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  • I'm wiping everything and starting back into UTAU with a clean slate! Hopefully I can remain organized this time so I can actually get the hang of it without getting so confused.
    Now that I've figured out how to work with automation in Waveform, I'm loving it! It's much less tough on my computer than Studio One, plus it supports third-party plugins. The learning curve is way steeper, but I think it's more rewarding as a result. I'm aiming to finish this cover entirely in Waveform now!

    Now to find a good EQ plugin...
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    At the risk of sounding like an annoying broken record, TDR Nova and TDR SlickEQ are both awesome free EQs. The first offers transparent EQ, including surgical cuts and dynamic EQ. And the second offers sublte shaping and colouration. They're pretty much the best free EQs out there.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Ooh, thank you so much!!
    Well, VVJapan said they can't get in contact with the guy who sold me ACT1 no matter how hard they try. So! Looks like I'm stuck with a box and a software I can't even use.

    Fair enough. At least I've got the box. Plus it comes with all of the manuals and instruction booklets, all of which are in mint condition! So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
    I dug through my Facebook and found it: the very first song I ever made in Vocaloid! This is from January 2018. Bonus points to whoever knows the song.
    Well, we've got our first confirmed case of COVID here in my town. A cashier at JCPenny's. Not ten minutes after finding that out, my mother upheld the Sacred Monday Evening Ritual of bitching at me for not having a job and being a freeloader who wastes every last penny on useless skincare. So COVID be damned, I've now put in five more applications.

    On the bright side, the few places that are still open are desperate for more hands, so maybe I can actually find employment now.
    I abandoned the internet in order to binge HoLV. What have I missed?
    uncreepy
    uncreepy
    Pretty much nothing. Vocal synth community has been very quiet. Everyone's just waiting and gaming. How was HoLV?
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    HoLV's been good! I'm on Winter 11, Year 1. I'm just about burned out on it so I'm gonna give it a break for a while.
    Another slow night/early morning. Perfect time for a confession!

    I wrote songs all the time when I was younger, but they were awful because I can't make cohesive melodies or lyrics that make any semblance of sense. So once I hit ten or so, I finally realized that my talents just didn't lie in songmaking and never tried making a song from scratch again.

    Except in late 2017.

    I was taking a semester off after moving home, and in the ample free time I had, I'd been kicking around fulfilling Smol Peaches' dream of getting into Vocaloid. I woke up one morning with a melody in my head that I couldn't stop repeating, so I packed up, hiked to McDonald's in 20 degree (Fahrenheit) weather, found something called Online Sequencer (because I had no idea what a DAW was at the time and that was the first thing that came up when I Googled "online music maker), and spent the next week cranking out this.



    I called it "Waltz of Indifference," and while making it, I crafted a story around it. Basically, the song centers around a serial heartbreaker and the newest object of his affections, who realizes that they (another man, in my mind, but I left it open to interpretation in the lyrics themselves) are about to be seduced and dropped; rather than resist or futilely chase after him, the seducee allows themselves to be swept off their feet, but they vow to make sure the heartbreaker doesn't leave the affair unscathed. In the end, they're both deeply hurt, but the seducee feels a hollow sense of victory at having finally broken the heartbreaker's heart.

    I never did finish the lyrics... I think I got the first verse and chorus done, but like I said, I'm not a lyricist. Five months after finishing it, I got Oliver, and I tried making him sing it, but it went waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of his vocal range (come to think of it, I'm not sure who COULD sing the chorus... it FLIES.) so I quietly shelved it and forgot about it.

    Either yesterday or the day before, @patuk and I were discussing original songs, and I remembered it existed again. I was able to find my Online Sequencer account, and mercifully, the song was still saved.

    I'd like to finish it someday, but truthfully that probably won't happen. Anyway, the instrumental is awfully choppy and grating, since it was made in a fairly primitive desktop piano roll.
    Aaron Blaise's Fundamentals of Animation is being offered for free for the next few days, and much of his other stuff is heavily discounted! I'm not really sure just how big of a deal that is, but there was a post about it on Tumblr so I figured I'd link it here for my artist friends!
    So mixing Yuki is absolute hell and she wouldn't cut through any of the instrumentals I tried with her, BUT she sounded great with a couple of my VSQxs, so I figured I'd at least post the vocal results of this one!
    I've been spending like half an hour a day online and then the rest of that time, I'm playing BokuMono. So much for quarantine productivity, heh.

    But thankfully, we managed to get out of the house for a bit today! There's a few restaurants still open in our town, so we went and had pizza. I haven't really been outside since Sunday, so that was nice.
    TheStarPalace
    TheStarPalace
    That sounds nice! I wish we could still go out....i havent been very productive either I just keep playing phone games haha
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Hey, gotta kill the time somehow. It's all valid!
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    I went shopping at a local mall with my boyfriend today, and some stores like Build A Bear and the Disney Store were closed as precautions. I'm hoping to do something local in the countryside this weekend as well, assuming Britain doesn't go into complete lockdown and the weather doesn't suck.
    THIS IS THE HAPPIEST FUCKING DAY OF MY LIFE

    THEY EVEN SHOWCASED THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE XSEED I KNEW YOU'D COME THROUGH IN THE END

    The only thing I'm not a fan of is the text font, though I imagine I'll get used to it pretty quickly. Just four more months!! 😭
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Honestly, I love how they remastered the soundtrack; it sounds a lot like the BTN soundtrack (which in turn was remastered for the original (M)FoMT), but bouncier. I still get where you're coming from though! (The new eating sound effect creeps me out though... it just sounds so weird.) They made a lot of changes, but I think it captures the spirit of the original perfectly.

    (Also, I literally just noticed the song playing in the trailer is the theme from HM:DS. Wrong game, Marvelous. :LOL: )
    Mika
    Mika
    I'm really bothered by the new autumn theme, it sounds.. I don't know, too much??? And the regular town theme was so cute and happy and bouncy and now I can barely hear the melody in the new version. I feel like they just made the melodys super silent now and the background stuff of the instrumentals way louder so it just sounds.. off??? But the music is still cute!
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Yeah, I can agree on that: I like the remastered town theme (it's more relaxed and carefree, but still nice and bubbly), but I don't think they did the Autumn track much justice. It's mostly the synth they chose to use for the chords; it's a little grating. Still, since Van's gonna be returning, we might be able to buy records, and if that works in this game like it did in the original you might be able to get the original game's soundtrack, bit by bit!
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    I already had the UST and it mentions apples, so I figured it'd be perfect for trying out with Yuki. I don't think she fits the song particularly well, though, so I'll try something else.
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    I actually think this sounds cute! And I said that her engine noise would get lost in the music! Did you also do anything in editor to hide it?
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Not in the editor, no. Once I mixed the audio file into the instrumental it went pretty smoothly!
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    Look at her! Look at her big smile! Look at her radiant happiness! My sweet, sweet child!
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    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I can't afford her but I found a perfect song to cover with her, so I went ahead and downloaded her trial. Honestly, this smile alone's selling me.
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    I was thinking the exact same thing when installing her trial tgyhu shes so precious.
    Quick! If you were to want a cover of LeleleP's Discotheque Love, who would you want to hear sing it most?
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I was actually thinking Gumi!! I don't know how Nemu would handle it, and if I try building a partial VSQ to test it out I'll never get that Luka cover done, so they're both being considered for the time being.
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    You can try out someone elses vsq for a test before making your own!
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Sadly one doesn't exist. Someone documented their efforts in making a UST, but as there was only one update, and it was a year, two months, and nine days ago, I'd say I don't have that option. 😅 Still, once I make some good progress on this cover, I'll at least do some testing!
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    I keep forgetting how badly I want Yuki until she goes on sale. Legit, whenever she's normal price I'm like "Eh." but when she's on sale it turns into this burning desire to add her to my collection.

    That said, considering I keep forgetting I actually want her, she's still pretty low-priority, heh.
    Some asshole bought twelve pallets of toilet paper and is selling it on Facebook Marketplace for $25 A ROLL. Oh, capitalism~

    Actually, I've been collecting and hoarding soap for years now. Once I go back to my mom's I'm gonna advertise my hoard on Marketplace and offer bars for free. Try to balance the scales of human decency a bit.
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