Tips and Tricks

A few cool tricks you can try to improve your experience with Musician.

• Play live using a MIDI keyboard
• Character animation while playing music
• Synchronize and backup the songs in MusicianList using a cloud service
• Copy the songs saved in MusicianList from WoW Retail to WoW Classic
• Live play percussions that are not available on the keyboard
• Create sheet music items with Total RP Extended

Play live using a MIDI keyboard

It's not natively implemented, but you can use a 3rd party software to emulate your PC keyboard with a MIDI keyboard.

Follow this tutorial to learn how to achieve this.

Character animation while playing music

You can use the toy Blingtron's Circuit Design Tutorial to make your character's hands move while playing, as if you were actually holding and playing an instrument.

This toy is crafted by engineers so you should be able to find one easily at the auction house. You can still move when the toy is active.

To start/stop playing with the item, you can use the following macro :

/use Blingtron's Circuit Design Tutorial
/use Didacticiel du dessin des circuits du Bling-o-tron

This macro works for both English and French versions.

If you play in another language, you should edit the item name in the /use command.

Synchronize and backup the songs in MusicianList using a cloud service

This is useful if you play on multiple computers (ie a desktop and a laptop) and want your song list to be automatically synchronized on both machines.

This tutorial is for Total RP 3 but the steps are exactly the same for MusicianList and all your other add-ons.

Copy the songs saved in MusicianList from WoW Retail to WoW Classic

1. Log off your character from WoW Classic
2. Copy the MusicianList.lua file that belongs to your World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\AccountName\SavedVariables directory into your World of Warcraft\_classic_\WTF\Account\AccountName\SavedVariables directory.

The reverse (WoW Classic to WoW Retail) can also be done.

Live play percussions that are not available on the keyboard

The live keyboard mode only allows to play 22 percussion sounds but Musician (and the General MIDI standard) has actually more.

You can trigger them using macros that you can bind on your action bar:

/script local note, instrument = 60, 129; Musician.Live.NoteOn(note, 0, instrument); C_Timer.After(1, function() Musician.Live.NoteOff(note, 0, instrument) end)
/script local note, instrument = 61, 129; Musician.Live.NoteOn(note, 0, instrument); C_Timer.After(1, function() Musician.Live.NoteOff(note, 0, instrument) end)

note corresponds to the MIDI keyboard key (60: High bongo, 61: Low bongo etc) and instrument 129 corresponds to the standard percussions (Musician specific, not a MIDI standard)

You can check out the Wikipedia page of the General MIDI standard to get the detailed list of the percussions available.

Create sheet music items with Total RP Extended

Total RP Extended allows you to create sheet music in the form of roleplaying items that you can trade with the other players. This trick is very easy to do and does not require any programming.

1. Copy the example sheet music item code from wago.io (or the french version)
2. Open Total RP Extended objects database
3. Click Quick object import
4. Paste code and click Import
5. Click Create item > Create from ... then choose the example song
6. Import your song MIDI using musician.lenwe.io/import as usual
7. Paste the music code into the Free notes text box. (CTRL-A, CTRL-V)
8. Edit item name, description, icon and whatever you like to customize your sheet music item
9. Save
10. Right click the item and choose Add to main inventory You can now trade your sheet music items with other players. Right click on the item to use it and load the song.