New Bard Performance is... pretty bad.

[SenahViqqoh]

Sorry for the double post, but 1000 characters isn't enough and I feel this needs to be said.

And finally, I have no idea who put together the sounds for the instruments, but they clearly have no idea what a fiddle is supposed to sound like. I don't know why they changed the sounds from the harp either, but it sounds much worse than it did before the implementation of the UI system. However, my main gripe is with the fiddle, it sounds absolutely horrible, I don't know how anyone could play that, it's such a bad sound.

Overall, the UI just feels like a bunch of scraps put together to make it function and they released it before optimizing it. I really hope there's another thread about this that I'm missing or more people need to speak up, because I can't honestly believe that anyone is okay with how it currently is, what with the restrictiveness of it all and the horrible sound quality.

[Rongway]

Before they even announced the new interface, I was already playing with twelve keys and changing octaves with modifiers, so nothing significant has changed for me except that the new system is much more responsive during passages with brighter tempos (seriously, you can actually play Overture from William Tell at tempo now. You would have had to play it at about 60% with the old system).

I have no idea who put together the sounds for the instruments, but they clearly have no idea what a fiddle is supposed to sound like

It's pizzicato (plucked). It sounds exactly how it's supposed to sound.