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  • Happiness is getting your girlfriend into your favorite extreme cinema film and then listening to her tearing the absolute living shit out of its mainstream remake.
    My special blend worked perfectly, and I awoke to my cats knocking over all of my synth boxes, my medication bottles, and all of my books to protest the fact that I still wasn’t out of bed. Ah, the life.

    I rediscovered a piece I’d started on but quickly gave up on, and I'd like to try getting more of it done! It’s a super pretty song with a super bad choice of vocal, so I’m giving it some Meiko Dark love.
    Ah, this is one of those double dose of NyQuil and a shot of vodka kinda nights. If I’m gonna recover from this week, I’m gonna start by knocking myself out into a pure, clean slate, and when I awaken I’ll do so with a renewed sense of anticipation and optimism.

    Or I’ll be hungover all morning because I can’t hold my alcohol. Either way, I won’t be at work, so win-win.
    In light of the Fee controversy, I've called myself out on my hypocritical support of ATDan, even though he's damn-near the sole source of Medium5's problematic content. I've got three Haiyi posters and a 7ft long banner with all 5 girls illustrated by them, and they're going in the trash!

    But now I need something to take their place, so if y'all could spam me with your favorite vocalsynth art 👉👈
    In lighter news: remember how I mentioned finding Miku NT's niche? I think it's trance! Doing hardcore work is difficult because NT crashes so much, but I enjoy using her otherwise.

    I kind of regret buying Maki's talk banks now. Not because they're bad or I don't enjoy using them; on the contrary, I love them, and even in their clunky-ass editor they're both so much fun to use! But I can't stand the thought of supporting the team behind CeVIO after Fee. The situation surrounding Kafu makes me extremely uncomfortable, but since it's all subtext, I can attribute it to Kaf/Kafu's team alone. But for Techno-Speech to see a character whose project page lays out, in no uncertain terms, that 1.) she's underage and 2.) she's there to fulfill your sexual fantasies, and let's throw in some nude references, and say "Yes, this is something we want on our engine! We support this!"... it's revolting.

    Hmm. Where do I go from here? I can't get a refund and there's no takesies-backsies, so I should just enjoy Maki's banks while refusing to support CeVIO's further endeavors, but at the same time, I feel horrible. I don't like it. And I'm ready for CeVIO AI to die if this is the content they're going to have and support.
    Scarlet Illusion
    Scarlet Illusion
    Ugh--I can only imagine... I guess give it a little time and if it continues to bother you, you could always sell them second-hand or give them away!
    Also, yeah. I kinda despise CeVIO now as well--I wanted Maki's talk banks, but now?? Yeah. I think I'll pass, unfortunately.
    Rylitah
    Rylitah
    I'm in the same boat, but with a different company orz. I've loved Zunko and her sisters since before her company's gross encouragement of a certain demographic was well known, and have owned them for quite a while. I was :/ when I found out they supported what their fans were doing, but at the very least I still wanted to make wholesome content with them (since at the time I didn't know of anything official they actually did with the characters) and just ignore everything else.

    Then SSS got into NFTs, and yeah.... it feels bad just thinking about using any of them now. I don't want to give them a single dollar more than I have (which is why I skipped the Tohoku plushes despite buying every single one before them), but at the same time, it's like... I've already spent hundreds on these products. Am I supposed to just not use them anymore?

    So yeah, it's a really tough situation to be in. I don't even know what to do about it still, but know that you aren't the only one who's really conflicted about something like this orz
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    I'll probably keep following CeVIO news since specific Vocaloid news has gone completely dead for the most part, but I do now see it negatively compared to say, SynthV. (And even then, the Medium5 girls on SynthV have their own issues, though it's more to do with their company rather than the program itself.)
    While stalking Akari's ship status, I saw and remembered that, sometime last month, I won an auction for an in-depth Japanese guide to the first BM game. Storage time remaining: 3 days.

    The good news: Akari shipped about 36 hours ago, meaning she should be at the warehouse within the next few days. Let's hope Akari gets there within the next three days so I can consolidate them, because I do NOT wanna give that treasure up!
    Mmmmmmmmm... if I ever wanna combat my overspending and hoarding, I've gotta critically analyze whether things I wanna drop money on are worth it.

    Senjutsu Deluxe Boxset. $125. What exactly do I want from it that I can't get in the standard release? The concept art booklet for the Writing on the Wall video and the fancy box it comes in. The rest of the stuff? I'll look at it and be in awe for a few minutes and then it'll go right back in that fancy box.

    Mmmmmm... the concept art booklet will be uploaded inevitably, and for $100 less I still get the CD with a beautiful booklet and cover art. And with that extra $100, I can get a haircut, a pedicure, and with any luck, that VB on Mercari that I've been eyeing that I'm praying no one snatches up before my paycheck hits tomorrow.

    Or I could save it, but why would I do something logical like that? :clara_ani_lili:
    Every time, without fail, no matter how hard I try.

    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    On the topic of Hajimete no Oto, please watch this amazing usage of Miku in which she sings in Tagalog!

    sketchesofpayne
    sketchesofpayne
    Good lord. The Magical Mirai 2017 performance absolutely breaks me every single time. I didn't really think too hard about "Hajimete no Oto" in the past. I heard it almost 14 years ago now. It was just one of the songs that was always there in the background that I'd listen to every so often. But it has taken on so much more meaning as time has passed! I think it's the crowd singing along with the song that really gets to me.

    If you met me in real life, I'm a stolid, inscrutable, and polite person who wouldn't be caught dead displaying intense emotions, let alone crying, in public. I doubt anyone could even imagine me at home alone with my headphones on, in tears, wiping my eyes, and blowing my nose because of a pretty song sung by a digital girl.
    Is this literally just the same song and video Iron Maiden released last month with sound effects added in? Yes.

    Have I watched this three times already? Also yes.

    Am I prioritizing pre-ordering the Super Deluxe Boxset of Senjutsu the minute my paycheck hits my account? Hell yes.

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    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Have I lost count of how many times I watched the original? Yes.

    Did I still yell "EDDIE!" loud enough to startle my cats at 4:06? Oh fuck yes.
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    Alright, I LOVE Sasara AI's tone, but the main thing stopping me from buying her... I just... I hate the way CeVIO AI renders pitch. The pitch edit function seems to be nothing more than a glorified Vocalshifter, with the quality and output that entails. It's like nothing can fix it, and it's bad enough to outright ruin a truly good vocal for me.

    Man, THIS is what they kept us waiting on for so many years? At least Piapro NT has the excuse of being openly rushed. And at least you can make Miku sound sober in Piapro NT.
    Broke: Having a romantic dinner date with your GF

    Woke: Discussing how a theoretic human centipede would work with ponies and in what order they would be on a date with your GF
    My take on my lovely girlfriend's new tierpost!

    Just as I start to rediscover my drive and energy to work on covers, my store manager schedules me for beyond what I'm technically legally allowed to work in honor of school starting up next week and all the business we'll be receiving as a result. Fun times ahead~

    Nonetheless, I've gotten a good start on that Miku NT cover! It wigs me out because it doesn't sound great in-editor, but properly mixed it's almost perfect. I've found a good flow for the editor, which is hindered only by the fact that it crashes randomly (as in, I've yet to figure out what actually triggers the crashing) and the fact that, even if I cut a track up into sections for faster loading times, it "heals" itself in short order and turns the sections into one giant track again.

    Crypton stan/apologist though I am, yeeeeah, they really shoulda held off on releasing NT until all this shit was sorted out.
    mobius017
    mobius017
    Ugh, sucks about the work scheduling. :mad: But I'm glad your cover's going well! Ngl, I think it would've been much better if they'd held off on releasing NT also, and/or handled release differently (i.e., actually recruit early adopters as beta testers and basically acknowledge them as such--I'm sure there would've been a long line of people thrilled to do it). But that's a long, long discussion full of stuff I don't know and what-ifs, not least of which is COVID, so...:miku2_move:.
    Honestly? I've got my gripes with Piapro NT, but I like the Consonant Rate parameter a looooooot better than Vocaloid's Velocity parameter. I feel like it's more... I dunno, responsive to fine-tuning? I suppose having the wavelengths there to show you exactly what it's doing helps in taking the guesswork out, but the parameter itself just feels a little more precise.

    It also does WONDERS for fixing Miku NT's choppiness. Just a little fiddling around with Consonant Rate and she's nice and smooth~
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