Riff Repeater - How to Stop Before Individual Notes? | Forums

[Deltor360]

I'm going to caveat my words first by saying that maybe I'm missing something, but so far I have an extremely negative opinion of this game. in other words it really sucks. For me, and I'm sure a lot of other people, riff repeater was the single most important feature. I know I spent far more time in riff repeater than I did playing songs. As clunky as it was, you could make the old interface work for you, particularly in accelerator. You had a means to see exactly what notes you needed to play and at an appropriate speed. You could rig it to stop in its tracks when you missed a note, and carefully observe what was next. You could pause it and then at the touch of a button have it resume right from where you paused. The new riff repeater is awful in this regard. If you pause and resume, it starts the section from the very beginning of the section and resets your speed to 100%. WTF? I can't overemphasize how much this sucks. If I missed some features, well all I can say that the "manual" is a joke, so the fault lies with the product. I'm sorry man, it sucks. I would gladly go back to the very original riff repeater with the 5 lives. I really liked the first Rocksmith with all its faults, and I really wanted to like this one. Unfortunately with all the cool new features, they failed where it counts. I doubt that I'll be the only one who feels this way.

Perhaps a pause or even forward/reverse would make the game better. I think some issues are already resolved. I like the new riff repeater. If you press B while playing a song, it will pause at the spot you chose but, if you resume riff repeater or the song it will rewind the section. Which is fine because playing from the mistake or sketchy part is kinda awkward and unnatural.
Mayhaps you shoulda waited for Bandfuse. Its scrolling tabs somewhat like GuitarPro.

[Deltor360]

Perhaps a pause or even forward/reverse would make the game better. I think some issues are already resolved. I like the new riff repeater. If you press B while playing a song, it will pause at the spot you chose but, if you resume riff repeater or the song it will rewind the section. Which is fine because playing from the mistake or sketchy part is kinda awkward and unnatural.
Mayhaps you shoulda waited for Bandfuse. Its scrolling tabs somewhat like GuitarPro.

I think of it as hurdling versus broad jumping. Broad jumping is stationary and has no anticipation. Just try to bound over the obstacle in front of you. But you're not prepared for the one after it.
In hurdling you must account for speed, point of attack, height, timing and rhythm.

[Deltor360]

THIS is the answer and one of my top pet peeves with RS: NO tab layout so you can see a difficult arrangement in full before you try to mash it out with your fingers.

I have no problem with pitching that mode. It needed to go as it was a poor mode of learning, BUT that requires the ability to see the arrangement, which RS hasn't added.

I think they added it by not restarting a section in riff repeater if you missed too many notes. Now you can play section/s of the arrangement of your choosing and not have to play one single note but sit back listen and watch. Over and over again at whatever speed and difficulty you want. Forward/Reverse might be useful though.

[pgromlich]

Yeah, it's the rewind that kills you. When I'm really trying to get down a passage that I find complex and tricky, sketchy and awkward is fine. At that stage, I'm not too concerned about actually playing the passage, I'm just trying to get a handle on it. Sometimes I like to continue right from the mistake. As I become more familiar with the passage, I might want to start from the very beginning and give it a go. When I'm struggling, a rewind more than one or two beats might not work for me. By the time I get back to the problem spot, it's not as fresh in my mind. I need the hurdling and the broad jumping. It's not one or the other.

[Area110011B]

In the new 2014 edition, how can I get the riff repeater to stop on individual notes if I do not play them? Thanks.

I found a workaround to pause notes (at least on XBox). When your notes are near, press the Start button which pops up a menu. Don't choose anything from the menu, but study the notes. When done, press the Back button (X on XBox). to return to Riff Repeater.

I agree that 2014 still needs more interface improvements and real documentation (which Technique Guide covers what empty colored outlined notes mean in a chord panel, for instance?). Maybe they will consider patching this version more often. rather than just putting them in the next 2 year release like they did with that $80 ripoff waste of money that was the first version.

[Greenbrick2]

If it got taken out due to player complaints or lack of use, they probably misinterpreted the problem - it needed to resume playback immediately at full speed, not "accelerate" back up to speed.

Plenty of suggestions in this thread to work around it, though.

[Xx El Kino xX]

pgromlich, i think you're making a big deal out of nothing. You're saying the whole game is a total failure because of one lame feature that was complete crap in the first game. Having the game stop because you missed a note, and not really being able to tell what note you're supposed to be playing so it can continue. I think that's a really crap way of learning because you're going to forget what you've been playing.
It's better to have the notes slowed down, not having the game stop for you for Every. Single. Note. For. The. Whole. Section.
This game is worth your money. It improved a ton over the first game.

[MincedHedgehog]

It's still the same unfortunately in 2014 as in the old rocksmith. The riff repeater just isn't really useful to me for practicing complicated stuff. For that it would need to be able to let me practice a very small choice of notes, like a bar, over and over again. Or even like maybe only three notes. It can't do that. Also the huge gaps before and after are extremely annoying, The interface to maneuver to a section is totally ludicrous.

Bottom line, I am not using riff repeater. If I want to learn a more complicated song I use tabs and GuitarPro/Tux. Rocksmith only works for me with very simple songs.