There now exists Rosetta free RS 2014 for Mac. https://github.com/bbelgg/rs-rearmed

It plays butter smooth. This is the version Windows users have had from the beginning, finally on Mac. It requires the original game and for you to recompile it (happens through installer).

im not good at playing the guitar and i wanted to try this
i also got used to play on drop C
how can i move the notes of a CDLC in another tuning to be on drop C?

any easy, short or automated way?

Hello, I’ve recently gotten into playing dragonforce songs and struggling through them has improved my playing a ton. I’m looking for more high difficulty song/band suggestions. Does not have to be the same genre. I’m aware of Joe Satriana, Cliffs of Dover, Painkiller, etc. I love the really note-dense stuff with little down-time. Please help, it’s the only way I can get off any more!

Hey everyone!

I recently ran into a pretty specific issue with Rocksmith 2014, and after spending some time trying to find a simple solution, I ended up making my own.

Here's my setup:

• I use a USB audio interface for my guitar. (generic bomge U204)
• My headphones are connected to my regular Windows audio output, not the interface. (im poor)
• I wanted to share Rocksmith on Discord with game audio so my friends could actually hear me playing.

Sounds simple enough, right?

Well, not really when you're using RS_ASIO.

I first tried the well-known Voicemeeter Banana approach, routing Rocksmith's ASIO output through Voicemeeter to both my headphones and a virtual audio device for streaming.

While this is a perfectly valid solution, I found the whole audio routing setup more complicated than I wanted for something as simple as sharing my game on Discord.

I just wanted to launch Rocksmith, share the game window, and have the audio work without dealing with virtual audio devices and routing configurations every time.

So I ended up making Rocksmith Discord Bridge.

It uses RS_ASIO and a small audio bridge that makes the game's audio capturable by Discord while streaming the original Rocksmith window.

I also made a Windows installer with a guided setup, so you don't have to manually configure everything.

GitHub: https://github.com/erickyfigueiredo/RocksmithDiscordBridge

It's completely free and open source.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying this is better than Voicemeeter for everyone. Voicemeeter is much more flexible and can do a lot more. I just wanted something simpler for this particular use case.

I know this is a very niche problem, but hopefully it'll save someone else the time I spent figuring it out.

If anyone tries it with a different audio interface, I'd love to hear how it goes. Feedback and contributions are welcome!

One last thing for transparency: I built this project with the help of AI. I used it during development to help turn my idea into a working tool. Just wanted to be upfront about that!

Hey guys just wanted to Demo QuickRS, to hopefully generate some interest.

I am super close to having most of the features (Note for note, proper RS highway emulation, pitch transpose, APPLE MAC version, etc.) and fixes requested on my last release, but I need some encouragement in the form of interest.

I have thoroughly tested a lot of it since I use it almost everyday, however there's thing like the mac build or the highway that I barely use, so for me to test I need some encouragement and maybe even volunteers. Please let me know if anyone is interested. Thanks~!

https://youtu.be/edfqevDc5KY

Last Release: https://www.reddit.com/r/rocksmith/comments/1x5xfo8/quickrs_an_opensource_guitar_tab_player_now_built/

TL;DR: free, open-source TAB overlay for Rocksmith 2014 Remastered. It reads the chart from your installed .psarc, follows the live song clock, and draws a normal six-string TAB staff over the game. No chart conversion, no second TAB file, no alt-tabbing.

I've been using Rocksmith to learn songs for years, but I always end up looking for a TAB to see the actual fretboard patterns. So I built this: a click-through overlay that stays on top of Rocksmith and follows the song in real time. It doesn't modify the game or your save; it only reads the chart and the clock.

What it does

• Two-row rolling page (default) or continuous scrolling view.
• Lead, Rhythm and Bass paths, with the live path badge.
• Chords, sustains, slides, tremolo, bends, hammer-ons/pull-offs, vibrato, taps, slap/pop, measure numbers and a playhead.
• Live hit/miss/streak counters. Finished notes fade; misses that can be matched to Rocksmith's counters turn gray.
• Click-through and always-on-top; follows the Rocksmith client window and hides when you alt-tab.
• No hardcoded resolution or frame rate. It reads the game's client rectangle, is PerMonitorV2 DPI-aware, and renders on the monitor's composition clock. 60/120/144/240 Hz all work; scroll speed is driven by the song clock, not FPS.
• Remembers mode, bars per row, notation size, position and opacity.
• No ads, no telemetry, no account. Everything is local.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 x64.
• Rocksmith 2014 Remastered (not Rocksmith+).
• Borderless or windowed mode. Windows blocks overlays over exclusive fullscreen.
• .NET 8 Desktop Runtime, or use the self-contained release.
• Run the launcher as admin so it can talk to an elevated Rocksmith/RockSniffer.

Install

1. Download the latest release: RocksmithTabOverlay-0.1.0-win-x64.zip
2. Extract it somewhere writable (not Program Files).
3. Run start-tab-overlay.ps1 and accept the UAC prompt. The release bundles the patched RockSniffer backend, so you don't need a separate RockSniffer install.
4. Start Rocksmith, pick a song and arrangement, and play.

Controls F layout edit (move/resize/opacity) · F4 bars per row · F5/F6 notation size · F7 two-row/scroll · F8 hide.

Honest limitations

• It renders the authored max-difficulty chart; it doesn't mirror Rocksmith's dynamic-difficulty omissions.
• Rocksmith exposes aggregate hit/miss counters, not per-note judgments, so miss highlighting is best-effort.
• Some per-string techniques inside complex chords (harmonics, palm mutes) still need more decoding work.
• Exclusive fullscreen is not supported. Use borderless/windowed.
• I've tested it on a 3440×1440 ultrawide at 150% scaling and 144 Hz, plus 1080p. It should adapt to other resolutions and refresh rates, but more testers are welcome. Very high refresh rates cost more GPU/CPU because WPF repaints every composition frame; if 240 Hz feels heavy, run 120/144 Hz and the TAB speed stays the same.
• CDLC: it reads the chart from the .psarc, so it should work with CDLC too, but I haven't tested every custom. If a chart uses non-standard notation, some techniques may not render correctly.

Links

• Source / README: https://github.com/GrzegorzAndrys/rocksmith-tab-overlay
• Releases: https://github.com/GrzegorzAndrys/rocksmith-tab-overlay/releases

If something doesn't work, run diagnose-overlay-window.ps1 and attach window-diagnostic.json; it records the window/DPI info I need to debug. Bug reports and feature ideas are very welcome.

It's MIT licensed. It doesn't ship game assets or charts; it reads them from your own installation. Rocksmith 2014 is owned by Ubisoft; this is an unofficial fan tool.

TL;DR: free, open-source TAB overlay for Rocksmith 2014 Remastered. It reads the chart from your installed .psarc, follows the live song clock, and draws standard six-string TAB over the game. No chart conversion, no second TAB file.

• Two-row page or continuous scroll; Lead/Rhythm/Bass.
• Chords, sustains, slides, tremolo, bends, H/P, vibrato, taps, slap/pop, playhead.
• Click-through, always-on-top, DPI-aware, remembers layout/opacity.
• Windows 10/11, borderless/windowed, .NET 8 or self-contained, run as admin.

Install: download the release, extract, run start-tab-overlay.ps1, accept UAC, start the game.

Controls: F layout · F4 bars · F5/F6 size · F7 mode · F8 hide.

Limitations: max-difficulty chart only; aggregate hit/miss counters; some techniques inside chords still need work; no exclusive fullscreen.

Repo + release: https://github.com/GrzegorzAndrys/rocksmith-tab-overlay

Feedback and bug reports welcome. If it doesn't work, run diagnose-overlay-window.ps1 and attach the JSON.

I started as a Beginner two years ago and can play Advanced songs now, all thanks to a weekly challenge on the forge that's been running for 13 years. Every week about 20 of us play the same new songs and compete on accuracy. It's friendly and laid back, and it really does help you improve!

Anyone's welcome to join, especially beginners and intermediate players since a lot of us have leveled up recently we need more players to keep those classes competitive. New season started recently and the new Halloween themed week (Week 679) started today!

To join: grab this week's songs from the forum thread, play them on Score Attack (Hard) or Learn a Song with every section maxed, then post a screenshot showing your accuracy % and streak as a new reply before Saturday. Post as many tries as you like; your best one counts.

See you on the scoreboard! https://customsforge.com/topic/81491-rocksmith-2014-championship-week-679-haunted-riffs-halloween-hits-monster-grooves-supernatural-shredding-%F0%9F%8E%83/

https://drandgb.github.io/Rocksmith-Championship/#scoreboard/679

Edit: Big thanks to all of you who have come say hi so far, if you see this later on you're still welcome to join!

Hey everyone! We mac users tend to get the short end of the stick in the Rocksmith world. So here's SmithShelf, a mac app (signed and notarized) that works by simply moving files between the dlc folder and a dummy folder. It's helped me immensely in cleaning up my Rocksmith in-game experience and helping with load speeds.

download link

• Dual Views: Album art vinyl grid + dense sortable spreadsheet table.
• Curated Playlists & Setlists: Group songs into custom setlists and isolate them in Rocksmith with one click
• Collector Notes & Tags: Add custom practice notes, tuning reminders, and hashtags.

More mac apps coming soon! (including a DLC editor)

Changes:

• TabSheet - Music Sheet
• Integrated Stemming (Mac Silicon ARM ~ 150mb size.. Demucs stemmer Model weights + Inference code)
• Updates strings and note graphics (String vibration, capo indicator)
• Song queue (Spotify style Up Next)
• Song player footer
• Updates folder directory to match or sit over Rocksmith2014 directory

Platforms: Mac (x86, ARM), Windows (x86), Linux (x86), Web (Wasm)

Linux (x86) IN DEVELOPMENT (NOW ADDED): Looking for Linux Users (x86) to test RockNRoller 0.2.3 candidate. Let me know if there are any issues (I can only test linux through docker on my m3 mac..)

Stemming / Music Source Separation (Demucs):
RockNRoller integrated Demucs is available for Mac Silicon (ARM). And x86: Mac Intel, Windows, Linux

Play:

• Itch: https://nicapotato.itch.io/rocknroller
• Official Website: https://rocknroller.nicapotato.com/

EDIT 1:
- Released 0.2.7 (on 28/10/26) to address readability issues with font and buttons. Added linux build. Added RockNroller Stems builds for linux, windows, mac (intel) - on top of existing Mac Arm

Hi, I made some fixes to RS 2014 on Mac, e.g. speed up the song enumeration and fix some keyboard issues on the song list. Here you go: https://github.com/glebb/rs-mac-fixes

Hope it works for you! It's not tested on Intel.

Guitar or bass

Does anyone have a list of what is going next month?

So I’ve never had this problem before, but now all of a sudden if I don’t hold my guitar in the perfect spot, perfect positioning, the inputs don’t work correctly until I move it back to that spot and positioning. On wiitar it flashes between guitar and “falsestate” whatever that means. Not sure why this is happening after playing all these years without problems. But now it’s nearly impossible to play. I haven’t changed anything, everything is the exact same as it has been for the last 4 years. Any help is appreciated.

Hi
I have a problem with Rocksmith+ and my Positive Grid Riff. Whenever I launch the game, the Positive Grid Control Panel shows the sample rate as 44100 Hz instead of 48000 Hz.

Sometimes, after changing the ASIO buffer size a few times, it finally switches to 48000 and stays there until I close the game. When that happens everything works fine. But it’s random and kind of annoying to do this many times every time I want to play.

What makes it weird is that with Rocksmith 2014 with RS ASIO, using the same interface, I don’t have this issue at all. It runs at 48000 Hz right away.

Does anyone know a how to fix this?

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Ey chics!

Rocksmith 2014 requires audio interfaces to run at 48000 Hz, which breaks compatibility with USB amps and interfaces whose ASIO drivers are locked at 44100 Hz (like the Positive Grid Spark 2 and Spark 40 on newer firmware).

I made a fork of RS_ASIO that adds automatic real-time resampling from 44100 Hz to 48000 Hz directly inside RS_ASIO. If an ASIO driver rejects 48000 Hz, it falls back to 44100 Hz and resamples the stream on the fly so Rocksmith gets the 48000 Hz audio it expects with accurate pitch detection.

I guess it works with any 44100 Hz-locked ASIO interface, and it comes preconfigured for the Positive Grid Spark 2 (set to 128 samples in the Windows ASIO driver, with all amp/effect blocks turned off in the Spark app for a clean DI signal).

GitHub repo and instructions (precompiled build is in the Releases section):

https://github.com/jcruizsebastian/rocksmith-asio-rs_asio-for-spark-2-at-44100hz-128-samples

Hope someone finds this useful!

I´m having this issue while using this cable, got the game to learn guitar but not being able to hear a clean sound sucks a little, any help on how to fix it?

I already own the pack, but one of my friends is getting back into the game and they have an unused code are curious if they put the code in will they dlc?