Composer reacts: Melody | Umineko
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Composer: CAP, Kazumi Kimura
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Ohhh, you listened to the instrumental one. I would have imagined it would be the vocal track.
旋律 (Melody)：しらべ (Shirabe)
調べ (Investigate)：しらべ (Shirabe)
It was already there, hidden in the song title.
I quite like this one; It's very calm yet has so much happening. While it represents more of an introspective mood for the characters involved (as far as I remember, it's been over 10 years), it does give the player room to reflect on clues presented to him. I'd say it also has a feeling of somber longing to it.
By the way there's a version with vocals as well. And you're right it has a 90's vibe; Wouldn't feel weird if I heard it in Final Fantasy 9 or something.
Oh and the link in your description is for Dreamenddischarger.
I love Melody so much, it's one of my favorite Umineko soundtracks! The vocal version is absolutely my favorite though, the lyrics make me cry every single time
The VN obviously goes on for hundreds of hours, so there's a lot of room for variation in the soundtrack. There are even multiple composers.
The game engine was made in 1999, and it's incredibly rudimentary. There is no adaptive anything. :D
Insofar as there are "investigation" scenes, they tend to lead nowhere and leave you with more questions than you began with. The most important clues get dropped whenever you're not looking out for them. But this is definitely one of the tracks for those.
For the scenes when actual progress is being made, the soundtrack gets more straight-forward, with tracks like "問い詰め" (Press the Question), "踊る煙官" (Dancing Pipe), and "Endless Nine"
Most of the Umineko soundtrack is not what you've called "anirave". Those tracks are just popular and are probably over-represented in what people ask you to react to. Even most of zts's tracks in the soundtrack aren't (though most of -45's are).
Also, instrument/production-wise I'd guess most are fairly MIDI-tastic like this: Being an indie project that looks like an internet collaboration, I'd guess not all the composers were as good with electronic music production nor have access to the kind of musicians that a few of them do.
I'd say maybe 9 out of zts's 30 tracks (or nearly 30, noy counting slightly different version of the same track) are "anirave"/"EDM"/"battle theme" style. (I don't think there's much point in distinguishing between those three epithets in zts's Umineko tracks specifically.)
Can you react to the opening video to the ps3 version of Umineko? It has great visuals and the song totally sets the mood
Umineko have some of the most interesting OST, this one is one of the calm musics. But Umineko isn't the only VN with a really good OST, please listen to "Reflections", "Embers", "In This Very Moment", "Thoughts and Time" or "Heart-eater Strikes Again" from the VN Love Money Rock-'n'-roll.
awesome, more umineko ost
Instrumentally, I guess the other important sounds are the seemingly live ones like the Sumiisan string pieces (which are one of the most important parts of the VNs sound in my opinion), and a lot of the title themes (though not the endings of 1 and 2 I think).
By "live" I meant actual recorded performances. I was also including ones produced mainly using performance recordings (like some of the title themes presumably are), though I wasn't thinking of ones that just have a performance recording in them, like the solo violin in dreamenddischarger and some other tracks. I'm also realizing there are a lot of tracks where I'm uncertain if parts are synthesized or recorded. Some of the Sumiisan tracks really sound like live perfomance to me, at least one doesn't, and the first one ("Rose") I assumed was recorded after hearing other Sumiisan tracks clearly were, but now I'm not sure and am wondering if Sumiisan just is much better with string synthesis than I am. (Notably, the tracks that sounded clearly live were smaller ensembles like quartets, but Rose sounds like a larger string orchestra and it's harder for me to say why it's different from other tracks where I assumed orchestral parts were MIDI.)
finally some others tracks other than "techno" soundtrack's one.
Wish I could buy a thing and get you to listen to Higanbana soundtracks too, would be very interesting to see your reaction..
The thing with Umineko is that it's veeeery long and it has a lot of tracks. So you can find very different styles of music in it.
PLEASE react to "Kin'iro no Choushou" (or "Golden Sneer") from Umineko with vocals!
You should listen "Giselle" from fata morgana, such a beautiful song.
I have
listen to the vocal version please!!!
the one with vocals is better
Hard disagree, but to each their owns.
I can imagine the viewpoint that the vocals are added on in a way that clash with the instrumental (really electronic) track somehow, but I like the vocals and they have so much of a stronger place in my head than the instrumental version that it sounds empty without them.
@@Mr.Nichan i don't think it clashes at all, both are fairly soft and fitting.
@@Ghorda9 I agree, just not with the "at all". I can imagine the idea that it gets in the way of the parts underneath it somehow (like rhythmically or melodically or something, more than tonally, though I suppose they do have slightly different tones, just not in a way I thought of being bothered by until now), and someone might be thrown off if their mind groups MIDI sounds together, but that's getting close to the idea of just not liking voices, which would be an entirely different explantion for not liking the vocal version.
@@Mr.Nichan another way to look at it is that it adds more variety to the soundscape which helps break up repetition.
My favorite music from Umineko, there is something so nostalgic about this piece to me. It's soul crushing.