Archive for December, 2008

Bleeper Music Maker (revision 144)

Well, it feels like a long time since I released a new version, and yet I still haven’t changed much since the last release. However, one of the things I changed makes the difference between it totally running or almost totally not running on some computers.

  • Program should now work on systems whose Windows directory is not “c:\windows”!
  • Program no longer crashes if you try to play a MIDI (or live MIDI input) while playing a BMM file (that still seems like a weird thing for someone to do, though…).

(Usual program download page)

Miku No Hana (Higurashi No Naku Goro Ni Kai) 【初音ミク】

Here’s Miku singing along with my attempt at playing “Naraku No Hana” (opening of “Higurashi No Naku Goro Ni Kai”) on my keyboard. I tried my hand at a little video-editing too. This was my first time using MikuMikuDance, so I decided to keep it simple. I still think I made it look weird. This is also my first widescreen video, and it was actually necessary.

A high-quality MP3 can be downloaded from here.

I played the music on my keyboard and had my computer recording both the audio (line out) and notes (MIDI out). Then I imported the recorded MIDI into Vocaloid2, removing the chords (keeping only the melody), changed a few things, and made Miku sing the lyrics. This way, I can play anything at all and Miku will always stay in sync without me having to tediously sync her notes.

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