Performance of Deadcall and some Kaito and Prima update

24th of March, this Sunday, De Hav Philharmonic will be performing Deadcall, the first track of my concept album. It will be after the intermission.
It is such honor to be able to have my piece played by an orchestra and amongst great composers like Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. My parents will be coming from Malaysia as well. They are so supportive, I can never express how grateful I am to have them as my parents. I will keep trying to improve and work hard.

I'm working on Traveller Criminal's Japanese translation with Jun for KAITO to sing, been planning for it since a few months ago. I'm happy it's progressing.

I've been asked about my PRIMA song. Unfortunately, the installation CD and all data is back in my home in Malaysia and the laptop died, so I don't think I will be able to make more PRIMA songs in near future. She has a beautiful voice, hitting high notes pretty smoothly, I really like using her as a main singer. The Sacrificial Reborn style really suits her xD I remember showing the song to the Head of Department when I applied into the University, he was impressed by that track.

I will be focusing on polishing my KAITO V3 tuning now. He is my main singer and my most favourite. I feel like my soul heals whenever I hear him sing :D

Kaito as the Angel

In a world with Foul (phantom-like creatures), humans defend themselves by offering things to them. There is also an entity that the Foul are afraid of, the Angels.
Angels are called upon by humans when they pray hard enough. It is also up to the Angel's own will to appear before them as their loyal partner until the day they die. Angels who agreed to guard the humans normally loves them unconditionally. They call their human Beloved.
However, some humans abused this love, and made the Angels do terrible things. And as they do more and more evil, they eventually became something nasty, something even they themselves have no idea of and feared tremendously.


Mine


 Lyric:

It's time to act right now

I'm gonna own you somehow

Please don't say no and ciao

'cause I will take everyone down

I'm sick of your mind games

Stop giving me all the blame

You think that I'm so tame

Oh, how naive you are it pains

Give me the answer now

Tell me the everlasting vow

I can spare you from the Foul

Just don't make me scowl

Look at all the dying men

All trying to have your hand

You think that I am your pet

You're driving me mad

Are you cowering in fear
?
Please don't do that my dear

You know that you are my girl

Just want to make it clear

"Now come with me my love."
"It's too late to run."

You cried and tell me that

I am a scary man

But do you know I am

An angel you demand



 (Prequel) I was an Angel

Lyric:
Straying from the path of an Angel
Gazing upon all the faces
All empty and devoid of soul
I did it... with my own hand

This sin I own
I'm no longer an Angel

I cannot stop loving you
But this is too much for me
The divine light fades away
Leaving a Fallen

I will keep on smiling
Even when I'm changing
There is no telling what I am now


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About I was an Angel:
Originally, I was going to make a prequel without the question at the beginning. The song was named Fallen instead, but I received a question in NND that goes like this, "Kaito, are you an angel? or devil?" and that instant I decided to include it in the video and changed the name to an answer.

Kaito V3 and Thoughts

I haven't stopped composing songs for him since I got my hands on him that day.
This is my first attempt, Seed of Devotion.
He sounded muffled in some parts, and some pronunciation is not very clear. I will work to improve on that.

Lyric:

From the ashes I rose

In this desolate land

finding a new reason to live on

Flowers with mask whispering constantly

I turned around and sided with ignorance

The sun gives light, shining brightly

But it burnt my skin unknowingly

I wondered long and far

to revive a sleeping emotion

Hidden and protected

a past long forgotten

Rain, so gentle, turned into ice

freezing my body, trapping my mind

The abrupt nothingness never healed me

but I reincarnated and became stronger

Winding sprouts devour my hand

it grew and prevailed

standing tall above me

undying and unhallowed

Awaken from my inner slumber

Wind... autumn wind...

I devote my life to love

I died, I revived, and I died again

This endless cycle turned so dull

I became the seed of devotion

devoted to the unholy evil

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Here are some thoughts while I'm tuning him. These are some of the stuff I ran into while doing my current song, Mine for him. He has significantly improved in his English, but there are still blunders.
(Note: I'm using TinyVocaloid3 so there are some inconveniences here and there like linking some pronunciation together) There are some funny things that happen when editing him which I found quite similar to what happened in Vocaloid as well. When he sings something that is open like "car, that, sick," he will suddenly becomes very loud, making bumps in his phrases. I've tried tweaking dynamics, clearness, brightness and breathiness to smoothen it out. Although sometimes, just lowering the volume will do the trick, but it mostly sounds awkward.
I have yet to get a clear voice like what other experienced -Ps can get. I will continue experimenting.
Here's a funny pronunciation I found. "-ted"(tied with other words like fainted or granted) sounds like "tit" or "tid". I'm not sure why he is doing that because "ted" by itself is totally okay. Also it is hard to get him to sing "you" and "are" without them slurring together. If I shorten it too much, the "you" will not sound. I guess I'll need to do it multi-track to fix it. Default "clear" is not so clear, I am still finding alternatives.

And yea, that's what I think so far. I'm still trying to improve on my Vocaloid tuning skills. If you have suggestions, feel free to leave me a message or comment.

I'm loving Kaito and his voice, yes.