Hello, Nynthixia here and merry Christmas everyone!
I'll do some quick announcements before I go to sleep and get some presents (maybe?) including news about albums and material buyings that were done during December.
One of the presents I'll get for Christmas is a major external hard drive (we're talking about something that does 18To) that will be used for getting all future Kontakt libraries, since the hard drive for it (a HDD of 2To that was inserted in the computer, couldn't take higher because otherwise the HDD is too big for being contained) is almost full, so the rest of space will be reserved to samples only.
This will be for major buyings in January, including an ensemble of Kontakt instruments (a full collection of Evolution Series) and the Omega bundle of Soundiron (I'm discussing with Soundiron for the discount on the bundle and apparently, they also accept any bundle buyings you did on Native Instruments website!).
Zunko and Itako AI: I'll take physicals if it's possible. But I'll wait for them to be sold on Amazon JP, because for now paying on AHS would cost me more than buying them from Amazon JP. Estimating of gaining around €40. If it still doesn't work, the last chance is download version from DLSite (because maybe coupons...?). If they arrive in physical, expect them to be at home near February 1st max. Otherwise, on the release day if ever I don't see them on Amazon JP still.
For the voicebanks of SynthV that aren't Japanese for their first language: I can't take any for now. I have plans for possibly taking Qingsu then the female MEDIUM5 group, but the first one isn't sold overseas (it's a Taobao link and I can't speak Chinese at all so good luck for trying to understand how to create an account etc) and the second ones don't have their AI versions out for now so we'll have to wait a bit. I'm possibly waiting for Dreamtonics to sell Qingsu on ANICUTE (that permits overseas selling, and they promised they'd try to make her available for everyone) and for the MEDIUM5 to get their AI versions, because it's these versions that will permit the girls to sing in Japanese. I did some tests with Saki in English and oh gosh it works just too well! I was pretty amazed by the results!!
For ROSA: I'm waiting for her SynthV crowdfunding to begin.
December buyings:
- Kim, Giant Bass Drum, Wassolou Balafon (Soniccouture). Soniccouture decided to remake a sales period so I took some of their cheapest libraries, especially for world music. The sales are still ongoing, but not for very long.
- Leviathan 4 package (Black Octopus). Also took two of their 1-day bundles (dubstep and Chop Shop ones). Black Octopus gave a discount for if we bought something during their Black Friday, so paid it with a reduction near 25% (20% of direct reduction + 5% of points reduction).
- Hybrid Scoring bundle (Impact Soundworks). This includes Celestia, Juggernaut, ReForged, Resonance, Curio, Meditation, Cosmos and I got in bonus Mega Brass for free. Got deduced Sonic Forest since I already have it. The bundles are still for sale for the end of the year if ever you're interested, they make excellent quality libraries too.
- rest of Output plugins and their presets banks. It's all the ones I had to get still for getting all their instruments with a full-time license.
As for the albums. I'm doing the last song of the CD33.5. This album will be called "Lurking Presences" and will be for February 19, 2022 (Sat.).
The next album you'll get will be for January 1, 2022 (Sat.) (sorry, it will have to share Tianyi's deadline) and is called "Mental War Traumas". This album includes the following demos:
- "Becoming Stronger" (KAFU)
- "Sacrilege" (Oniko)
- "What I Have Been Through" (Sayu)
- "SYKELIA" (Stella)
- "Testing Specimens" (Itako)
The songs "Anneliese", "Pick Your Poison", "Alien Among You All", "Pathogenic Substance" and the recently released "Full Sanity Depletion" are for the album "Lurking Presences".
"Mental War Traumas" will feature as such Oniko, KAFU, Sayu, Stella, Itako but also Saki and Yukari who have private tracks. One of the songs will be part of the Corruption series ("N Type" with Itako) and that will be it. 14 tracks in total.
"Lurking Presences" will have 3 songs for the Lovecraftian mythos series (expect Cthulhu, Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth, big classics), one song for the Azur Lane series (that will have its demo public on January 27th!), one song for the Dead by Daylight series (demo will be released on January 24th, so you know it will be Yukari stuff) and two songs for the Corruption series ("Pathogenic Substance" is one of them, the other one is the ONE/IA duet "Aria", that was one of the 2 pushed back songs). The album has a total of 18 tracks. The demos for January 27th will be its last ones to be released.
At licensing level it will become different from now on. Indeed, the song "Full Sanity Depletion" is the last song you'll get with a licensing ticket on an external website. This is how it will happen for the following songs:
- the public song "Love Contention" will have a pdf ticket in its archive with 19.0 license. All other concerned songs by this system are private tracks for "Lurking Presences", but not all of them. So the album will be compatible with the 2 license versions (but will be licensed under 20.0 by itself).
- public songs starting with the deadlines for January 24th will be licensed under 20.0 and will have pdf tickets in their archives.
- the album "Mental War Traumas" will be licensed under 20.0 but compatible with 19.0 and this for all tracks, since they all have been under this version. The content under 20.0 will be the booklet and the album cover. Documentation will use the new format.
- the album "Lurking Presences" will be licensed under 20.0 and compatible with 19.0, but this compatibility will be possible only for the songs that have been finished before December 1st. If you want to know which of them are concerned, look at the IMIC codes, the middle part will reveal the date the song was finished (in Japanese format, so YYMMDD). Documentation will use the new format.
Remember that on January 1, 2022, the 18.0 version of specific copyleft licenses will become unsupported. I'll update the catalog as such. If ever you do a cover or a remix of something that is under 18.0 version of lower, I'll ask you to use 19.0 until December 31, 2021 then 20.0 on January 1, 2022 until a new version of licenses comes out.
Previous licensing tickets will still be accessible (the website doesn't close). Just expect what I was doing for Meiji's songs that had the August 8th deadline to happen on every song from now on.
In a nutshell:
- Next deadline will be "Love Contention" with Tianyi on January 1, 2022. Release of the album "Mental War Traumas" the same day.
- Zunko AI and Itako AI for between January 27, 2022 and February 1, 2022. Physicals expected. Last chance plan will be download ver from DLSite.
- Intended to take Qingsu and MEDIUM5 female cast, but either waiting for overseas selling access either for AI versions. All of these will be download versions. They will be used for only singing Japanese due to cross-lingual synthesis for AI banks.
- "Lurking Presences" to be released on February 19, 2022. Series comebacks (Azur Lane, Dead by Daylight, Corruption series, Lovecraftian mythos).
- Next big purchases will be done on January, including Evolution series banks and Soundiron Omega bundle. Use of new external structure for Kontakt libraries.
- Still waiting for ROSA's crowdfunding for SynthV AI bank. Will be gotten from there normally.
Merry Christmas!
Nynthixia
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