heyy do you use discord? because a server has been made for Touhou composers. it is meant to be  a help for begginers but I guess you can come there without any problems!

if you're interested, you can add me with this! : Armand🦝#3488  

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MASA - Gray

[TH Style]Iridescent Bullets

メタルバレットヘル

Commission for a nature-themed stage 3 boss.
Japanese title: 春の葉に滴る露滴　～ Viridian Spirit

Dewdrops on Spring's Leaves ~ Viridian Spirit

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

Neutrino-like Foe | ニュートリノ的な敵 

"Merry, what is that..?"

Somewhat dark-sounding this song isn't it? 
I made this song with the image of The Sealing Club duo in mind.
They discover something sinister.. I guess?

I actually have not much to say on how this song theme other than it made as a CD song (lol).
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Guten Tag! How is it going?
Hope everyone is doing all right always

Today I present another song fresh from the FL oven. This time I experimented a bit with some Trillian arps and drums.
Also tried some excessive pitchbending with the synth strings (maybe a bit inaudible? but it is there I swear!)

Was a bit uninspired before this, so I went on a excessive Touhou-Style music listening spree. Searching here and there for Touhou music by many composers and man it is really incredible how many can capture that ZUN essence so so so well. I really hope I can deliver like them.....

Anyways, this song is partially inspired by songs that heavily utilize Trillian arps such as those by Aka Kyuketsuki (@aka-kyuketsuki) or Armand (@nekonaku). 
Also, a bit of inspiration from  令和時代好奇心 〜 Otherworldly Paradox ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBOF5P0SgIbtOsQF3qsVyKP_c8JJrx3BO )

And many more. Do check them and many others out!

I have looked back on my progress thus far and I'm kinda proud that I could could this much, honestly. Still on my goal of 2 or + songs per month.
I hope I don't burn out sometime soon, I really want to expand my composing skills

Thank you so much for listening! Hope we can meet again!

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Name : Neutrino-like Foe ( Tentative Title )
Composer : Tempura-Ocha
Tempo : 168
Key Sigs. : Bmin, C min, C# min, Dmin, D#min, Fmin (Also sections with no harmonic function )
Time Taken : 18 hours (ie. 3 long sittings )

- Instrumentation -

Steinberg The Grand 3 - Model D Closed (Rock Me Baby! )
Steinberg The Grand 3 - Bosendorfer 290 Closed ( Scenes From Childhood) 

Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Follow Me
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Pristine Bell
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Broken Wings
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Crystal Lake
Steinberg Retrologue 2 - Reso Bell

Steinberg Halion Sonic 3 - Full Concert Strings

Steinberg Virtual Guitarist - Melancholy : Dream 2 
Steinberg Virtual Electric Guitar - Ultra 1

Steinberg Padshop 2 - Carillion

Steinberg Groove Agent 5 - Evolving Flavours
Steinberg Groove Agent 5 - Triumph

Spectrasonics Trillian - Electric Train Doubleshots
Spectrasonics Trillian - Herd of Ducks
Spectrasonics Trillian - Marking Time
Spectrasonics Trillian - Random Events In The Light
Spectrasonics Trillian - Na Na Land 1
Spectrasonics Trillian - Clean Fender 

reFX Nexus - Textures : Noise White

Vir2 Electri6ity - Les Paul P-90 Amped
Vir2 Electri6ity - Rickenbacker Amped


Roland XV-5080 - Chime Bells
Roland SRX World  - Romantic Tp* ( Custom Preset )
Roland SRX Orchestra  - StChrMm/Ahs ( Reduced Release and Attack )

Edirol Hyper Canvas - Synth Strings 3

Juicy SF - SD-90 Soundfont : Reed Romance

Mixing VST: FL Plugins, OTT (Compression), Valhalla Room (Master Reverb)
Mastering VST: Izotope Ozone 9

Touhou-Style Original | Neutrino-like Foe

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

Stage 1 style boss, Rimo's theme
creepy and cheerful vampire-ish song

Commisioned by Anna's Handmade

When i hear about vampires, my mind always think of them as creepy and dangerous creatures, so the idea of making a song for a tsundere was a bit troubling. I gave it some happy sections and a spooky bridge as an attempt to show her tsundere-ness.

I got inspired by a certain composer when doing this, not gonna lie.

Used SD-20, Hyper Canvas, Kontakt Factory Library, Junk Guitar, Steven Slate Drums, MODO BASS and Xpand!2.

[Touhou Style Original] Vampiric Eternity

Greetings! I'm Tempura or Ocha, still hasn't decided which handle to go with.

I'm trying my best to be a decent composer! Mostly dealing with Touhou-styled stuff currently but is interested in other genres (Orchestral, Future-Bass etc.).

Criticism is always appreciated!

Favorite Pokemon is Mew ( and definitely not because I have no idea for a profile pic)

Nice to meet you!

Touhou-Style Original | Neutrino-like Foe

Tempura | Ocha

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