[Noteblock Cover] ♫ Morikka - spiral tones ♫ [Hololive]
Channel: Speykious
Date: 2021-05-15

Here's my 50th cover: spiral tones, by Mori Calliope and Rikka (律可)! :D

I finally got to my 50th cover! Half a milestone to be proud about!


Original song: https://youtu.be/5HWCMh1ZmzE

To render my visualizer, I did not use any popular and mainstream software like Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro or Photoshop, nor did I use a 3d rendering software like Blender. Instead, I created my own visualizer, Nodeblock, with pure Javascript, Node.js and FFmpeg. I used and transformed a p5.js sketch for the audio spectrum (the white bars moving to the audio). The code is open-source, and you can check it down here!

Nodeblock: https://gitlab.com/Speykious/nodeblock
Javascript audio spectrum p5.js sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/jayadiandri/sketches/CmiIhkILW


To make the noteblock song, I used the free and open-source software LMMS. This means that my 50th cover is the first game-external cover that has been made with 100% free and open-source software! What a great choice for the 50th cover :D


Note: Calli's rap was the hardest part to translate, mostly due to rap being closer to poetry rather than music (I don't know if I've said that correctly but anyway...). The dissonances between her voice and the instruments in the background isn't a problem at all, in fact it's part of the style; but when transcribing the voice to an instrument such as the noteblock pling sound, it does become a problem. I've had to adapt the notes, but even then I still feel like something doesn't fit. Are the pling sounds random or something? If you, listener, have anything to say about it, I'll be glad to hear it! :)

Wallpaper: https://twitter.com/savisavichan/status/1391727719956762624
Soundtrack made with: LMMS

#noteblock #hololive #morikka_st