Music Maker FAQ

Craft any instrument item, hold it, and right-click to open its play interface. From there you click the on-screen keys or notes to play sounds, and you can bind the instrument to a hotbar slot for quick access.

Place a Music Sheet in an instrument's sheet slot (or use the sheet interface) and the instrument will play the notes written on it automatically when triggered. You can write notes onto a sheet yourself or load one that came with a song.

Open the Music Sheet interface and use the import option to select a .mid file from your computer; the mod converts the MIDI tracks into notes on the sheet. Very large or multi-track MIDIs may need trimming, since each sheet holds a limited number of notes.

Songs are imported as MIDI files through the Music Sheet screen, not as audio files. Once imported, the sheet can be played by any compatible instrument or by a Redstone-triggered setup.

The Voice of God is a special instrument that plays powerful, wide-range sounds; hold it and right-click to open its interface just like other instruments. It is often used for dramatic cues or as the output for a Redstone-triggered song.

Place the instrument (or a Redstone Guitar / Redstone Piano) and wire a Redstone signal into it; a pulse triggers the currently loaded sheet or note. Use a button, lever, pressure plate, or repeater clock to control timing.

The regular Guitar is played manually by right-clicking and clicking notes, while the Redstone Guitar responds to Redstone signals so it can be triggered by circuits. Both use the same sheet system, but only the Redstone variant is meant for automation.

Open a Music Sheet, place notes on the grid at the desired pitches and timing, then save it. You can then load that sheet into any instrument or a Redstone-triggered instrument to play it back.

Yes, a written Music Sheet is an item, so you can trade it, put it in a chest, or copy it and give copies to other players. They can then load it into their own instruments.

Yes, Music Maker is available for NeoForge as well as other common mod loaders, so it can be installed alongside other NeoForge mods. Check that the version you have matches your Minecraft version and loader.

Yes, Music Maker is a free mod distributed through normal mod hosting sites. There is no paid version required to use instruments, sheets, or MIDI import.

MIDI import maps notes to the mod's instrument range, so notes outside that range may be dropped or shifted, and long songs may exceed the sheet's note limit. Try a simpler MIDI, split it across multiple sheets, or transpose it before importing.

Make sure you are holding the instrument item and not sneaking, and that no other mod is intercepting the right-click. If it is a Redstone instrument, it needs a Redstone signal instead of a manual right-click.

Yes, instruments and sheets work on multiplayer servers as long as the mod is installed on the server and clients. Other players nearby will hear the notes, which makes it usable for in-game concerts.

A few instruments playing at once is fine, but many Redstone-triggered instruments firing rapidly can add up. If you notice lag, space out triggers, reduce the number of simultaneous instruments, or shorten the sheets being played.

It adds music sheets, instruments and other devices to Minecraft for creating and playing music. It is designed to work efficiently in multiplayer so server lag doesn't ruin the rhythm like with note block creations.

It registers 26 items and blocks, including instruments like the banjo, bass guitar, cello, chimes, cymbal, drum, drum kit, flute, french horn, guitar, lyre, oboe, organ, piano, redstone guitar, redstone piano, sansula, saxophone, trumpet, violin, voice of god and xylophone. It also adds the metronome, metronome block, music box and music sheet.

It supports Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. The listed Minecraft versions are 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2 and 26.2.

Sounds follow the chromatic scale with 12 notes per octave. The Huge Update raised the range from 4 to 8 octaves, though not every instrument is suitable for every octave.

The mod offers 11 different tempo settings from 60 BPM to 1200 BPM, and the Huge Update made tempo options more granular with an upper limit of 3000 BPM.

A music box takes in a sheet and an instrument. It starts or stops playing when it receives a redstone signal that goes from off to on, and it sends a one second redstone pulse to its right face when it finishes playing.

Metronomes supply a steady ticking while the redstone signal is on, and the ticking rate can be set with a right click or by using a music sheet on the metronome. After four tickings, nearby players holding a music sheet with the correct tempo and an instrument start playing synchronously.

Yes. The mod is designed to work properly in multiplayer, and metronomes let nearby players holding a sheet with the correct tempo and an instrument start playing synchronously like a band.

Yes. You can copy between different sheets and even outside Minecraft, for example to a text file to back up or paste into another world or server. CTRL + A, CTRL + C and CTRL + V shortcuts work.

You can preview a sheet with an instrument in your off hand, and you can lock the instrument per sheet so it only previews with that instrument even when your off hand item changes. You can also put up to 5 sheets in the hotbar to see and preview multiple layers at once while editing.