Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Hyperia]

I can’t even play hot cross buns on a recorder let alone play any actual music as a bard. So while this is of no use to me, I hope people who do play music and who understand notes enjoy it. For those of us who can’t play music, it would have been nice to have the bard auto play safe music like the music player in our houses.

[LaylaTsarra]

I can’t even play hot cross buns on a recorder let alone play any actual music as a bard. So while this is of no use to me, I hope people who do play music and who understand notes enjoy it. For those of us who can’t play music, it would have been nice to have the bard auto play safe music like the music player in our houses.

Even a small number of tunes would be nice. It's going to definitely reduce the number of people using the feature. Most of us are not musical... although when i get some time I'll play with it a bit.

[Malzian]

My only major gripe (as someone who does play an instrument) is that the way the system is designed utilizing skills in this manner... You can't play chords. Single note is fine and all for simple pieces, but the only way to make chords with the system is to record a song multiple times utilizing each note in the chord at its position in the composition (with millisecond precision if you want it to be seamless) and then layer those tracks together in a video/sound editor.

It's not a system breaking thing and you can still make music with it, it's just a little disappointing. I understand the technical issues involved, but I'd still love to have some chords available to me.

[Spirlia]

My only major gripe (as someone who does play an instrument) is that the way the system is designed utilizing skills in this manner... You can't play chords. Single note is fine and all for simple pieces, but the only way to make chords with the system is to record a song multiple times utilizing each note in the chord at its position in the composition (with millisecond precision if you want it to be seamless) and then layer those tracks together in a video/sound editor.

It's not a system breaking thing and you can still make music with it, it's just a little disappointing. I understand the technical issues involved, but I'd still love to have some chords available to me.

It is very disappointing. One of my friends and I did manage to play a decent sounding duet, but the hardest part was trying to get both of our notes to play at the same time. A macro with rigid rests or even a metronome might have helped.

[Fhaerron]

My thoughts?

Well why don't we have an option to mute all those sounds??

I logged in yesterday after a very long tiresome day... it gave me a headache, I swear I never saw so many bards even though my server is a ghosttown, 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 ... I teleported to my house.

Seems I'll be avoiding people/town for another month.

[Reinha]

My thoughts?

Well why don't we have an option to mute all those sounds??

I logged in yesterday after a very long tiresome day... it gave me a headache, I swear I never saw so many bards even though my server is a ghosttown, 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 ... I teleported to my house.

Seems I'll be avoiding people/town for another month.

You can mute player sounds at the bottom of the sound settings ("other PCs"). It will disable other people's crafting, emote and battle skill sounds as well, unless they are in your party. It's not perfect but better than secluding yourself somewhere.

[Fhaerron]

You can mute player sounds at the bottom of the sound settings ("other PCs"). It will disable other people's crafting, emote and battle skill sounds as well, unless they are in your party. It's not perfect but better than secluding yourself somewhere.

Thanks for the heads up, I actually haven't though about this, shame it mutes the other things too but oh well.

Btw, a bit offtopic but is there also a way to hide the macro sounds some people love to spam?
Yesterday I had this DPS dude and he had a macro for every single buff or debuff, was literally bleeding my ears.

[Reinha]

Thanks for the heads up, I actually haven't though about this, shame it mutes the other things too but oh well.

Btw, a bit offtopic but is there also a way to hide the macro sounds some people love to spam?
Yesterday I had this DPS dude and he had a macro for every single buff or debuff, was literally bleeding my ears.

If you mean the sound effects such as <se.1>, they fall under system sounds. Disabling that setting mutes all macro sounds including your own, countdown sounds, menu clicking sounds, Duty popup sounds and other similar things.

[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.

[Skivvy]

Another difference between JP and non-JP data centers I guess.

Balmung wasn't horrible, at least where I hang out (Kugane and Limsa). Most people I ran across were playing actual songs, and I personally found a nice secluded spot to plunk away.