You might want to provide a bit more information as to what exactly you’re looking for advice on…
Advice on a race? Archetype? Backstory? RP? Feats? Equipment?
Your post is just far too vague…
Dirge Bard has some Performances that call out keyboards. It's a fun archetype for manipulating the Undead, and makes for great enemy NPC's. There is even a Ghoul Dirge Bard called a Masked Murderer.
Sound striker adds some fun options to really play into your amplified voice route… allowing you to basically weapon or your voice.
Songhealer goes the opposite direction, giving you a more pleasing and soothing musical talent to heal your allies through song… and it can be combined with sound striker.
Celebrity, Chelish Diva, and Demagogue all offer a few different routes to amplifying your fame and fortune along with three different ways to exploit that fame… Chelish Diva in particular has a whole host of fun options to enhance your performance, and is infact all about enhancing ones performance through magical amplification and augmentation.
There's not a lot about keyboards in the rules. They're not a standard component of sword and sorcery fiction after all. There's a masterpiece which gives freedom of movement which you might like as a way to spend your level 7 feat. There's a versatile performance for them (diplomacy, intimidate) and a martial performance (hammers, siege engines). And...that's about it for anything you might want to use that actually requires or benefits from keyboards. All else can use a different instrument or any instrument.
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Sound striker adds some fun options to really play into your amplified voice route… allowing you to basically weapon or your voice.
Songhealer goes the opposite direction, giving you a more pleasing and soothing musical talent to heal your allies through song… and it can be combined with sound striker.
Celebrity, Chelish Diva, and Demagogue all offer a few different routes to amplifying your fame and fortune along with three different ways to exploit that fame… Chelish Diva in particular has a whole host of fun options to enhance your performance, and is infact all about enhancing ones performance through magical amplification and augmentation.
Well i definitely like the idea of celebrity since it also stacks with sound striker, but its base is so...meh, not terrible just painfully situational. Songhealer is a nice idea though would make me a more dedicated healer since it lets even my low level spells scale.
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There's not a lot about keyboards in the rules. They're not a standard component of sword and sorcery fiction after all. There's a masterpiece which gives freedom of movement which you might like as a way to spend your level 7 feat. There's a versatile performance for them (diplomacy, intimidate) and a martial performance (hammers, siege engines). And...that's about it for anything you might want to use that actually requires or benefits from keyboards. All else can use a different instrument or any instrument.
Well perhaps i should have been clearer, when i said synthesizer, i mean more like artificial or computer generated, thats why i mentioned vocaloid and autotune specifically.
Autotune...? In Golarion?
Scanning the Cybertech implants available, I was hoping I could find you a robotic voice filter... but the only thing I could find remotely close is a Skillslot implant with a Skillchip for either Bluff or Perform.
Well, that was kind of bust, but while on the subject of implants, we might as well sell our soul to the devil to see what we can get... a Demon Tongue [implant] gives you a +4 profane bonus to Bluff.
While we are at it, we can see what our friendly, local Drow Alchemist can do... Fleshwarped might be able to get you Terrifying Croak as an ability, as it lists a toadlike, bloated neck as a possibility... one might even call this bloated neck a "throat pouch", not unlike that of a Boggard. Racial Heritage (Boggard) would probably be easier, and less severe, than the Fleshwarped template, though.
But, if one wanted to mess with such things as Terrifying Croak/Sonic Croak/Stunning Croak... then Phrenologist would be the Bard archetype to take a look at. The Phrenologist's Skull Sonata amplifies sonic damage by an additional amount equal to half the Bard's level. And Discordant Voice adds 1D6 sonic damage to allies affected by your Performances. The Vindictive Soliloquy Masterpiece goes pretty well with the Phrenologist archetype if you are in the camp that Masterpieces can be ran symultaneously with a Performance.
Not sure if any of that is what you are looking for, though. Another Fleshwarping option listed is a forked tongue. So we could have a forked, Demon Tongue. Hmm. There's a Vishkanya Bard archetype called Disciple of the Forked Tongue. And a Bard spell called Forked Tongue... following me so far?
Be a Vishkanya with the Deceptive and Sensual alternative racial features. Get yourself a Demon Tongue, possibly even a forked Demon Tongue if the Fleshwarped template is both allowed to be taken and also something you even want. I'm not all sure what is possible with it, honestly. There is a lot of Cybertech implants available to mitigate the drawbacks of the Fleshwarped template. Could end up being quite the abomination. Lol.
Since autotune makes my brain bleed, the Vishkanya Disciple of the Forked Tongue is relatively fitting. Discordant Spiral is pretty awesome, and you get extra Curse spells instead of Versatile Performance. Could be fun, but still doesn't quite seem like a match.
Maybe I can find something for Androids... Android Bard is going to be tough, though... probably going to need the Empathy feat, at least. Let me go see of I can find you a robot T-Pain Bard with a Darth Vader voicebox...