Bard Music Player is an automated music player for playing MIDI songs in FFXIV using the Bard's Performance mode.
This program allows you to automatically play pre-made MIDI songs for the in-game instrument performance feature in FFXIV. In addition, it provides many more useful features such as: playlist, searching, note preview, lyrics, piano input, chat logging, and orchestra mode (multi-performer).
Downloads
Beta version
- BMP 2.X (6.3)
Latest version
- BMP 1.42 (6.2)
Older versions:
- BMP 1.4 (5.55)
- BMP 1.27 (5.55)
- BMP 1.25 (5.5)
- BMP 1.24 (5.4)
ChipMidiEditor:
- ChipMidiEditor 1.0
Quick start
Download the latest BMP release. Unzip the archive and place the executable somewhere. Create a directory next to the executable called "songs", and place your MIDI files in there. Set up your game correctly as instructed in the manual. Load the MIDI file, bring up performance in-game, and then play.
Please note that this player's purpose is to only play back MIDI files. It does not automatically adjust, fine-tune, or arrange them to work flawlessly in the (already quite limited) bard performance. Either learn to edit the MIDI files to play correctly as per the manual, or check out the Midi Repository.
Community tutorials and links
- /r/ffxivperformances Performance community
- Bard Music Player source code on GitHub
- My interview with Fat Cat Chronicles - Bard Music Player
- How to Unlock Bard Performance and Play Midi Files in Final Fantasy XIV
- Aywren - FFXIV: Bard Music Performance in Eorzea
- [日本語] Logue - Japanese guide to Bard Music Player (1.01)
- [한국어] CocoPomel - Korean guide to Bard Music Player
- callmeki - Using MML to edit midi for FFXIV Bard Music Player
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