Guild Wars 2

As of today, the Drums instrument is in the gemstore, but it doesn’t make any sound for me. I do not have the drums myself, I have only tried to listen to a guildmember play it, but it simply makes no sound.
The instrument volume is maxed, the same player also played the flute, which worked fine, but the drums make absolutely 0 sound. I tried restarting the game, which didn’t solve it.

Are there more reports of this issue?

The presets (which is what my guildie called it) seem to be working. Something called “custom loops” (just quoting here) appear to be silent.

Edit: Another thing I noticed: Individual tones without playing them as a recorded loop (randomly bashing buttons) do work. It’s the recorded custom loops, as stated, that don’t work.

It may be that your audio in Windows or your audio configuration utility is configured to be surround sound and some sounds don’t get played to the correct speakers. GW2 does not support surround sound, so if this is the problem then you need to change your audio settings in Windows and/or your audio utility to be stereo and not surround sound/5.1/7.1/etc.

Not sure if this is the problem or not, but haven’t seen others reporting it being an issue just yet so unsure if it actually is a drum issue or a local audio setting issue.

I am 100% sure that is not the issue (though I still hope I’m wrong so it can be solved quickly). It’s playing the recorded loops (you can record loops with the drums, so you can play them later over and over) that aren’t working. The rest is fine. Premade loops, individual keynotes, other instruments, etc.

I have no opportunity to test your suggestion, however, since there is no one around to play the drums at the moment.

Are you sure this is a bug? I consider it a gift from heaven (if I don’t have to listen to inept drummers across all cities).

^Bad (yet honest) Joke^

i also have this bug.
my friends tell me in teamspeak they can’t hear the drum most time :/