Please fix Bard Music

[Anarnee]

I was reading somewhere that apparently the reason they changed the instrument samples has to do with copyright issues? On reddit there were people saying the old samples were very expensive ones from a strict company, and the new ones are royalty free. If that is the case, I can't see SE doing anything about the note quality >>;

As for the complains on aesthetic preference, I've seen some really good videos using the new system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_-9dsRMozk

I see a lot of complaints but the new system also made playing with others a lot easier too https://streamable.com/4qjee

[Okamimaru]

My only complaints would be the fiddle music not sounding like a fiddle and that no matter the instrument you choose you always play on a harp

[MsQi]

Fiddle? more like Shiddle! It sounds vaguely like a violin play pizzicato.

[Ametrine]

I began messing with the guitar. I had a fladhback to being a little kid in the nineties hoarding Midi versions of Sailor Moon music on my computer.

I disagree with the player in the video on the old herky-jerky animations being anything but herky-jerky, and the new interface is miles better and easier to read, but I do agree that the difference in sample quality is huge.

[Aeliott]

I very strongly dislike it being mandatory to hold another key to shift octaves. People want me to play songs I used to in 4.1, but now I can't get on with it at all and shy away ><

[Ametrine]

the first one was awful though

But players, excited for the new system, learned it.

The new system works very similarly to the cross hotbar controls, so it's miles easier for us who use controllers on PS4 or PC to play music now. While we can assign keys like M+K players do, the piano format is just so much easier to understand than just slapping a wall of notes that controller players couldn't possibly utilize at the same standard as M+K.

Now if only Verminion had a Cross-Hotbar system...

[ShanXiv]

I just tried them, man... these new instruments timbre are really suck, sound very cheap.....
the piano sound sample is one of the worst I've heard. sounds very thin, seems there are some tuning problem too.
(I used to made some GM midi samples, had played some software & hardware synths)