The Creator of the Second Dimension

In his spare time for animation production, Xu Rui is not idle. In addition to watching other animations for analysis to improve his own level, Xu Rui also pays close attention to industry trends.

In mid-November, Ningjiang has become extremely cold. Many people put on scarves. The Wutong Avenue of Ningjiang University is already covered with fallen leaves.

In Ningjiang City, on the third floor of a six-story building in the Information Industry Park, Ningjiang Shanye Electronic Music Equipment Co., Ltd. is located here.

But the company was effectively on the verge of bankruptcy.

Yamaha Electronic Music Equipment Co., Ltd. mainly deals in various electronic musical instruments, including electronic pianos, electric guitars, etc. In the most glorious period, it even had a rock band under its banner.

But those are the glory of the past. After a major investment failure, Yamaha Electronics had a huge gap in its capital chain, and had to split its business lines and even sell its own product lines to survive.

However, this also led to a chain reaction. In the end, Yamaha Electronics only had some core electronic music businesses left, and issued a bankruptcy liquidation announcement.

"Although I have said it several times, I still want to confirm something, Mr. Xu Rui, do you really want to buy this business?"

The last general manager of Yamaha Electronics, Shannan picked up the pen, looked at the words on the purchase contract, and confirmed.

"Yes, Mr. Shan."

Xu Rui replied without hesitation.

"Although it is not appropriate to say this, this business is not only my painstaking effort, but also the thing I regret most. At that time, I decided to develop this product line because of my overconfidence and blind optimism, which led to such a situation in the company. Problem, lost the property left by my grandfather."

Shannan sighed.

During the heyday of Yamaha Electronics, General Manager Shannan suddenly decided to develop a brand new business, that is, electronic vocals.

In instruments such as electronic pianos, human voices have actually been included as accompaniment, but Shannan's expectations are far more than that.

He wants to create an instrument that contains human voices, and creators can not only use it for harmony accompaniment, but can make the instrument sing as they like!

Shan Nan was inspired by an animation in which the virtual singer fascinated him as a young man. He dreamed that one day he could produce the same electronic singer. Such a singer would not age, have no scandals, and could control all types of songs. That is the ultimate goal of his dream electronic music.

It's a pity that electronic vocals require high technical skills. Shannan's technical department can't create a changeable tone completely out of thin air, and including human voices as a sound source is not what Shannan wants. Connect real people with voices.

As a result, although the sound synthesis engine they made can produce sound, it is like a machine without emotion and ups and downs at all. Although technology can change this sound, the steps required are extremely cumbersome, let alone make this sound sing up.

By this time, Shannan had already fallen into financial crisis, and in the end, he went bankrupt without trying other methods.

No one cared about this business at the beginning. Everyone felt that Shannan was whimsical, and the voice of a machine could not surpass human beings anyway. Compositing engines are not wanted at all.

Until Xu Rui appeared.

He first came to buy the music studio of Yamaha Electronics. According to Xu Rui, Fantastic Animation will set up its own audio department, so he is going to come to Yamaha to pick up bargains.

During the communication process, Xu Rui accidentally learned about the electronic vocal product. He was not very interested at first, but then decided to acquire this piece and related patents together, probably with the mentality that the price of cabbage is not in vain.

For Shannan, it was both reluctance and relief at last.

In the end, Xu Rui bought a complete music studio equipment at a price of 500,000 yuan, including Yamaha Electronics' electronic vocal business line and sound synthesis engine, which is almost equivalent to picking up a product line for nothing.

This acquisition was so silent that even the industry news only mentioned a short sentence in the text message.

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Of course, Shannan felt that Xu Rui bought the electronic vocals "by the way" with the mentality of picking up cheap, but Xu Rui actually came here for this business in the first place.

It is true to set up an audio department. After all, animatronics still needs to entrust the media studio to make audio-related productions. Xu Rui always wants to establish his own audio department.

But in fact, there is no need to find Yamaha for purchasing equipment. Xu Rui contacted Shannan, the general manager of the company, just after seeing the report that Yamaha went bankrupt due to the failure of electronic vocals in the news.

Therefore, Xu Rui can't be too obvious, otherwise it will easily arouse Shannan's suspicion, causing him to raise the price temporarily or realize the true value of electronic vocals.

Therefore, Xu Rui first contacted Yamaha Electronics in the name of purchasing equipment, and then "accidentally" learned about the electronic vocal business line, and bought this set with the mentality of "picking up a bargain".

Although I feel a little sorry for Shannan, Xu Rui is not a wealthy local tyrant after all, and now when funds are a little tight, he can save as much as he can.

With the equipment of Yamaha Electronics, Xu Rui returned to the fourth floor of the Hatsune Video Network next door to the Fantastic Animation. music company.

Although the possibility behind the electronic human voice has been temporarily stifled in this world, Xu Rui has witnessed the popularity on the earth. He believes that it is necessary to use real person sampling. At the same time, it is impossible to make a voice To control all the songs, therefore, the types and rhythms of songs that can be matched by a sound source are also limited, which makes the modulation easier for users.

It's just that he hasn't figured out who should be the first electronic vocal source for the time being, and, at present, Magic Den does not have any extra funds to invest, so he can only wait for the first volume of "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" CD sale.

"Magic Girl Madoka Magica" aired to the seventh episode, the protagonists gradually became aware of the truth of the magical girl, and the audience's expectations for the follow-up plot also increased. On Taotao.com, the first volume of "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" is scheduled for volume It has already surpassed 30,000, and with an advantage of less than 2,000 copies, it completed a reversal of "Wolf and Cat" after it was broadcast for a month and a half, and won the top spot on the pre-sale list.

The disc will be sold in mid-December, that is, after the tenth episode airs. This is the time Xu Rui deliberately chose, just at the climax of the plot, which can attract viewers to buy.

In this way, in January, together with the funds contracted for the animation adaptation of the novels on the Chinese website, Xu Rui will be able to have a large amount of working capital to carry out business expansion while making animations.

At present, the drawing revision work of the first few episodes included in the CD is being carried out intensively, and the special edition has also been produced, so as not to miss tickets.

Just as Xu Rui finished planning the fourth floor of Chuyin Video Network, Liu Xueyan walked up to the fourth floor with a worried expression.

"Mr. Xu, I have something here that I need to discuss with you."

"Huh? What's the matter?"

Xu Rui felt a little strange. The Chuyin video network now has 800,000 daily active users, and 90% of them are paying users. It can be said that the development is quite good. Generally, Liu Xueyan has no serious business looking for him, but looking at the expression on his face now, it seems that the situation Serious?

"It's like this. There is an author in the music area. He hasn't uploaded a video for more than half a month, and there is no login record in the background. I thought it was because of the busy reality or being poached by other websites, but today, this author posted on QQ. Give me a message."

Xu Rui looked at Liu Xueyan's cell phone, and there was only one message record on it.

[Future]: Please help me.