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Ego Death

By Chrisfoo on January 14, 2024 2:36 am

Well, shit.  I waited to the last minute last week and had some weird problem when bouncing (as if that's not to be expected), so here is my week one. 

The ending sucks but hope you enjoy the rest.  Looking forward to another year of WB.

Hey, welcome back!  Awesome synth work here. 

loving the synth lead at 1:20 and then you add so many good layers from there! vocals are excellent as well. looking forward to hearing your future beats!

Beautiful!

The arps are really good on this track. These vocals are really good! Are these samples? You did a really nice job building something epic, with a pop vibe without ever sounding cringy.

I love this so much. I wasn’t expecting the vocals! I haven’t heard much Vocaloid in English, this comes through really beautifully smile

this track is cool!

CosmicCairns wrote:

Hey, welcome back!  Awesome synth work here.

Thanks!  Excited to be back

Alphaglitch wrote:

loving the synth lead at 1:20 and then you add so many good layers from there! vocals are excellent as well. looking forward to hearing your future beats!

Thanks!  Yeah the layers really tested the limit of my CPU.

Entropica wrote:

Beautiful!

Thank you!

Kedbreak136 wrote:

The arps are really good on this track. These vocals are really good! Are these samples? You did a really nice job building something epic, with a pop vibe without ever sounding cringy.

Thanks!  The vocals are actually from the vocaloid Synthesizer V (Solaria is the voicebank).  Super excited to not have to worry about tracking vocals this year.

aemyn wrote:

I love this so much. I wasn’t expecting the vocals! I haven’t heard much Vocaloid in English, this comes through really beautifully smile

Thanks!  Yeah, I only really found two contenders, Synthesizer V and Yamaha Vocaloid.  Synth V absolutely crushed Yamaha.  They have a free lite version, which is basically the full version but without the VST functionality, that you grab if you're interested.

nedsferatu wrote:

this track is cool!

Thank you!

NO
YOU
CANNOT
GIVE
UP
ON
SINGING
!

fetalface wrote:

NO
YOU
CANNOT
GIVE
UP
ON
SINGING
!

That was what I was thinking but it's been such a buzz kill for me for the past few years.  I have some weird respiratory/GI issue that's been making it very difficult to sing long or consistently enough to track anything, so I've accumulated a huge grave yard of unfinished songs.  This vocaloid has been a huge motivation to keep writing though, so definitely is a positive.  Will always pick up the guitar and sing a song or two for fun when the mood strikes though.

Yay!  Glad to have you back man! This is awesome!  I'd never heard of Synthesizer V til now.  Really cool use of it and totally hear your voice/sound coming through it.  The middle section where the synth breaks free was suh-weet! That arp is hypnotic.  Well done!

Chrisfoo wrote:
fetalface wrote:

NO
YOU
CANNOT
GIVE
UP
ON
SINGING
!

That was what I was thinking but it's been such a buzz kill for me for the past few years.  I have some weird respiratory/GI issue that's been making it very difficult to sing long or consistently enough to track anything, so I've accumulated a huge grave yard of unfinished songs.  This vocaloid has been a huge motivation to keep writing though, so definitely is a positive.  Will always pick up the guitar and sing a song or two for fun when the mood strikes though.

Oh no! sorry to hear about this. I hope you find the right treatment & can resolve the issue, your health is the most important thing! Meanwhile, we will treasure your instrumental & vocaloid tracks, thank you for bringing them into the world.

These vocals are fantastic. Hopefully you can do a duet at some point because your voice is as well, but take it easy if you need to.
- Raioh

Devieus wrote:

These vocals are fantastic. Hopefully you can do a duet at some point because your voice is as well, but take it easy if you need to.
- Raioh

Thanks, glad you like them!  Yes, definitely planning on redoing some old ones and harmonizing with my vocals.  Will try to record more vocals this year when I have time. 

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