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Above is my final vocal synth song. The lyrics were originally going to be written by someone else, but in the end I wound up writing them myself. I hate writing lyrics, and the process took about ten days of struggle. Lyric writing isn't something I want to be doing. And I'm also tired of...

Look at that video thumbnail. It's gorgeous! Or maybe not... I had fun using the Dall-E AI image generator to make the "paintings" for this video. Their inherent goofiness fits the song. My original intention was to use far more paintings, but Dall-E wore my patience a little thin. In other...

The above was the result of me discovering that someone had uploaded individual tracks of Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" to YouTube. There's obviously some Summer/Bellotte influence, but some Moroder snuck in because I was listening to Summer/Moroder songs at the time, which is how I discovered the...

The above video features the first ever Minecraft song that I began writing, with efforts commencing sometime around January 2020. Progress went through a lot of stops and starts until I finally finished the music in 2021. The video was completed some months ago, but I delayed releasing it...

The above song was completed back in October of 2021 in anticipation of Eleanor Forte AI. However, upon Eleanor Forte AI's release it was immediately apparent that her voice was unsuitable. So instead I waited for Solaria, and here is the final product. To be honest, I don't like the music—the...

This is it, my first Eleanor Forte AI song. It's Minecraft-themed because I wanted to write my own lyrics, and I'm not a poetic person. Minecraft gives me something story-like to write about, which means prose rather than poetry; and it gives me visuals for video making. (Although I'd prefer to...

This is my first public vocal-synth track release since I swapped out all of my non-linear plugins for a fresh collection of different non-linear plugins that support oversampling.* The results are quite pleasing to my ears, with everything sounding much more clear and defined than previous...

The problem: Static Cabinet Impulse Responses In the not-too-distant past, anyone wanting to create a realistic electric guitar tone inside their DAW would use an amplifier simulator plugin (amp sim) combined with a cabinet impulse response loader (IR loader). Fortunately, most modern amp sims...

This is another triple collaboration that was started way back in August of 2020. (Progress was hindered by school.) If I remember correctly, I wrote seven possible melodies for the A theme and had りくりくり and Evan vote on their top three. I then gave each of their choices points based upon...

Background: I normally export from SynthV using a 24-bit sample depth and a 44.1 kHz sample rate. There are two reasons for this. First, it’s good practice to work with 24-bit source files, even when the final mix will be 16-bit. Second, I’m interested in uploading to YouTube, which uses a 44.1...

Here’s my latest collaboration, and my first to use Saki AI: As per usual, りくりくり created the (rather lengthy) lyrics. Importantly, they were written first, and I had to add music to what was provided. This proved challenging because there is a near total absence of a regular syllabic meter...

This time it's a triple collaboration. As per usual, the lyrics are by りくりくり. Arrangement, synth design, and mixing were done by Evan. And the music, vocal tuning, and video were done by myself. There is a second triple collaboration in the works, but instead of 90s trance it will sound more...

Yet another SynthV song. This time the lyrics were written first, with the music being made to fit. I think I did a decent job of writing a melody that complements the words. Unfortunately the overall arrangement is kinda boring. However, if you're suffering from insomnia, this just might be...

The lyrics for this song come from a four-stanza poem written by George MacDonald. My original plan was to the "A" music for stanzas one and four, and then use the "B music for two and three. However, after hearing it this way I felt that the "A" music needed to be heard twice before moving to...

There’s definitely a lot to say about this track. Work began many months ago, but that was put on a lengthy hiatus due to school. When I finally managed to finish the song, I had to wait a few extra weeks for the lyrics because りくりくりhad become busy with work. In the end, however, things turned...

Ignite Amps was founded in 2006 by Frederico Berti and Carlo Costabile, two Italian metalheads who design and build custom guitar amplifiers and pedals. Costabile is responsible for building the physical products while Berti is responsible for coding the mathematically-modelled prototype...

The four videos featured below were part of a failed Summer 2019 project. My plan was to form a small team of people and create children's songs, but in the end only four songs were completed. I couldn't get a lyricist or a video maker to contribute because nobody liked my music, so everything...

Words and music for White Dwarf were made by rikurikuri. He's entirely self-taught and is still very much in a learning phase. This gives his music a certain uniqueness that you might find interesting. For the record, this is the fellow who kindly writes all the lyrics for my SynthV efforts...

Lyrics by りくりくり and music/video by me. The above song is my latest attempt at shoehorning 18th/19th common practice techniques into a metal context. Improvements were achieved by using the high-gain guitars as monophonic instruments. In other words, no chord playing here! Now that I've...

Another month and another collaboration with りくりくり. Once again the music was written first and the lyrics written second. りくりくり claims that writing lyrics after-the-fact is not his area of expertise, however, I think he did a fantastic job for this project. This time the music is pop punk meets...