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Ok, I just made an instrumental for this one...  ;D

http://sta.sh/0qnt6jd6m4h


I had to remake the entire thing from the individual instrument tracks of the original(short) version...
(The source had 7 instrument tracks + 1 vocal track... pretty nice, actually.)

So the quality and timing should be quite good.

Hrm... I could have swore I sent in an instrumental version...

Anyhow, here's a new link to it.

http://sta.sh/2xuaem948yk

In this version, you only sing as Twilight.  (I'm not a big fan of solo-singing duets that have slightly overlapping lines)

Oh, come on, it's not like we are waiting, silently judging you for any small slip-up just so we can mercilessly troll you.

I have to agree with this.  For the few years I've been doing karaoke, the crowds are always supportive. 
Heck, sometimes they cheer the loudest when you really butcher the song.   :o

They know it's all about having the courage to stand up for yourself... Wait a sec... That sounds like a friendship report from Fluttershy, doesn't it?

Anyhow, that's a nice rendition of The Moon Rises.  I've not heard it before, but now I like it.

Well... everything is sync'd up, so you can mix and match to the audio/video combination you want. 

I personally do like the start of the original video...  It DOES have nice graphics, and gives author credit.

As for time to make a new version... that would depend on how quickly I can locate a good, free video editor.

I seriously don't think I'd have something ready in time for release though.   :'(

Wow!   :o
From the full audio... That is impressive.  8) 

Well, for the songs in future episodes, I'm gonna have to provide some vocal-only tracks to help with the note finding... as soon as a 5.1 source becomes available, that is.


BTW, if you ever want to revisit older songs, just let me know.  I think I have all the current episodes in 5.1

Nice, eh! I've yet to have the confidence to post a recording of myself playing any of the tracks.  :P

Yeah... Once you sing karaoke for a contest in front of a crowd of hundreds, you tend to not have courage issues anymore.

Now if I could just find a local karaoke venue where fellow bronies go to sing MLP songs, the world will be perfect.

I'm really curious about how you find the notes to sing at.  It's just not in my skill set.

When you search out the notes, do you try to grab them from the full audio, or did you have a vocal-only reference track?
(Ya know... center channel from 5.1)

I didn't think is was quite fair to get graded on a chorus line right after you bust out a long note.

Sometimes singers need all the help they can get.
So we may as well give them a chance to breathe during the song... right?

Typically in karaoke you sing all the words that show up on the screen...
...with the exception of "Instrumental Break", but I've witnessed a few people sing that line too! ;D

Yeah, I completely understand that...

I use it because I prefer to have some type of video instead of a static image.

I'd offer to try and re-create the video using episode clips, but my video editing software is rather dated.  Maybe 12 years old now... if I can even find the CD.
It's been a long time since I did any video work.

I don't suppose you know of a freebie video editor out there that can get the job done... do ya?

I made a new version of the instrumental for this song.

http://sta.sh/242v5btqumf


In this new version, you sing as only the Flim Flam Brothers.

You no longer have to strain your voice to do the FOUR additional ponies. (Pinkie, Dash, AJ, and Granny).  Or the chorus, for that matter. Heck, I even threw in that *smeck* sound!
Included is a modified notes file to reflect the changes.

Overall, I think this makes the song much easier to sing.  Tell me what ya think.

Here it is...  Fully sync'd to the music.

http://sta.sh/0116y2vc6cjd


Note:  Not my creation... I think I found it on YouTube a while back.

I guess I'll get to work on a new instrumental for it now, eh?

Seems OK to me...

But I personally swap in the PMV version, because it's more entertaining.

I've also been toying with the idea of adding the announcer back into the audio.

Minor error found.
The notes file will need to be updated.

The line "Tu Tu - Off to sleep" (which appears twice in the song)

should actually be "Drifting - Off to sleep"

Ok, time to necro this thread...  Since you guys haven't heard me sing before.

http://picosong.com/FzZ5/

Song: Smile, Smile, Smile - Enhanced Instrumental

Yeah, it seems that the main singer is actually Twilight...

Upon double checking what I had removed, I hear a perfectly clear Twilight singing...  whom is now removed from the chorus.

So yeah... it's as it should be.


If you want though, I can make you a quickie .mp3 to show you what all got removed.

Edit: Ok, I made the file... http://sta.sh/0gqutl5ya6z


Oh, BTW:  the timings on all the new instrumentals are sync'd to the existing .mp3's on ownCloud.  So any gap settings should be identical... well, within a few miliseconds, I would think. 

Ok, that was fun...   :)

In just a day, Season 3 Instrumentals are all done.

Now I just gotta find something else to do... 
I might just finish my latest pony vector project while I think of something.

I found a small bug...
For this song, the .mp3 filename on ownCloud  is "songs.mp3" instead of "song.mp3"

the notes.txt is specifically looking for "song.mp3".

I looked at the googledocs spreadsheet, and noticed that there was no indicator for having a vocal-removed version of the audio.

Is there some way to check the status on this? 


I was wondering because I remember seeing a post saying those versions weren't going to be ready.
It is usually a simple matter to generate those... Especially if you have a 5.1 audio reference.  (which I do)

And syncing them with the existing vocal version means the other files will copy-paste over with no trouble.

Hiya everypony!

I tried to activate an account over the past two months, but it seems the server won't send messages to my hotmail account.  Oh well.

In any event, I'd like to help out if there is anything left to do.

My useful skill set includes vector artwork (show-style), a little vocal-removal experience, general troubleshooting, and karaoke (naturally!)