1. nena-chan & mrspazzaneve17: I think this is my favorite entry, it was a breath of fresh air and really funny in the same time. Even if the first seconds aren't that great, the end is really nice and the duo is just perfect. Good job, you can be proud owob
2. Amagi (this name doesn't exist on osu :C): one of the most interesting choice for me and pretty nicely executed, some weird notes when you reach low tone but nice to hear overall
3. yuzuhamu_: kyut voice and a really hard pick for the first stage so glad you bet on it and kudo to you!

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

LoliFlan wrote:

Anyway, if everything goes well, judging should be complete tomorrow!

4 spaces left boys

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

SPOILER

Ok now, here's the problem as a person who lives in a country which has nothing more than voice and talent shows on TV, I've seen some different concepts of competition. First of all: If you are going to make them sing one pre-chosen song as Jazz said it would not be the best idea to show their talents. Though, if you let them choose their songs, it would be a huge mess. Why? Think about it all those different genres of music had to be compared. It's like choosing between an FPS game and a Platform one or a car and a motorcycle. There would be no actual winners there would just be a more liked music, not because of the singer itself but because of the music and it's emotional effect it would have on us (which is a music's main purpose in the first place) that has been chosen by the singer. Yes, they chose them themselves and they would have thought about the consequences and whether it would affect us emotionally or not but, please, this is a singing contest not a chess championship that you have to think 10 steps ahead. Maybe there would be a pool to choose songs from as Hard suggested but this also has a real big chance to not coincide with what Garven said. So the songs which will be in the pool have to be chosen really carefully and all the contestants should be informed about all the songs in the pool in order to prevent them from screwing up in the last minute. So here's my first idea out of two (which would be a lot better if both were implemented): You choose three songs for each contestant for the pool which is one in their mother tongue, one in a universal language (could be English/Japanese/Korean/Mandarin etc.) and one of their preference between the two listed before. The second thing that should be taken into consideration is again the genres. There is a theoretically simple yet might be a little hard to do in practice kind of solution to this issue. How about we split the Osu!idol finals into different genres and gave prizes according to them. Just spiting them up would be nonsense but let's say that there are three kind of genres left in the finals for each contestant: A, B and C. Everyone sings in their own genre and everything's good to go right? Well, no, sadly. This again triggers the more liked genre vs winner genre problem which can be dealt with a little effort from both the contestants and the judges. Let all of them sing all the genres. Like, A person sings both A, B and C genres; B person sings both A, B and C and vice versa. After all of them are reviewed by the judges we would see if the A person is stronger than the B one in both the A and B or just stronger in it's own genre, this way they would be compared equally in a musical way, not as separately in a "pop" or "rock" or "hip-hop" way. (I'm pretty sure I couldn't explain myself clear enough though.) Also a little P.S. This is just an idea. It's not that I think judges would not evaluate the performances right or anything. What if the people were allowed to vote for their favorite singer? I know this would cause so much trouble so I suggest accepting only non-friends' votes. Also to prevent what I call "counter-voting" also the friends of a contestant should not be allowed to vote for another contestant in anyway. Thus, the only people who vote would be the ones who don't know anything about the singers. Also the votes of non-judge voters should be evaluated as 25% of the judges'. So this way judges have still a way of judging. I think that's all. Many thanks to everyone who made such event possible and good luck with it. Hope to see things like this evolve to bigger ones or open the gates to many others in the future.

I got through 3 lines and stopped. I congratulate you tho for reading the whole thing.

Oinari-sama wrote:

Why not give contestants 2 weeks and have them choose 1 song from a pool (no effects), plus 1 song of their own pick (effects allowed)? We'll have 6 songs to listen to xD /meruns

NekoVirus138 wrote:

i can't breath too oh my god i hope i passed
i already make a cover special for next stage

LoliFlan wrote:

While we're waiting
https://soundcloud.com/modulelfs/lolifl ... -moonlight

LoliFlan wrote:

While we're waiting
https://soundcloud.com/modulelfs/lolifl ... -moonlight

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

GARVEN PLEASE I CAN'T LOOK AT THAT EMPTY SPACE ANY LONGER

Oinari-sama wrote:

If you stare at the empty space long enough, you'll start to see patterns...

Nepeta Leijon wrote:

[HEAVY BREATHING]

LoliFlan wrote:

Okay 51 made it out since there was a tie, go figure lmao.

xxdeathx wrote:

Bottom 10%

Jazz wrote:

Congratulations to the top 50

ionatheotaku wrote:

Aw damn. Close enough to top 50.
Good luck to top 50~~

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

I was going to try and comment on everyone's for the registration round but for some of them I didn't know what to say and it was a lot to comment on all of 100 entries. (I'm not Garven sorry) For the next round I'm going to try and comment on all of the 51 that passed. If you didn't get a comment but want feedback on why you got the score you did then send me a forum PM.

TwistedDuck wrote:

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

I was going to try and comment on everyone's for the registration round but for some of them I didn't know what to say and it was a lot to comment on all of 100 entries. (I'm not Garven sorry) For the next round I'm going to try and comment on all of the 51 that passed. If you didn't get a comment but want feedback on why you got the score you did then send me a forum PM.

you've done an amazing job at judging and making people improve, its not just all praise with words connected together to show the judges uniqueness or booing or feeling ticked off at bad participants like i see in some tv programs to strive drama, but what u guys are doing, ive never thought it was possible
this is how constructive critiscm should be, and yeah quality over quantity and if ppl want feedback, thats nice just note somewhere in the doc to send them a PM. im really pumped for this; Good luck to everyone. i cant believe the quality in this. insane really.

-TD

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

I should post a link of my loli rapping...

Stefan wrote:

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

I should post a link of my loli rapping...

LoliFlan wrote:

Kyonko > Nyanners whoever bla

Garven wrote:

Aw, I guess I'll comment less then.

Great job, everyone! It was fun listening to all of you! I'm pumped for the next round!

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

LoliFlan wrote:

Kyonko > Nyanners whoever bla

So Flan do you want a loli rap?

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

xxdeathx wrote:

Bottom 10%

So is your avatar how you feel about the results? :U

Hakeru wrote:

I passed yay ! Thank you !


So for the next round , are we able to mix our raw vocal (eq compress limiter reverb) or leave it with a mixdown again?

LightDreamer wrote:

God damn flu!!!!!! If anybody know a miracle solution to make it disappear, please, tell me, I don't want to submit a song of me sneezing all the time

xxdeathx wrote:

no it's how i feel about the lack of feedback

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

If you didn't get a comment but want feedback on why you got the score you did then send me a forum PM.

mrspazzaneve17 wrote:

Why so low Kyonko? Only judge who gave us a 3

It was still fun though, congratz to the top 50!

STAGE 1 GO!

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Feedbacks on Duets

These are just things that I thought could be improved upon through observations. I'm not a music major so I won't be using official terminologies, take what I'm about to say with a pinch of salt

Duets are very different from solo, it's the chemistry between singers that can create works of bang. The most obvious advantage of a duet is that you can have 2 voices instead of 1! Think about these just to name a few:

"Sing-along"

This is gotta be the most common scenario in a karaoke box. 2 singers singing the same tune, at the same time, competing to see who's voice is louder after a beer (lol)

The downside is that it sounds very obvious if 1 singer is out of tune/tempo (even slightly) and quite frankly, it's boring! Try to minimize "sing-alongs" and try to mix in other techniques.

"Rally/Tag"

This is where each person takes turn to sing a section of the song (eg Nichijou) and should be relatively easy to master. Make sure each singer is on pitch and sing with clear voice (since no one can cover for you), this should take care of the bulk of the duet.

"Effects"

This ain't the digital sound effects that you're thinking about lol

I'm referring to when 1 person sings while the other makes random "sound" to decorate the section. Just make sure that the main singer's voice is clear and on pitch so that the "effects" doesn't kill it.

"Harmony"

This usually means 1 person singing the main chord while the other sings at a few keys lower. Yes, very common technique but very awkward when one jumps in to do it, try experimenting a little!

Harmonies are "big guns" that one can use to deliver heavy punches, use it for the climax! It'll run out of steam when overused.


^ Try mixing in those techniques in your next recording and see if it sounds more dynamic than usual. If you're looking for simple examples, check out COOL&CREATE's songs. I'll leave one example here, this has all the techniques we touched upon (and it's a nice song hue) (https://osu.ppy.sh/b/40212):

Hard wrote:

I dont have pc internet until 16th so i guess i am propably out good luck to everyone else

Hakeru wrote:

Good luck for everyone as well !

LoliFlan wrote:

Just a heads up, the document will be viewable until Stage 1 Judgings start, after that it will be disabled for public view until the judings finish.

[ Piyori ] wrote:

I'm not exactly a pro with audacity and whenever I try record my singing is always behind music,can somebody help me fix? ;-;

Kyonko Hizara wrote:

[ Piyori ] wrote:

I'm not exactly a pro with audacity and whenever I try record my singing is always behind music,can somebody help me fix? ;-;

You can align the vocals to be farther up to match with the music by moving the audio track that is your vocals. Do you need help with how to do it?

RightGirl wrote:

I did join, but as a joke. I didn't think I'll pass. Shit. I'm not sure if I'm gonna submit an entry for stage one. asdaf ;-;

RightGirl wrote:

I did join, but as a joke. I didn't think I'll pass. Shit. I'm not sure if I'm gonna submit an entry for stage one. asdaf ;-;

RightGirl wrote:

I did join, but as a joke. I didn't think I'll pass. Shit. I'm not sure if I'm gonna submit an entry for stage one. asdaf ;-;

LoliFlan wrote:

I would like to apologise to My Angel Zeraph for forgetting to change the link to her new entry.
Now you see why I did not want resubmission to become a thing.

I will try to get the entry judged as soon as possible. If it gathers enough points, it will qualify for stages, along with the rest of the 51 participants.
Once again, my sincerest apologies!

Endaris wrote:

LoliFlan wrote:

I would like to apologise to My Angel Zeraph for forgetting to change the link to her new entry.
Now you see why I did not want resubmission to become a thing.

I will try to get the entry judged as soon as possible. If it gathers enough points, it will qualify for stages, along with the rest of the 51 participants.
Once again, my sincerest apologies!

I don't know if you're aware but I feel slightly trolled now.

Endaris wrote:

LoliFlan wrote:

I would like to apologise to My Angel Zeraph for forgetting to change the link to her new entry.
Now you see why I did not want resubmission to become a thing.

I will try to get the entry judged as soon as possible. If it gathers enough points, it will qualify for stages, along with the rest of the 51 participants.
Once again, my sincerest apologies!

I don't know if you're aware but I feel slightly trolled now.