SilSinn9801/Silent Sinner In Scarlet

Silent Sinner in Scarlet, abbr. SilSinn in the 🎮 community, started writing ♪ after hours of playing old PC/​video 🎮 (feat. 🎼 generated by soundchips from 1980’s–early 1990’s). Found favor with Yamaha YM2608/​OPNA FM-synth chip (found in high-end NEC PC-9801 & -9821 💻 that once dominated the 🇯🇵 domestic market) because of the relative ease of composing/​arranging ♪ for it and for its ability to mix FM/​PSG/​PCM 🔊 paradigms in a well-balanced fashion. Chose PMD98 by KAJA as the preferred compiler for making OPNA ♪ evocative of both “PC-98”, arcade, & Sega MegaDrive/​Genesis systems. For inspiration, thankee to legendary composers ZUN, 高井達雄, & 植松伸夫 as role models to follow.

Avatar by Linkboy from Paradise of Boundaries Discord.

Etymology:
✝Sinner: we are all sinners ✞Silent: not all sins can be publicly discussed ✟Scarlet: the blood of some Holy one crucified by ancient Romans ⁓2000 years ago… the ONLY blood that can cleanse each/​every sin in the world — even the silent ones.


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LET’S MAKE THIS CLEAR:

I do not make Discord bots (& don’t even know how to make one, much less have time to learn to do one). So, if you see a bot called SilBot9821, it’s a fraudulent bot made by racist haters to try to tarnish my image; please copy its user ID & forward it to me for reporting. Thankee!

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

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魔界すき(makai.chaotic.ninja)と私の東方風Fediサブアカウント @silsinn9821@makai.chaotic.ninja は死にました。
Makai Misskey (makai.chaotic.ninja) & my Touhou-themed Fedi sockpuppet @silsinn9821@makai.chaotic.ninja have died.

1 month ago | [YT] | 4

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Production of my upcoming anisong cover project (which I hinted here via a WIP short) has been temporarily halted. The reason: I need to crunch a truckload of FM-oscillator detune math for certain specific guitar power chords required by the anisong, & this task will take some time. Not only this detune math is required by my anisong project, but it may also serve a purpose for other upcoming projects that have not yet been announced or hinted here (no time to compile a precise checklist like the one I made last year, but I can say one of this year’s projects will be another memorial tribute to another deceased singer, & one other project will be another cover of a song from another Mexican TV drama that’s also celebrating a significant anniversary this year), & once this detune math is established, its application shall be speedy like a breeze.

However, the real announcement here is that, in order to maintain a pace of at least one video upload per month, something will be published here before the month ends. It is already uploaded to this channel, but is scheduled to go live in five hours from this post’s timestamp. It’s not really new (it was first made in 2019, then revised in 2022), but is something that had never been oscilloscoped before on this channel (plus the stems were already exported & collecting digital dust since 2022). It’s nothing really sophisticated, & I spent as little as possible in crafting the oscilloscope video, as simple as the arrange itself. So, please enjoy this kind of intermission while I continue with my math & then resume the anisong…

2 months ago | [YT] | 4

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A new WIP of this has been made; however, it is exclusive to a handful of people who either commissioned me or have otherwise supported me this year via Ko-fi. As for everyone else who didn’t, the best I can do is offer you an opportunity to guess what anisong I am trying to cover here, or at least try to guess certain details (like i.e. the name(s) of the song’s original singer(s), the composer, the lyricist, the record label, etc. or alternatively the origin anime’s genre, the name of one of its characters, the name of a voice actor/ress who played a role in it, the animation director(s), etc./など/usw.)
As previously said in youtube.com/post/Ugkx6M3rE2U37b7eSptw2MoTLbN4-dEhb… this is neither Mayonaka Punch nor My Deer Friend Nokotan, so any comments mentioning any of these two titles will be ignored. Now, let your theories run wild!

4 months ago | [YT] | 1

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With my computer’s power supply (PSU) finally properly replaced (partially thanks to the two people who donated to my Ko-fi, even though I just asked to be commissioned rather than donated to, but at least any kind of help is still hellp & is thus greatly appreciated), pre-production of my next musical project has started. Or at least the musical part of the pre-production process has started, because the visual part of pre-production (procuring the pixel arts out of two previously-commed artists) was completed last week (it took a little more than three months to achieve this).

Please note, however, that this new project is not from the preliminary outline I had published here when this year started: youtube.com/post/UgkxFLdgx3ZqTDNP8ZeOHNX9uj0AI-GPH…
The last two projects listed on that checklist –an inspirational Spanish-language ballad song, & the title song of a classic live-action children’s TV show– have been cancelled because their respective silver (25th) & ruby (40th) anniversaries have been missed –thanks to AL052024 a.k.a. 05L Ernesto, & to that exploding PSU as well as the third one that followed it in doing the same to me, for keeping my PC offline for more than two months & thus ruining my production & upload schedule–; also, I had plans to cover the theme of a specific Hanna-Barbera cartoon (not listed on my outline, as the idea popped up after the fact) that was also observing its ruby anniv. this summer, but that too got scrapped because of said problems above).

Instead, this is a brand-new project that wasn’t envisioned in my initial plans because it spontaneously spawned up as soon as a specific anime debuted this summer & captivated me with its songs. Also no, this anime was neither Mayonaka Punch (even though I like Ichiko, as listening to her is pretty much like listening to Zundamon) nor My Deer Friend Nokotan (which I haven’t watched at all, even though Miku’s VA is there), so the next music project is completely unrelated to those animes. While I will not provide any further specifics about the origin anime song that I will be covering before this year ends, I can say that this next PC-9821 version will be done using the same FM instruments & macro-heavy programming style as last year’s PC-9821 version of Hirogaru Sky Pretty Cure ~ Hero Girls (hopefully the source code does not blow up to a nearly-uncompilable ~60-kB size like Hero Girls did) & that two of the pixel artists who provided arts for Hero Girls have reprised their artistic roles here (no, I will not spoil here the anime-specific sprites they finished for this project, not even in silhouette form). However, unlike Hero Girls, this will not use Synthesizer V Studio vocals, instead it will be a 100% VOCALOID project, with MEIKA Hime & Mikoto –a pair of V5 voicebanks I had acquired last spring to be used on my V6 Editor– chosen to lead the vocals (although I would like to show here the MEIKAs’ PC-98-style sprites, I first want to wait for GabrielZr0 to publish them on his socials).

So, hoping that my fourth PSU does not again blow up like its predecessors did (& hoping for no more power blackouts this year), please wish me luck on this…


Also, I want to run a poll here for you peoples: I have several other scrapped or put-on-hold projects (apart from those cancelled this year) that I could not finish back then because their target anniversaries were missed (largely either because their origin songs proved difficult or impossible to transcribe or because certain existential threats –like a certain problematic Gachatuber that will not be named here– that were bullying, harassing, &/or intimidating some of my subscribers needed to be taken care of & demanded my full attention & time in order to report them to the pertinent authorities). If I get to finish my next PC-9821 project this year & still get enough time to do another one before Christmas, which one below do you think deserves a second chance at being made (even if it doesn’t coincide anymore with its target anniversary)? Please note, however, that such a second chance may not be guaranteed (especially if no stems or MIDI reference exists for it to speed up its production).

5 months ago | [YT] | 6

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• Jealous/envious hater (name redacted on purpose) falsely claims that my music is ripped-off Touhou music.
• Also claims he can make better music than I do.
• His music: low-effort, AI-generated slop, remixed with stolen material (URL also redacted on purpose, to prevent you all from wasting your time on harassing or witch-hunting that loser).

Support #RealMusicians & say #NoToAI or #NoAI

6 months ago | [YT] | 7