r/yarg

Hey all,

I’m a longtime RockBand fan - but RB4 is dead and I haven’t played for a while. Invested heavily into instruments and Alesis drums during the pandemic, even that damn PDP adapter on Xbox.

My friends are tired of playing the same songs.

I just found out about YARG today…

I am primarily and Xbox series X gamer (i also do have dev mode for emulators), and I just recently bought a high-powered PC.

-How does YARG compare to Rockband? I found Clone Hero underwhelming.

-Will all my xbox Rockband stuff work on PC?

-Can I do this all through Xbox?

-Do I purchase songs and are there consistently new songs available?

-Keyboards?:)

Thanks for any help in advance!

Howdy YARGers,

Posted this in Discord but didn't get much traction, so I am posting to Reddit as well.

I am a recent Clone Hero convert if only for the metronome feature. I love drumming with really narrow hit windows, and the metronome feature has been great for helping me play tighter.

However, the metronome has also exposed an issue: my audio latency is constantly changing, enough to require frequent recalibrations. I first calibrated audio latency to 0ms and played a handful of songs without issue, then noticed the metronome became out of sync. After recalibration, it landed on 100ms (!!!), and then a handful of songs later I had to recalibrate down to 50ms. It continued to slide all over the place for the remainder of the session. (Note: this can occur for the *same song*, so not a charting issue)

I started a new session today and the 50ms felt fine to start with, but then I needed to change to 5ms, then negative (???), and again it generally was just unstable.

My audio path is simply: laptop 3.5mm audio out connected to my Roland TD17 "mix in" 3.5mm port, and my headphones are plugged into my drumkit. This way, I hear both my drums and the game audio at once. Ingame, I am using the default audio buffer size of 75ms.

I thought it might be an issue with my laptop, but system utilization seemed fine every time I checked - 50% RAM, 20-40% CPU, low disk and network traffic. I have no dedicated GPU, but I turned off the venues and maintain a stable 60 FPS when playing.

Things I have tried which have not really helped:

• Restarting the laptop
• Closing all other applications
• High Performance power mode
• Laptop dock with fans
• Adjusting sample rate between 48k and 44.1k

So, what might be causing this? Thermal throttling, despite the fans and low utilization? Windows nonsense?

And what might be the fix, or at least troubleshooting steps to try? I have a Scarlett Solo I can place between my laptop and my drum module, but it's not clear to me what that actually accomplishes so I'd rather not add another variable unless I have reason to believe it could actually help.

Thanks for your time!

I have just installed YARG on my Batocera v43 build and I ran into an issue with the backgrounds/venues not displaying. Along the stable build, I downloaded a few venues/background animation type of things from the launcher as well. I did turn off the song by song background setting but when I click open background venues folder nothing happens. When I play a song, I just have sort of gradient coloured background. I play custom songs, and each has an album cover in a PNG format in their respective folder. I was hoping to use that visual effect from the official launcher that displays album cover in the middle and sort of circular equaliser around it, before I go and source music videos for my songs. I have three different backgrounds downloaded from the launcher. Any help would be very appreciated.

I'm torn between whether I should continue using a TV for Yarg or go with a gaming monitor.

So far, I've been playing on a 58" Hisense 4K TV from 2020. I have a Scarlett interface and Yamaha DTX edrums.. I usually set the Audio Calibration to 50ms, and it's fine..

I just picked up a gaming monitor (Asus Tuf VG3B 0.5ms) and I'm not sure if it's worth keeping it..

How is the experience different? Is there really a difference between a "properly calibrated" TV setup, and a gaming monitor?

My daughters love to play songs with the Big "Yarg" Endings.

Is there a way to sort by this somehow?

So far, when they want a BYE, I just always pick an ACDC song.

I'm thinking of trying to look for a list of them online and maybe adding them to favorites?

Any other good ideas?

Hey, I've been playing yarg for awhile now. A few months ago I discovered a volume normalization setting in the experimental settings and it was great. I recently updated to .15 and I felt like it was off so I went to check the setting and I can't find it anywhere. Was it removed in v.15? Any ideas?

EDIT: I guess something happened and the nightly got removed and I went back to the stable. I started using nightly and it's there in the sound settings.

does this game have backgrounds or is it just a blank background the whole time, new comer to all this.

I saw rock band 4 animated highways but does they work well with yarg? or is there any website to look out for preset highways?