Why sound interfaces are not suitable to play?

[Robert de Clair]

I have - UAC2 zoom usb3 sound interface and i can't choose it as output device with Rocksmith it's ridiculus i cant use it as input device (microphone) too

[Zero]

its been discussed alot previously. please search 'audio interfaces' in the forum.

[caldaar]

The Realtone cable can be used on all platforms... PS3, PS4, Xbox, Mac, Windows... Known output for fast note recognition. Simple for the software developers to support. And way cheaper then buying a UAC2.

And yes, this has been discussed a lot. Including evaluating the components built into the cable. Also we have discussed the results of people that have tried to work around needing the cable. And it comes down to, the best note recognition and results in the game is to use the required RealTone Cable.

[Bull Buchanan]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

Also note that round trip latency is lowest in my experience using your builf in sound chip/card rather than an outboard device such as a UAC2, Focusrite, etc. even though the outboard gear is of much higher quality.

That's only true for the game, not the gear itself. I can get under 5ms at far superior quality with my Steinberg UR44, because ASIO can actually use my hardware correctly instead of a $0.01 onboard sound chip that no one ever thought you'd actually use for anything important.

[Pelzi]

I have had the same problem with my surround system and also when
streaming over the steam link.
Go in your Rocksmith installation directory and change in "Rocksmith.ini"
ExclusiveMode=1 to
ExclusiveMode=0

Should be in the top of the [Audio] section.

[Bull Buchanan]

Btw, I got my Audio interface working by using it as a passthrough - guitar cable to interface -> guitar cable out of line out -> 3.5mm adapter.

Not an amazing difference, because I think the weak link in the chain is still the motherboard hardware (jack and soundchip) but it might be adjusting the impedance and feeding a stronger signal. I can also adjust my guitar volume on the fly now using the interface.

[Bull Buchanan]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

Originally posted by Bull Buchanan:

Btw, I got my Audio interface working by using it as a passthrough - guitar cable to interface -> guitar cable out of line out -> 3.5mm adapter.

Not an amazing difference, because I think the weak link in the chain is still the motherboard hardware (jack and soundchip) but it might be adjusting the impedance and feeding a stronger signal. I can also adjust my guitar volume on the fly now using the interface.

I use a Focusrite on the output but only for routing the signal not d/a conversion. It's analog sound out to the input of the Focusrite then I can listen through headphones plugged into it or route the sound out to my studio monitors. Just keep all the a/d and d/a conversion in RS world as you have done.

Not sure if it's actually digitizing the signal and then immediately DAC'ing it afterwards, but I think it's just operating as an analog passthrough in my setup.

[Joerg Baermann]

Not sure if you ever figured it out, but if you want to use the UAC-2/8 you need to go to Windows Control Panel and look for "Zoom UAC-2/8 Control Panel" and change the sampling rate to 48000 HZ.
In Sound settings you can have it at either 16, 24 or 32 bit and 48000HZ, make sure that the real tone cable is set to 48000Hz as well.
There shouldn't be any roundtrip latency issue with external studio interfaces, I had more latency with the onboard soundcard and a PCI-E card than with a Zoom R24, the ZOOM UAC interfaces are even faster, 5-6ms roundtrip without distorting.