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Thread: My tips.
A few tips I want to give people, please add your own if you have any good ones...
First of all... /pausemusic... whoeverinvented this is god as far as im concerned, this is an wonderfull addition to any band, especially if your the drums... I like to hit the /pausemusic macro now and then, and use an fast beat flourish after it. It gives an pretty cool effect IMHO.
Second, in any band, its about sounding good as an band and not gaining xp, at least thats my opinion, and it makes it more fun to grind. So, to that end, never have more then one set of drums in a band, it sounds horrid, use an instrument that you dont have one in the band already. If every instrument is taken, grab a horn, or start dancing.
Third, (not an musician thing) but get a few dancers together and do some bandflourishing with them... I especially like Formal1 or 2.
Fourth, dont use macros if you want to sound good... macros are really predictable and I hate it when im being able to foresee when someone is going to flourish and not, maybe its just me but its really annoying.
Five, effects are cool, especially if you use the same effects after eachother or at almost the same time... just dont overdo it.
Errrr... thats all I can think off at the moment, if I come up with any more, or if you have any for me, I'd love to hear them...
Come on people, more tips, I wanna know... oh and I didnt know about the /changedance command.. never tried that, thank you.
With /changesong though, its hard to make it sound good I think, when im soloing I usually do /pausemusic then /changesong
Pasted from an old thread which apparently not many saw (according to the shock exhibited when I do this in game):
You can switch instruments seemlessly while playing solo or with a band. It does not work perfectly if you switch instruments without switching songs when you are solo, but it works most of the time in this case.
For this example I will be playing solo and switch from playing Waltz with a chid horn to playing rock with a bandfill and start with the rock flourish 8. (that transition sounds really cool).
With my chid in hand and my bandfill in the F1 hotkey I begin playing Waltz. When I want to switch to bandfill I hit my macro and then after the current loop is finished I automatically begin playing flourish 8 of rock with my bandfill. The macro looks like this:
/ui action toolbarSlot00; (note the bandfill is in the F1 slot)
/startmusic rock;
/flourish 8
When I hit the macro during a loop I will see my toon switch to the bandfill automatically, but he will continue playing the loop with the sound of the Chid. When that loop is finished the rock flourish 8 starts with the bandfill sound.
If you had /startmusic waltz instead of rock then you would still switch to the bandfill on the next loop but continue playing waltz. The problem with not switching songs when doing this solo is that sometimes you will switch and play one loop, then it plays the outro and you stop...not sure why.
If you are in a band you can use the exact same macro to switch to bandfill and it will continue playing the same song as the band. It doesn't matter what song you specify after the /startmusic command because you will always join in the song the band is currently playing.
You can create macros for each instrument (except ommni and nala AFAIK) by using different /ui action toolbarSlot numbers.
So if the band is playing Jazz and you are playing Kloo, you can switch to bandfill (or any hand held instrument) and continue playing Jazz (or whatever song the band is playing)by using the above macro. I have not had the problem where you automatically go into the outro after one loop when doing this in a band.
This does work seemlessly, IE there is no silence or pause between the instrument switch.