Talk:Music
any way to make a macro to play a tune? --Blakborn 15:04, 20 March 2007 (PDT)
I dunno, but that would just rock. Is there a guitar tab to lotro lute tab converter? Has anyone tried to compose music with all the instruments? The music aspect really excites me.. I see all sorts of cools stuff from this.. ring-tones, jingles, top-40 hit. Music for lotro youtube videos.. etc.. :) *bangs head on monitor* ok i will stop --Hinney 15:20, 20 March 2007 (PDT)
- there's a nice page wit lots of songs and other infos - https://lotro.glenneroo.org/music.html
There is more functionality coming in later patches. Devs have mentioned support for sustained notes and pre-recorded songs (better than a macro). --Hellis 16:47, 20 March 2007 (PDT)
Information appears outdated
I'm new to LOTRO; active for about three months now. I have a Minstrel and am interested in playing simple tunes. It may have come in with the 64-bit client, but most of the directions other than the Tabulature chart and /play instructions on the wiki page do not work as stated. 1) I had to create a music folder, none existed in the LOTRO downloaded files in Win 10. 2) The client will play .txt files; no need to change the extension to .abc 3) The client will NOT take the 1-2-3/s1-s2-s3/c1-c2-c3 notation. Only by delving into the links at the bottom of the page was I able to ferret out that the correct syntax is now the traditional note letters as in the left-hand legend of the Tabulature Table. Example: C E G/8 G2| E G/8 G A/2 G/8 G2| E G A/8 A2| G/2 A/8 A/2 G2|\ will play the first line of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore". There are still many things I don't know beyond M:4/4 sets the tempo and L:1/4 (apparently) sets the note duration to some extent. I found that the Lute is somewhat inflexible in this regard. BTW I'm not a musician, but can peck out the basics of sheet music from long experience as a sound system operator. It seems to me that it would be beneficial (after attending some concerts in LOTRO) to have an explanation of the current syntax for writing simple playback files clear enough so that non-musicians can empower their Minstrels to make a bit of real music. Anyone else interested?
OK, I'm answering my own questions. Current information on ABC format can be found at abcnotation.com/wiki/. This has detailed instructions for v2.1 however some of the features may not be supported by the LOTRO player. Taking sheet music I was able to write an abc file (as .txt) that played a recognizable version of the song - perhaps 80% accurate. Note that LOTRO does not play the ,, or ,,, or and ' scales; only N, - N - n - n' scales. To tune the song into a finished version I am going to have to play it and edit the notation until it sounds right. Using the game itself to do this is a major exercise in futility. FORTUNATELY there is a GREAT program available for free which you can use to play-listen-see and edit the abc file outside the game. It is AbcPlayer coupled with Maestro available to download from https://github.com/digero/maestro/releases. You can play the abc file, slow down the tempo and see what note group in the file is being played. Thus missing or bad note groups can be identified, assuming you know how the song goes, and edited until all is right.
Since I'm not a musician and can't play a MIDI keyboard, this form of entry and manipulation suits me. My goal is to get songs I like, which are not in the available libraries, converted from sheet music. Also some of the abc files I've downloaded are in need of correction.
MODERATOR: The music page really needs some caveat about the incorrect details; it would save nubies like me from finding out the hard way.