Don't see all bard notes

[TouhouDJ]

So I came back and there was a big update with the bard, I talk with Simpkin, and theirs no massive note layout. Only the Piano / Harp / Fiddle / and Lute under performance. I might be doing something completely wrong and I apologize, any help is appreciated.

[SleepyMoony]

you can click on one of the piano/harp/ect icons to equip an instrument, and then you get a piano keyboard interface that you use to play music
(imo it's not a very good interface)

[Vidu]

Drag one of the icons into your hotbar, hit it and the performance menu should come up - it has a piano-layout now, so you dont need 3 hotbars filled with notes anymore and can instead play them with your keyboard/controller

[TouhouDJ]

Ah, here's what i'm looking for. Sorry if I didn't specify it clear enough. I'm not seeing this. Was this taken off?

https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/fc...png?1511245833

[Vidu]

Yes, it has been replaced by the piano-like interface.
You'll get the options for the different intruments in that menu now - pick one, click it and the interface that lets you play will open.

[TouhouDJ]

Thank you, shame I heard it was dumbed down to that due to people getting out of hand with 3rd party music I guess.

[Vidu]

Thank you, shame I heard it was dumbed down to that due to people getting out of hand with 3rd party music I guess.

I'm not sure what you mean with "it got dumbed down"? You still have all the notes (did you notice that you can still change your octave and such?) - its just a different interface, probably so you dont have to dedicate three hotbars to your bard anymore - people were using the unusue hotbar-sets from their classes for example so they wouldnt have to drag all the notes down each time.
Personally I consider this new interface easier to grasp - it looks like a piano, not like a bunch of rainbow-buttons after all.
True, you want arrange them and just click on of after another without really "playing", but I doubt the change has been made because of 3rd party music and rather to give us a more catchy interface.

[Otaru]

Thank you, shame I heard it was dumbed down to that due to people getting out of hand with 3rd party music I guess.

I'm with the above. Not sure how it was dumbed down as they did say the old Performance interface wasn't the complete setup and was more like a beta version while they finished what we currently have. It's also not stopping people from doing 3rd party stuff, just making it smoother to use.