I think I've always done a spacey sound.
Let's talk about some of my music!
New Releases
Soundfont covers and UTAU song
On the 8th of December 2022, I released my most popular video: Komm, süßer Tod - Pokemon Diamond Soundfont
I had seen these Soundfont Videos before and I was fond of them, Pokemon Pearl was the first Pokemon game I played, and the soundtrack can definitely invoke nostalgia
I never expected the video to blow up so much, I made something people really liked, and, after I was already impressed with getting 10k Views, the algorithm seemed to have boosted the video too, and as it stands of today, the video had gotten almost 153k views in total.
It was definitely motivating to see! I was a bit astonished at first, in my opinion I could have made it a lot better, the BPM weren't even correct! But nobody seemed to mind and it worked, with Gen 4 being infamously slow.
I continued on making these Soundfont videos on songs I liked, one time I put up an attempt of me using the Soraboy Gameboy VST. I was already releasing music at that time (see the Vintage section), and the Channel was just my creative outlet to try stuff.
I'm not a 100% sure how I came to make UTAU, I heard of Miku before, I think it then came to be because I saw Cubialpha's Heavenly Star Cover. I was impressed how good this virtual voice sounded, and wanted to give it a try on me own; it was quite rough in the beginning, especially using original japanese UTAU, which I didn't understand at all at first.
My memory lacks on this too, I think I quit after being demotivated and not understanding UTAU, but then I saw and realised that OpenUTAU existed, which was just so easy to understand and work with. Granted, it took some time to find out and learn about tuning, resamplers and other subtleties of the software, but my creations definitely came into their own after using it for a while.
I have to thank Bex/Cubialpha here again for always being helpful when I had specific questions and when she pointed me into the right directions.
I always found the idea of my own voicebank cool, but very daunting. Seeing this big process, how many lines I had to record for English VCCV, and OTOing, which I didn't even fully understand how it should work, turned me away from making my own bank. I got stuck at the very beginning, learning all the different pronounciations, as English is not my native language.
But, somehow, I found back to it. Perhaps it was fate.
I found the 'Minimum CV' reclist by Salem Wasteland, which seemed VERY doable which 102 strings to record and doing 102 OTOs.
CV stands for Consonant Vowel, you would record all combinations of a consonant and a vowel, and the vowels (a,e,i,o,u,n), and you could synthesize Japanese, which is very cool.
My word of advice here. I love Linux, but I did all my voicebank stuff on my dualbooted Windows. Somethings are just not worth the hassle, and on my virtual machine I had some weird lags with audio.
I think I actually recorded the bank over 2-3 days, whenever I had a quite time. I went back to it some times to reOTO it and to correctly pronounce the Rs, but that was it. It was a first try, and it absolutely worked.
One more note on OTOing: You will get an intuitive feeling for it after a time, the first times were terrible too. I read through a lot of guides, having hotkeys to play the different parts of the sound is also very helpful, I wrote myself an AutoHotkey script for it so I wouldnt have to press difficult combinations in setparam.
One source I used: UTAU.US/CV
I had a lot of fun with making my own covers at that point. I learned a lot from making my own UTAU, like mixing and editing, creating videos, subtitles, ... It also made my realise that I actually quite like my voice.
I also learned how to read basic hiragana so I could better orient myself in the UTAU files. I aliased all sounds in my bank to Romaji too, just in case I forget something ;)
And now, soon, my original UTAU song will release!
Information on my UTAU have been written too, so I could insert it into VocaDB, which I apparently I got added on, something I found quite cool :D
You can find it here.
Instrumentals
Late 2024, I got back into making songs. I tried out a new distributor, and released my album Between Universes
It's space themed, again. I've also tried my hand at doing something synthwave like, and the result is stunning (e.g. ジャマス/Jamasu)
As an artistic choice, I tried to name the songs in four different languages (wouldn't be "between universes" if it had just been English /hj)
I hope you enjoy listening to these tracks as much as I do c:
Vintage Tracks
My old Spotify contains, well, my old work.There are definitely some very nice songs on there; I always imagined as sort of video game OSTs, as all songs are instrumentals.
You can gradually see how my albums became better over time, I think Rezert has some of the oldest songs, I did not even know what an EQ was for some of these songs/didn't really do mixing. Simpler times 😆
I think my best work on there is "Unreal Night", featuring a combination of one half being fast paced tracks, and the other half being more calming, showing a certain range I could do. I'm very fond of Corrugation, hence it is the first track, as I thought of it as the best.