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Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 3:03 am
by Dagdammit
Short version: make it so two people can play 2 different instrument tracks for a given song.

Implementation:
-Instruments in your hand can now be set to "Accompany" mode (or whatever you wanna call it), in which case the window will now say "Waiting for lead performance..." with the option to toggle back to standard performance.
-When using an instrument in a normal fashion, you now have a SECOND field in which to copy-paste notes, labeled something like "(Optional) Paste the notes here for any supporting instruments to play".
--Assuming you paste notes in both fields, when you start playing the song any idle nearby instruments in Accompany mode (that are actually being held by someone) will play whatever track you put into the second field. All tracks play at the same BPM and gotta be synchronized properly (in the sense that each player hears Track A start at the same time they hear Track B start)

Alternate implementation: No reason you have to stop at 2. You could give a player 4 optional fields for supporting tracks 1-4, and let you choose which track number to play when you set an instrument to accompany mode.

How feasible would that be to code?

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 3:15 am
by Remie Richards
Ridiculously easy to code.
Sounds fun too.

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:01 am
by Dagdammit
Rad, that's what I aimed for.

Time to figure out the best themes for a guitar-wielding nuke ops team to play. Mission Impossible?

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 1:38 pm
by Wyzack
Holy fuck we need this so badly. A musical system like this is basically the best feature in all of starbound.

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 2:30 pm
by Armhulen
A microphone that really brings the memememe outta you

still salty that never became a thing, I fucking loved it

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:51 pm
by Takeguru
Suddenly geneticists become the most annoying people on station again

I like it

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 9:59 pm
by PKPenguin321
Takeguru wrote:Suddenly geneticists become the most annoying people on station again

I like it
that would be excellent, breeding genetic monkey man abominations to play as the band in your space cantina
fund it

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 3:40 pm
by Cherrypone
Best idea.

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 4:44 pm
by Lumbermancer
We Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars now.

Re: Accompanying music?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:45 am
by Dagdammit
Did this ever get done?