There are many ways to create a piece of music. There are even more ways to keep memories of a piece of music.
There is the beauty of sound, there is the beauty of human voice, there is beauty in improvisation.
But there is only one thing that should come out when you begin to compose a music dedicated for your visual novel.
Emotion.
Before I begin my tutorial session, you might want to download some software (for windows, sorry) that will surely come in handy.
If you’ve already set up your software, please feel free to skip these.
MIDI editors: Cherry(JP), Anvil studio(EN)
Linux MultiMedia Studio (don’t be fooled by the name, it’s a cross-platform program)
MIDI to WAV converter/player: TiMidity++, Synthfont
Audio editor: Audacity
I’ve been using Vocaloid for quite some time now.
I still have a long way to go before actually mastering it but at least I can manage to get the voice sound right, with special vibrato effects.
Here are the results. Basically, I’ve made them just for fun.
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Yamaha made a genius strike by publishing a software that could reproduce a human singing voice pattern.
In Japan, the very concept of artificiality is the hype, and singing is something that is common to all human cultures.
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