Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Alleo]

I honestly like the idea behind it but I am not a fan of the implementation.

Tried it yesterday and seeing all those buttons and no way to macro it kinda killed it for me. Maybe I will randomly hit some notes when I have time but even just trying to play the notes from others was too much for me. I do play an instrument in real life and I am not tone-deaf or anything but all those buttons are too much. I would have to lay them down the exact way the music is played, to even stand a chance to do it, since I am bad at remembering such stuff. This means that I would have to rearrange the hot bars every single time that I want to play a new song. Thats too much a hassle for me.

A new UI when you click on perform and the possibility to create macros..if those were in it, I would have absolutely loved it.

Still like how some are already playing quite the songs with that but sadly for me this will be quite unused.

[Aenonar]

With the poor implementation of input lag, macros, lack of action bars and keybindings etc it's pretty much useless.

I have however figured out how to make a macro with autohotkey that sends 1 action per keypress in a sequence using the pause and send functions..
For example: each time you hit the "X" key it sends out a the next note key "1,2,1,4,2,5" etc, so not full automation and you still have to time the clicks correctly (despite the input lag)...

Would this be allowed in FF14? It would be allowed in WoW at least...

[Dyvid]

As said before, some macro support would be nice.

[Kahnom]

Too bad I can’t perform high-tempo song with current system so I’m gonna stick with Acoustic and Ukulele songs for now.
Hmm ... Maybe doing some Miku’s songs might be interesting.

[Dyvid]

I will say some of the videos on Reddit, wow.

https://twitter.com/50chiffon/status...249089/video/1

[Alleo]

I will say some of the videos on Reddit, wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWn6sVRxCZc

https://twitter.com/50chiffon/status...249089/video/1

And the first one is not available anymore. ö_ö Seems that they are a bit more serious about these rules then with other ones.

[Dyvid]

And the first one is not available anymore. ö_ö Seems that they are a bit more serious about these rules then with other ones.

The ______ SE? That song was a player's origin work, no copyrighted material. This is the kind of stupidity that is going to kill perform.

It's possible to translate MIDI instrument input into keypresses and just play on the MIDI instrument to trigger the corresponding keypress in FFXIV. So it's literally impossible to determine if they were done "legit", though.

Which just goes to show that the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately there will be a proper Perform HUD in 4.2, so I'm looking forward to that.

Meh, a controller is a controller. Someone using a midi piano is going to be the person I actually want to listen too because they actually know how to play lol.

[Zfz]

It's possible to translate MIDI instrument input into keypresses and just play on the MIDI instrument to trigger the corresponding keypress in FFXIV. So it's literally impossible to determine if they were done "legit", though.

Which just goes to show that the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately there will be a proper Perform HUD in 4.2, so I'm looking forward to that.

[Alleo]

What it was original work? Well if they ban that too then why do we even need perform? Not everyone wants to play FF songs all day long.