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

[RobynDaBank]

1. For sure, being able to play notes simultaneously.
2. Get rid of the slight delay between button press and note. I don't know if this is a ping problem.
3. Being able to move my character's head in GPose while holding an instrument. Last I tried, I couldn't move her head to face the camera while she held a guitar.

[Avidria]

This is something that's almost definitely never gonna happen and is maybe even far enough to the left to be its own separate feature... But I wanna be able to just have my character play the instrumental tune of any orchestrion roll I've collected
Closest I could see actually happening would be like, a play along note sheet or something, but I have zero interest in learning how to play my own music and so don't actually bother with this feature at all as it stands currently.

So. Probably not gonna happen, but would be neat.

[Destati]

Give us the Morin Khuur!

[HeyMcFly]

I'd like for the bard performance to actually sound like the instrument it's said to play

[SerephinaBlossom]

Being able to use it whenever even in savage content ;3

[Renalt]

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

more octaves, yep, i know that we can adjust the songs to play only there, but more could be better tbh

a decent soundfont, the piano sounds soooo bad, the harp sounds more than a piano that the piano itself, the violin better not talking about it...

for musical instruments, i would love a pipe organ, idk how it would be implemented, BUT i need that...
voices, would be cool to be a singer too

Maybe a music sheet function? to write manually all the notes, so it could be played itself (WINK WINK if you know of what im talking about here)

Even though we don't have chords...you can simulate chords easily enough. It just plays each note of the chord in rapid order. It's a good middle ground until full on chords can be used. I think the thing I'd like most is just one more Octave. I have a few songs that go beyond the three we are able to play so it just has dead space on the notes that should be played.

[Zebraoracle]

I'd like for the bard performance to actually sound like the instrument it's said to play

I see violin, my favorite instrument.
I play violin in game.
Violin sounds like an abomination.
I cry and go back to basicass harp.

[Kakurady]

Not a musician, but chords for sure. NKRO gaming keyboards are common these days, and even DualShock/DualSense registers multiple buttons at once. And no, arpeggiating doesn't cut it, it's easy to go too fast and press two buttons at the same time.

Native MIDI input support would be nice.

[Necrotica]

I'd like for the bard performance to actually sound like the instrument it's said to play

A Casio keyboard from the 1980s could synthesize instruments better

[Lysander_Brayburne]

For my friends on console, Key change presets. Right now we have the D-Pad and Face buttons mapped to C Major, with Shoulder buttons to play flats and sharps, and triggers to switch octave. That works great, unless you want to play anything in any other key signature. Being able to quickly transpose every button up or down to a different key, and switch from Major to Minor would be awesome, but would require at minimum one more octave added, preferably two with a range from A2 to A7 instead of the current C3 to C6.

With regard to the instrument voices, Piano definitely needs a rework. Right now it sounds like it has a muffler constantly applied or something. The notes fade after a single second no matter how long you hold the button down. That's not how pianos work. I can go over to my own IRL piano and press a key with the lightest touch, and it will ring out for at least 8 seconds before it has faded out completely. When playing at a regular volume, it can take anywhere up to 20 seconds for a note to fade.
I saw someone mention the putting the mode switch from the electric guitar onto other instruments. They can keep the old piano sound and rename it Muffler, then add Regular, Sustain and Una Corda modes.