Editing Musical Instruments (section)

==Music System==
The music system in {{SotA}} generates events for notes that need to be played. It takes notation strings from files, parses them and "plays" them. MML and ABC are two popular text notations for transcribing music into simple plain text; MML has been used to play music on instruments in ''Mabinogi'' and ''Archeage'', while ABC notation is used more generally as well as in ''Lord of the Rings Online''. All of these games have online repositories of ready made songs transcribed into MML or ABC.
*[http://mabinogimusic.tumblr.com/code Mabinogi Music]
*[http://www.archeagemmllibrary.com/ ArchAge MML Library]
*[http://www.lotro-abc.com/ LotRO-ABC.com]
*[http://www.thefatlute.eu/ The Fat Lute]
*[http://www.abcnotation.com/ ABC Notation]

One of the easiest ways to generate MML or ABC files is to convert music from MIDI.
*For MML:
:*[http://3ml.jp/bin/3mle_2_03_783.zip 3MLE]
*For ABC:
:*[https://sites.google.com/site/brutemm/ BruTE]
:*[https://github.com/digero/maestro/releases Maestro]
:*[http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/original/ abcMIDI]

Additional information about the music system can be found in [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/framework-for-playing-instruments-in-game-using-mml-or-abc-notation.14740/ this forum post].

ABC/MML files must adhere to the [http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1#kkey ABC v2.1 specifications]. The library used to implement playing of ABC notation is available on [https://github.com/Enichan/textplayer GitHub].