What you want to do is arrange it so that it looks like mine below, with your PC sound card output selected, your PC sound card input deselected and the Rocksmith USB guitar selected. Expand your PC sound card entry by hitting the + and exposing the inputs and outputs. Here you should see your standard PC sound card (probably with a highlighted green symbol next to it indicating that it is the active selection) and your Rocksmith USB Guitar Adapter (which will probably not be selected). Clicking this brings up the ASIO4ALL configuration menu. Whenever a program starts using ASIO4ALL a little green triangle symbol appears in your system tray. Once ASIO4ALL is installed fire up the amp modelling suite and select ASIO4ALL as the audio device. I didn’t find ASIO4ALL super intuitive to use, so I will devote the rest of this post to explaining how mine is configured to get the sound working properly in Guitar Rig 5. ASIO4ALL is needed to work as a ‘bridge’ so that the Real Tone can be selected as the input but a different device selected as the output (for example your motherboard sound chip). In order to keep latencies low amp modelling software take exclusive control of the audio interface and they expect to only have to use one for both the incoming and outgoing sounds. This is because a standard audio interface has both input and output, but the Real Tone cable is input only. The driver that is needed is called ASIO4ALL. And a standard interface for connecting guitar to PC will cost around $100, so Rocksmith really is giving you some excellent value beyond what is already a great game.

This is not something that is advertised by the game manufacturers but with a free driver, a little fiddling and a copy of Guitar Rig or Amplitube this is pretty easy to do. Inside it is a Hercules board which converts the analog signal from the guitar into a USB digital stream.īut not only can this game provide a leg-up getting the motivation to learn, but the Real Tone cable also allows amp modelling sims to be used outside of the game.

You supply your own guitar and the connection is made by the Real Tone cable which is supplied with the game. Unlike Hero all the time you invest in getting better at the game actually builds real musical skills, rather than just coming away from it a highly talented coloured button masher. This half-game/half-tutor allows you to connect a real guitar to a console or PC and is basically Guitar Hero with a proper instrument. This christmas I picked up a copy of the game Rocksmith.

Rocksmith usb guitar adapter usage