Old Crow's Synth Shop: The Synth-Tan Project
Hatsune Miku w/Yamaha KX5 (photo by Darold Higa)
Kotobuki Tsumugi w/nearly everything Korg makes or made
Kotobuki Tsumugi w/nearly everything Korg makes or made
As with most things I do, this started with an errant thought. In this case it was after seeing the above Miku image... You know, I wonder if "synthesizer-tans" exist. I would be hopelessly all over such a model series.
Well...
The is the work page for the synth-tan project. "Synth-tan" is a term to describe the avatar characters we are creating to represent various models of music synthesizers, from the classics to modern virtual studio tool plug-in software synthesizers. Synth-tans do not seem to exist beyond the avatars used for the Yamaha/Crypton Future Media "Vocaloid" series. The most famous of these is the character Hatsune Miku, the wildly popular character used to present the software.
The Synth-Tan project is aimed at keyboard synthesizers, for which there are no avatars as of yet. This is why the project was born, to give these machines a modern representation--a visualization of their personalities.
The wiki is up! Go ahead and make yourself a page! Synth-tan Wiki
Use your own name or alias and the forum password is "m1kukx5;" without quotes
but with the semi-colon.
These five synthesizer models represent the the initial synth-tan effort. Each page will feature a short description, images of the machines, and an audio track featuring the machine in a primary musical role. These pages are only meant to be used for reference; the final concepts are up to the artists. 2D and 3D character art are both encouraged, as one goal of this project is resin kits.
