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Hello. I made this guide on the Archeage Forums many months ago. Back when the game was in Beta. It has since gotten 50k views and has only been posted on 2 forums. As I'm new here and trying to get myself out of Leecher status I present to you, my music guide.
I will update this guide if anything changes.
Update:Added a link to information on fixing tempo change desyncs.
Update:Added another updated version of 3MLE for AA. (version 3)
Update: Added updated version of 3MLE for AA. (version 2)
Update: Fixed some typos and possible areas of confusion.
Update: T̶e̶m̶p̶o̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶s̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶ ̶s̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶3̶r̶d̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶.̶ ̶3̶r̶d̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶T̶e̶m̶p̶o̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶t̶e̶a̶d̶.̶
Update: Found out that dotted rest notes do not work in Archeage. Fixed guide to reflect.
Update: I was wrong about the n# characters. Fixed the guide to reflect.
Hello and welcome to my composing guide.
I want to mention that if you know nothing about how music works I suggest you go learn. Musical Notation is complicated and I do not want to go that in depth on this guide. You can learn about Musical Notation http://datadragon.com/education/reading/. They can explain it better than I can anyway. My specialty is MML.
Also, a MML database has been made by ArcheageMmlLibrary and is appropriately named. You can upload and download MML songs http://www.archeagemmllibrary.com/ I have also messaged Scapes to see if it would be possible to have an official database for Archeage but with this fan database, I might retract that suggestion.
As promised here's my library of MMLs. I thought I had a couple thousand songs, but it turns out to be 12 thousand. I'm sure you don't mind. About 700 of them are not named. I'm working with another player to get those renamed.
First I want to give a thanks to these people for helping me out.
Let's talk about how to get prepared in game to make music. Well actually it's quite simple and you only need a few materials to make wonderful music. There are two main items you need. An instrument like a Flute or Lute and Music Paper. To get a Flute or Lute simply follow the quests. The NPCs will hand them out. Music Paper on the other hand is slightly more difficult to obtain. You need to craft Music Paper. To do so you need 10 Paper, 1 Dawn Lake Light Essence, and 5 Memory Ink. When you have all the materials head to an Artistry Workbench. Once you craft the Music Paper you can begin composing music. Other instruments like the electric guitar and saxophone can be bought in the market place.
Now that we have everything we need, let's talk about MML.
MML stands for Music Macro Language. Think of it as a text document that can play music. Read more about MML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language. How do you get music from text you ask? Your computer has a file with a library of about 128 instruments and each instrument has every note it could play recorded. This is a DLS file pertaining to the MS Waveable Synth. Every Microsoft OS past XP has this file. Archeage uses this library to play music by reading the note text from MML.
Fun Fact: The library file is about 4mb so that every MML file only needs to contain the note information and not the actual sound itself, making the file a few kilobytes in size. Unlike modern music files like MP3 or AAC or WAV, they store every sound that happens in the song in their own file. Which is why those files range from 1mb to 30mb in size.
Time to actually start learning the language of MML.
In MML the notes are represented as the characters on the keyboard "c d e f g a b". The notes also have Sharps and Flats. They can be expressed as "c#" for C sharp or "c-" for C flat. Sharp can also be expressed as "c+". # or + indicates sharp and - indicates flat. There are 7 notes and with the sharps and flats that makes 21 possible combinations. However a piano has 88 notes which is why you need octaves to change the pitch of each note. If you know musical notation you will understand this very well.
There are 2 ways to express an octave change in MML. You can use "o" as in Orange and then a number or you can use ">" to go up 1 octave or "<" to go down 1 octave. An example would be, using Archeage's default octave of 5, "o3cdefo6gab" is the same as "<<cdef>>>gab".
There are 2 ways to express note length. You can place a number after the note like so "c1d2e4f8g16a32b64". That will play C as a whole note, D as a half note, E as a quarter note, F as an 8th note, G as a 16th note, A as a 32nd note, and G as a 64th note. The second option is to use "l" as in Lion and then a number. "l8" will play all notes after it as an 8th note unless the note has a number behind it. An example of "l8aaaac4c4" will play 4 A 8th notes and 2 C quarter notes.
Rest is indicated with "r". "r" acts the same way as a regular note minus the octave changes. It can be modified with numbers after it like "r1r2r4r8r64" or with the "l" modifier as "l4rrrrl1r".
The "&" ampersand is used to tie notes together. "a4&a4&a4&a4" will play 4 a quarters as a whole note. This will come in handy if you are trying make music with a correction note. I will explain this later. Archeage does not allow dotted notes to be tied.
The "." Dotted character is used to extend a note. It extends the length of the note by half of the length it is. A dotted whole note will extend for another half note and a dotted half note will extend for another quarter note. "c1." is the same as "c1&c2". Please note that dotted rests will work in 3rd party programs, it will not work within Archeage. "l4aar.aa" will not work, instead "l4aarr8aa" will work. You can also apply dotted notes to the default note length like this "l4.aaccdd" or "l2.aaccdd"
Lastly Tempo and Volume are indicated with "t" and "v" with a number after. Tempo is how fast the section of notes will play and volume is how loud it will be. An example would be "t80v75ccc". That will play 3 C notes at a tempo of 80 and a volume of 75.
S̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶m̶y̶s̶t̶e̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶M̶M̶L̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶"̶n̶"̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶a̶
n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶E̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶p̶u̶r̶p̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶
̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶A̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶"̶n̶4̶6̶n̶8̶"̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶G̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶3̶
̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶A̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶1̶.̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶1̶0̶0̶%̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶a̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶"̶n̶"̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶a̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶d̶i̶c̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶
a̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶.̶ ̶"̶n̶4̶8̶8̶"̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶a̶ ̶B̶ ̶8̶t̶h̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶3̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶. I was informed that the n# characters did not work and I was able to confirm this. I left the information here because it does still work in other programs like 3MLE.
There is one downside to MML. This is the reason why MIDI replaced MML. Fundamentally MML and MIDI are the same except for 1 major difference. MML cannot support more than 1 note played at the same time on the same track. Think of tracks as a separate instrument. MML using 1 line of code will play 1 instrument. There is a way to play multiple notes at the same time however. To make a separate track while composing in MML put a "," in the code and put notes after it. That will play all notes after the "," as a seperate track. If you place the notes correctly you can have 2 or more notes play at the same time. Here is an example "cda,arc". That will play C and A at the same time, then D by itself and then C and A at the same time again.
Now that you know how to read and write in MML lets go in game and write some music.
You have an extra Music Paper so lets put that to use. Below is a song from Katamari. It's a simple piece so I hope that it will make a good example.
I will update this guide if anything changes.
Update:Added a link to information on fixing tempo change desyncs.
Update:Added another updated version of 3MLE for AA. (version 3)
Update: Added updated version of 3MLE for AA. (version 2)
Update: Fixed some typos and possible areas of confusion.
Update: T̶e̶m̶p̶o̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶s̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶ ̶s̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶3̶r̶d̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶.̶ ̶3̶r̶d̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶T̶e̶m̶p̶o̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶t̶e̶a̶d̶.̶
Update: Found out that dotted rest notes do not work in Archeage. Fixed guide to reflect.
Update: I was wrong about the n# characters. Fixed the guide to reflect.
Hello and welcome to my composing guide.
I want to mention that if you know nothing about how music works I suggest you go learn. Musical Notation is complicated and I do not want to go that in depth on this guide. You can learn about Musical Notation http://datadragon.com/education/reading/. They can explain it better than I can anyway. My specialty is MML.
Also, a MML database has been made by ArcheageMmlLibrary and is appropriately named. You can upload and download MML songs http://www.archeagemmllibrary.com/ I have also messaged Scapes to see if it would be possible to have an official database for Archeage but with this fan database, I might retract that suggestion.
As promised here's my library of MMLs. I thought I had a couple thousand songs, but it turns out to be 12 thousand. I'm sure you don't mind. About 700 of them are not named. I'm working with another player to get those renamed.
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- Archaous
- Nyilaira
- Oskar
- Toy Fuzion
- Etrigan
- Lilblue
- Xenogenic (from twitter)
- Dusty
- Sivuden
- SomethingUnreal (youtube)
- Solty-Aranzeb (reddit)
Let's talk about how to get prepared in game to make music. Well actually it's quite simple and you only need a few materials to make wonderful music. There are two main items you need. An instrument like a Flute or Lute and Music Paper. To get a Flute or Lute simply follow the quests. The NPCs will hand them out. Music Paper on the other hand is slightly more difficult to obtain. You need to craft Music Paper. To do so you need 10 Paper, 1 Dawn Lake Light Essence, and 5 Memory Ink. When you have all the materials head to an Artistry Workbench. Once you craft the Music Paper you can begin composing music. Other instruments like the electric guitar and saxophone can be bought in the market place.
Now that we have everything we need, let's talk about MML.
MML stands for Music Macro Language. Think of it as a text document that can play music. Read more about MML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language. How do you get music from text you ask? Your computer has a file with a library of about 128 instruments and each instrument has every note it could play recorded. This is a DLS file pertaining to the MS Waveable Synth. Every Microsoft OS past XP has this file. Archeage uses this library to play music by reading the note text from MML.
Fun Fact: The library file is about 4mb so that every MML file only needs to contain the note information and not the actual sound itself, making the file a few kilobytes in size. Unlike modern music files like MP3 or AAC or WAV, they store every sound that happens in the song in their own file. Which is why those files range from 1mb to 30mb in size.
Time to actually start learning the language of MML.
In MML the notes are represented as the characters on the keyboard "c d e f g a b". The notes also have Sharps and Flats. They can be expressed as "c#" for C sharp or "c-" for C flat. Sharp can also be expressed as "c+". # or + indicates sharp and - indicates flat. There are 7 notes and with the sharps and flats that makes 21 possible combinations. However a piano has 88 notes which is why you need octaves to change the pitch of each note. If you know musical notation you will understand this very well.
There are 2 ways to express an octave change in MML. You can use "o" as in Orange and then a number or you can use ">" to go up 1 octave or "<" to go down 1 octave. An example would be, using Archeage's default octave of 5, "o3cdefo6gab" is the same as "<<cdef>>>gab".
There are 2 ways to express note length. You can place a number after the note like so "c1d2e4f8g16a32b64". That will play C as a whole note, D as a half note, E as a quarter note, F as an 8th note, G as a 16th note, A as a 32nd note, and G as a 64th note. The second option is to use "l" as in Lion and then a number. "l8" will play all notes after it as an 8th note unless the note has a number behind it. An example of "l8aaaac4c4" will play 4 A 8th notes and 2 C quarter notes.
Rest is indicated with "r". "r" acts the same way as a regular note minus the octave changes. It can be modified with numbers after it like "r1r2r4r8r64" or with the "l" modifier as "l4rrrrl1r".
The "&" ampersand is used to tie notes together. "a4&a4&a4&a4" will play 4 a quarters as a whole note. This will come in handy if you are trying make music with a correction note. I will explain this later. Archeage does not allow dotted notes to be tied.
The "." Dotted character is used to extend a note. It extends the length of the note by half of the length it is. A dotted whole note will extend for another half note and a dotted half note will extend for another quarter note. "c1." is the same as "c1&c2". Please note that dotted rests will work in 3rd party programs, it will not work within Archeage. "l4aar.aa" will not work, instead "l4aarr8aa" will work. You can also apply dotted notes to the default note length like this "l4.aaccdd" or "l2.aaccdd"
Lastly Tempo and Volume are indicated with "t" and "v" with a number after. Tempo is how fast the section of notes will play and volume is how loud it will be. An example would be "t80v75ccc". That will play 3 C notes at a tempo of 80 and a volume of 75.
S̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶m̶y̶s̶t̶e̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶M̶M̶L̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶"̶n̶"̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶a̶
n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶E̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶p̶u̶r̶p̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶
̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶A̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶"̶n̶4̶6̶n̶8̶"̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶G̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶3̶
̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶A̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶1̶.̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶1̶0̶0̶%̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶d̶e̶a̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶"̶n̶"̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶a̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶d̶i̶c̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶
a̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶.̶ ̶"̶n̶4̶8̶8̶"̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶a̶ ̶B̶ ̶8̶t̶h̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶c̶t̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶3̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶. I was informed that the n# characters did not work and I was able to confirm this. I left the information here because it does still work in other programs like 3MLE.
There is one downside to MML. This is the reason why MIDI replaced MML. Fundamentally MML and MIDI are the same except for 1 major difference. MML cannot support more than 1 note played at the same time on the same track. Think of tracks as a separate instrument. MML using 1 line of code will play 1 instrument. There is a way to play multiple notes at the same time however. To make a separate track while composing in MML put a "," in the code and put notes after it. That will play all notes after the "," as a seperate track. If you place the notes correctly you can have 2 or more notes play at the same time. Here is an example "cda,arc". That will play C and A at the same time, then D by itself and then C and A at the same time again.
Now that you know how to read and write in MML lets go in game and write some music.
You have an extra Music Paper so lets put that to use. Below is a song from Katamari. It's a simple piece so I hope that it will make a good example.