Music Help and Advice.

[Imshi]

I'm currently training up four characters in the Musical Instrument skill. The ultimate aim is to be able to play group compositions. I am able to sync four clients with a very small delay between them now. It's not perfect, but probably as good as I'm going to get. It works surprisingly well for Catches, Rounds, and Glees.

I would like some advice on composition, or music creation, software to run on Windows 8.1

I don't mind if it's paid or Freeware, ease of use is important to me. Just started experimenting with MuseScore.

I've never had formal music training, so writing and reading music is slow for me. That being said I used to make my living as a musician many moons ago.

The next step is getting my scores/compositions into Planeshift. I've come across four proposed methods so far. Each having it's own idiosyncrasies and limitations.

Sheet Editor, as explained by Korumak: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=40531.0

Firiban's External Music Editor: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=40547.0

Gilrond's Manual Editing Method: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=40219.15 [ Method and discovery outlined within the post]

Sajut's PSTune: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=41427.0

If anyone has a viable alternative here and is willing to share I would be most interested. So far I've manually entered notes onto the sheets in-game. It's doable, but extremely fiddly. Also not really viable for Pan Flute, half of it's useable notes are above the staff. This means there isn't a guide for placing a note. Difference of a pixel means a different note.

Thank you for reading. Planeshift has one of the few Player Music systems ever implemented in a MMO, we are very fortunate to have it. I hope Lucubro will be able to offer further refinement in the future.

[Lumi]

That is awesome   

I've actually heard the group a bit and i hardly, very hardly hear any delay, that's a great job.

I hope the musicians will go even further and "surf" on Imshi tread to improve our IG music features 

[Imshi]

Is the music system used in Planeshift documented anywhere? I've tried to search Sourceforge and found some references to Lucubro's work, but no code.

If someone has a link it could be really useful.