MelodyCrystel's video: Remix Final Fantasy XIV Ultima Thule - Close In The Distance SynthV Stardust Minus Infinity

One of the projects I delayed for a while is finally finished, hurray! :happily collapses: 》For clarification, had SOLARIA's Lite Voicebank not been released lately, I would have completed the cover-picture you can spot here a week earlier. BUT as a fan of "Crystal Chronicles", temptation was simply too high for me to resist when mentioned lady matched "Sound Of The Wind" so well. :clears throat: Back to Final Fantasy XIV. Just like a good chunk of the community, this chaotic dummy adores the song "Close In The Distance", albeit I'm not becoming a weeping mess while listening to it. =U.U= (In fact, the track is written in a manner perfectly soothing my nerves, so you could play it all day for me until I grew tired of the melody.) Before you complain about the lyric's quality, please be aware that I don't own Studio Pro, hence no cross-lingual support for my Chinese AI-Voicebank. (Standards cannot use this feature of 1.6 Pro, anyways.) I do my best when trying to mimic languages foreign to these characters, as good as possible. Though, I curently consider looking for custom dictionaries for future projects. Speaking of my darling Minus and lovely Infinity, I struggled with their Voicebanks' similarity while trying to come up with good singer-settings. 》You'd think their Voice-providers being not the same person makes such a problem impossible--- Guess what, Sawako somehow managed to match the vibe (set by the original / Vocaloid Xingchen featuring Chalili's voice,) when her lines were recorded. Thus, even as a Standard-Voicebank, my favorite and the newly recorded AI (featuring again Chalili) are hard to tell apart when not paying attention to some specific details. My solution for the problem: Pitch-Editing of the Voicebanks in SynthV Basic and later Direction-Manipulation in MusicMaker. To be more precise, while Minus was put a tad sqeakier (to sound slightly more reminiscent of her VP) and minimally to the left side, Infinity got a deeper pitch as well as a little nudge to the right. It's not much, but believe me, without these two things it would be much harder to tell who is who. Last but not least, a random titbit about the remix plus drawing. Originally, I hadn't planned to make this a duet. When Stardust's AI was released, a rough sketch featuring Minus and both animals had already been made - plus, I was more or less done with editing yon Midi used as a base for this arrangement. Alas, a few hobby-related things (not all visible on YouTube) prevented me from investing my leisure-time into this project, so the idea to alter the sketch could come up over time, in the first place. No .svp existed back then, which is why my only problem was to get a good spot for Xingchen. P.S. Background is an edited screenshot of Ultima Thule's best weather-condition. I simply love it when the otherwise purple space gets such a beautiful blue hue. 🎵 Details: -based on a Midi made by Freontwel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIBW7fxeMt8 -Download for my Midi-Edit plus SVPs (ENG, CN & CN Duet): https://www.mediafire.com/file/ntlttxia8z2rqzs/FFXIV_Close_In_The_Distance_by_MelodyCrystel.zip/file -Synthesizer V Studio Voicebanks: Stardust / 星尘 / Xingchen Minus & Infinity -VST: -Soundfont by Bauerklos (Clean guitar ; Music Box ; Piano 3 ; Dist Rtm GTR ; Tenor Sax ; Jazz guitar ; Slap Bass 1 ; Strings) -Touhou Soundfont Bank (Dry Clean Guitar ; VivesPS06 ; Electric Piano 1 ; Guitar Feedback ; Soprano Sax ; Jazz Gt. ; MM Thumbs A ; Strings Orchest) -CompiFont (Overdriven Guitar ; Music Box ; Steinway Bright Rev ; 1965 Harmony Rocket ; Tenor Sax New ; MM Thumbs A ; STR Strings) -program for Mixdown: MAGIX Music Maker