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The Player Music System gives the ability for a player to have their character play real-time, free-form music in game. Players can either create music by pressing music-mapped keys on their computer keyboard, or by reading in automatically playing an ABC Notation file. The system supports a tonal range of three octaves, allowing for a broad variety of songs which can be played. Instruments All classes have access to two instruments (a lute, and one other determined by class)starting at level 5, except for Minstrels, who have access to all instruments. To use an instrument, the player simply needs to equip the instrument into the characters ranged weapon slot, and activate the music system either by typing /music into the chat window, or by hitting the player-definied hot key assigned to music activation. Basic instruments are available for purchase from any bard. Minstrels only can also use the various crafted instruments as well, available from a woodworker via looted recipes. Instruments purchased from a Minstrel Trainer cannot be used for music. Music System Options The following Audio Options pertain to player music: * Quantize Player Music o Locks the notes onto a precise timing grid * Low Latency Mode o Music feedback comes from the client side, rather than the server side. Useful if you're getting slow response due to network latency. * Player Music Volume o Player music volume can be adjusted independently from game music volume. In addition, any other player on a player's ignore list will be individually muted for that player. Manual Play Manual play allows the player to create music direcly by pressing keys on their computer keyboard corresponding to musical notes. Key Mapping The system provides 37 musical notes (three chromatic octaves) each of which can by individually mapped to a character on the player's keyboard. These mapping apply only when the player is in player music mode. For example, if the musical note C2 was mapped to the character 1, when in player music mode, hitting the 1 key would play the note C2, while hitting the 1 when not in player music mode would still execute the skill in quickslot 1. The game provides a default music key mapping, but each available note can be remapped by the user to suit their own needs and playing style. MIDI Interface At present, there is no game support for a direct MIDI interface into the Lord of the Rings Online Player Music System. However, some clever players have created interfaces that map MIDI input on their computers to keystrokes, effectively turning their MIDI devices into computer keyboards. A popular example of this is MIDI2KEY by NolaquenTaurina. Scripted Play Lord of the Rings Online also allows a player to play ABC Notation files from within the game by typing /play while in music mode. ABC Files ABC Notation is a form of music notation presented in ASCII format. In short, it's sheet music in text form. ABC files are simple text files, and can be edited using any standard text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad. For the files to be playable in Lord of the Rings Online, they need to be saved as . abc and be saved in Documents and SettingsMy DocumentsThe Lord of the Rings OnlineMusic. All ABC Notation music contains information fields at the top of the file, followed by the abc tune notation. Comments are started by a percent % sign. Full information on ABC Notation can be found in the abc standard V1. 6. % Information Sharps for all the above notes except c' are likewise available. Unsupported ABC Notation Lord of the Rings Online's Player Music System does not support the entirety of the ABC specification. Some of the notation of ABC will be ignored by the system, other parts will cause errors. See Mechanics:ABC Notation for more information on supported and unsupported aspects of ABC notation, including workarounds for unsupported formats. Notations which are ignored Notes on MIDI files converted to ABC While it may seem a fast route to creating ABC files to play in game, the vast majority of available MIDI files contain musical constructs not supported by the Lord of the Rings Online ABC player. MIDI files are often multi-track, multi-voice, and contains things like chords and slurs which will at best sound odd, and more likely cause errors. Players should not expect that MIDI files can be converted and played in-game without sigficant editing. Summary The Lord of the Rings Online Player Music System offers a fun leisure time activity for players as unique as the players themselves. From an impromptu performance while waiting for a fellowship to arrive, to planned concerts, the system has something to offer players of all talent levels, and for performers, composers, and just plain music lovers alike" "I would like to propose the following additions to the music system that (in my opinion) would really make it a showcase for what can be done within a game. 1) Chord support. Please add chord support for instruments that can play them. This makes sense for lutes, harps, and the theorbo. Chords do not make sense for wind instruments or the drum. 2) Grace notes. cheap wow gold Supporting grace notes would make it easier to create lively folk-type songs and broaden the musical toolbox available. 3) Correct instrument ranges. Different instruments have different tonal ranges and keys for which they are tuned. mp3 players Having the available instruments follow the true instruments opens up a very wide and diverse arena that allows more people with a deep ""real life"" knowledge of music to truly shine, while not limiting musical novices. 4) Repeats. While not necessary, supporting repeats greatly simplifies composition, especially with such songs as jigs and other traditional music. world of warcraft gold This would also need to support alternate endings (such as the [1 and [2 constructs). 5) Irish Roll. Many traditional songs have the ""Irish Roll"" sound which is notated in ABC as the tilde (~). wow gold While it is possible to work around its absence, having it available would be very nice. 6) Implied accidentals. Again, while it is relatively easy to work around this missing feature, it adds tedium to composition and transcribing. wow gold 7) Slurs. Slurs represent a staple construct in musical composition and performance. Support for slurs would greatly change the types of music that are able to be performed. wow gold kaufen Obviously, supporting slurs on some instruments does not make sense (such as drums). 8) Staccato and Accent Mark. As with slurs, staccato notes help add variety to how music should be performed, increasing the complexity of the resulting piece.