Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
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A cover of "Novel Ingress" from the video game AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative.
So this game series is incredibly underrated, and would highly recommend it to any and all fans of visual novels and detective/murder mystery style games! I initially didn't plan to cover any tracks from this series but when I finally got around to playing the sequel, I got to this part of the game, and this track just spoke to me, it's so good!
I had a few ideas to mix up this arrangement, but the original is so good, I just wanted to start off closer to the original and gradually add in my own ideas. Considering how the main clean guitar bit is made up of add9/minor9th chords, it just gave me Dream Theater vibes, particularly On The Backs of Angels, so it gave me the idea to get fun with time signatures for a clean section! I also knew I wanted to have a heavier riff which turned out really fun to play!
The mix was surprisingly easy, even though there's a fair bit going on, between the leads, rhythm, clean guitars, as well as keys all playing at once, I think the simplicity of the parts made it easier for each part to have their own space and not muddy up the mix! Splitting up the lead guitars into individual tracks helped a lot too rather than messing around with automation!
Hopefully you enjoyed this one, as it was a fun one to make!
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Guitars, Keytar, Drums and Mixing: Sumask
Bass: Noble
Composed by: Keisuke Ito
Arranged by: Sumask
Instruments Used:
Lead guitar: Ernie Ball Music Man JP7
Rhythm and Clean guitar: Schecter Reaper 7 MS
Bass: Dingwall NG3
Keytar: Roland AX-Edge
Drum Kit: Alesis Surge Mesh kit
Drum Software: EZDrummer 2
Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Audio Software: Cubase 8
Video Software: Lightworks
Video Camera: Samsung Galaxy S20 FE
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Check out my Patreon for MP3s/WAVs, Tabs and other extras! patreon.com/sumask
A cover of "Novel Ingress" from the video game AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative.
So this game series is incredibly underrated, and would highly recommend it to any and all fans of visual novels and detective/murder mystery style games! I initially didn't plan to cover any tracks from this series but when I finally got around to playing the sequel, I got to this part of the game, and this track just spoke to me, it's so good!
I had a few ideas to mix up this arrangement, but the original is so good, I just wanted to start off closer to the original and gradually add in my own ideas. Considering how the main clean guitar bit is made up of add9/minor9th chords, it just gave me Dream Theater vibes, particularly On The Backs of Angels, so it gave me the idea to get fun with time signatures for a clean section! I also knew I wanted to have a heavier riff which turned out really fun to play!
The mix was surprisingly easy, even though there's a fair bit going on, between the leads, rhythm, clean guitars, as well as keys all playing at once, I think the simplicity of the parts made it easier for each part to have their own space and not muddy up the mix! Splitting up the lead guitars into individual tracks helped a lot too rather than messing around with automation!
Hopefully you enjoyed this one, as it was a fun one to make!
Share, Like, Subscribe and all that good stuff!
New videos every Sunday!
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https://linktr.ee/Sumask?fbclid=IwAR0o5raMfxb0a68xasxrahXK9OPNuauhKlhv3_gwS1JgxEDwff1xO-uVqbE
Guitars, Keytar, Drums and Mixing: Sumask
Bass: Noble
Composed by: Keisuke Ito
Arranged by: Sumask
Instruments Used:
Lead guitar: Ernie Ball Music Man JP7
Rhythm and Clean guitar: Schecter Reaper 7 MS
Bass: Dingwall NG3
Keytar: Roland AX-Edge
Drum Kit: Alesis Surge Mesh kit
Drum Software: EZDrummer 2
Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Audio Software: Cubase 8
Video Software: Lightworks
Video Camera: Samsung Galaxy S20 FE
#aithesomniumfiles #somniumfiles #ai #nirvanainitiative #chunsoft #spikechunsoft #visualnovel #zeroescape #sumask
