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User:SilSinn9801
(Not to be confused with Wikipedia user SilSinn9801; within Wikipedia and its sister projects, this wiki’s SilSinn9801 uses the username SilSinn9821.)
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SilSinn9801, known as Silent Sinner in Scarlet in the YouTube community and usually abbreviated as SilSinn in the video gaming community, is an independent musician specializing in ancient FM synthesis techniques and styles.
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About SilSinn
Etymology
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet
From his/her YouTube profile:
- Sinner: we are all sinners.
- Silent: not all sins can be publicly discussed.
- Scarlet: the blood of some Holy one crucified in Rome nearly 2000 years ago… the ONLY blood that can cleanse each/every sin in the world — even the silent ones.
The name Silent Sinner in Scarlet may look like a parody of Silent Sinner in Blue (replacing Blue with Scarlet, which also happens to be the surname of two famous sisters), but this is pure coincidence.
- SilSinn9801
- Sil: abbreviation of “Silent”.
- Sinn: abbreviation of “Sinner”.
- 9801: refers to a long-storied family of computers made by Japanese firm NEC and sold in Japan from the early 1980’s well into 2003: the PC-9801 series. The music compiled by Silent Sinner in Scarlet (abbreviated as SilSinn) resembles the kind of background music played by ancient video games made for the PC-9801 computers, including the first five Tōhō Project titles.
Musical background
Silent Sinner in Scarlet was inspired by the original musical works by Japanese video-game composers Nobuo Uematsu (of Final Fantasy fame), Revo (of Bravely Default fame), & ZUN, as well as Japanese anime composer Tatsuo Takai (who made the Astro Boy title theme).
Currently, he/she is composing/arranging/remixing music based on the Yamaha OPNA FM-synthesizer soundchip. A 1:15-minute demo of his/her first single can be listened to in his/her YouTube channel; the full nearly-10-minute-long version can be found on various music-streaming platforms and apps (free and non-free) which will not be linked here so as to avoid making this section appear as free advertisement (and comply with this wiki’s anti-spam policies).
Discography
- Original Singles
- SYNTHESS ~ The Mistress of FM Synthesis (release date: April 1, 2019)
- Original Albums
(none so far)
- Arranged Cover Tracks
- Tōhō PMD98 Project
- A Sacred Lot (release date: April 14, 2019. PMD98 remaster, in OPNA with added SSG percussion; an OPN render was released four days later)
- 赤より紅い夢(PC-9801バージョン) (English: A Dream More Scarlet than Red (PC-9801 Version); release date: May 5, 2019, coinciding with the 16th Reitaisai event, on both Nico Nico and YouTube)
(at least eight other ZUNian covers are ready for release sometime soon, while an incomplete, still-work-in-progress tribute to Astro Boy was uploaded to Nico Nico and YouTube on April 7, 2019, Astro’s birthday)
Preferred Production Tools
- KAJA’s PMD98 music compiler MC.EXE (to generate .M/.M2 music files)
- C60’s FMPMD2000 music emulator (to export PMD98 music to uncompressed-PCM .WAV files)
- VapourSynth R45 (to script application of retro PC color effects to uncompressed-RGB .AVI video)
- VirtualDub2 (to process VapourSynth scripts and generate retro-look visuals in .AVI)
- CyberLink PowerDirector 15 (to compress PCM audio files to MPEG-4 AAC, combine them with retro visuals from above, and export resulting video to MPEG-4 AVC .MP4 for uploading to YouTube)
Interests outside music
SilSinn is a casual video gamer (the Nintendo 3DS is his/her preferred platform) and has an interest in researching multilingual features of some role-playing video games, often contributing to their respective wiki encyclopedia projects. Two examples are Bulbapedia (the oldest and most comprehensive Pokémon encyclopedia) and the Final Fantasy Wiki (one of the few serious encyclopedias still hosted on Wikia, in spite of all of its controversies after its absorption by FANDOM). He/she also enjoys slowly growing Wikipedia’s encyclopedic content (as SilSinn9821), especially with regards to tropical cyclones and radio/TV broadcasting.
Favorite Phrases
- “I will remain silent on that question.”
- “Thankee!”
Signature
‐‑Silent Sinner in Scarlet (SilSinn9801)💬
A well-constructed wikicode signature making smart use of Unicode characters seldom used by ordinary users, including one emoji pictogram:
- Unambiguous regular hyphen (U+2010) at the beginning to prevent the signature from dragging any preceding word to the next line in case the signature doesn’t fit in the current line and the user forgets to type a normal space before appending the signature.
- Non-breaking hyphen (NBHY, U+2011) that will always stay in the same line as the rest of the signature in case of a line break.
- Four non-breaking spaces (NBSP, U+00A0) strategically placed across the signature to ensure it remains within a single line (rather than breaking from one line to another).
- The emoji for 💬 SPEECH BALLOON (U+1F4AC), serving as a link to the user’s talk page.
- Two word joiners (WJ, U+2060), which are essentially zero-width non-breaking spaces that ensure that no line breaks occur between ① the regular HYPHEN & the NON-BREAKING HYPHEN or ② between the username (actually a link to the user’s contributions page; the link to this userpage is the red bold-italic artist name) and the SPEECH BALLOON.
Contributions to Touhou Wiki (or Tōhō Wiki, if using Hepburnian macrons)
Character profiles
SilSinn9801 made contributions to a few character articles:
- Reimu Hakurei (wardrobe trivia; probably removed at some point after the fork from FANDOM)
- Cirno (some trivia element, later relocated to main body)
- Hieda no Akyuu (Name)
He/she is pissed off at Yen Press because of its questionable translation practices on the English version of Forbidden Scrollery, like ① translating miko (巫女) to “shrine priest” (a predominantly “masculine” noun; “shrine priestess” or “shrine maiden” would have been more appropriate because they are exclusively “feminine”) and ② calling Hieda no Akyū (稗田の阿求) “Akyu Hiedano” (when “Akyū of Hieda” or “Akyuu of Hieda” would have been technically more acceptable). And it seems he/she is not alone on this opinion; and in case this tweet is erased in the future, he/she just archived it here for posterity.
Templates
SilSinn9801, bringing here his/her knowledge of wikicode and conditional templates (stuff learned from Wikipedia and from his/her past incarnation on Wikia/FANDOM), contributed here a handful of templates:
- Main Templates
- {{Cite book}} (similar to {{Cite web}} but tailored to books rather than webpages; adapted from Wikipedia)
- Userbox Templates (in Userspace)
- {{User:SilSinn9801/User Twitter}} (transcluded in this userpage at the top right)
- {{User:SilSinn9801/User YouTube}} (also transcluded in this userpage at the top right)
SilSinn’s Gaming Habits
Now Playing
- Bravely series
- Bravely Second: End Layer
- Ever Oasis
- Ever Oasis
- Pokémon
- Pokémon X (Trainer ID: SilSinn 05825)
- Pokémon Alpha Sapphire (Trainer ID: SilSinn 20745)
- Pokémon Sun (Trainer ID: SilSinn 768426)
- Pokémon Ultra Moon (Trainer ID: SilSinn 123446)
Recently Finished
- Bravely series
- Bravely Default: Where the Fairy Flies (borrowed, returned back to original owner upon completion, so can't go back there in spite of having two outstanding StreetPass hits)
- The Legend of Zelda series
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (still have it, with four outstanding StreetPass hits)
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition
- Pokémon
- Pokémon Platinum (Trainer ID: SilSinn 58735)
- Pokémon SoulSilver (Trainer ID: SilSinn 01575)
- Pokémon White (Trainer ID: SilSinn 51650)
- Pokémon White 2 (Trainer ID: SilSinn 55640)
Finished a LONG TIME AGO
- Tōhō Project (all EASY MODE; unable to finish in NORMAL or harder modes)
- 東方夢時空 ~ The Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream
- 東方幻想郷 ~ Lotus Land Story
- 東方怪綺談 ~ Mystic Square
- 東方花映塚 ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View (a legit copy bought from PaletWeb(dead link))
- Final Fantasy series
- Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (sold away)
- Final Fantasy IV (Final Fantasy II in SNES; still have it, not considering selling it)
- The Legend of Zelda series
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Virtual Console)
Considering Playing in the Near Future
- The Legend of Zelda series
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (HD remaster for Nintendo Switch)
- Pokémon
- Pokémon Sword (but only if Pokémon Bank is also upgraded to Switch)
External Links
Musician Profiles
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet’s profile on Apple Music
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet’s Bandcamp page
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet’s profile on CD Baby
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet’s profile on Spotify