#cynicalisynth

openutau cover of -ERROR by niki with J-Deer by @pocket-deer-tunes

this one was interesting; i've only used CVVC vbs so far, and this one is CV, so i needed some new techniques to try and blend sounds more naturally. i think i did an okay job!

didn't notice some weird spots until i already had it ~95% done in the DAW, so i have decided to just leave them in there instead of redoing the splits--i think doing more of these rather than doing really super perfectly tuned ones is probably better in the long run.

OpenUTAU cover of Ghost Rule by DECO*27 with Mine Laru!

Modified UST from EJ Aster, tuning and mixing by me. Using the 14音階連続音 "14-scales VCV" Mine Laru bank.

I'm experiencing very mixed emotions right now.

I'm super proud of this cover, I think it turned out really good--I tried really hard on the mixing this time. There isn't really anything I'm actively unhappy with about this cover, which isn't true for anything I've done previously. Maybe the pre-chorus lines could use a little more work on the mixing but aside from that.

However, I am seething at the existence of copyright. I cannot upload this to SoundCloud. It is taken down in less than a minute no matter what I do. I could work around this by pitching it up/down, adjusting the BPM, etc, but are you fucking kidding me?

The fun thing I have learned in the last couple hours is that covers are not actually covered under fair use, so technically using any backing track that isn't created by you is copyright infringement unless you have explicit rights! Isn't that very cool??? It's in the fun area where technically any music publisher could come after you at any time. They usually don't, but they could.

OpenUTAU cover of Carnival / カーニバル by otetsu using Pruno Faustino

I worked really hard on this one, I learned a lot about tuning and also about using FL Studio afterwards to EQ vocals.

I was originally going to use Mine Laru but then I saw Pruno's key art and... like come on, there was NO way I wasn't going to use him.

The reverb is a little too high but I already posted it and I'm not paying soundcloud to replace the file so it's just like that--something to look out for in the future! I still think it's totally listenable.

Song of the Ancients (Atonement) from NieR:Automata.

Finished my first UTAU cover! I used the OpenUTAU Teto vb, I had a lot fun working on it! Everything done by me except for the instrumental.

I did this as an experiment to see how I liked doing vocal synth stuff, and I'm going to keep doing covers--this could be a really fun hobby for me.

I didn't go super hard on tuning here since it's not even in Japanese so getting good pronunciation was going to be hard no matter what I did. I will be trying a little harder on more typical songs.

Sorry it's a little loud, I'll have to figure out how to adjust the volume to be more normalized(?, unclear what the correct term would be here).