The MBTL event held on April 10 at 3:00 p.m. Japan time was very interesting.
The level of players was high, and every match was tense and a great battle.
At the end of the event, two additional characters were announced: Mario and Powered Ciel.
We also created background music for their stages, so please look forward to it.
New characters will be added on April 14 at 06:00(UTC)
And a competition in North America has also been announced. Look forward to this one too!
These days, I use Airpod max to check my music on my mobile. The noise cancellation feature is very good and allows me to concentrate on my work.
With macbook and airpod max, I will be able to do serious music production on mobile.
To do this, I need to get used to using a DAW with the screen size of a laptop PC. This is difficult, but once you get over it, you will be able to make music anywhere.
MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA, for which Raito produced the music, has been selected as an official event for EVO2022.
Skullgirls was also selected as an official event of EVO2022. I also created a BGM for this game.
Two of my works were selected for the world’s largest fighting game event. I am very happy. Thank you!
I have been using CUBASE for music production for about 20 years now.
A dongle is like a key to start an application; to start CUBASE, you had to insert a dongle, which is like a USB memory stick, into your PC.
Nowadays, most PCs are notebooks. Compact and thin PCs have few USB ports. But I don’t like to have one port occupied by a dongle, and I don’t like to attach a USB hub.
And this dongle can cause all kinds of trouble.
Lose it, misplace it somewhere, fail to recognize it, break it, etc.
Who is this key for? It is for the manufacturer to prevent unauthorized copying. I, as a legitimate user, do not agree that I have to bear these burdens because of pirated users.
Isn’t CUBASE the only DAW that uses a dongle?
Now even ProTools can run without a dongle (iLOK cloud).
I was thinking about switching from CUBASE to something else last spring, when I bought an M1 MacBookAir and decided to use that as a serious music production machine, but I really didn’t want the dongle to take up one of the few USB ports on CUBASE.
So I was considering StudioOne or Ableton LIVE as alternatives. However, it was hard to stop using the tools I use on a daily basis, and the MBA did not work well as a music production machine.
Around last summer, Steinberg, the makers of CUBASE, announced that they were discontinuing the dongle.
I was waiting for the release of dongle-free 12.
I have used CUBASE 12 on my MBA and it works fine. What I look for in a tool is stability and ease of use.
I have no hesitation in recommending CUBASE 12 to others.
The biggest benefit of being dongle-free is that I can install it on three computers with one license.
I want to allow at least three machines per license: main machine, sub-machine, and mobile. Because of the dongle, I had two CUBASE licenses for the sub-machine. (By the way, one of the licenses is upgraded to NUENDO, a higher level CUBASE application.)
The plug-in format “VST” is advocated by CUBASE’s manufacturer Steinberg, so its behavior is also the most reliable.
I am so happy that I wrote an article about it.
I taught game sound at a vocational school for five years.
However, I couldn’t feel the passion of the students and decided to quit teaching.
Vocational schools in Japan are not places to learn expertise, but places where young people who don’t want to go out into the world go reluctantly. Nevertheless, I thought I could be useful by conveying the fun of game creation.
However, I did not find it rewarding.
If you really like games and want to make them, you don’t need to go to school to start making them yourself. It doesn’t mean that if you go to school you will be able to make games.
I don’t want to spend any more of my time on school. I want to use my time for you, the people who enjoy games.
I bought KOF15 from SNK.
SNK went bankrupt at one time, but I’m glad they are back now and have released new Samurai Spirits and KOF games.
I especially like the music, with its unique SNK guitar sound. Also, in Samurai Spirits, they used the environmental sounds well in the game, which was awesome.
However, I am not a fan of SNK’s games. I will take my time to practice and enjoy the music.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1498570/THE_KING_OF_FIGHTERS_XV/
On a daily basis, I use noise-canceling earphones and headphones with my laptop and iPhone.
The earphones are Sony’s WF-1000XM4 and the headphones are AirPods Max.
I use the AirPods Max for spirited music work and the WF-1000XM4 when I’m out walking.
One of the best things about using noise cancellation is that when I use earphones in noisy places, I tend to turn up the volume to make it harder to hear. However, with noise cancellation, the noise is reduced to a very low level, so there is no need to turn up the volume even in noisy places. In my job as a music producer, my ears are very important, so I don’t want to turn up the volume to the point of damaging my ears.
Incidentally, there are also earplugs for listening to music.
These not only protect your ears from excessive volume, but also improve the sound quality. However, they are a little less powerful, but they allow you to listen carefully to the performance and are recommended for those who want to hear every little nuance.
Recently, I have been reading news articles about video games while studying English with an English learning application on my smartphone.
Video game terminology is not found in language learning apps or textbooks, so I want to learn those words as well.
In Japan, there are many technical terms for fighting games. How do you express that in English? I’m also interested in game terminology that is unique to other countries and not found in Japan.
Now that I have an excellent translation tool called DEEPL, I would like to use it and enjoy learning English.
“MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA” has been nominated for “The Game Awards 2021” in the BEST FIGHTING game category!
I was nominated because of you, my supporters.
You can vote using this link.
https://www.thegameawards.com/nominees/best-fighting
The addition of a new character was announced. I’m also working on music now.
Please look forward to Melty Blood in the future.
It’s Black Friday season.
Japan does not have the custom of Black Friday. However, on Black Friday, you can buy music applications online at a discount.
Now I’m trying to figure out which ones to buy. I plan to buy a lot this time. To make a new song.