Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[MichiKyou]

The fact we can't make macros for this is daunting enough. Even if we could make macros, 15 lines is not enough. SE, please?

[Skivvy]

Honestly I'd have just preferred hunting down new song roles that were specifically for the lute of current FFXIV songs. Click a thing, watch the bard strut his stuff. I love music and all, and I love the game. I Don't want the music to become a game.

I'm with you on that. I absolutely loooved music making/playing in Archeage (MML style). It was fun to get together with friends to play multi-part songs, or play some songs while you're roaming the lands on your donkey.

GW2/XIV can be fun, I'm just partial to the other style. :X

[Paladinleeds]

Then you'll be disappointed, no playing during an instance.

I guess to avoid people spending more time playing music than participating, but it's still sad

You can't play in a cross-world party either. But, I wonder if the compromise could be to allow you to play after "Duty complete" and you've beaten the final boss. Then, allow it. Right now, it seems all a bit too limiting. Are you allowed to use it in non-crossrealm parties outside of duty?

[Granyala]

No in-game Metronome...

Given the latency, THAT could be hilarious.

BTW: if your keyboard is macro capable, it's fairly easy (albeit time consuming) to write a macro for it once you have bound the 37 notes. I tried a simple C-maj scale with Razer synapse and it worked w/o any problems.

[Kohdo]

Not having macros is fine, but there really should have been some kind of UI element for Performance. Making us use a hotbar workaround involving two other classes is haphazard and lazy for what was touted as one of the two main aspects of this patch.

A welcome fix (for me at least) would be a "Perform" action which when activated would change your hotbars to the notes, and back again when deactivated. This would save the whole workaround headache that we currently have.

Maybe have performance mode that can only be done out of combat in open world areas that also brings up a UI with notes/instrument selection/music sheet actions?

This sounds like it would be perfect.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Do you think a MIDI Keyboard would work if someone was tech savy enough or not really?
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I recall seeing a reddit post earlier about how to get a midi keyboard to work with bardic performances.

[dinnertime]

I like it, but it's not perfect. It's not a failure by any means but it could use improvements.

I think it should have its own "macro" system or I guess a music maker interface but something more user-friendly than typing codes, although that can be an alternative for people who prefer that and also having a way to share and copy-paste music.
It should have things like setting delays between each note and also the duration of holding a note but that is something only possible on instruments like a violin or flute and not a harp.

It could use its own hotbar mode like people have been suggesting.

[Dustytome]

It ate up a good chunk of time while I was waiting for a couple roulettes earlier, but my coordination with this many actions isn't very good. I'd like to be able to macro (or a music-sheet interface with better timing than macros would be even better) songs together. Maybe have performance mode that can only be done out of combat in open world areas that also brings up a UI with notes/instrument selection/music sheet actions?

[superhbman]

Loving the ability to play music in-game. To really make this amazing is to have a separate "mode" for Perform which uses it's own hotbar and keybindings.

P.S. Oh, and also the ability to play in dungeons. Muh immersion.

[Kahnom]

Given the latency, THAT could be hilarious.

BTW: if your keyboard is macro capable, it's fairly easy (albeit time consuming) to write a macro for it once you have bound the 37 notes. I tried a simple C-maj scale with Razer synapse and it worked w/o any problems.

Ps4 here and Nope,I don’t have a keyboard and don’t plan to use any macro.Do everything manually could prove more challenge and more rewarding/satisfying.