Which software to use for creating CDLC
- Editor On Fire (EOF)
It is the core of where the magic happens, it was created as a companion to Frets On Fire quite some time ago to allow users to create their own charts and has evolved a lot since then to allow the creation of compatible customs songs for the Guitar Hero games, Phase Shift, Bandfuse, Rock Band and of course Rocksmith and Rocksmith 2014 Remastered or not.
You can find this software over at : https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof (You will need full release + hotfix)
- DLC Builder
Without it, things would be a bit more complicated, it automates the whole packaging process and creates all of the files that are needed for Rocksmith to be able to read and play everything according to plan. It involves a lot to properly translate the files from EOF to the proper file format that Rocksmith can then interpret correctly. It also add Dynamic Difficulty as well as some quality check and is the place to manage tones.
You can find this software over at : https://github.com/iminashi/Rocksmith2014.NET/releases
- WWise
Rocksmith uses the WWise file format for reading and navigating through audio files, so we will need it to convert our OGG files to the WEM format. Luckily the DLC Builder does it all on his own properly but we still need to have the software to do the encoding (like you would need the Lame encoder to encode in MP3).
You can download the 2021 installer from here : https://ignition4.customsforge.com/tools/wwise
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