r/yarg

Charting vocals means finding where every single syllable lands, by ear, one at a time. It's the slowest part of making a chart. This tool does it for you.

Add Lyrics to a Chart — open a chart, paste the song's lyrics, and every syllable is automatically synced to the right spot in the song. Then you get a live Clone Hero highway to review and fine-tune before you download.

It runs entirely in your browser — no account, no uploads. Your audio and lyrics never leave your machine.

How it works:

• Open your chart — chart folder, .zip, or .sng
• Paste the lyrics — plain text, one line per phrase. Everything pasted gets aligned, don't include markup like [Chorus]
• Align — every syllable is timed to the vocals automatically.
• Review on the highway — each syllable shows up already placed, with the isolated vocal waveform drawn right on the highway so it's obvious where every line sits. Drag any syllable to nudge it. Play it back in real time.
• Download — updated chart back in its original format (.sng or .zip), ready to play.

One syllable, one note, placed where it's actually sung — a clean foundation you can finish by hand.

Try it on any chart that's missing lyrics, or paste new lyrics over a chart whose vocals are off — it replaces them.

https://musiccharts.tools/add-lyrics

Hello all! Been working on this for a while and it's finally ready to share.

What I set out to create A charting tool that was accessible for those who have never charted, and speeds up the process for those who already do.

What I ended up creating Desktop editor and auto-charting tool with a 2D piano roll, a live 3D highway preview that matches in-game, and a venue/timeline editor where lighting cues, camera cuts, videos, and stage effects sit on the same timeline as your notes. DAW-style stems mixer. Full .mid / .chart round-trip with no metadata loss. 100% local, MIT licensed.

...and many more things I couldn't list here!

Who is supported Windows, macOS, Linux.

>Note: macOS and Linux have not been fully tested, so please report any issues you see.

On the auto-charter (STRUM): Takes an MP3, YouTube link, or stems and outputs a full chart pack - drums, guitar, bass, keys, pro keys, vocals and harmonies with aligned lyrics. All difficulties included!

Here's what to expect:

• Drums are the strongest by a wide margin. On songs that sit well, the output is close to a hand-charted pass.
• Guitar, bass, keys, vocals won't always ship a perfect chart for you - they at worst frame the song so you're correcting a draft instead of starting from a blank timeline, they at best need a small tweak or two.
• Pre-split stems improve quality noticeably across everything.

Please let me know where I went right and where I went wrong The Github is open to issues, so please report anything wrong or anything you'd like to see. Completely open to all criticisms and feedback.

Links
Site: https://octavestudio.tools/
OCTAVE: https://github.com/opria123/octave
STRUM: https://github.com/opria123/strum

A big thank you to anyone who takes time to try out the tool!! I am excited to see the community have some fun with it.

>On a fun side note, I had a paper published about the intricacies of the STRUM auto-charting model. Feel free to read for more technical details, including model benchmarks and more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12135

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One of the best ways to learn an instrument is through a fun, interactive approach. Unfortunately, music app developers rarely implement all the features the community actually wants. Because of this, u/xasiklas and the Rocksmith community decided to forge their own path and revolutionize how we play music interactively: Slopsmith.

 

Today, just 40 days after its creation, Slopsmith already boasts incredible features:

 

- Real Instruments: Play guitar, bass, piano, (and soon, drums) interactively following the proven formula of games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but using real instruments.

- Precise Note Detection: Highly accurate hit and note tracking.

- Audio Stems Separation: Isolate or adjust the volume of any instrument. Want to mute the drums of your favorite song so only your playing fills the room? You can.

- VST Integration: Connect your favorite VST software directly to the application.

- Full Practice System: Loop any specific section of a song you want to master.

- Instant Custom Songs: Upload any song, or create it yourself using the built-in song editor. With just a Guitar Pro (.gp) file and a YouTube link, you can be playing your favorite track within minutes.

- 4-Player Split Screen: Gather your band and display up to 4 instrument highways on a single monitor or TV.

- Multiplayer Support: Play together with others online.

- 100% Free & Open-Source: Absolutely free. Anyone can contribute, meaning literally any idea or feature can be added to the app.

 

As you can see, the guitar and bass experience is already incredibly robust. But now, we need to talk about drums.

Right now, our drum implementation is not that fancy. Most of our core developers came from the Rocksmith community, meaning our collective DNA is heavily biased toward stringed instruments.

 

However, we know there is GIANT potential for drums. Our goal is to become the ultimate, definitive tool for interactive drumming. We haven't reached a consensus yet on what the ideal note highway should look like—whether we should build an improved version of the Rock Band or Phase Shift layout, or create something entirely new that natively supports dynamics, open/closed hi-hats, ghost notes, and more.

 

What we do know is that just like we did with the other instruments, we can build our dream tool together as a community. Step by step, hand in hand, with everyone contributing their unique experience and best ideas.

 

Let's build the ultimate drumming tool together.

Quick links:

🖥️ Download the Desktop app: https://github.com/byrongamatos/slopsmith-desktop/releases/tag/v0.2.7

🌐 Try in your browser (no install): https://huggingface.co/spaces/gamatos/slopsmith-demo

💻 Web app / Docker source: https://github.com/byrongamatos/slopsmith

💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/5sreTkRzb

Quick project overview: https://youtu.be/poHIIgqq06E?si=VyR7dIffvzOsiMPk

Let's complete the band!

No dongle, though. I figured worst case scenario, I could gut and/or mod it somehow. Anyone with experience connecting this to PC?

I’m aware this is a 6 fret from GHL. Already have a 5.

Hey everyone!

For the last year and a half, I’ve been working on a new chart editing software to make charting better, faster, and easier. As a charter myself, I grew tired of the clunky methods of charting that currently exist (namely Reaper and Editor on Fire) and decided to create my own software modeled after Dorico, a program used for creating sheet music known for its unique scorewriting process.

Penguin is structured to make the charting process linear. Each stage of charting is separated into its own “tab,” with its own feature set, tailored to the task at hand. Tempo mapping is made easier with a top-down 2D view for maximum precision (as well as an adjustable waveform for especially quiet songs), note placement is structured like Moonscraper for maximum ease-of-use and intuitive previewing, and starpower/section placement is built around full-band, side-by-side charting for ease in creating Unison Phrases and meaningful, well-placed sections. Metadata entry and exporting have extra features and settings to make creating and exporting a new chart as streamlined as possible.

Penguin currently only supports five-fret charting, but all modern instruments are planned: from GHL to Elite Drums to Vocals. 

Penguin is currently in alpha, which means bugs should be expected and the appearance/feature set of Penguin is far from final. Windows is currently the only platform supported, but Linux is planned, and possibly MacOS.

I really appreciate feedback and feature requests, so please join the discord! I want to make Penguin the best it possibly can be and cover the charting needs of as many people as possible. I will also announce new versions and patch notes here, and will answer any questions you have. https://discord.gg/3QYRbTGzS5 

This tool is not vibecoded (although bugs will still exist). Penguin is also open-source and open to contributions.

Download it here (via the Releases tab): https://github.com/EmperorJacoba/PenguinChartEditor

Setup yarg and drums and everything works great. Today I went to add two guitars and every song I chose has no notes to play. I have it set to p1, I had to key bind both of them. Any idea what’s going on? I read that it should load and not have to key bind, but I needed to do it.

Info: yarg macos, CRKD connects Bluetooth, created profiles and key binding.