Remix Circus Monster Gibberish-JPN feat. Stardust & Cangqiong
1Let's address the elephant in the room first:
Yepp, this remix here got Gibberish-Japanese lyrics instead of the original's English text or the proper(?) JPN translation.
-》That's because both Stardust / Xingchen from Vocaloid and her Medium⁵-sister Cangqiong from Synthesizer V are Chinese voicebanks; and we all know how generally inconvenient other languages are for these characters. x'3c (Albeit I joyfully recognized more vocal flexibility when it comes to SynthV-songsters.)
But speaking about the sister-cue:
WHY did nobody tell me, that one of my favorite Vocaloid-girls got a family?! x.X" Not to forget, that mentioned software exists, to begin with?
After listening to a few songs on YouTube as well as Bilibili, I swear these new characters were recorded plus function on a different level; it's sometimes practically impossible to tell if they're artificial or real people. I especially love MEDIUM⁵ a ka Xingchen and her sisters.
Seriously, I request everybody who reads this comment here to check out Cangqiong's Demo Song "Ripples"; it's so-to-speak the track-in-charge for my enlightenment. Also, big recommendation when it comes to Chiyu's Demo “The Wings of Phoenix".
Uh, back to my remix, I couldn't resist to come back to one of my favorite Vocaloid-songs. :cough: Earworm. :cough: Plus, it's so long ago that I tinkered something with this melody, that resisting yon specific urge was eventually impossible.
-》The only qualm I personally have with the track is its pacing; singing along at normal speed HURTS the humane throat. The composer had obviously only voicebanks in mind when setting the 'breaks'.
In case anybody finds the lines of my cover-art unusual for both my digital as well as traditional ways to draw them:
I used for the first time an app (Autodesk Sketchbook) on my phone to create a sketch / lineart. It's also the premiere of my new stylus (Dimples Excel) getting something to do which I dare to show the Internet.
-》With my shaky hands, it was quite a hassle to do the more-or-less clean lines; an auto-correction would seemingly be necessary for me to jump fully into this territory. Apart from that, it was a nice variation to my standard-methods (either drawing solely with the computer-mouse or having a lot to clean when scanning traditional lines).
Details:
-Midi used as a remix-base found on: http://kiko.fuyu.gs/micandonburi/e.html
-VSQX used for my Gibberish-JPN file was made by: Stdokuro
-Download of my Midi- & VSQX-Edit including the earlier mentioned bases: https://www.mediafire.com/file/kyskt5mvnr7r35a/Circus+Monster+Remix+Files.zip/file
-Vocaloid Voicebank: Stardust / Xingchen
-Synthesizer V Voicebank: Cangqiong
-VST:
-Soundfont by Bauerklos (Bandoneon ; Piano 2 ; Slow Strings ; Strings ; English Horn ; Piano 1 ; Flute ; Glockenspiel ; Slap Bass 1 ; Standard 1 ; Choir Aahs ; Brass 1)
-Touhou Soundfont Bank ( Bandoneon ; Bright Yamaha Grand ; Slow Strings ; Strings Orchest ; English Horn ; Grand Piano ; Flute ; Glockenspiel ; Slap Bass 2 ; Standard 1 ; Ahh Choir ; Brass)
-Edirol Orchestral (Orchestral Ensemble)
-Magnus Choir (Big Choral - Women's Choir and Men's Choir)