What improvements would you like to see with the bard performance mode?

[Czarina]

I'd like a bassoon, church organ, electric bass, synth, voices, a multi-selection instrument (as we have with the guitar) that let's you easily switch between chimes/bells/glockenspiel/xylophone/marimba.
More octaves
Chords
Ability to sync with other 8-person groups.

[HalinFluffyBuns]

Another thing I would also like to see is to add a menu like the guitar menu we have to all the current instruments so we don't have to switch to a different one each time we wanna play a different type

[OperaMorgana]

Another thing i would love, but its a hopeless dream, graphics for each instruments, a real piano (or minipiano) for when we select the piano, a real harp for when we select the harp, ect....there are already the models in the game (housing furniture instruments from haukke manor iirc), that would be great for immersion and RP i suppose

[Xaruko_Nexume]

A proper acoustic guitar. More octaves. more instruments. Improve existing ones.

[Czarina]

"Improve existing ones."

Oh my god, yes. For me, it's the violin and viola that make my stomach turn. I'm not sure where they got their sound samples from, but I think they captured a 5-year-old's practice session with rosin issues.

[Packetdancer]

CHORDS, please give us chords, alot of the songs i make have chords, and everytime i have to adjust them to a single melody line to play with

Holy cheese please this. My Warrior of Light can defeat gods -- repeatedly -- but evidently is incapable of playing a chord on a guitar even if the fate of the world depended on it.

Sure, not all instruments the bards can use can realistically do chords, but some of them sure can.

The one and only time I ever bothered to try to perform one of my own original compositions in game, I couldn't do it -- I had a midi keyboard hooked up, and muscle memory betrayed me so hard, because it was like a coin-toss as to which note of a chord would get played.

Ability to sync with other 8-person groups.

4-person bard ensembles: Light Band
8-person bard ensembles: Full Band
24-person bard ensembles: Band (Extreme)
48-person bard ensembles: Band (Ultimate) -- also known as "Orchestra".

[XenociderOmega]

Copy maplestory 2 performance system

[OperaMorgana]

"Improve existing ones."

Oh my god, yes. For me, it's the violin and viola that make my stomach turn. I'm not sure where they got their sound samples from, but I think they captured a 5-year-old's practice session with rosin issues.

even musescore basic soundfont sounds better...and its a free soundfont...

[OperaMorgana]

Copy maplestory 2 performance system

i just saw some videos on youtube about it, how can a free-to-play mmo have better performance mode than ff14...

[Madoyon]

I only need five things:
1. Better quality midi samples than those we currently have in game. Even free online sequencers out there have them. Come on, squenix!
2. Ability to play more than one note at a time at high bpm. Well, you can do that somehow by pressing 2-3 keys almost simultaneously with a really short delay, but simulating a guitar strumming of a fast-paced song, for example, makes a cacophony (or should I say an ear torture?).
3.More octaves. Even Mordhau, an indie croudfunded medieval slasher game about swordfighting with daily online peaking at 1.5k players is giving players five octaves for their lutes and shawms instead of our pathetic three. Should I say that lute also sounds much better there?
4. Proper drum set as a single standalone instrument instead of a snare, bass and cymbals being divided into 3 separate ones. Just look how BDO implemented it. Real life drum music sheets never contain 37 variations of a bass drum. It's always just a bass drum mixed with other drums and cymbals. Period. Leave 37 buttons for bongos, but give us a godsforsaken drum kit already with bass, snare, toms, open and closed hi-hat, china, crash, ride, splash, cowbell and so on!
5. Bass guitar with different modes, like the strat we already have in game. And with the slap mode of course. Again, even absolutely free to use online sequencers have it. Make it another Fender collab, I don't care. Double bass simply doesn't suffice.

Without all of that I already lost interest in performing and writing music for FFXIV. It just takes too much effort to make something that sounds good. Looking how other games managed performance much, much better also demotivates and makes me leaning into playing those projects instead of renewing my subscription. It's just one less reason to keep on playing for months between major patches without devs actively making content for us in that period. We could've generated our own content instead, if we were less limited.