Guild Wars 2

I love playing music in Guildwars. It’s easy to access for any character and gather a band together. The music system hasn’t changed since last year though. Now that the expansion is hitting its stride i’d like to think that ANET has time to work on it a bit.

ANET seems to be opening up a bit too. In that respect I thought i would field this question. Is there anything they can share about the future of musical instruments and player music in Guildwars?
- Is there a plan to provide the semitones (sharps and flats)?
- will the instruments all be brought into the same key?
- Any plans for new instruments?

Would be cool to know if anything like that is on the radar. Till then i’ll be performing in divinity’s reach as usual.

What I would like to see is the possibility of GW2 opening up the software to include some sort of USB to midi connection, so you can actually play these instruments using inexpensive controller musical keyboards. Seeing they frown on the use of Macro’s, this would open up another world to instruments inworld.
As proficient on piano as I am, I cannot for the life of me play on computer keys, its totally alien as a concept and could never get my fingers to get used to playing musical notes in this way

I actually wrote my own program to do exactly that. It’s not too different from a macro program and for music ANET actually allows macros. I would like to see that as a core feature though. I’m just looking to see if they have any real plans for music in the future.

OOOH that sounds pretty cool, would you have any issues in developing this program for other musicians because it sounds really good.

there’s a link buried in the community creations section. “gw2 midi” search will dig it up. I don’t know when i last updated it but its stable and open source so you can see how i did it.

Awesome, I will have a look for that also, if you beat me to it that would be fantastic if you could repost that link . Thank You