#synthesizer v

this song from the 90’s dub sailor moon soundtrack is ADORABLE i have been itching to cover it since i heard it. mo chen’s voice is also adorable so it’s a good match

original song: my only love - jennifer cihi. instrumental tuning mixing art etc by me!

did u think i was done with silly tmbg vocalsynth covers? absolutely not

final song for rpm challenge month!!! @gavinnersroadie ’s jagal finally gets a solo number (featuring me singing and jeering on top of an assortment of vocalsynths for a drunken bar chorus lol)

other songs in the series [x][x][x][x]

[LYRICS]

(shh keep it down, this guy’s gonna sing!)
JAGAL: So you wanna call yourself a hero(hero!)
Yeah I’ve never heard that one before
You swore baby’s first vow of iron(iron!)
And you’re thinking that you’re ready for more

Lemme tell you it’s a scary world out there
It’ll shatter every best-laid plan
There’s monsters and horrors and beasts to beware
And worst of all your fellow man

Check out these scars! (ooh! ahh!)
Oh I’ve killed a wyvern or two
Don’t give me that look! If you can afford it
I’ll cut out a deal for you

You’re gonna get eaten alive out there
Without a mercenary hand like me
Your bones’ll feed the vultures and the jackals, girl
(your bones’ll feed the vultures and the jackals, girl!)
Unless you can pay my fee

Now I know what you’re thinking, “I have to pay?!”
Money talks, girl, I’m not your friend (pay up!)
I’m not falling for the disney princess chivalry line
Just tell me what you’re willing to spend (what’s disney?)

LUCYA: Well I guess I’ve got a little bit of money?
JAGAL: Honey, that’s a start but it’s not gonna cut it
LUCYA: I could help with your vow? I can make you some soup?
JAGAL: Soup…(soup???) …you drive a hard bargain, darn it (confused noises)

Don’t get me wrong! (don’t get him wrong!)
I’m a fair and reasonable guy
With a 90/10 split of the treasure, hey,
Maybe I’ll cash out before you die

Lemme tell you it’s a scary world out there
You’re signing up for pain and misery (pain and misery!)
I’ll travel the world to save your friend
But I’m not gonna do it for free (not gonna do it for free!)

Whoa, you’re gonna get eaten alive out there
Without a mercenary hand like me (mercenary hand like him!)
Your bones’ll feed the vultures and the jackals, girl
(your bones’ll feed the vultures and the jackals, girl…)
Unless you can pay my fee!

a grateful mage helps lucya scry for her long-lost friend… and deep in the mountains they find him, but is it really the same boy?

another RPM challenge song!! i wanted to try something TSO-esque for this little edgelord and im pleased with how it came out lol

other songs in this series: [x][x][x]

[LYRICS]

What are you doing here? What have you done?
Don’t look at me, the boy you knew is gone

Give up your iron vow, go back, turn around
For not all of those who are lost want to be found

Mountains and vales will be torn asunder
Sink through the drifts, let fate pull you under
All that is waiting for you is ice and snow

another one….. i signed up to do a single for the RPM challenge but i might try for an EP at this rate akdjskd

if you ever wondered if you can make vocalsynths sing sacred harp-style music, well. idk who that is besides me specifically but wonder no more i guess

other songs in the series [x][x]

[LYRICS]

When twilight ray sifts through the trees
And harvest work is done
Then I shall rest me weary head
By grace of setting sun

Though snow and hail and fearsome beast
Should threat to harm our home
The forest ‘round is stronger yet
And guards our Mossgrove town

The night is long and lonely, aye
And hope seems far away
Hold fast with friends and family 'round
We’ll see the break of day

So go and rest ye weary head
Our harvest work is done
Should fate allow we’ll rise from bed
By grace of rising sun

finally got around to finishing this cover (or at least making it sort of presentable lol)

it’s RPM challenge month so i’m back at it again with the ironsworn musical numbers babey!! i was struck with the shower thought of “what if Lucya’s fiance in the arranged marriage she ran away from was a decent guy actually” and since then my life has not known peace

this is a series now i guess lol here’s the other song [x]

[LYRICS]

Hush, dear, you don’t have to say anything more
Let go, dear, cry your tears, no need to hide them anymore

I understand why you have to go
I’ve wondered myself for a while
It’s just hard to admit when my heart melts like wax
At the sight of your smile

But I know that smile, it isn’t for me
You’ve got your own calling, your own destiny
And no force on earth can make our stars align
Go safely, my dear, just come back to visit sometime

I wish, dear, that circumstances hadn’t driven us apart
As lover or stranger or friend, my dear, you’ll be in my heart

But I won’t let our families chain you down
You’ll never be happy with me
You deserve the whole world but at least this I can give
Go on, blaze your trail, you’re free

Your eyes shine so brightly I can barely see
You’ve got your own calling, your own destiny
And nothing I do can make our stars align

Go safely, my dear, ‘cross mountain and shore,
And should your path lead you to Mossgrove once more
I hope that you’ll come back to visit me sometime

i love seeing all the different kevin designs but not many of them capture the theater kid energy i get from him lol so i made my own!! if you save this in his install folder with the name “background.png” synthV will recognize it as a character portrait

synthV’s first english male vocal(!!) just dropped and I LOVE HIM. HIS NAME IS KEVIN. I LOVE HIM

heres how he sounds with no param or phoneme edits, just auto pitch tuning

my very first original song with lyrics!! @gavinnersroadie and i made too many jokes about lucya being a disney princess so i wrote an in-character musical number, a completely normal thing to do

[LYRICS]

LUCYA: My story starts on the edge of the wilds, in Mossgrove my dear home
I felt no higher calling than wood and axe and stone
With my family there to care for me and my best friend by my side
“What more could there be to life than this?” I thought, so starry-eyed

But seasons change and years go by and hearts will change as well
Including the heart of my dearest friend, who I thought I knew so well
He’d stop and turn his head away, to gaze up at the sky
Maybe I could’ve stopped him if I knew the reason why

I saw him on the night before he ran away
The fire in his eyes as he said goodbyes shone like the break of day

They told me that he swore a vow of iron
The metal guides his steps and binds his soul
Adventure calls for those who swear on iron
His crying mother said that he can ne'er go home again

For years I thought about him as the others let him go
The moss grows o'er the hills and vales where we thought that we’d grow old
What drives a man to wander so and leave his loves behind?
As seasons passed o'er Mossgrove, I’d understand in time

I’m not cut out to live my life in thrall to hearth and home
There’s nothing wrong with being a wife, but isn’t there something more?
I can hear the trees and mountains, they sing that I’m my own
My iron blade calls me to quest to every distant shore

Dear father, mother, siblings too, forgive me… somehow
For as I trace the holy runes I understand him now

With bated breath I swore a vow of iron
The metal guides my steps and binds my soul
Adventure calls for those who swear on iron
Until I find my friend, oh I can ne'er go home again

JAGAL: So that’s the story, huh?
LUCYA: Um, yeah?
JAGAL: Well I’ve heard it all before
No matter the lies you tell yourself, you’ll never get back home
It’s a lonely life we live, girl, the blade’s a cruel and fickle guide
LUCYA: So why don’t we follow it together?
JAGAL: …I guess we could give it a try

JAGAL: You know that I’m no hero, girl, I’m not gonna save your hide
LUCYA: But I don’t need a hero, sir, just someone by my side

Forever we will swear our vows of iron
The metal guides our steps and binds our souls
And whether we drift apart or stick together
Until we faint or fail, oh we can ne'er go home again

Oh, we can ne'er go home again

staving off certification test anxiety with… more 80s covers i guess lol

some more tuning practice! still kinda rough but i’ve got other stuff i wanna work on more