC is easy enough, you need to download Ubisoft’s installer software, which we already have due to a recent foray into one of the Far Cry games, and follow the simple instructions. ![]()
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