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The UTAU Doctor ;D
Topic Started: Oct 4 2011, 04:16 PM (1,522 Views)
annamaeblythe
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ffff, I don't care about popularity. If I did, I would have told Sekai "OH, IT'S GREAT, Let's make duets together and be BFFS!"

Here's the thing, a good CV bank will never measure up to a good VCV bank, and anything heavily accented is just not that great.
I don't work hard for popularity, I work hard because it's pointless to make something that sucks.
If you're going to put time into something, you should make it the best you can :c
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Cheese
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Thanks for the critique on his pronunciation!
I'm the UTAU Community's local Cheesekun =w=

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annamaeblythe
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No problem, Cheesypoofs 8D
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Meh. Why not?

[utube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-WX9JmRnC0&feature=channel_video_title[/utube]

[utube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-jYrjFtpk&feature=channel_video_title[/utube]
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Do you study Japanese, Synthaem?
I have nothing to say to you about accents other than GJ!!! GJ!!! :)
(I can kind of tell more of an accent on Sonya, and it reminds me a lot of Michiyo. If you want to do VCV, you just need to make sure to keep your vowels pure. (but I would work on minimizing the accent anyway because I'm weird about that stuff.))

Wanna do VCV ;D ?

I don't hear any blaring OTO errors :)

Your mixing seems like it's just "slap it down with some reverb." I really can't stand reverb.
What do you use to mix?
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annamaeblythe
Oct 7 2011, 10:53 PM
Do you study Japanese, Synthaem?
I have nothing to say to you about accents other than GJ!!! GJ!!! :)
(I can kind of tell more of an accent on Sonya, and it reminds me a lot of Michiyo. If you want to do VCV, you just need to make sure to keep your vowels pure. (but I would work on minimizing the accent anyway because I'm weird about that stuff.))

Wanna do VCV ;D ?

I don't hear any blaring OTO errors :)

Your mixing seems like it's just "slap it down with some reverb." I really can't stand reverb.
What do you use to mix?
Nah. I know very VERY little Japanese, but I'm very good with accents, so that's probably why.

I'd love to do VCV. Thing is, I'm pretty sure I have oto'ing them down, but my computer isn't in a japanese local, so I can't record or program it properly. I can't even use VCV's on my computer. It's rather depressing. I haven't found a very good tutorial on how to actually record VCV properly either.

I keep pretty tight with my oto's too. One of the only things I'm fairly talented with. (Not egotistical in anyway, I just take pride in what I'm good at is all)

Uuh...Neither of those songs have reverb. A bit of a phaser on the first song because of the original effects in the originally covered song, other than that. None. Second one was a TIPS test for Sonya, so I left out effects. I dunno, maybe the phaser effect automatically adds reverb. I usually use FL studio and Adobe Audition CS5 to mix nowadays.
Edited by Synthaem, Oct 8 2011, 12:00 AM.
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Sorry, I thought I'd help since Mae hasn't posted yet. ' u '

Anyways, for VCV you don't actually have to do hiragana. Plenty of people nowadays are saving the files in romaji and just adding the hiragana VCV aliases. It works for both 7-mora and 5-mora (And all other mora), you just gotta learn all the vowel patterns or just go off a reclist and save in romaji. Like, just type "a a i a u e a" and save it - as long as you put hiragana aliases it doesn't matter (And then people also without Japanese locale can use the bank~).

For recording, I go over that around the beginning of my tutorial (Sorry to throw it around DX): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7VzNpGLKI

Basically, for vowels don't stop, be smooth through all of them (Meaning, don't go a, stop, a, stop, i, stop, etc.), try not to have too much space between syllables, and basically record at any pace you like so long as you leave the space at the beginning and can make the proper adjustments in oto.

Hope that helped, and if not I'd be happy to track down other tutorials.
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Oct 8 2011, 04:13 PM
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Sorry, I thought I'd help since Mae hasn't posted yet. ' u '

Anyways, for VCV you don't actually have to do hiragana. Plenty of people nowadays are saving the files in romaji and just adding the hiragana VCV aliases. It works for both 7-mora and 5-mora (And all other mora), you just gotta learn all the vowel patterns or just go off a reclist and save in romaji. Like, just type "a a i a u e a" and save it - as long as you put hiragana aliases it doesn't matter (And then people also without Japanese locale can use the bank~).

For recording, I go over that around the beginning of my tutorial (Sorry to throw it around DX): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7VzNpGLKI

Basically, for vowels don't stop, be smooth through all of them (Meaning, don't go a, stop, a, stop, i, stop, etc.), try not to have too much space between syllables, and basically record at any pace you like so long as you leave the space at the beginning and can make the proper adjustments in oto.

Hope that helped, and if not I'd be happy to track down other tutorials.
HOLY CRAP THIS HAS HELPED ME SO MUCH.
ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou.
I'm starting recording tonight and hopefully will be done by Monday.

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Thanks, Shinami 8D
My logic is "Japanese locale or GTFO" >.>
but only because I'm painfully lazy.
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I need your opinion Mae.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSO_5cmlBI&feature=relmfu

This is my newest cv bank, i have a VCV voice bank. Then i realized it was BAD recorded and BAD OTOed because i recorded samples too fast. Even my VCV were that bad i fell in love with them. When i hear CV voicebanks now i cant stand them ><

VCV sample

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amoLxIkCuwo&feature=channel_video_title

I never got CV VB good.

I re-recorded my VCVs, but i have no time to oto em.

Oh, also... I have a Logitech H230 mic. But my samples still have noise. What can i do to get clear samples? I used noise removal (audacity) but it wont work.It just ruins my samples.
Edited by Matsukai, Oct 9 2011, 11:46 AM.
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