12ba:00ff — Rocksmith Guitar Adapter

This is the USB identifier for a Rocksmith Guitar Adapter manufactured by Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America. The vendor ID 12ba is registered to Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America with the USB Implementers Forum, and 00ff is the product ID that Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 12ba:00ff Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America Rocksmith Guitar Adapter.

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 12ba:00ff Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America Rocksmith Guitar Adapter

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 12ba:00ff, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 12ba:00ff. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=12ba, idProduct=00ff.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_12BA&PID_00FF
USB\VID_12BA&PID_00FF&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_12BA&PID_00FF"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Rocksmith Guitar Adapter:
      Product ID: 0x00ff
      Vendor ID: 0x12ba  (Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America)

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

12ba  Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America
	00ff  Rocksmith Guitar Adapter

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