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  • Dammit, I make a dramatic exit and then learn about the new Meiko Dollfie. Of course I can't let that pass me by.

    MEIKO DOLLFIE. She costs about what I make in a month before expenses, and I could buy her software nearly four times with the amount she costs, but my GOD I love her.
    Hmm... I'm feeling a little more comfortable, so I'm probably gonna start reintegrating myself back into VVN, if that's okay. Sorry. I know it was probably nice and peaceful while I was gone, but I can't be shaken off that easily :clara_ani_lili:
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Like, I was extremely lucky to get Act1 for $50, because I think around $300 is a fair price for it, given how rare and coveted it is.
    But this is like... $2,000 too much. For a product that may or may not even be functional. God I love it. :clara_ani_lili:
    ikaroll
    ikaroll
    Sometimes you have to look inside yourself, and ask “how much am I willing to pay for rare, could-be-already-activated software?”

    but yeah, thats a ridiculous price. I feel like people don’t actually consider the worth of Vocaloid banks, most are sold at $70-$300.
    Jisenku
    Jisenku
    Why would anybody sell older software for this much?! ;~;
    Might go on hiatus again. Toxicity increasing. Need a break. Won’t be missed anyway, good timing. 😅 Just very tired. Very overworked. Very need a long nap from which I may or may not ever wake up, I don’t care at this point.
    Nnnnnn... my arm's been in pain all day, and I don't know what to do about it. I try my best to ignore it, lest I'm required to acknowledge that a rather expensive surgery only did me good for about a year, but I don't know how much longer I can just ignore it. Medicine doesn't touch it, so I'm gonna see if I can get a compression sleeve or something to pair with a wrist brace.
    Ronny777
    Ronny777
    If you had pain before your surgery it might just be phantom pain.
    Leon
    Leon
    OMG! Wow, I hope you feel any better soon! A wrist brace is a great idea, I use one pretty often (after the pain itself became manageable after wearing it during writing or whatever for a while, I started just wearing it overnight and then not so much during the day, for ease). Good luck :<
    SRMTHFG makes brilliant use of its score to set the tone and atmosphere of a scene, to a greater extent than most shows like it, and to a FAR greater extent than you'd expect from a show about robotic alien-fighting monkeys. In this essay I will
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    my gaydar goes off strong whenever i see him
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I also made this, my first official contribution to the fandom, but the show being as niche as it is I couldn't find any good transparent images, so I kinda had to improvise.

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    Ronny777
    Ronny777
    the only meme i could think of...
    To distract me from my anguish over RF1, might I ask for some opinions? I feel like this is missing a certain oomph. What would y'all recommend to improve?

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    Okay, so, like...

    I have a Saki AI collaboration in the works, but I’m not doing the sound design/mixing. The collaborator who is doing the mixing couldn’t quite get the vocals to sit well, so I suggested that he try the Andrew Scheps vocal trick. And it worked!

    I’ve never used it myself, but I was so impressed that I will be using it on my next two in-progress projects (both intended for Eleanor Forte AI).

    Anyways...

    It’s a parallel-processing technique, so you’ll have to split the vocal signal into two. Details can be found in this video:

    If you don’t have a Pultec-style EQ, Ignite Amps has a free one called PTEq-x. I strongly recommend enabling this plugin's 2x oversampling when rendering. (And if your vocal is mono, set the plugin to mono to save CPU cycles when realtime mixing.)

    The Ignite Amps website is currently very slow for some reason, but if you wait two or three (!) minutes, it eventually loads. Or maybe this direct download link might work:
    http://static.kvraudio.com/files/1546/ignite_amps_pteq-x_1_1_1_win.zip

    If you don’t have an LA-2A style compressor, I’m not sure what will work as a substitute, but I guess any opto-style compressor will do.

    Just a suggestion.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I appreciate this! I'll look into and experiment around with it for sure. I've been wanting to improve my mixing!

    For now though, I was mostly wanting to focus on the tuning. I can't get to the mixing until I have the finalized vocals, and that's what I'm trying to clear up right now.

    EDIT: Ooh, I messed around a bit in FL with what I have, and I can definitely hear a difference! Thank you!
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    Don't thank me, thank Andrew Scheps!
    Playing the first Rune Factory again finally, and I think I'm going to be a LOT more gentle on Baby Peaches for never getting past the first cave. Adult Peaches who reached 100% completion in RF4 is barely able to get past the first floor of the first cave without getting killed and having to start over from my last save (I'm SO glad they changed how that works in future titles), and since there's only a handful of places to forage and watering plants takes up all of your RP before you even get off of your farm, the only real way to get money to get decent supplies is to spend all day fishing... but if you have crops, you've barely got enough RP left to fish... and by the time you're all out of HP and RP, it's noon, and the bathhouse doesn't open until 3, and then you can only use it once a day...

    And using non-magic weapons still consumes your RP! But if you wanna go deeper into the caves and plant crops to create rune factories, you have to fight off a few enemies, which also drains your RP, which means you might not have enough to sustain your factories!

    God, this game's such a clusterfuck. I'm determined to beat it out of little more than spite at this point, at which point I'm going to play RF4 again and bask in its Actually Fair and Worth the Heartache glory.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    God, the voice acting... I remember finding it a bit stilted as a child, but it's just awful. I wish there was a mod that let you hear the Japanese audio instead, because I'm sure it'd be easier on the ears than this.

    hhhhhhhh Raguna I'm doing this for you and you alone
    My first day off in ten days, and I wake up at 5:30 PM.

    Gotta really squeeze what I can outta Worthless Peaches Month!
    Twillby
    Twillby
    You deserve rest :akasakiminato_lili: I would sleep until 5:30 PM on every day off if I had your job probably (if I survived the first/second day XP)
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Thank you guys! I feel bad, but still, I feel rested.
    cafenurse
    cafenurse
    on my days off i sleep for a solid 12-15 hours lmao. '^_^ sleep is fun
    Laufen singing SoS:FoMT's Japanese theme while cosplaying as Hatsune Miku is my new favorite thing. A perfect convergence of my two favorite things!

    My goal to get this fic done and out by the 28th is kaput. I'm not even done with the smut portion of it. If I'm lucky and diligent I can have a cover out by then, but otherwise...

    Hhhh. This has been a month of low production. Worthless Peach Month. I'll do better in March.
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    Twillby
    Twillby
    Productivity does not equal worth! (It better not for my own sake too) Be kind to yourself please. :akasakiminato_lili: (Though I'm one to talk since I struggle with it myself. Yeahhh I'm unfortunately one of those "Do as I say not as I do" types, though I'm trying to get better at doing it myself at least :clara_ani_lili: )
    Ronny777
    Ronny777
    Don't put too much stress on yourself. You are definitely not worthless even though you weren't as productive as had planned to be. The way I see it, taking more time on your projects might give you the opportunity to make them even better. It's not always good to rush creativity. Having deadlines might help get motivated but it should't get to the point of being detrimental to your self-esteem. Anyway I hope you find the inspiration you need to get your fic Finished!
    I’m always a little baffled by people finding the lack of job plugins to be a dealbreaker for V5, and I was even back when I was on board with the V5 hate. A small palmful of niche Vocaloids had plugins that could help maximize their potential, and that’s understandable. But aside from that, there’s really nothing that could be done through job plugins that 1.) V5 doesn’t do just as well or better or 2.) doesn’t sound and perform better in a designated DAW anyway.

    And that was Hot Takes with Peaches! We’ll return to our regularly scheduled sadshitposting momentarily.
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    Anyways ppl be forgetting you can use V5 as VST u can literally use those plug-ins in DAW
    ruffe
    ruffe
    The only plugin I can actually recall is the "kero-pitch" one, purely for its absurdity lolol. As you said, V5 can do all the things they did, but better and more seamlessly!

    And tbh, I don't think they're noticeable or even add anything to the vocals in the final mix unless they actually state they used them.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    tbh the only plugin i used was due to my abundance of english covers using japanese loids, which quickly converted all english phonemes to japanese phonemes- even then i do major editting to everything after it does the job... and i could certainly live without it if i had to. and even then, all i do it hop into V4 to convert it and then immediately do to V5 after just cuz i do almost everything in V5 now! its nice having plug ins i guess, but realizing how little i even used then over time makes it obvious it is not a huge deal they gone in V5.
    It's been over half a year and I'm still not over my childhood favorite becoming canonically bisexual y'all I still cry



    Pete you deserve all the happiness in the world
    Day 7 without a break, time to cry to the BokuMono 3 GBC intro


    (I don't even know why I'm feeling so nostalgic over this. I didn't play this one until I was in high school. And it wasn't even particularly good; definitely among the weakest in the series. But damn am I feeling nostalgic.)
    Configuring Neru and Haku unironically? in 2021? It's more likely than you think.
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    And sounding amazing? Actually very likely cuz its my talented girl doing it~
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Mataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    It's still an EQing nightmare, but I'm getting closer to that stable sound I'm looking for! I guess that'd be easier if I was using power banks for their base, but alas...
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