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Good afternoon.

There was a lack of sleep this week. I am not sure if it is caused by poor mental health and depression, or if my sleep pattern is interfering with my mental health. At least it is the weekend now, and I will have more rest. However, there is a chance that I will be playing on the Soba server if there are users on. Perhaps it will give my mental health a chance to recover, but there is a risk that my sleep will not do the same.

Good evening.

I am almost finished with the song Aurora. However, there is a component that is missing from the rearrange. I am unable to find a good choir or opera samples that sound like "Aah" and "Oh". It is an important part of the song as it generates atmosphere during the refrain. The good news is that I like how the solo at 1:50 of the song sounds, because I programmed it myself. I also experimented with Synth1, a free software synthesizer. I heard that Hirasawa Susumu uses this synthesizer as well, which is why I wanted to try it.

My dinner today was very spicy, since I ate two of these. However, it was enjoyed because I like to eat spicy food.

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I ordered an Armored Core model kit a few weeks ago. Since Kotobukiya was out of stock, it took long for the shop to restock. There was a delay in the shipping, but the store I ordered it from says that the model might arrive this week. It costs 30 USD (3000 JPY). Since it is a Kotobukiya model kit, this will be difficult to assemble because of the number of parts.




Maybe I will also purchase an Armored Core Noblesse Oblige model so that I can attach the wings to the White-Glint model because it looks nice.

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I forgot to mention this two days ago. When I went to drop of the payment for the MIDI keyboard at the piano store, there were plenty of pianos around. Instead of leaving immediately after I paid, I decided to sit at a nearby Yamaha piano and start playing a piano version of Aurora 3 by ear. It wasn't perfect, since I had to improvise a lot. I already said to some people that I was going to compose a piano version of this song and transcribe it to sheet music. I will do this soon after I remove any imperfections from the track.

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Hirasawa Susumu - Aurora3



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Good evening.

Currently, the new song that is being worked on is Aurora. This is a song by Hirasawa Susumu, but I will do a rearrange in my style. There were several requests for me to rearrange the song. There will also be a Vocaloid version, using Megurine Luka's voice.

The replacement PCB for the Edirol PCR-800 will arrive in one month. It was very expensive. However, I hope that I will be able to use the MIDI controller again because it is difficult to create music without the keyboard.