NieR:Automata Piano Collections - Vague Hope (CP4 Cover)

[@redalert374]

Great cover! Do you remember me? I wanted to thank you for being such an inspiration in my music life. Ur Kanon and Clannad covers were such a joy to me. I loved ur tutorial of Touto Kougen and Pure Snows. You really inspired me, now I’m going to a private university to study music! I’ve gotten really into romantic era piano, like Chopin and Schubert, Liszt. In only 2 and a half years I went from nothing to that and u really helped . Thanks

[@keropiano]

I certainly remember you! And wow, that's amazing that you're taking music that far - that's farther than I've taken it (stopped taking classical lessons in high school, and decided to pursue computer science in college). Pursuing music, and especially musical performance, at a university level is no small task, and it sounds like you've made some great progress in 2 and a half years. I remember watching Kyle Landry stream piano stuff on twitch once and commenting that "Chopin is all you need" in terms of practice material. I never learned any Liszt myself, but I remember my second private piano teacher telling me that the dude had humongous hands and his compositions were clearly influenced by that. It's hard for me to fathom that I had that much of an impression. I really appreciate you sharing your story and progress!

[@redalert374]

keropiano yeah thanks so much! I may do a computer science minor or business. So I can have a normal job and teach piano on the side and do gigs , eventually I want to do concerts and perform.

[@johnlee9477]

Hey! I'm a huge fan of your videos (just binge watched most of them in one night!) I was wondering, is there a certain trick that you used to sync all the different parts when you did multi-part pieces? I'm fascinated by how you managed to sync 12 different hands and instruments together to make it sound so amazing!

[@keropiano]

Hey, thanks! I uh, hope you got some sleep though. This is going to be sort of a long answer, as there are multiple steps to the process and multiple tricks involved. Hopefully explaining this doesn't take all the magic out of it. :P First of all, when I record for multi-part performances, I'm recording audio twice simultaneously - once via line out into my D3300's mic port, and once to USB stick via the CP4's recording function. This is so that I can have raw audio for mixing, while also having a reference point to sync with the video. So my first step is to place both of those in my video editor. How do I sync between parts? When I record, I'm either listening to a metronome or the original song via aux in, to keep the parts relatively consistent in timing. The line out to my camera's mic actually records that, too. This gives me something consistent that I can look at the waveforms of between recordings to line them up in my video editor. The catch here is I also need to similarly sync the audio in my DAW to mix them, which is...a bit of a hacky process for me. I typically look at the video timestamps in my video editor and try to match them as closely as possible. This also requires converting from frames (60/second) to actual fractional seconds. There's a tiny bit of fudging involved to make sure the audio waveforms line up properly in the DAW. (I can't just trim each audio clip and sync their start points in the DAW; some audio clips may start on different beats, or some instruments may have slow attacks which I tend to play a bit pre-emptively to counteract.) The software I use: kdenlive 17.12.0 for video editing (because it's the least-intolerable free video editor I've found) Wavosaur for quick audio normalization and trimming (since the CP4 records at ridiculously low volume) FL Studio as DAW

[@johnlee9477]

@@keropiano Oh my goodness thank you SO much for the detailed explanation! Your dedication to your work and commenting is absolutely wonderful. Good luck with your next videos! Look forwards to them all :)