Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Zfz]

I do recall that when they first revealed this system in a Live Letter, they said they're going to start small with single notes only, then add more instruments and chords etc. So I'm looking forward to it.

I just hope that they at least do something about the local delay and UI experience.

Note that I said local delay because some people in the thread don't understand what it's about. The idea is to have the client software immeidately play the note without waiting for server acknowledgement. This helps tremendously for people who have played instruments before but aren't necessarily real musicians who can probably easily adjust to such delays.

If I press a key, the note sounds as I press it. That's how instruments work, and it's a very important part of the experience, similar to how professional drawing tablets at the very least will track pen tips without lag, and tablets that show tracking lag are basically all classified as amateur/entry-level products by today.

seems like everybody logged in just to play music, everybody was just standing there and no matter where I ran to, loads of people just playing weird tones trough each other

Another difference between JP and non-JP data centers I guess. On my server (Zeromus) there are rarely people playing just randomly everywhere. The market, the aetheryte in Gridania were all just business as usual with no BRDs playing. People practise at home. At least when I was logged in it was like that.