Compatible with midi controller

[tonyres66]

Can you tell me if this game is compatible with midi controller, the controller I yourockguitar gen2 ?, you can connect with jack and USB

[Pleazard]

Nope.
Edit: Actually they state on their site that they are... go figure...

If it is capable of connecting to the guitar amplifier via a standard jack and nothing else in between, I believe you could connect it to the Rocksmith Realtone Cable then.

Since Rocksmith doesn't work with any other USB interface but its official "Realtone" cable, I don't think connecting directly via USB would be possible.

Even then, you could run into tuning issues in the game itself.

[tonyres66]

Ok thanks at this point you should buy the game and try to make it work, to limit purchase the cable and it does not work even purchase the guitar.

[rcole_sooner]

MIDI is very "old school" and probably reached the end of its life many years ago.

Rocksmith is not a MIDI game. It uses digital audio signals to detect notes hit.

The Real Tone cable is an A/D ( analog to digital) audio converter cable. It is not a MIDI cable.

The Real Tone cable is the way to go. It is the only cable that is officially supported.

Now if you have a MIDI keyboard, then you could forget the MIDI part and hook the Real Tone cable up to any analog audio out on the keyboard (probably need a few adapters to get to the 1/4" mono phono plug), and it might "work" with the game. Of course, the game is mad e for guitars so it will only show the guitar/bass fretboard and notes.

[Klat]

MIDI is far from dead and has evolved into a pretty cool standard set by Roland. It is a 13 Pin configuration where each string is isolated using either a hex magnetic pickups or piezo style. This means you can plug the guitar into either a Roland made pedal or another 13 Pin converter (Antares has a cool ATG-1 processor and BOSS also has the GP-10) to give your axe guitar tone or tune modeling. The processor will pick up the string that you are playing in translate it into a different sound and/or alternate tuning without you having to re-tune or buy multiple guitars. You can plug the Realtone cable into the Syth/Processor unit for Rocksmith2014

You can buy guitars with a hex pick up already built in from Roland or ones with Piezo's by Godin and a few other makers.

You can also get the hex pick up put in to your current guitar or mounted externally with the Roland GK3 kit. The tracking is really good on the pick ups even on the external kits.

https://vimeo.com/117324852

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKvuHri61k

[Buck]

Originally posted by Klat:

MIDI is far from dead

professional midi is also a very, VERY different beast from the consumer level stuff we get on PC playback. The best I ever saw was the hardware accelerated midi done by the Sound Blaster live and X-Fi. You could get some really good results with those and a good aftermarket soundfount (such as Utopia live! 2.0, which is no longer available), but midi playback in general has been mostly deprecated in favor of wav samples and other audio formats.

The only place where midi playback has utility nowadays is if you wanted to play older games that used it. While not as good, directmusic woould still given decent results for that though.

[grimlog]

Originally posted by Buck:

Originally posted by Klat:

MIDI is far from dead

professional midi is also a very, VERY different beast from the consumer level stuff we get on PC playback. The best I ever saw was the hardware accelerated midi done by the Sound Blaster live and X-Fi. You could get some really good results with those and a good aftermarket soundfount (such as Utopia live! 2.0, which is no longer available), but midi playback in general has been mostly deprecated in favor of wav samples and other audio formats.

The only place where midi playback has utility nowadays is if you wanted to play older games that used it. While not as good, directmusic woould still given decent results for that though.

You're talking about MIDI-playback on soundcards. That's a collection of standardized sounds. This is not everything MIDI is about. It's a standard to let devices play together. My Multieffect has MIDI-In and MIDI-Through, my synths have MIDI-Out. I can connect my effect to my synth (integrated sequenzer) and let the synth handle the switching of presets for example. I can do this with the PC-sequencer I use as well (Rosegarden FWIW). MIDI is able to synchronize various devices. It is far from dead. This has nothing to do with "professional MIDI", whatever this might be. There's only one MIDI-standard and that one is very useful.

[rcole_sooner]

Sounds like the same old MIDI from way back in the 80s.

[grimlog]

Originally posted by rcole_sooner:

Sounds like the same old MIDI from way back in the 80s.

It is. And it is still standard. It works. I use it daily.

[rcole_sooner]

Powers to ya.

But my point is this game, Rocksmith, is not MIDI.

[Buck]

Originally posted by grimlog:

You're talking about MIDI-playback on soundcards.

Yes I am. Your point?

That's a collection of standardized sounds.

I know what MIDI is, but thanks.
Also, you're wrong. MIDI is a heck of alot more than just "a collection of standardized sounds" (of which there are several, but more on that later)

This is not everything MIDI is about.

Yes, i'm quite aware of this fact, which should be blindingly obvious if you actually read what i wrote.
Also, where did i say that it was?

This has nothing to do with "professional MIDI", whatever this might be.

Just differentiating between midi as used in content creation vs the simple midi most consumers know from old video games.

There's only one MIDI-standard and that one is very useful.

No actually there isn't. There are NUMEROUS different MIDI standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:MIDI_standards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MIDI_standards