[Done] Diccolo's Combo rescore of Kai

[Diccolo-420]

Made an Alt of 94. I was conflicted about this change so I made an alt instead of a mainline change because I like having Super Saiyan Three in for Cell's Kamehameha.

What I did for the alt was put in A Wasteland of Tension for when Cell tries to kick Gohan, and then put One Hit To Victory in its original yamamoto arrangement for Cell's Kamehameha. I ended up putting this as my personal version of 94.

[Diccolo-420]

Update dropped

Episodes edited - 32, 35, 88, 88 Purist, 89, 89 Purist

Wanted to give Battle Dance Music a bit more use, and move Super Saiyan Three to debut in the Frieza Saga

32 edits:
A Mighty Foe for when Ginyu and Jeice arrive to Unforeseen Circumstances
An Outcome Switching Recovery when Ginyu and Goku fight changed to Battle Dance Music
Changed the edit for The Clouds Of War Spread for when they take to the skies
Super Saiyan three when Goku powers up to An Outcome-Switching Recovery

35
Super Saiyan Three for when Ginyu changes to a frog changed to The Braveheart Challenges The Strong

88/88 Purist:
Super Saiyan Three for Goku and Cell's aerial battle changed to Battle Dance Music (default placement)

89/89 Purist:
The Ebb And Flow for when the cameras can't catch Cell and Goku changed to Super Saiyan Three

that's all for now. enjoy.

[Diccolo-420]

"I am once again asking you to re-download episode audio files"

I decided to edit out The Earth's Fate and A Bad Premoniton as they no longer fit with my vision for the project.

A lot of these episodes you probably downloaded recently, I would probably say this will be the last you need to worry about that for a while

episodes edited - 20, 23, 23 Purist, 33, 33 Purist, 35, 36, 42, 43, 46, 48, 48 Purist, 49, 53, 57, 62, 67, 71, 79, 89, 89 Purist, 121, 121 Purist, 122, 129, 130, 142, 142 Purist

[Diccolo-420]

Added another tweak, thought that Birth Of Golden Freeza would sound good in a few scenes

49 - Frieza gives Goku 5 minutes
80/80 Purist - "are you finally beginning to understand, Vegeta?"
122 - Buu is at full power

45 was also edited:
Birth Of Golden Freeza has been switched to A Wasteland of Tension for when Frieza carves a trench
A Disastrous Spectacle has been put in for the aftermath of the 20x Kamehameha

Also, I realized I never uploaded this but I made a daima cut of when Gohan goes SSJ for the first time and decided to upload it now, it makes use of A Joint Struggle. Episode 80 Daima is in the alternates.

Finally, I switched out a couple tracks

[Diccolo-420]

Ok guys, big thanks to stridster for providing the voice files for this

I edited in Chris Ayres voice to Frieza in episode 1. It's not perfect as Linda's voice bleeds through in some instances, and the sfx in certain places are choppy, but i did the best I could.

If anybody has some suggestions on how to improve this please send them my way

[Stridster]

Ok guys, big thanks to stridster for providing the voice files for this

I edited in Chris Ayres voice to Frieza in episode 1. It's not perfect as Linda's voice bleeds through in some instances, and the sfx in certain places are choppy, but i did the best I could.

If anybody has some suggestions on how to improve this please send them my way

There isn't really a way to get rid of the bleed throughs, you'll have to mute the sound and input the sfx manually.

[Diccolo-420]

Ok guys, big thanks to stridster for providing the voice files for this

I edited in Chris Ayres voice to Frieza in episode 1. It's not perfect as Linda's voice bleeds through in some instances, and the sfx in certain places are choppy, but i did the best I could.

If anybody has some suggestions on how to improve this please send them my way

There isn't really a way to get rid of the bleed throughs, you'll have to mute the sound and input the sfx manually.

Hmm... yeah I figured as much. Luckily for the most part the restored kai sfx project I did covers those moments mostly, but there is a small gap in sfx before frieza's final laugh.

[Diccolo-420]

Following up on editing in Ayres for Frieza in episode 1, I've done a couple of other line edits

66 - Replaced Yamcha's lore-breaking line of "future trunks what's up man" with his Z line, the VO wasn't jarringly different in quality so it worked.
159/159 Purist - Edited in Cell's Z line with his original VA over the replacement VA for the filler scene in hell

[Stridster]

Following up on editing in Ayres for Frieza in episode 1, I've done a couple of other line edits

66 - Replaced Yamcha's lore-breaking line of "future trunks what's up man" with his Z line, the VO wasn't jarringly different in quality so it worked.
159/159 Purist - Edited in Cell's Z line with his original VA over the replacement VA for the filler scene in hell

Just as an fyi, there are two other instances where trunks' name is mentioned before it's revealed.
One is Yamcha again on episode 64 at 18:05 and the other is Piccolo on episode 61 at 06:50. Altough the latter could be dismissed since Piccolo does know trunks' name, nobody reacts to it with feels weird.

[Hobby Bill]

I'll look into it, the hard part is that it's such a short sequence to showcase much of the theme in Kai, cutting AO's Vegeta Super Saiyan theme was difficult enough for the scene, but who knows what may come up.

As for the clips, sure. I'll keep uploading the sub 3 minute clips to youtube, meanwhile anything over I'll put on Mega

Yeah no worries the scene is very brief so I understand.

Would love to see clips of the VO changes you made, hosting snippets on Mega would be great. Makes me wish you could replace Kid Goku's flashback lines with Nadolny, if it were possible.

[Diccolo-420]

Following up on editing in Ayres for Frieza in episode 1, I've done a couple of other line edits

66 - Replaced Yamcha's lore-breaking line of "future trunks what's up man" with his Z line, the VO wasn't jarringly different in quality so it worked.
159/159 Purist - Edited in Cell's Z line with his original VA over the replacement VA for the filler scene in hell

Just as an fyi, there are two other instances where trunks' name is mentioned before it's revealed.
One is Yamcha again on episode 64 at 18:05 and the other is Piccolo on episode 61 at 06:50. Altough the latter could be dismissed since Piccolo does know trunks' name, nobody reacts to it with feels weird.

Good to know, I'll look at doing the one at 64 since Yamcha's VO isn't terrible different for the most part, but Sabat's voicing of Piccolo in Z is probably too different for it to work seamlessly as a replacement.

I'll look into it, the hard part is that it's such a short sequence to showcase much of the theme in Kai, cutting AO's Vegeta Super Saiyan theme was difficult enough for the scene, but who knows what may come up.

As for the clips, sure. I'll keep uploading the sub 3 minute clips to youtube, meanwhile anything over I'll put on Mega

Yeah no worries the scene is very brief so I understand.

Would love to see clips of the VO changes you made, hosting snippets on Mega would be great. Makes me wish you could replace Kid Goku's flashback lines with Nadolny, if it were possible.

I'd love to put in Nadolny's voice overs, but the problem is more often than not Clinkenbeard's VO is integrated with other sfx or dialogue for the scene, making it almost impossible for me to do it cleanly.

[Diccolo-420]

Ok, 64 and 64 Purist has been updated with the Z line in for Yamcha's bit about the medicine.

This one I had to speed up his line to fit the pacing of Kai, but then it seemed pretty seamless.

I'm grateful that these lines happened when there were no music playing in Z, because sadly Z's audio mixing has music playing in its center track (the one that carries the dialogue)

EDIT: also redid the cut of A Wasteland Of Tension for 64 Purist

[Hobby Bill]

Would you consider using AI tools to maybe modulate the voices? Like to make the Z lines sound like Kai's voice and delivery?

I'm mixed on AI, I think it can hurt the intent and vision of the art (introducing artifacts and butchering animation etc). But I think when it comes to audio, there might be some very useful use cases. Maybe even removing faint sound effects and music in the voice clips.

The Perfect Cell line where he comes back to life comes to mind. Instead of copying the Z line to address the plot hole, training a model on Kai's voice then outputting a new and more fitting line could be a better approach.

[Diccolo-420]

Would you consider using AI tools to maybe modulate the voices? Like to make the Z lines sound like Kai's voice and delivery?

I'm mixed on AI, I think it can hurt the intent and vision of the art (introducing artifacts and butchering animation etc). But I think when it comes to audio, there might be some very useful use cases. Maybe even removing faint sound effects and music in the voice clips.

The Perfect Cell line where he comes back to life comes to mind. Instead of copying the Z line to address the plot hole, training a model on Kai's voice then outputting a new and more fitting line could be a better approach.

That might be feasible. The only tool I'm familiar with that might be able to do this is elevenlabs, don't know if there are any tools out there.

EDIT: just checked elevenlabs and you need to pay a subscription to use voice cloning, which is what is required for that technique.

If anyone knows any free tools out there, please let me know.

[Diccolo-420]

Found a free ai cloning tool called uberduck so we are good on that end.

I tested it on Piccolo's line for episode 61 where he says Trunks's name. The edit was very simple, where I just had the AI spit out the clip to say "him" rather than Trunks.

61/61 Purist/61 Daima have been updated.

Next is to see how I can get it to work for actual lines rather than just one word, I'll test it on yamcha next.

[Diccolo-420]

Well it seems that it working on Piccolo was luck because it was in the same tone as the line i spliced it into,

Splicing entire lines to be in tune with what the original line wasn't possible.

I found another AI voice cloning software that's not an online tool, but it requires a software that operates off linux that for some reason doesn't detect windows software for linux on my PC and requires virtualization, which I don't have enabled on my PC.

Still, I'm happy I was able to get it for Piccolo's line. The other splices may stand out more from the style of Kai's voice overs, but I'm satisfied with the result

For reference, the AI trainer i was using was found here https://github.com/serpapps/ai-voice-cl ... me-ov-file

if anybody uses it and gets it working on their pc, let me know how it goes getting it set up

[Diccolo-420]

Updated episode 40

I felt that One Hit To Victory was pretty much used for every beam struggle/massive energy blast in the rescore so I changed during Gohan's beam struggle with Frieza to Super Saiyan Three and A Moment For Shuddering

[Diccolo-420]

Updated episodes 45, 48/48 Purist, and 62

45 - I inserted Birth of Golden Freeza back in, abliet into the spot after the 20x Kaioken, replacing A Disastrous Spectacle
48/48 Purist - added a track back in to when Frieza taunts Goku after the I am speech, the track being A Menace Unfamiliar
62 - tweaked the length of Symphonic Transformation to be more like the original yamamoto score.

[Diccolo-420]

Episodes 33 and 51 got updated

33 - replaced An Eerie Stillness with Anxiety and Unease for when Frieza approaches the Grand Elder's house
51 - replaced Merciless Freeza with A Moment For Shuddering when Frieza buries Goku in Namek's crust

[Diccolo-420]

Updated episodes 142 Purist and 156 Purist

142 Purist
Smitty exploding has been changed from Desperate Battle to Bills and His Overwhelming Power
Buu finding the lookout has been changed from Creature of Marvel to Desperate Battle

156 Purist
Kid Buu's scream has been changed from Creature of Marvel to Buu's Brutality