Guild Wars 2 Orchestra

A program to play music sheets using instruments found inside of Guild Wars 2

Supported Instruments

Instrument	Supported	Instrument	Supported
Bell	No	Lute	No
Flute	No	Bell2	No
Horn	No	Bass	No
Harp	Yes

Features

• Music Player:
  • Play songs to Guild Wars 2.
  • Plays songs to your default audio device (emulated mode).
• Supported Music Sheets:
  • Music Box Notation (http://gw2mb.com)
• Music player styles, change the method used to play the music sheets (found in /TestData/*.xml files):
  • "favor chords": trys to play chords as smoothly as possible.
  • "favor notes": trys to play every note.
• Time Management:
  • Chords played using "absolute time" from music sheet. This means chords can be played slowly so it can be played in Guild Wars 2, whilst not affecting the tempo/when chords starts to play.

Experimental Features

• MIDI file support:
  • Use a midi file (.mid) as an input to listen to it in Guild Wars 2.

Upcoming Features

• Network Support:
  • Allow for multiple instruments to be played in time with each other.
• Keyboard inputs direct to Guild Wars 2:
  • Allows users to remain in control of their keyboard inputs instead of forcing foreground window focus to Guild Wars 2.
• Graphical User Interface

Usage

1. Start Guild Wars 2
2. Ensure key bindings 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 are mapped to the default Guild Wars 2 key binding (skill 1, 2, 3, 4 5, etc...)
3. Ensure the harps current octave is "Middle Octave"
4. Using "command prompt" or "powershell", navigate to the directory holding GuildWars2Orchestra.exe
5. Using "command prompt" or "powershell", type the following command: GuildWars2Orchestra.exe "TestData\Final Fantasy XIII 2 - A Wish.xml"

For more instructions, type GuildWars2Orchestra.exe --help

Music Sheets

The music sheets provided as test data in this repository originated from http://gw2mb.com/archive.php. Guild Wars 2 Orchestra will make its best attempt to play the music sheets faithfully. However, Guild Wars 2 has a limit on speed; some notes may be missed if the score is too fast.

Example YouTube video: Guild Wars 2 Orchestra - Yiruma - River Flows In You

Minimum Requirements

• Guild Wars 2 (32 bit / 64 bit client)
• .NET 4.5
• Windows 7+

Notes

This application simulates keyboard key presses using Windows API, therefore requires Guild Wars 2 to be the foreground window for the entire duration of the music sheet.

This program is a slow work in progress, current efforts is to get any music played to be as faithful to the music sheet it is currently playing using the harp as a musical instrument. Once that it is completed to a satisfactory level, then support for other instruments will follow suit.