Soramimi Karaoke News

A New Year

2011-01-07T15:36:00.001+01:00

Hi Everyone,

Max Robo here, the Soramimi crew is wishing you a happy new year.
We finally have fixed the broken links (we were looking for some webspace to host them). So now you can download them again.

regards Max Robo

Soramimi @ Animecon 2010

2010-05-06T14:50:00.005+02:00

Soramimi will be at Animecon 2010 in Netherlands, Almelo ones again.
There has been a little activity with new songs, but this should be speeded up at some point.

Sorry for the outdated updates on this blog page, we have all been very busy, so that's why I make a start again.

Also, we are working on a new frontend and backend system for karaoke timing maintenance on our side.
With this system, we can maintain song timing requests and such, as also in uploading lyrics for us to work with.

More about this, I will post at a later time.

See you at Animecon ! ;)

P.S: At another note, Ryo has moved to Japan to work for a company there, with his girlfriend Lindy-chan. Ryu might still going to code on Soramimi source code, but as he is still very busy in getting used in there, it will take some time. We of the karaoke crew wish him and Lindy-chan a happy staying :)

Soramimi @ J-popcon.DK 2009

2009-11-05T14:38:00.003+01:00

Hey everybody !

This is Jasper (aka Power2All) and we will be at J-popcon upcoming weekend.
Me and Aran (friend of mine) will be flying tomorrow 11am to Denmark and will be setting up our system there for anybody that wants to sing their lungs out (not for real, ofcourse xD).
We don't know exactly when we boot up the Karaoke session, but it might be Friday evening or something close to that.

More information will be posted here when we return.
Ofcourse with tons of pictures ^^.

See you perhaps there !!!

- Power2All, Aran, Dale (Chibicon) and Maeve

Mental Maniacs and Chibicon 2009

2009-06-29T23:35:00.000+02:00

Too much time has passed since we last updated, but here goes.

The past couple of months had us hosting the karaoke at Animecon 2009, just weeks after Kitacon. The venue was still the Theaterhotel in Almelo, but this time we were located next to the lobby, in the former dealer room. With extra space and even some sliding doors to provide much needed cooling to all of you who sang to your heart's content. It also showed us that a one hour queue maximum might not be the best thing out there, but it sure shortens the wait. And it is a bit more fair than people filling up the playlist for the rest of the evening during the first 10 minutes.
Kudos also to Hen3, Kaj and the Strawberry AV crew for the lighting and sound.

After that, we went to Chibicon 2009, at their new venue in Houten.
Although we were a bit apart from the rest of the convention, people did come to see us and the sweet setup that the tech staff had provided. (then again, being in the same room as the cloak room tends to draw people to you)
Karaoke was running non stop from eleven till eight, with a playlist that actually never exceeded the 90 minute mark.
We noted down every song you requested that we didn't have available and hopefully we'll find the time to get them finished for the next big event.

Kitacon 2009 - England

2009-04-29T21:07:00.005+02:00

Alright, where do I start.
Oh yah, our band got invited, the reason why we we're in England at all.

The karaoke was arranged by me (Jasper heh), since the rest of the crew was either or too tired, dead, burned out, or they wanted to see some guy after our concert.
So I did the honour to arrange the Karaoke setup.

They first wanted us to set us up in the big hall, which was, not good.
Since the AMV Disco was also a little further ahead with big boombass boxes, it was impossible to sing against that, so they decided to plant us at the gamesroom.
Terrible, since that room only fitted for around 30 people, but the airco was great though.

When the karaoke started up, people joined and they started singing.
Fantastic sight ofcourse, but then more and more people tried to enter the room, and suddenly we had 50 people in a room for 30 people... obviously not good...

So we tried to manage the people, keeping only the people that would going to sing.
This worked, for a few minutes, but it was impossible in the end.

The karaoke kept playing till 1am and then rum (the founder of Kitacon) told us to better quit the Karaoke since it was impossible to maintain it at the current state, and so I agreed.

All by all, the karaoke was fun, but too bad we had to quit too fast.
The Karaoke was only at the saturday evening (I don't know why, cause Karaoke seemed there to be a huge success, next to DDR).

Perhaps next time better, but atleast the people who sung had their joy, and me a little too :)

Tsunacon 2009

2009-01-27T10:21:00.003+01:00

Hey all,
it might be a bit late, but the SMM crew would still like to wish you all the best for 2009.
This Sunday, Power2All and I attended Tsunacon, a new one day event. Huge responsibility for us, as it was the first time without any of the founding/senior members accompanying us and Power had to supervise the DDR. After some minor technical difficulties, we could finally begin when the crowd started swarming to the dealer/event room. The playlist slowly filled itself as the requests started pouring in, with many a song that had not been heard since the heyday of the orange jump suit ninja, as well as some oldies that never cease to go out of style.
Luckily, I had some very pleasant gophers to keep me company as well as making sure everything was running smoothly whilst I took a gander at the other sights.
All in all, there was a very good time to be had at the convention and hopefully it will be even better next time around.

J-PopCon 2008!

2008-11-13T09:51:00.004+01:00

Hi all! We had a blast at this year's J-PopCon in Valby! We met so many of our good friends from Denmark and we karaoke'd till we dropped, till over 4AM on Sunday morning.

On Saturday we did a little experiment, where we only took one hour of requests and let these finish before we got an hour of new requests. In this way we hope everyone gets a chance to do some karaoke without the machine going up to over 2 hours of material. We think it worked out pretty wel, despite people queueing up for a whole hour! We're gonna try it again some time we think, but make sure we have better places for people to queue. What did you think of this method? Let us know!

When it got less busy we opened up for good, and we karaoke'd till the morning.

We've already found two video's of people singing Soramimi Karaoke. Check it out!

Found anymore cool pix or video's? Let us know!

Soramimi at J-popcon 2008

2008-11-04T09:56:00.005+01:00

See you all this weekend in Valby, Denmark again at the J-popcon 2008! Ryo, Power2all, Lindy Rose and me will be there and give you the best in anime and J-pop music for you to sing over.

For more (Danish) info on the con, visit www.j-popcon.dk

Take care,

Joost.

2008 news

2008-10-03T20:16:00.003+02:00

It's been almost a year since our last message online, so here's a little update to let you know that Soramimi Karaoke is still alive and kicking in 2008!

Firstly, we had succesful Karaoke nights again in Holland at this years Animecon in Almelo, in May, at the Chibicon in Utrecht in July and last weekend at the succesful Abunai convention in Zwolle. It was all great!

Secondly, the volunteers of Soramimi are happy to welcome Hugo, Power2All (Jasper) and Joost to their ranks. Now the crew is 7 strong, and we were even able to do the Abunai con without our 'founding father' Ryo there. With almost 1000 songs in the database, Soramimi is stronger than ever.

To give you some tastes of how Soramimi has done, here's some Youtube clips of this year.

Here's Power2all singing his heart out on this Beserk tune during Abunai 2008.

Innocent Sorrow by abingdon boys school, at Abunai 2008.

Fans enjoying the intro tune to Samurai Pizza Cats at Chibicon 2008.

We hope to have a special surprise for some of the foreign fans for the end of this year, to be showing up at a special convention! As soon as we know more, we'll let you know!

Jpopcon 2007

2007-11-22T19:15:00.000+01:00

We have gotten invited to host our usual Karaoke event at Jpopcon in Denmark. And of course we had fun. It is the first time we went that far >_<.

Because it is the first time we do this here, the people didn’t know how it all goes. So we got many same request songs after each other. But after a bit, we encouraged people to sing with each other.

Also this is the first time ever we could do the Karaoke whole night long. At first we were kinda optimistic, there won’t be people that crazy. But people kept coming and leaving so we finally stay all night X_X.

Location

It is something different that we are used to but it was great. But because of the structure of the room we are we always have a lot of empty space, and boy did we needed those.

Equipment

Because we couldn’t bring all of our own on the plane, Kaj of Strawberry AV has provided us with great stuff. A beautiful beamer, mixer and everything we needed to do our stuff. Thanks Kaj. \o/

Abunaicon

2007-11-20T22:51:00.000+01:00

Abunaicon 2007 Aftertalk
Sorry we are all a bit busy, so we are late with updating the blog. But here is that of Abunaicon 2007. Abunaicon was at Enschede on 7-9 October. Sorry we didn't make any pictures.

General
As always, when stuff is finally running, it was lots of fun doing the Karaoke Cafe.
The only things we had difficulty with were the poor tech support and the bad scheduling.
The tight schedule allowed us to run for a long time, but at the wrong times.
It wasn't scheduled during cosplay, but it was on during the Slightly Spring performance, which was after the cosplay.
Because Ryo is in the band, he couldn't be in two places at the same time, so poor young Max Robo had to fill in.

Tech support
Something that Abunai lacks is proper tech support and thus also a proper direction for all those technical bits that we ourselves can't provide.
What happened on Friday was that we didn't get the Amplifier and speakers on time.
Even when we *did* get them, the Tech dude had to run off again for something else, leaving us with stuff we had no experience in hooking up properly.
Also, for some reason we were assigned 5 large televisions we couldn't put anywhere, so we ditched those.
Saturday was a bit difficult since Ryo couldn't check all the equipment
Sunday was no problem. We gotten kind of used to the PA set over the past two evenings ^^;

Karaoke competition
The competition went great, aside Max Robo had to run everything. Also many contestants thought that it would be later because Ryo is at the concert. There was also a contestant that want to join but don't know any song we had, he enters with a song he thought to know but really didn't and we lost some time ><;. And thanks for the Haruhi Bunnies for doing the "act" again because Max Robo had to miss it XD.

ChibiCon 2007 aftertalk

2007-07-08T17:21:00.000+02:00

So, the first ChibiCon is over and we had a blast!
Thanks to people who helped out and moreover, thanks to you all who sang those 4 hours.

Ryo and jopped went over to do our usual Karaoke Cafe again. Unfortunately, due short notice, we were unable to re-print the entire list again so I just printed a little changelist on top.

The location was an actual cafe that's part of the sports complex, so the layout was perfect. After some puzzling we put ourself in the back right and set up all our electronics.
For some odd reason the cable to the cafe's audio equipment were crap, leaving us with only the left channel, so we turned everything mono... Ohwell, as long as people can sing.

Some songs have even been requested more than once, the big winners this time are:
Death Note - What's up, People
Minimoni - Strawberry pie
One Piece - We Are
Ouran High School Host Club - Sakura Kiss

Things that could've been better...
The beamer really didn't do it in that bright room. Next time we need something like curtains or whatever to blind those glass walls. At least to show some stuff on the screen.
...Or a better beamer.
Because the list is being stuffed right when we've just started for a few minutes, people wanted to know when their song was coming up. The problem is, that although it shows an time in the playlist, it might not be accurate on the dot. Especially when people don't show up and we have to cancel a preceding song.
This led to some irritation for those who came after we cancelled their song. But we solved it by re-adding their song and bumping it up to the 3rd entry.
Also, not having a big screen with all the announcements on it didn't help at all.

Finally, some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

And to wrap things up, a final picture of people having a go at the Lucky Star opening:

New songs!

2007-07-02T20:21:00.000+02:00

ChibiCon is drawing near, so it's time we added some new songs!

Final Fantasy XII - Kiss me goodbye
Kiddy Grade - Junpaku Sanctuary
Nanoha A's - Eternal Blaze
Busou Renkin - Makka Na Chikai
Kiddy Grade - Junpaku Sanctuary
Nanoha A's - Eternal Blaze
Akazukin Chacha - Kimi iro Omoi
Angela Aki - Kiss From a Rose
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan - Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
Death Note - The World
Death Note - What's up, People
Gaogaigar - Yuusha-oh tanjou
JAM project - Freedom
JAM project - Gong
JAM project - Oneness
JAM project - Soultaker
Magipoka - Senketsu no Chikai
Magipoka - Shichaimashou Suggestive
Nadeshiko - Geki Ganger III
Romeo X Juliett - You Raise Me Up
Romeo X Juliett - You Raise Me Up (Karaoke)
Saint Seiya - Pegasus Fantasy
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Sorairo Days
Violinist of Hamelin - Magical Labyrinth
Witchblade - XTC
Samurai Pizza Cats - Samurai Pizza Cats
Bokurano - UNINSTALL
UNINSTALL (Karaoke)
Kami-Chama Karin - Ankoku Tengoku
Sola - colorless wind
Sola - colorless wind (Karaoke)
Sola - mellow melody
Complete Song list / Recent changelist

Soramimi.nl launch & ChibiCon appearance

2007-07-01T13:19:00.000+02:00

Yes, it's finally here!
We've managed to register www.soramimi.nl and we've started a blog so you can read all the latest news here.
(Why .nl you ask? Because all the Soramimi members are Dutch.)
Slowly we're trying to get rid of the old soramimi website. More people started using it and after we felt it was time for a change.
We'll do our best to provide you with useful information concerning the Soramimi Karaoke developments.

So, what's what?
As a starting point www.soramimi.nl is your first stop for info. From there you should be able to find your way to our other resources.
Help, tuturials and other useful things will be available on SoraWiki but as we're busy people, most stuff is still on the old help page.
The downloads are still available in the old download section, but is prone to be moved to a different location in the future.
The YouTube channel is not doing much at the moment, but we're planning some video tutorials there, so keep tuned.

Chibicon public appearance
As a side note, we will do our usual Karaoke Cafe (unannounced) at the Chibicon convention coming 7 july (Tanabata) held in Utrecht. We are scheduled for 4 hours of karaoke madness!
See you there! (well maybe)