Guild Wars 2

Watched a vid of flute and guy suggested bagpipes. Man is a pure unadulterated long eared genius! Add them. NOW. And jackalope pet for ranger!

No need to thank me for 200% increase in revenues, just passing along good advice;)

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Watched a vid of flute and guy suggested bagpipes. Man is a pure unadulterated long eared genius! Add them. NOW. And jackalope pet for ranger!

No need to thank me for 200% increase in revenues, just passing along good advice;)

do this anet. NOW.
but include preset loops, cause i still can’t figure out this bloody music system XD

I’m actually surprised they haven’t done this yet.

A big quaggan shaped bagpipe.

I’d buy that. Someone has the notes for Scotland the Brave for the flute posted on the audio forum, would be pretty great to play it on actual bagpipes.

While we’re on it, also the abc system from LOTRO that let’s you play premade songs.

As someone who has been next to a bagpipe while it was being played indoors, I have to say “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO”. Seriously. That tone would just be awful. It’d be like the trumpet, only even worse.

Oxstar.7643:

While we’re on it, also the abc system from LOTRO that let’s you play premade songs.

do this too anet
and @ roseofgilead: bagpipes played well are great, clearly you were standing by somebody who plays them poorly

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

A big quaggan shaped bagpipe.

If the noise comes out the mouth and you use one of its limbs for melody pipe… that must mean the blowpipe go up the quaggans kitten ?

RoseofGilead.8907:

As someone who has been next to a bagpipe while it was being played indoors, I have to say “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO”. Seriously. That tone would just be awful. It’d be like the trumpet, only even worse.

In LotRo which uses the ABC music system the bagpipes can be made to sound pretty awesome if the person that transcribes your ABC file from a midi knows music and can make the necessary adjustments. Here is one we did and recorded in our early days in LotRO using the bagpipes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hQxsJ2tdE

Edit: That video which shows 5 players is actually the wife with 3 accounts and myself with 2 accounts. Our band was requested to play at Guild functions, RP events and HAD to be at all the Festivals. Sadly due to a move and change in IP our current IP does not have the bandwidth for us to do that anymore. We made alot of coin from tips in that game!

Theftwind.8976

and @ roseofgilead: bagpipes played well are great, clearly you were standing by somebody who plays them poorly

I wasn’t talking about the quality of the performance so much as the loudness. The person playing at the time is a professional bagpiper and is quite talented. It’s just an extremely loud instrument. :p And after hearing what the GW2 in-game trumpet sounds like, I can’t imagine the bagpipe sounding pleasant. Unless they are careful with it, as theft was talking about.

There are other instruments more likely to happen, than a bagpipe, like for example:

• Violin
• Guitar
• Tambourine
• Triangle
• Saxophone
• Xylophone
• Clarinet
• Rattles (Maracas)

just to name a few of the most locical missing classical music instruments

I would really rather not see bagpipes added until a better control scheme (such as existed in LoTRO for example) is implemented.

Bagpipes are good in that you can sustain notes on them. To make things sound decent you need something that will do that be it bagpipes or another instrument. The main issue we had with LotRo and its music system was the lack of sustainability on most instruments and that people would just convert midi to abc without making volume adjustments or pitch adjustments for each instrument being played in a song. The better half, being a musician would spend hours on a file to get it to sound right. Almost drove me crazy at times!