Question for Musicians.....

[Irece]

I have an acoustic guitar that actually plays notes that you can write music with and was wondering as a musician in SL would anyone be interested in buying an acoustic guitar? For those impromptu jam sessions or to impress friends? Im looking for my target audience and thought I start here.............any opinions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[Ariel Vuissent]

I would buy other instruments (a guitar doesn't really fit any of my characters) that play music, but I wouldn't want to write my own. It's not my talent. I think it would be cool, though, if an instrument had two options - one to write your own songs, and one to play from a small selection of premade songs.

 

[Irece]

I will look into creating other instruments I know that alot of artist on here want to have a guitar for prerecorded or premade songs but I thought this would be unique for those who want to create music in SL or just want to impress friends. Working on a demo as we speak.....you can see the guitar on SL Marketplace under Infernal Acoustic

 

Thank you for your input!

[Alazarin Mondrian]

Your instruments sound like an interesting idea. However you need to be aware that lag can cause severe timing synchronisation problems when you have groups of musicians playing loop-based in-world instruments. This can be circumvented by using a master clock that all the instruments synchronise to. As far as instruments that are actually played note-for-note in-world... good luck. I've looked into it and made the decision to do my playing in RL, stream it into SL and give my avatar an 'instrument' that's little more than a stage prop.

 

All the best with your musical instrument venture. Who knows, you might succeed where others were overwhelmed by lag.