No.138_東方風自作曲

【東方風自作曲】魔法の森でかくれんぼ

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夢の世界をテーマにしているつもりなので自然を感じることができるような曲を目指しました。夢と聞くと真っ先に緑あふれる森が思い浮かぶのは私だけでしょうか？

【東方風自作曲】徒夢に旅し現を夢見る

Fantasy Tributary ~ Shimmering Stream |  ファンタジー支流 〜 Shimmering Stream

This is actually a continuation of an old snippet that I had. That snippet mostly contain the intro.

My aim this time is to create a song that is short and sweet with Japan-esque melodies that are pleasant to listen too. I meant this song  to signify calm, pleasant streams on a mountain somewhere but I think it may be a bit too upbeat.

I guess streams in Gensokyo are much more exciting?

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I think I'm getting a grip at this composing stuff but I can't shake the feeling that I'll lose my momentum soon. Not to mention school will be starting for me quite soon...

Regardless, I will try my best to deliver. I may branch to doing other genres, and/or transcribing songs later down the road.

As for this song, it's kinda refreshing to try out ZUN's older styles and instrumentation, this one especially is an homage to Mountain of Faith. Regular VI-VII-i works wonders. I also had fun playing around with the drum patterns.

 It may just be me but Touhou-like songs with this style of instrumentation are becoming rarer.  Not like it's a bad thing but like those who attempt DiPP-like/EoSD-like compositions it can be a neat departure from Pristine Bells/Elementics/etc.

Also, I worry about my song structure, this song is essentially;

A1 → B1 → A2 → B2

This can be boring, I tried to vary it a bit by adding a piano solo. In the future, I would like to try to add more verses and phrases like other songs.

Thank you for reading and listening, it truly means a lot. See you!

Tools used: FL Studio 20
VSTs used: 
- iZotope Ozone (Mastering)
- Edirol Super Quartet, Edirol Hyper Canvas 
- Steinberg Virtual Guitarist
- Roland XV-5080, Roland SRX World
- Fruity FPC (Gator Kit from: https://mobile.twitter.com/KTea2020/status/1224646386903330817)  
- Juicy SF ( Soundfonts ).

Touhou-Style Original | Fantasy Tributary ~ Shimmering Stream

Irre Duellanten (Mad Duelists) , Duel Under The Blue Moonlight

I imagined this song as a battle theme of a spar between two friends of equal footing in prowess. I also had an image of a RPG boss battle when composing this!

This song is quite upbeat with a-lot of jazzy embellishments, chords etc.
Honestly, I just wanted to scratch an itch of attempting a Jazz styled song;;
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Saluten!

Today, I present another original, this time with a jazzy twist.
Touhou-style is good and all but I'm trying to branch out a bit.

That said this song still has heavy traces of Touhou, especially in the melodies.  Oh well, sometimes your inspirations leek through, I suppose.
Oh if you're wondering about the sudden German, my school has German language classes so I figured might as well title something in German.

I tried to embellish and vary my chords a bit ( Extensions! Spicy extensions~ ) Put a bit more thought into them. It's so cool how can you make them more expressive by adding some new notes.

I'm actually pretty satisfied with this track! It sounded like what I trying to achieve. A jazz-sounding boss battle theme or so I hope.. 
I do have a gut feeling that It is lacking something but for now it is fine by me.

Still going strong towards my goal of at least 2-3 originals a month!
A road to improvement!
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Name : Irre Duellanten, Duel Under The Blue Moonlight
Composer : Tempura-Ocha
Tempo : 156
Key Sigs. : F# min, G min, G# min (Minor keys for easier reference) 
Time Taken : 16-hours (According to FL)

- Instrumentation -

Steinberg The Grand 3 -Model D Closed
Steinberg The Grand 3 - Yamaha C7 Closed
Steinberg The Grand 3 - Yamaha CP-80

Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Sweep Up
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Silk Carpet

EZDrummer - Default Preset

Spectrasonics Trillian - Studio Brite - Full Range
Spectrasonics Trillian - Momma Tree 2

SWAM Flute - 1 Bright
SWAM Trumpet - Satchmo

Mastering VST: Izotope Ozone 9

Jazz-Like Original? | Irre Duellanten, Duel Under The Blue Moonlight

牛頭の悪意(Malice of The Cow Head) ~ Unspoken Tale

Time for a dark-sounding song!

Have you heard of the Gozu (牛頭)Tale ? It is an urban legend surrounding a horror story where when one heard it one will die. Apparently, most of the details of the story is lost to time

The most you can get was that a famine infested village was visited by a man with a cow's head, the villagers then slaughtered the man and the village was cursed. I find this kind of stuff to be right in Touhou alley, a forgotten story? Gensokyo's a place of forgotten things! Maybe Kosuzu has the tale in her possession..

Regardless, this song was created with that image in mind. I think this could be a boss theme or a Sealing Club song.

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Greetings! How are you folks holding up? 
I hope you are well wherever and whenever you are.

Been in a slight rut lately, can't for the life of me extract some good melodies from my brain. I reiterate what I said from my first song here, where I said ' Touhou-like melodies are mystifying to me'..

I think I have drained all of my composing energy quota for this song alone.
Regardless, I managed to complete it. I went for a somewhat Violet Detector style, songs with dark tones. Instrumentation and all.

I attempted a diminished scale this time and I gotta say it's pretty neat! Can get pretty neat results. I attempted a new chord progression at the latter half of the song, inspired somewhat by Castlevania.

Also I spent a bit more thought and time in mixing/mastering this song, I went and used Izotope Neutron 3 for this time, not sure if I like it or not.. Let's just say that mixing is kind of hard....

Still has a ton of work piled up, but still motivated! See you!

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Name : 牛頭の悪意(Malice of The Cow Head) ~ Unspoken Tale
Composer : Tempura-Ocha
Tempo : 178
Key Sigs. : Bmin, C min, C# min, Dmin (For posterity)
Time Taken : 20 Hours-ish

- Instrumentation -

Steinberg The Grand 3 -Model D Closed
Steinberg The Grand 3 - Bosendorfer 290 Closed

Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Elite Lead
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Glass Cone
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Starfish Arp (Arp Off)

Steinberg Padshop 2 - Carillion

Steinberg Groove Agent 5 - Minitekk

Spectrasonics Trillian - Atlas Sphere
Spectrasonics Trillian - Momma Tree 2
Spectrasonics Trillian - Sprayin The Synth 2
Spectrasonics Trillian - Classic 70's Modular Bubblesweeper
Spectrasonics Trillian - Violent 101
Spectrasonics Trillian - Deep and Funky ATC

Vir2 Electri6ity - Les Paul P-90 Amped

EWQL Ra - Duduk KS

Roland XV-5080 - Chime Bells

Roland SRX World - Romantic Tp* ( Custom Preset )

Juicy SF - SD-90 Soundfont : St.Choir Ahhs
Juicy SF - SD-90 Soundfont : St.Strings

Mixing VST: Izotope Neutron 3
Mastering VST: Izotope Ozone 9

Touhou-Style Original | 牛頭の悪意 ~ Unspoken Tale

Shenanigans Of The Fantasia Duo ~ À La Terrasse D'un Café

"Renko, this is not a good idea!"
"It'll be fine!"

A song for Dr. Latency and her physicist friend; These two explorers of the unknown know that they aren't the only ones with connections to the intangible and mysterious.

They were curious to find some of these individuals by initiating an albeit silly plan.
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Hello hello! Good to see you all again!
Hope everyone is doing all right always during these trying times

Today I want to present something very special, A collab! Not just any collab, but a collab with Armand(@nekonaku) one of my many inspirations. 
Check him out! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC437117qw1WlTiQZNgCfZRQ)

This is one of my first collabs and you know what, I learned a lot and I'm genuinely glad I got to finish it with them. I was actually scared to even start when Armand offered for a collab. We did lots of cool stuff! Even a bossa nova part! 

We initially had no theme for this song but eventually molded into a pseudo-hiffu style song. This collab took around 2 weeks, alternating the .flp file back and fourth; We worked in sections mostly as in (using timestamps),

0-0:28         (Ocha)
0:29 - 1:13     (Armand)
1:14   -  2:10    (Ocha with embellishments from Armand's 0:29-0:38 section)
2:12  -  2:32  (Melody: Armand; Initial Chords: Ocha)
2:34 - 2:48 (Armand "Bossa Nova Style")
2:50- 3:06  (Melody: Ocha; Chords: Armand)
3:08 - End  (Armand's scrapped melody idea reused; Embellishments by Ocha)

Hope you enjoyed as much as I did, Thank you so much for listening!
Saluten!

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Name : Shenanigans Of The Fantasia Duo ~ À La Terrasse D'un Café

Composers : Armand le Raton (@nekonaku), Tempura-Ocha
Mixing/Mastering: Tempura-Ocha
Tempo : 174, 127 (Including minor slowdowns)
Time Taken : 6 or so exchanges (Probably around 25 hours)

Image by Armand

- Instrumentation -

Steinberg The Grand 3 - Model D Closed 
Steinberg The Grand 3 - Bosendorfer 290 Closed 
Steinberg The Grand 3 - Yamaha C7

Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Sync Elite
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Pristine Bell
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Crystal Lake

Steinberg Halion Sonic 3 - Warm Orchestra Strings
Steinberg Halion Sonic 3 - Grand Accordion

Steinberg Virtual Guitarist Electric  : Wacko - 7. Backdoor 2
Steinberg Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition  : Modern - Kiss
Steinberg Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition  : Modern - Loose Rider


Steinberg Groove Agent 5 - Evolving Flavours
Steinberg Groove Agent 5 - Elementics

Spectrasonics Trillian - Clean Fender
Spectrasonics Trillian - Sprayin The Synth 2
Spectrasonics Trillian - Orbeat
Spectrasonics Trillian - Lucious 101 SID
Spectrasonics Trillian - SH-101 Harpsi Arpsi

Swam Tenor Sax

Real Guitar 5 - Steel Stereo
Real Guitar 5 - Nylon Fingered

Edirol Hyper Canvas - Pan Flute
Edirol Hyper Canvas - Heartbeat

Juicy SF - SD-90 Soundfont : Reed Romance

Mixing VST: FL Plugins, OTT (Compression)etc.
Mastering VST: Izotope Ozone 9

Touhou-Style Original/Collab | Shenanigans Of The Fantasia Duo ~ À La Terrasse D'un Café

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【東方風自作曲】徒夢に旅し現を夢見る

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