Bards Who Use Outside Programs To Play Music

[DamianFatale]

Are ruining the spirit of barding. Play your songs by hand. Learn the process of your instrument and master them.

I am sick of seeing everyone in Uldah sound perfect with their perfect strumming. There is no uniqueness, no struggle, and no talent. It's literally not bard. Just bard A.I. and I think it should be cracked down upon.

[SturmChurro]

I hate bards playing in town, so I get on my bard and play over them with some screeching random sounds. They definitely need to be cracked down upon, maybe even banned!

[ErryK]

Wouldn't be the official forums without a bit of overreacting and some theatrics over a non-issue.

[Enla]

Is the vibe I'm getting here. All that's missing is a stereotypical hipster, artist's beret.

That said having spent many a year in LoTRO and having grown to love it's music scene, I for one welcome our new bard overlords. Frankly I don't much care if they're using third party software or not so long as we follow the logical progression of these musical additions and start having live concerts pop up in game like WeatherStock did in LoTRO. Those were always a blast. Even now you can log into servers like Landroval and there's almost guaranteed to be one or two bands playing in Bree.

[LalaRu]

Oh well, to play music You can use an usb mute piano keyboard, instead of messing with qwerty. It also works on ps4 if keymap can be saved on board.

[Omymy]

Awwwww... Dont worry cupcake, they are for sure so sorry and want to learn so your soft fur doesnt get any harm.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Considering how terrible some of the manual players I've heard can be, I say let 'em bot it.

[Tint]

I have looked at the bard performance stuff and realized that it is almost as difficult to learn as a real instrument. But you can play a real instrument outside the game, so the time to learn is much better spend there, especially when the servers shut down one day...

I think there should be a way to program and automate the bard performance within the game, actual learning to play is a waste of your time.

[Mahoukenshi]

Ok, thanks for letting us/me know.

[rachcouture]

OP just makes me curious about what's out there to make better use of Perform. I can play music, but can't read it, so the notation in Perform mode excludes me by definition, never mind the clunky octave changes.