External HDD incident of May 2021 - Progress

Hello, Nynthixia here

For MAYU's song you'll get it after I finish working (so near 5/6 PM at my local time).

On May 2nd, my external hard drive started to die by very very slowly reading its architecture and randomly disconnecting whenever trying to go further in the architecture or when trying to detect a certain number of files to copy them. This copy is still ongoing and is using my two last computers (current one and the one before).

The first files being retrieved were the most vital files for production. Instrumentals have been retrieved at 100% so you'll get MAYU and Zunko's next songs as usual. Currently it's vital files from FL Studio data's folder being retrieved on the other computer. The main current one is retrieving most of the non-urgent data, just in order to less tire the damaged drive when copying and limit the copy to only the files created after a certain date. The drive used for main computer copy for these files is currently the 2To unit that was used until 2019 which was 100% sane. So I'll just have to reactualize some folders.

Komplete folder has been revitalized and recreated by hand by using the Komplete hard drive, most of my phone data and a work place connection for the Stradivari Violin iso. It is now 100% back to normal.

Samples folder hasn't been 100% regenerated, but that may be easy to do since I know the only difference between the samples on the previous computer and here are just a folder for Black Octopus and less than 10 for Cymatics. So for now it's just 95% completed again.

Production will resume once all the production necessary files regenerated. My NAS didn't arrive yet because UPS... Truncated by mistake my adress making it unusuable, so I sent back instructions and I'm waiting for a new shipping date. For now, it's another new external drive (same product as the one just before) taking the relay.

Concerning ONE and IA, if by June 15th their CeVIO AI VBs still don't arrive their tracks will be inverted with some of the album after. There would also be the possibility to merge these albums into a two parts big album one (similar to the concept that had "The Insane Door" except it would be in 2 different virtual CDs and not a single one).

Concerning KAFU her release date was pushed back to July 7. Her tracks have been moved to the album after the one in production. Instead you'll get the public tracks for Itako and GUMI that were intended to be released on June 24 and 26 respectively. So exchange of 2 private tracks for 2 public ones. The other private track for Itako will remain in the July/August production album as originally intended. As for GUMI, her private tracks were already in the March-June one.

Also learnt something for Yukari AI that I'll have to test, but apparently, whenever she has her pitch issues there would be a slur setting to apply to the concerned notes. And this was probably why when I tried to do "NANZIA -Truth-" with the Rei VB I had weird results since when I make capellas, I generally render in a "vanilla" status (= no changes to the notes and no sup' plugins) then apply on the effects under VEGAS Pro.

Will keep you aware for the progress of the data retrieval. It will be a bit slow but thanks to the 2To drive it should be slightly faster, but also safer for the damaged drive.

Nynthixia