Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Granyala]

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.

37 actions with a controller at a speed of 16th notes with ~75BPM?
I do not believe that can be done.

It's hard enough to do with a computer keyboard.

Personally, I' rather put that kind of effort in playing the real Mc-Coy and then route MIDI to the computer and into FF-XIV.

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.

*chuckles* Now you know how I feel as an IRL alto-flute player.

[WhiteArchmage]

My ex-bf is ps4 with controller and could play a few ff songs just fine, I couldn't get past the opening notes of the Main Theme of FF7, but... music is hard lol

Also, on Faerie there were very few people playing around to be a nuisance, some folks trying it out outside Mi Khetto's in Gridania, one person trying it out near the aetheryte and NONE in Rhalgr's, some in my linkshells were showing off in Ishgard, I think, but there wasn't talk about players everywhere (I went inside the house, myself, don't wanna bother everyone with my zero musical ability)

[TristanBlane]

its so dumb and pointless, and poorly implemented. They should've put time and resource into my damn egi glamours

[Granyala]

My ex-bf is ps4 with controller and could play a few ff songs just fine, I couldn't get past the opening notes of the Main Theme of FF7, but... music is hard lol

I guess it would help to only assign the notes the piece actually needs instead of 3 full octaves.

its so dumb and pointless, and poorly implemented. They should've put time and resource into my damn egi glamours

As a non SCH player, Egi glamours are also pointless to me. Even more so than a funky little musical toy that, clearly, took very little DEV time to create and implement.

[MistyMew]

The idea of it is really quite nice, the implementation however is underwhelming imho.

The notes need to happen instantly...they do not, the lag between clicking + the actual sound is horrible.
We need to be able to use in macro!! Not only to free our hotbars up but to be able to assign even some degree of control over the tempo between notes etc.

I thank them for adding a feature but unfortunately ..it already feels antiquated, cumbersome and in need of drastic change.

[Stormfur]

I like the idea -- however I really wish the developers would've spent more time on the things the community actually wants -- like Egi/fairy/lunchbox glamours, a glamour log (coming soon?) a Coerthan housing area, a male bunny suit and so on.

Yes I realize that those require varying amounts of time - but they're things that we've been asking for for YEARS.

I know the team went to all this trouble to make individual notes playable... but it's just more of a neat little thing that will die off in a week than something that's actually cool to do. I say this being a player of three instruments IRL.

[Granyala]

The notes need to happen instantly...they do not, the lag between clicking + the actual sound is horrible.

Umm, MistyMew, you are playing an internet game. There WILL be latency.
When connecting MIDI capable instruments to a LOCAL PC via a fast USB connection, people still have trouble getting latencies that are low enough to play music comfortably.

There is no way in hell for SE to make this feature latency free or reduce latency down to < 20ms.

Just to put things into perspective: a 16th note at 100BPM is played for 150ms (60s / 100BPM = 0.6s/beat divided by 4 notes per beat = 150ms). Even if you only have a 50ms internet lag (which most gamers would consider pretty damn good) that's already 1/3rd of a notes value. Not to mention latency spikes.

I do agree that it is damn confusing, I tried playing a fast run of a scale and needed 5 attempts because my ear screwed with me.