Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[SnowDreams]

i mean...FF music should work. but i gave credit anyways incase. lol https://www.twitch.tv/videos/203152369

[Enjuden]

I can't read music, or understand notes, so my thoughts are 'Wat'

[Ashewalker]

Im loving it, and since FF songs are all available, here. Made by me.

https://youtu.be/Ur2sodlKBcU

[SnowDreams]

Im loving it, and since FF songs are all available, here. Made by me.

https://youtu.be/Ur2sodlKBcU

niceee, a bit quiet. maybe is my speakers.

[chrillix]

This wasn't what I was hoping for when SE decided to only give us one dungeon a patch to focus on new content >.>

[dotsforlife]

Works more or less the same way as the GW2 version (which I love).

As others have stated though latency will play a role in how well you perform (pun intended). That should go without saying.

The amount of buttons doesn't concern me, as you won't use but a portion of them at any given time for most songs you want to play. What does concern me though is the lack additional hotbars not added to accommodate this new feature. I know PC players in particular tend to use quite a few extra hotbars because of ease and KB/M making that efficient.

The lack of macros is negligible, as this type of feature is typically intended to be a manual thing anyways. You can just use a third party program if you wanted to automate it. I'd imagine SE would adopt the same view to it the way ANET did for theirs. I mean if they'll look the other way when it comes to parsers this should be fine as well, so long as that's the only thing you use it for. Just don't expect them to make an official statement one way or the other.

It would be nice if they either gave Perform its own set of hotbars or simply added more total.
Also, add some sound settings in the menu.

[Spirlia]

The lack of macros is negligible, as this type of feature is typically intended to be a manual thing anyways.

I disagree, because making macros is like making sheet music. Plus with the <wait> command, you would be able to manually create rests and time. Then, if everyone had matching sheet music, you could easily make a chamber group without worrying about latency.

[heiligeharmonie]

Well, I was able to do this, so I could not be more elated. Though I was a little disappointed to have to bring it down an entire octave because of the cap at C+2

[illutian]

I like the concept. I just wish they'd throw those of us with zero musical talent a bone.

Archeage did this by using MML, so even us musical illiterate could compose songs. :\

I don't mind having the manual way, but I'd like to also have an automated way. SE could even chip in and release MML versions of all their songs.

BTW: MML is a standard, so I don't believe there's any licenses for the language to worry about.

[ErryK]

I'm having fun with it, though I do agree it should have it's own UI and some way of automating songs, similar to the macro system. I'd rather it not take up spots in my macro system though.