Trashbees

I completely forgot to post about this. I've gotten kinda sick of this platform over the years and wanted to move to something that was more in line with my workflow, so I just made my own website and now I'm posting at 444631.xyz . I started this blog back in 2012 when I was a teenager. I'm almost 27 now, and a lot of things have changed since then. I think the only thing that definitely hasn't is I still love yapping, probably even more than I did back then. That being said, I'm not really doing any of the same stuff I was before (kinda), aside from, like, stuff with audio software. I can't remember if I ever posted about it here, but I'd made a text-to-speech engine and a really simple pure Lua audio library so I could concatenate audio samples or whatever, and I somehow misplaced the text-to-speech engine part of it... but not the audio library part, so I've just kinda been building onto it and making it better for fun whenever I don't have anyth...

It's not, like, terribly unusual for me to disappear for months \ years at a time on here, but I thought I'd give at least a little update as to what I've been doing and what I have NOT been doing because I don't really want to leave anyone hanging, in the event that anyone has been keeping up with my posts.

* Hands you a flash drive * you didn't get this from me. Same rules apply as with Urin Sasaki 3. Use like Urin Sasaki 3. The vb should be in the "Carmine" folder. Fully otoed but like 90% untested. Works best with TIPS  and most WORLD-flavored resamplers. Many known issues in recordings -- recorded in under 10 minutes probably. No audio samples we die like men. Also I'm in the middle of doing some finalization of that dumbshit 5 pitch voicebank or whatever, and more reclist testing (english stuff ya know), I promise I didn't die, just really busy. Byeee

I am mostly doing finalization stuff. It's weird to say because I've been working on these two methods for over 5 years (I need to do normal things with my life for once...). This'll mostly go over some minor (major in terms of workload) standards changes and the planned addition of missing items, which there are many of. After all this, it'll just be finalizing the configs, documentation writing and release. And I added a sample :) Standard changes First off, I made a change to the vowel transition standard, which was originally [_Au], changed recently to [_ Au], and is now [*Au]. But because of a more recent issue I am having, I also wanted to change the vowel ending standard. However, it's a hard issue because the most direct, logical course of action would be to change [A -] to [A-]. I'm wanting to do this for compatibility with a plugin, and it's unfortunately a pretty annoying and very nonstandard change compared to my other reclists (which matters...

Anyways, I guess I technically tested it out and it works. Thanks guys. But I have like, a few notes on this, obviously. I added a bunch of stuff it didn't need. Okay so some bad and good news. I'll start with the bad news: I added a bunch of stuff that I didn't really need to and it expanded the size a whole bunch. This wouldn't be bad if not for the fact that I made this purely with the intent of getting around the time + oto limit constraints. Unfortunately, this means that I am going to have to spend a bunch of time going back and removing all that stuff. But with that comes good news as well. Now knowing I have a lot less work on my hands, I think it'll be a lot faster to make. On top of that, I realized that I could take my other method, the semi-VCV with VC additions, and just remove actual VC configs and it sounds, like, the same, in a freaky kind of way. Most of all, I made a wild realization: I didn't need a full set of VCs You only need th...

First off, I wrote it, in full (probably). But there's a bit more to it than "I wrote it", I did a lot more than just that. I wrote it in such a way that you could oto it like TCVVC AND use a base oto + a guide bgm on 95% of it, like the fucking maniac I am. Not just that, but I included significantly more consonant clusters, because it's small enough to do that now. It is 362 recordings long, last I checked. I am currently doing chain recording testing. Horrifying caveats Cool now that you all think it's good based off of the post preview, I can deliver the cold, hard truth: the reclist itself is not finished yet, particularly the single-recording section, which is about 87 recordings probably . This part is particularly hard to complete because I literally just have to be like, while using a voicebank "damn I really wish I had this particular vowel combination / consonant ending", which is difficult because I hate thinking. I also have no idea how...

I was writing something about this but it got too wordy. Don't get me wrong, I want to give you all as many details as possible, but I care very much about being understood and consistent about things (as ironic as that sounds) so I thought I'd give a very short introductory post about it instead of bombarding anyone who would potentially read this with useless information. Cool, now that that's out of the way, I am making a singing synth. I am writing the back end (the actual synth part) in Python. I have no current plans of creating a front end but I have a few options as to how I'm gonna get started on that that I'll update on in the probably very distant future. I have a shitty demo: Here's a copy of the description on SoundCloud, which goes over pretty much everything you'd need to know about it: i completely forgot to post this on here i've been making jokes about it on twitter for the past few months but here's some highlights...