Chapter 3: It's up to you, Sword Saint
Tang Miaoyi is in an extremely good mood, smiling constantly as An Qiuying continued to chat for a while, before reluctantly saying goodbye.
Subsequently, she returned inside, made a bowl of instant noodles, took it back to her bedroom to fill her belly, and continued to plan her electro-acoustic blueprint.
"It's the first time I've ever asked for a girl's phone number." Tang Miaoyi silently whispered a sentence, putting the note with An Qiuying's phone number on the table.
The sound source material is here, so now all that is needed is the next few details on the preparation.
For example, the first thing she needs to consider now is what style to use for the first single to perform.
Tang Miaoyi thought to herself that there are many, many styles of electronic music, and this genre is not just as simple as 'Loud Bass', but also gentle, warm, and electric, but considering the development direction of electronic music in this world and the acceptance level of listeners, she must also consider all aspects thoroughly.
The introduction of a new genre must be done step by step, everything must be done step by step, otherwise, it will be some very self-destructive, very unpopular singles, which are easy to forget.
Half a step ahead makes a genius, a step ahead is a rare ghost genius, but a hundred steps ahead at once is not 'talent', but heresy!
There are many examples of this throughout history, where their work was only appreciated after they died. Edgar Allen Poe comes to mind, along with Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Galileo Galilei, and a bit closer to home, Xunzi, among others.
Thinking of this, Tang Miaoyi opened the webpage and downloaded a program called [Light Cloud Music].
Just now in the initial understanding of this world, she has paid special attention to this world's music platforms, and there are many, much more than the previous world's options.
And the analytics of this Light Cloud Music spoke for itself, as the electronic music audience accounted for the largest proportion of its customers.
Of course, Light Cloud is not the only electronic music platform, the others being Sound Nova and Vibe music, but while these were 50% or lower, Light Cloud was almost 80% Electronic.
After downloading, Tang Miaoyi registered an account with her cell phone number and logged in.
Of course, the first thing she did upon registering was to turn on the dark mode. Her delicate eyes had almost burned out with the searing heat of the screen. her eyes were then drawn to the oddly familiar home screen; music recommendations, top charts, style categories, and personal radio...
However, it's not completely identical to her previous life, there are a few different features, that is, in her personal center, there is a [Musician] area, but hers is greyed out, and empty.
Tang Miaoyi involuntarily clicked on it, but instead of entering the space, a pop-up window appeared instead.
[Dear Light Cloud user: You are not a Light Cloud musician for the time being, please submit your work for application first.]
Light Cloud Musician? Apply after submitting your work?
She just took a cursory look and clicked away, not bothering with the recommended singles anymore.
She has heard enough of these "songs" just now, and all of them were completely wrong, neither like electronic music nor pop music.
In her opinion, there is no difference between the two, this is just wearing the skin of electro music, to sell the meat of pop music. After listening, only remembering what the singer sings, forgetting the melody, or not even having a melody in the first place, and masquerading as electro.
This is entirely putting the cart before the horse. Originally in electro music, the existence of vocals is only to enrich the music as a whole, but can these works that do not focus on the melody and Drop part of the work even be called electro music?
She looks up to the sky and sighs.
Sword Saint Martin, Hardwell, Alan Walker, Skrillex, DeadMou5, Avicii, Sickick... Did you guys see that?
The world of electro-music needs your salvation!!!
Tang Miaoyi feels the need to get her work schedule up and running as soon as possible.
If the normal trajectory of this world continues to develop, to reach the point where it is comparable to the earth in the previous world, it would take at least another thirty years, even with the accelerated development this world seems to have.
For a senior critic in her prime, thirty years without electric music to listen to is simply endless torture.
As for the specifics of the work, what to do ... Everything from the beginning!
Tang Miaoyi thought about the money still left in her account and sighed softly.
She was poor, what external Midi keyboard? monitoring equipment? mixing desk? These Expensive Burn-A-hole-in-your-pocket things simply are not affordable, even if they exist here.
The money can't even afford a decent drum pad. Fortunately, she can just buy music production software, which is a decent start, all the conditions have to be left for later.
And now, the distribution platform has been selected. If there is no accident, the future Tang Miaoyi will be an artist in the Light Cloud. The next step is the most important; choosing her music software!
Tang Miaoyi searched for a while and finally decided on a digital audio workstation that was conveniently made in China.
Record Production Assistant, or 'RPA'. Containing *most* of the features she was looking for, and very suitable for electronic music. It's price was a bit expensive for her, costing Tang Miaoyi 415 yuan. She despaired as her small treasury dramatically shrunk by a large chunk.
However expensive, she needed to bite the bullet and buy it. No one can produce electronic music without software.
A good audio software, compared with a cheap audio program, is a very large quality gap, including piracy in some cases. Some software companies don't allow you the rights to your own songs, so she was fortunate such a high-quality one was available, that allowed full autonomy.
This software was a good way to get the job done. Now to pick a suitable song to produce.
"Sword Saint's 'Fox' can cause a wave." Tang Miaoyi said in deep thought
Since the sound source and software have already been determined, and the whole song requires a clear style, the style cannot be too violent. Considering this is the first in a whole new style, it should be short and sweet, otherwise no one would make it all the way through. But it also can't be too disruptive. After combining these factors, to complete her goal she has no choice.
Martin Jensen-"Fox"!
Martin Jensen, or by the nickname the Chinese netizens gave him, 'Martin sword saint'. Electro music producer/DJ. born in Denmark in 1991 in Silkeborg, he broke out into the scene in 2016 with a single "Solo Dance". He quickly became one of the top DJs in the world.
It is worth mentioning that in her previous life, there was a widely circulated Meme on the BiliBili, called the 'annual salary of hundreds of millions of tuners'. This sword saint is the source of this Meme!
A particularly skilled producer can use anything to make music. Tang Miaoyi's target is to mix "Fox" with the literal sound of a fox. The original was once popular all over the old world and was regarded as a divine song.
The genre of "Fox" is house, which contains a significant amount of pop inspirations. The whole song is very fresh for this world's standards, very suitable for Tang Miaoyi's requirements, and, also not a complete single. As the Sword Saint did not finish it, the structure is very simple, and the song is under 2 minutes. Not complicated at all.
All things considered, it seems that it should probably be accepted by the listeners of this world .... Right?
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