I once again participated in a compilation sponsored by Yudachi P, who I had helped with the previous compilation ``Shukumu Branchout.''
that name as well……
Doomsday Travelers
I should have written a promotion article at the time when I was exhibiting at M3 and Niconico Chokaigi in the spring of 2024, but well, he died from Corona...
Recently BOOTH and Bandcamp has also started mail order sales, so we are advertising it here.
On Bandcamp, you can listen to and purchase each track individually, so you only want the songs you like! If you are interested, please check it out.
The CD version costs 1000 yen, and the DL version costs 500 yen.
The album is about 50/50 vocals and 50/50 instrumental (musical instruments only), and the genres are also different, making it a chaotic album in a good way, with a lot of variety just like the previous album.
I'm participating in the 6th song, "Requiem for the Dead World."
I'd like you to actually listen to the song to find out what kind of song it is, but it's very dark just like the previous compilation song lol
The vocalist is Yukari from CeVIO, the same as last time.
Somehow, I feel like her singing voice has a high affinity with dark songs.
Recently, the 2.0 version of Song Voice was released, and I don't think there is much need for additional tuning even when singing firmly, or rather, I think that the singing has become smoother and more human-like.
The accompaniment last time was almost futuristic with only synths, but this time it's only a pipe organ.
This was my first attempt at a song with a sing-along style that focuses on just one instrument, and it is safe to say that the attempt was a success.
The reason for this is that I naturally fell in love with the finished song.
I think whether or not I, the primary listener, want to listen to the song is one indicator of the completeness of the song.
Regarding the Shuumen compilation, they are releasing a brand called Shuuen Records and seem to be planning to release albums regularly in the future, so I think I will also be participating.
looking forward to.
MMD is an abbreviation for "MikuMikuDance," a character distributed countless times on the internet. It's a great tool that allows you to easily create dance videos.
So, primary creation freaks like me would like to create and move original character models, but creating a 3D model from scratch is quite difficult.
That's where VROID comes into play.
VROID is a wonderful tool that allows you to create original characters as easily as creating characters in online games.
The developer seems to be PIXIV, which is famous for its drawing submission site.
So, how do we introduce the model we created here into MMD? First, we will export it in a file format called VRM.
Since MMD does not support VRM files, you need to convert it to a file format called PMX that can be used with MMD.
There is another wonderful tool developed by a volunteer called VRM2PmxConverter, so I will use it.
Just load the model and press the "Convert to PMX" button.
When you try modeling it yourself, you realize that normally, once you create a model, you would not be done with it; you would need to make difficult settings such as bones and rigid bodies, but it takes care of all those settings for you. That's wonderful.
However, in the case of my model, the hair color seems to be funky like this, so I will correct this.
I searched for a lot of information and did some trial and error, but it seems like the quickest way is to modify the texture directly.
Open the texture in any suitable image editing software.
Copy and paste the original hair color on the far left like this and fill it all in.
Resolved successfully. I did it.
By the way, this is a tool called PMX Editor for editing PMX models for MMD. You can fine-tune various details such as the appearance of the model and the settings of bones and rigid bodies.
All that's left to do is load the PMX model into MMD, borrow whatever you like from the vast treasure trove of information on the internet (stages and motions created by volunteers, etc.), and load it.
Just by doing this, your character model will dance cutely.
Hmm. wonderful.
By the way, when creating an original character model with VROID, it is difficult (though not impossible) to make the accessories yourself, and the facial features tend to look similar, so creators who are particular about the character will modify it using 3D modeling software. .
There are various ways to do it, but in my case I export it as a VRM file from VROID and save it as a 3D file called Metasequoia Import it into modeling software and modify it.
Metasequoia is a domestically produced 3D modeling software that has many MMD users, and because it specializes in modeling, it is simpler and easier to use than integrated 3D production software such as Blender.
Another attractive feature is that it supports reading and writing of VRM and PMD files without any additional plugins.
My avatar, Fujimi-chan, has a fairly distinct nose, and I tried to recreate it by tweaking various settings on her VROID, but in the end I couldn't come up with a satisfactory result.
Once she's finished editing, she exports it again as a VRM file and then converts it to PMX using the method described above.
In fact, thanks to the many volunteers who have made God's tools available to the public free of charge, it is now possible to easily create 3D videos that would normally take years to create.
It's been a wonderful time.
I noticed something strange about 6 days ago. It was last Tuesday.
My body feels heavy and I feel cold. Uncomfortable feeling in the throat.
ah. This has finally turned me off.
The thermometer read 37.3 degrees Celsius, but it was easy to predict that this would not be the case.
This is because a few days before that, there was a bioterrorist who had come to work even though his family had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
When I inquired with the company, I was told that I could receive sickness and injury benefits even if I had the coronavirus, as long as I had a doctor's certificate, so I went to a medical facility to quickly get rid of it, and as expected, I was tested and it was positive.
As of April 29th, as I write this, my fever has subsided and my condition has calmed down enough to write a blog post, but my throat is still so dry that I can't stop coughing at the slightest sound.
I won't be able to do voice training or karaoke for a while.
For the first three days, I had a high fever of nearly 40 degrees, and even though the virus had weakened, I think it was more intense than the flu I had about 10 years ago.
This is probably the first time I have contracted coronavirus.
It's possible that he was actually infected even though he had no symptoms.
However, because he recently deleted his X account, he has become out of touch with society, and he did not know that five days' worth of coronavirus treatment is now quite expensive with a 30% burden.
Zocoba tablets are a special drug for coronavirus.
The price is surprisingly 7,400 yen per pill.
Not all of them, 7,400 yen per pill.
You can buy a mid-range smartphone for a total of just over 50,000 yen.
If you pay 30%, it will cost you about 16,000 yen, but it is still quite a pain for one prescription.
The price is so high that the pharmacist even checks to see if you have the money before prescribing the drug.
There are probably people who refuse because they can't pay...
The recent coronavirus seems to be coming to cause serious damage not only to our bodies but also to our bank balances.
It's too brutal.
Previous article I talked about how I aspired to be a vocal singer and started practicing singing a female voice.
She has been practicing a little bit every day for about four months, trying various things based on the courses of various biphonic people.
Now I can hear voices like this.
I don't use any kind of voice changer.
Perhaps because it's based on falsetto, it sounds a little childish.
It's a little different from my ideal direction, but it seems like it's better to develop the feminine voice that I'm comfortable with first, so I think I'll probably go this route.
Even though my voice has started to come out, it still breaks down when I try to speak or sing.
There's probably a wall up ahead.
The road to becoming a beautiful singer-songwriter is high and difficult...
My natural voice is quite low, but it seems like if I practice for a few months I'll be able to get a voice like this.
The learning period varies from person to person, with some people being able to do it in a day and others taking about a year.
I successfully submitted the song to the sequel compilation of the last compilation I participated in (sponsored by Yudachi P), and for a while I was making a song for another compilation, but today when I tried to open the Reaper project file of the compilation song, the DAW A problem occurred where the page fell down midway through.
Is the file corrupted? Even if I open an old file that was backed up, the result is the same.
I've often had trouble overwriting and automatically generating a temp file, but this is the first time I can't open it completely.
Reaper crashes when opening particular project file
I found a post on the official forum that seems to be about the same thing.
Since DAWs often crash due to plug-ins, Reaper seems to have a function similar to a safe mode that disables all plug-ins and opens files.
File > Open project as usual...
Just check the item Open with FX offline (recovery mode).
I opened it without any problems.
I tried deleting one plugin at a time to see which plugin was causing the problem, but when I deleted UVI Workstation, it started up fine.
However, when I added the UVI plug-in again and tried saving it, it started up without any problems, so it's a mystery.
Honestly, I don't know if it's because of the plugin.
Well, it was a relief that the project file itself was not dead.
However, Reaper, in situations like this, the lack of information in Japanese becomes the enemy, so if you don't have the skills to search in English, you'll be stuck.
There are Japanese patches prepared by volunteers, but like FL Studio, I can't really recommend them to people who aren't good at English.
I was thinking about writing an article like ``Starting DTM with a budget of 10,000 yen'' by collecting excellent free plug-ins for Reaper, but honestly I felt like it was pointless.