Instructions

  1. Download Alter/Ego and BONES Voice Bank from Ploque Art and Tecnologie
  2. Install Alter/Ego
  3. Download and unzip the Voice Bank to a location of your choice.
  4. Open Alter/Ego either as a plugin in your favorite DAW or the standalone
  5. Find the Voice Bank file ending with bank.xml
  6. Drag the *.bank.xml file over Alter/Ego's interface.
  7. Use MIDI to control Bones’ melodies.
  8. Type your lyrics in the Words tab.
  9. Create a piece of music using Bones.

Rules

  • No entries over 3 minutes. Our judges don’t got all day!
  • All entries must include the Bones Vocaloid as a musical element.
  • Our skelophilic judges will strongly consider ingenuity and zest of the music’s implementation of the Bones Vocaloid in their deliberations. (Non-bonecentric submissions risk lower scores.)
  • All entries must be submitted by February 24th via our Google Form.

Tips and Tricks:

  • Certain plugin hosts will require you to “enable keyboard input” to use Bones’ lyrical functions. Here is a list of those hosts and instructions on how to enable keyboard input for each of them.
    • Modplug: Plugin window menu: Options->Pass Keys to Plugin
    • Reaper: Right-click the plug-in instance, check “Send all keyboard input to plug-in” option
    • Renoise: Bottom of plug-in window: “Enable keyboard” button
    • Sonar: Top of plug-in window: Keyboard shaped button
  • Render/bounce-in-place Bones' phrases as you compose to maintain consistency in lyrics synchronization and avoid glitches.


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