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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 chiptune musician specializing in ancient FM synthesis techniques and styles. He/she currently leads 東方 PMD98 Project (Tōhō PMD98 Project), a multi-national collaborative dōjin circle tasked with covering almost all Windows-era Tōhō music themes in the ancient FM-based PMD98 chip-music format (used by four of the first five Touhou games comprising the PC-98 era).
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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 by ancient Romans 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 YM2608 (OPNA) FM-synthesizer soundchip. A 1:15-minute demo of his/her first original single can be listened to in his/her YouTube channel (which is otherwise over-populated with Tōhō covers); 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 as Silent Sinner in Scarlet
- Original Singles
- SYNTHESS ~ The Mistress of FM Synthesis (release date: April 1, 2019)
- NOSTALGY ~ A Theme of Nostalgia, Remembrance, & Reminiscence (release date: November 23, 2019, during BOOTH Festival APOLLO 10 online event)
- Original Albums
(none so far)
- Commissioned Originals
- DUSK –Gravitational Adventures– (release date: October 26, 2019; October 27, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- Arranged Cover Tracks – Tōhō 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, 07:00 JST, coinciding with Reitaisai 16; published one minute later on Nico Nico)
- ほおずきみたいに紅い魂(PC-9801バージョン) (English: A Soul as Scarlet as a Ground Cherry (PC-9801 Version); release date: May 13, 2019; May 14, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- 妖魔夜行(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Apparitions Stalk the Night (PC-9801 Version); release date: May 20, 2019, revised November 15, 2019; May 21, 2019 on Nico Nico, also revised November 15, 2019)
- 少女綺想曲 ~ Dream Battle(PC-9801バージョン/Redditaisai 2019 Preview) (English: Maiden’s Capriccio ~ Dream Battle (PC-9801 Version/Redditaisai 2019 Preview); release date: June 25, 2019; Nico Nico)
- 明治十七年の上海アリス(靈異伝風バージョン) (English: Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 (HRtP-Style Version); release date: August 15, 2019; Nico Nico)
- メイドと血の懐中時計(PC-9801バージョン) (English: The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood (PC-9801 Version); release date: September 15, 2019; Nico Nico)
- 月時計 ~ ルナ・ダイアル(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial (PC-9801 Version); release date: September 22, 2019; September 21, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- ツェペシュの幼き末裔(PC-9801バージョン) (English: The Young Descendant of Tepes (PC-9801 Version); release date: October 11, 2019; October 12, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- 亡き王女の為のセプテット(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Septette for the Dead Princess (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 6, 2019; December 7, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- 紅より儚い永遠(PC-9801バージョン) (English: An Eternity More Transient than Scarlet (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 9, 2019; December 10, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- 紅楼 ~ Eastern Dream...(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Scarlet Tower ~ Eastern Dream... (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 13, 2019; December 14, 2019 on Nico Nico)
- 魔法少女達の百年祭(PC-9801バージョン) (English: The Centennial Festival for Magical Girls (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 16, 2019; Nico Nico)
- U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか?(PC-9801バージョン) (English: U.N. Owen Was Her? (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 23, 2019; Nico Nico)
- 広有射怪鳥事 ~ Till When?(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Till When? (PC-9801 Version); release date: May 1, 2020; Nico Nico)
- 魔女達の舞踏会 ~ Magus(PC-9801バージョン) (English: The Witches’ Ball ~ Magus (PC-9801 Version); release date: July 19, 2020, as part of the 20th anniversary of Seihou Project; Nico Nico)
- 幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜 ~ Border of Life(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Bloom Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossom ~ Border of Life (PC-9801 Version); release date: October 7, 2020; Nico Nico)
- ネクロファンタジア(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Necrofantasia (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 22, 2020 a.k.a. Yukari Day; Nico Nico)
- 少女綺想曲 ~ Dream Battle(PC-9801バージョン・東方懐旧合成版) (English: Maiden’s Capriccio ~ Dream Battle (PC-9801 Version · Synthesized Memories Edition); release date: January 6, 2021 a.k.a. Reimu Day; Nico Nico)
- 千年幻想郷 ~ History of the Moon(PC-9801バージョン・東方懐旧合成版) (English: Gensokyo Millennium ~ History of the Moon (PC-9801 Version · Synthesized Memories Edition); release date: August 8, 2021 a.k.a. Eirin Day; Nico Nico)
- 竹取飛翔 ~ Lunatic Princess(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess (PC-9801 Version); release date: September 8, 2021 a.k.a. Kaguya Day; Nico Nico)
- Arranged Cover Tracks – non-Tōhō
- カットマン(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Cut Man (PC-9801 Version), four different PMD98 covers; release date: December 17, 2019, coinciding with the 32nd anniversary of ロックマン Mega Man; Nico Nico)
- わんぱくロボ(PC-9801バージョン) (English: Mischievous Robot (PC-9801 Version); release date: December 20, 2019, 07:00 JST, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of 洞窟物語 Cave Story; Nico Nico)
- NECommodore (Famicommodore PC-9801-86 Version) (release date: February 18, 2020, coinciding with the 4th anniversary of chiptuner Doric Dream’s original FamiCommodore release; Nico Nico)
- 鉄腕アトム ~ ASTRO BOY(PC-9801バージョン feat.鏡音リン・レン) (English: Mighty Atom ~ ASTRO BOY (PC-9801 Version feat. Kagamine Rin & Len); release date: April 7, 2020, 07:00 JST, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the 1980 color-TV anime adaptation of Astro Boy, with Vocaloid vocals tuned by producer Heizee; Nico Nico)
- 【音街ウナ】SUGAR(PC-9801バージョン) (English: [Otomachi Una] SUGAR (PC-9801 Version); release date: July 30, 2020, celebrating the 4th anniversary and canonical birthday of VOCALOID singer Otomachi Una [also SilSinn’s first vocal-tuning experience]; Nico Nico)
- ガリィのテーマ(PC-9801バージョン・エクステンドミックス) (English: Gally’s Theme (PC-9801 Version – Extended Mix); release date: September 9, 2020, both celebrating the 30th anniversary of 銃夢 Battle Angel Alita and coinciding with Alita Appreciation Day; Nico Nico)
- NECommodore ~ Touhou Instrument Mix (Famicommodore PC-9801 5th Anniversary Version) (release date: February 18, 2021; Nico Nico)
- 塚森の大樹(PC-9801バージョン) (English: A Huge Tree in the Tsukamori Forest (PC-9801 Version); release date: March 7, 2021 JST, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Walt Disney’s English dub of Studio Ghibli’s となりのトトロ My Neighbor Totoro; Nico Nico)
- Bopeebo (PC-9801 Version) (release date: April 5, 2021, exactly six months after the release of Friday Night Funkin’; Nico Nico)
- BOY(PC-9801バージョン) (English: BOY (PC-9801 Version); cover of the song by J-Pop band The Alfee; release date: May 27, 2021 JST, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 2001 anime series フィギュア17 つばさ&ヒカル Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru; Nico Nico)
- BOY(PC-9821バージョン feat. 鏡音レン) (English: BOY (PC-9821 Version feat. Kagamine Len); VOCALOID cover of the same song above; release date: August 25, 2021 JST; Nico Nico)
- Commissioned Arranged Covers
- RALLY STARS - Main Theme (PC-9801 Version) (release date: December 21, 2020; December 12, 2020 on Nico Nico)
- Street Racing Mania (PC-9801 Version) (release date: January 9, 2021; January 4, 2021 on Nico Nico)
- Arranged Albums
- 東方懐旧合成 ~ Synthesized Memories (English: Nostalgic Oriental Synthesis ~ Synthesized Memories; release date: July 27, 2019, as part of Redditaisai 2019 online event; crossfade preview on YouTube and Nico Nico)
- 東方紅魔旧 ~ the Ancienthood of Scarlet Devil (English: Oriental Scarlet Devil Oldness ~ the Ancienthood of Scarlet Devil, a full PC-9801 cover of the soundtrack from 東方紅魔郷 ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil; release date: December 28, 2019, as part of Comic Market 97 a.k.a. Winter Comiket 2019; crossfade preview on YouTube and Nico Nico)
Preferred Production Tools
- KAJA’s PMD98 music compiler MC.EXE (to generate .M/.M2 music files)
- HypS’s FMDSP music player (for PC-9801-style music-playback visuals)
- TAN-Y’s MSDP music player (for PC-9801-style music-playback visuals when PPZ8 .PZI PCM samples are used)
- Neko Project 21 0.83k8/fmgen (PC-9821 emulator where either FMDSP or MSDP is run & live-captured from)
- C60’s FMPMD2000 music emulator (to export PMD98 music to uncompressed-PCM .WAV files)
- Nullsoft’s Winamp music player (to export each PMD98 track’s individual FM, SSG, & PCM audio channels –or stems– to uncompressed-PCM .WAV files for oscilloscoping)
- Audacity (to process the .WAV files exported from either FMPMD2000 or Winamp)
- LunarCast’s Mystic Square Toolkit (MSTK) (to make internal Mystic Square mods replacing certain stages & sprites with those made by his/her pixel-art contributors and certain music with his/her own PMD98 covers, for the purpose of generating genuine, NEC PC-9801 hardware-correct screenshots via Neko Project 21)
- Microsoft Windows Media Encoder x64 (to live-capture the screen while playing music on either FMPMD2000 or Neko Project 21)
- GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10 (to create 16-color-palettized .PNG images using only 12-bit RGB colors supported in PC-9801 video hardware, and to edit some NP21-generated screenshots in post-production to add features not currently possible under the Mystic Square engine)
- nyanpasu64’s corrscope (to render oscilloscope views of the individual PMD98 FM, SSG, & PCM audio channels recorded from Winamp)
- VapourSynth R45 (to script application of retro PC color and transition effects to video and image sources, like those from above)
- VirtualDub2 (to process VapourSynth scripts and generate retro-look visuals in uncompressed-RGB .AVI video)
- 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 (a.k.a. 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.
- Five 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)
- Eika Ebisu (Design)
- Two Red Dots (Name)
- Mysterious Orb (Background Information)
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 by James7132 in the future, SilSinn9801 archived it here for posterity.
Dōjin circles
SilSinn9801 created a few new articles on non-Japanese music circles, in addition to uploading new image files used on them:
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet (reluctantly; he/she would have preferred to have someone else create the article)
- Keine Ahnung
Dōjin arranged albums
SilSinn9801 created a few new articles on non-Japanese arranged music albums, in addition to uploading new image files used on them:
- Synthesized Memories (by Silent Sinner in Scarlet) (reluctantly; he/she would have preferred to have someone else create the article)
- Ancienthood of Scarlet Devil (by Silent Sinner in Scarlet) (reluctantly; he/she would have preferred to have someone else create the article)
- Dolmetscher (by Keine Ahnung)
- Hidden Gem in Four Corners (by Keine Ahnung)
- Ageless Wisdom (by Keine Ahnung)
- Touhou Kanjugaiden (by chair)
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)
- {{User Discord}} (transcluded in this userpage at the top right)
- {{User Twitter}} (transcluded in this userpage at the top right)
- Userbox Templates (in Userspace)
- {{User:SilSinn9801/User YouTube}} (also transcluded in this userpage at the top right)
Language Interwikis
SilSinn9801 also added a few missing language interwikis to existing game-music articles:
- Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Music (German)
- Imperishable Night/Music (Spanish)
SilSinn also helped fix some grammatical issues on the Spanish music pages for Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Imperishable Night, as well as providing missing German titles for most of the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil themes.
SilSinn’s Gaming Habits
Now Playing
- MSTK-modded instances of 東方怪綺談 ~ Mystic Square (for the reasons stated above under #Preferred Production Tools)
- The Legend of Zelda series
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (HD remaster for Nintendo Switch)
- Mega Man series
- Mega Man X: Legacy Collection
- Bravely series
- Bravely Second: End Layer
- Bravely Default 2
- Ever Oasis
- Ever Oasis
- Azur Lane
- Azur Lane Crosswave (Switch)
- Cave Story
- Cave Story+ (Switch)
- 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); this is the only game on which SilSinn –who prefers joysticks & gamepads over keyboard controls– ever cleared at least one scenario in NORMAL MODE)
- 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)
Not Considering Playing in Any Future
- Pokémon
- Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Eevee! (because of the absence of Abilities, Egg breeding, etc. and because of their inability to import Pokémon from older games!)
- Pokémon Sword or Shield (because neither can import Pokémon from past generations that do not belong to the Galar Pokédex!)
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 Spotify
Audio/Video Channels
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet’s YouTube channel
- SilSinn9801’s Nico Nico (ニコニコ動画) channel
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet’s SoundCloud channel
Pixel Art Galleries
Forum Profiles
- Silent Sinner in Scarlet on ChipMusic
- SilSinn9801 on Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
- SilSinn9801 on Reddit