
(However, you can not connect something like the Behringer UCG102 to your PS3 or XBox to use with Rocksmith.

Support is built in to Linux, so you can simply connect the realtone cable to a Linux system and jam away. Linux has excellent support for USB audio devices, and the Rocksmith realtone cable uses a chipset which is support by the snd-usb-audio Linux drivers (and for Mac by OS X 10.6). This is actually identical to other 1/4″ to USB adapters such as the Behringer UCG102 Guitar to USB interface. The realtone guitar interface cable Rocksmith uses is really just a simple USB sound card which is seen as a USB microphone by a computer or console game system. AVLinux also comes with commercial software, and previews of other available tools, but everything on the CD is free to use. There is zero cost for the software as it is based on an Open Source operating system (Linux), and Open Source applications such as Rakarrack, Guitarix, Ardour, Soundgarden and others. If you have a MIDI capable drum kit or keyboard (especially with an M-Audio MIDI adapter), you can very likely use them as well.Īnd the best part: it’s free. (Compare that to what you have to spend for something like ProTools.)Īll you need to do is download a bootable Linux CD, such as AVLinux, boot your computer with it, plug in your guitar using the realtone cable, and run the software on the CD and you can unleash a vast array of guitar audio effects (pedals), as well as easily record yourself (with multiple tracks), add vocal tracks, etc.


You have everything to extend your playing from Rocksmith into endless possibilities using your home computer – and it is utterly free. Want to add vocals? No problem, just plug in that Rockband or Guitar Hero USB microphone and you can record audio too. If you have Rocksmith for PS3 or X-Box, a Realtone guitar cable, and have a PC or Intel-based Mac, you have everything you need to extend your playing from the game into a home studio and guitar effects processing and jamming session, not just for yourself but for friends as well.
