rs7string 1.0.0-beta.2

1.0.0-beta.2

Beta update focused on RSMods colour compatibility and tuner fixes.

Fixes

• Fix incorrect colours with RSMods custom colours, Extended Range mode and colourblind mode,
  including headstock pegs and fret numbers.
• Keep the selected tuning peg and its coloured glow synchronized when RSMods changes the palette.
• Fix the seven-string tuner switching back to E after initially selecting low B.

Improvements

• Automatically use RSMods configured Extended Range low B colour for the seventh string.
• Detect RSMods reliably regardless of DLL loading order.
• Add an F9 setting to disable automatic colour matching and use your own saved colours.

Updating

Close Rocksmith and back up your existing installation. Extract the ZIP and copy everything inside
bin/Release/ into the game folder. Keep your existing rs7string.ini to preserve your settings;
new settings use their defaults.

rs7string 1.0.0-beta.1

Warning

Pre-release (beta). First public build of rs7string. Please report problems with your rs7string.log via the issue tracker.

Install

You need: Rocksmith 2014 Remastered for PC (Steam, current September 2022 build) and any CDLC enabler.
RSMods and RS_ASIO are optional - rs7string works with or without them.

1. Close Rocksmith.
2. Open the game folder: Steam -> right-click Rocksmith 2014 -> Manage -> Browse local files.
3. If dinput8.dll, rs7string.ini or a chord-diagrams folder from another mod are already there, back them up first.
4. Download rs7string-1.0.0-beta.1.zip below and copy everything from its bin/Release/ folder into the game folder (next to Rocksmith2014.exe, not into dlc):
   • dinput8.dll
   • rs7string.ini
   • rs7string_headstock.bin, rs7string_headstock_lh.bin, rs7string_headstock.LICENSE.md
   • the whole chord-diagrams folder
5. Make sure a CDLC enabler is installed, then put seven-string charts (*_p.psarc) into the dlc folder.
6. Start the game. On the first start rs7string builds the seven-peg headstock from your own install (folder rs7string\headstock). If something looks wrong, check rs7string.log in the game folder.

Uninstall: close the game and delete the files from step 4 plus the rs7string folder and rs7string.log.

Full guide: INSTALL.md

rs7string 1.0.0-beta.1

The first release: seven-string guitar charts in Rocksmith 2014 Remastered on Windows.

Playing

• Play on a seven-string highway, with note detection and scoring on the low B string. Alternate
  tunings work.
• Play chords that use the seventh string, with seven-row chord diagrams, finger numbers,
  open-string bars and technique visuals.
• See a fret grid and fret bars that reach across all seven strings.
• Play with the game's reversed string order. The highway, fret bars and floor bars follow it.

Guitar and tuner

• Select a seven-string song and the guitar is built with seven strings. Six-string songs rebuild it
  with six. Session Mode, Guitarcade, Lessons and the technique hub also return it to six strings.
• Tune all seven strings before a song, starting on low B. Seven-string tuning names such as
  B Standard 7Str appear in the song list, on song pages and in the tuner.
• Get a seven-peg headstock, built automatically from your own installed game. No separate
  model-building tools are needed. Do not share the generated model files.
• Use right- or left-handed profiles. The in-line seven-string headstock is shown with the game's
  6-in-line headstock option (German UI: "6 in Reihe"). With the 3+3 option a seven-string guitar
  shows the same in-line headstock and pegs; six-string guitars keep the stock 3+3 headstock.
• Give the seventh string its own colour (light grey by default), with a separate colourblind setting.

Setup and tools

• Load plain (unencrypted) PSARC charts with the built-in loader. Any CDLC enabler for the supported
  game build works; no special plain PSARC enabler build is needed.
• Avoid the freeze caused by clicking in the CDLC enabler's console. Console QuickEdit is turned off
  by default.
• Change settings and check status in the F9 overlay.
• Seven-string support runs on the native game layouts only. The switches of the older seven-string
  code are gone; an rs7string.ini that still has them loads, and the log lists each one as ignored
  (see Removed settings). If a part of the seven-string support cannot
  start, rs7string leaves the game unchanged (six strings) and says why in rs7string.log.

For chart authors

• Seven-string charts use the normal Lead and Rhythm arrangements. See the
  charting guide for tuning, notes, chords and techniques.
• Existing six-string charts are not converted. Eight-string charts are not supported yet.

See INSTALL for requirements, setup and known limitations, and SETTINGS
for defaults.