Please fix Bard Music

I am new to the game, I do not have a Bard yet. What I have experienced is this guy making beautiful FFXIV music using his Bard.

Apparently 4.2 changed how the music is and it sounds worse for some reason?

This video covers it all of the changes and compares the sound differences, please give it a peek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmivUxfgfLA

The system is brand new as of 4.1, in 4.2 they added instruments and the UI and they're skill planning upgrades and tweaks to it as they figure out how they can improve on the system.

Oh, that's exciting. I look forward to seeing more instruments. Heres hoping that sound is temporary.

To me the instruments could sound better. Theyre not terrible or anything, though. Also, a wind intrument like a flute or clarinet would be swesome.

I wish they would give us the option to use the original system they implemented the first time again.

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

I wish they would give us the option to use the original system they implemented the first time again.

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I'm afraid I missed that, what was the difference?

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Originally Posted by Klareh

I'm afraid I missed that, what was the difference?

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Much easier to play. I switched to midi kb after this patch.

The only complaint that's really "valid" is the one about the quality of the samples, and it's more than likely that they were changed due to licensing issues.

The interface, if you have any experience playing music, is far more intuitive than the old system. When you're playing F#, I can tell it's F#, not a slightly different coloured icon flashing in a sea of flashing coloured icons. They could improve it by adding another octave for keyboard users to use without having to use shift/ctrl. The help text complaint is nitpicky to the extreme. Could it do with a toggle? Sure, I guess. I find it unobtrusive. The performance UI, like the crafting UI, doesn't display names. I assume it uses crafting as a basis to lock you in place until you cancel it out.

I was reading somewhere that apparently the reason they changed the instrument samples has to do with copyright issues? On reddit there were people saying the old samples were very expensive ones from a strict company, and the new ones are royalty free. If that is the case, I can't see SE doing anything about the note quality >>;

As for the complains on aesthetic preference, I've seen some really good videos using the new system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_-9dsRMozk

I see a lot of complaints but the new system also made playing with others a lot easier too https://streamable.com/4qjee

My only complaints would be the fiddle music not sounding like a fiddle and that no matter the instrument you choose you always play on a harp

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Originally Posted by Sciwolf

Much easier to play. I switched to midi kb after this patch.

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Speaking as someone musically trained and actually liked being able to have combat actions on my ui, no. Oh god no.

But I won't say no to having the old ui added again, in addition to what we have now, provided it no longer eats up all the action bars. If some prefer the older ui then they should have access to it. I'm all for more options even if I won't use them all, makes more people happy :)

Fiddle? more like Shiddle! It sounds vaguely like a violin play pizzicato.

I began messing with the guitar. I had a fladhback to being a little kid in the nineties hoarding Midi versions of Sailor Moon music on my computer.

I disagree with the player in the video on the old herky-jerky animations being anything but herky-jerky, and the new interface is miles better and easier to read, but I do agree that the difference in sample quality is huge.

I very strongly dislike it being mandatory to hold another key to shift octaves. People want me to play songs I used to in 4.1, but now I can't get on with it at all and shy away ><

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

I wish they would give us the option to use the original system they implemented the first time again.

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the first one was awful though

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

the first one was awful though

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But players, excited for the new system, learned it.

The new system works very similarly to the cross hotbar controls, so it's miles easier for us who use controllers on PS4 or PC to play music now. While we can assign keys like M+K players do, the piano format is just so much easier to understand than just slapping a wall of notes that controller players couldn't possibly utilize at the same standard as M+K.

Now if only Verminion had a Cross-Hotbar system...

I just tried them, man... these new instruments timbre are really suck, sound very cheap.....
the piano sound sample is one of the worst I've heard. sounds very thin, seems there are some tuning problem too.
(I used to made some GM midi samples, had played some software & hardware synths)