theworldofhoneypete:

Ueki-loid (植木ロイド)
is said to be an older male voicebank.The Ueki-loid is actually a Vocaloid of a famous deceased Japanese singer named Ueki Hitoshi (surname first), who died in 2007 and forms part of the “Legend of Vocaloid” line-up.
The vocal itself overall has a Vocaloid engine quality to it. Since many of the phonetic data was impossible to retrieve since they were never recorded for Ueki Hitoshi in the first place, what you hear is mostly the Vocaloid engine between lyrics. Still, despite this, a lot of people were pleased with the voice and state it sounds similar to Ueki Hitoshi.

The voicebank was developed as follows: First, they made a voicebank from the voice of Hiro Kouichi (surname first), the eldest son of Ueki Hitoshi. Then, by a certain mathematical method, they constructed a transformation function which represents the difference of the voices of the two persons. Finally, they applied the function to the voicebank.

It is revealed that the Vocaloid is for private use only and will likely never be released at all.
DEMO:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYDxBIA6UI 

oh yeah this happens forgot to update you guys

vriskashka:

little-annoying-vocaloid-things:

Submitted by victorique-sorel.

but there are some really good engrish vocaloid songs???

especially the example one wow

The OP has a point, but some voice types are only in the Japanese line up as the same with the English/Korean/Spanish/Chinese line ups that aren’t in others.  Like Prima & Tonio, or Big Al’s ridiculously manly voice.  And we don’t even have any men in our Korean line up yet so why not make ‘em sing in any other language, you know?

And what about languages that don’t have Vocaloids?  While there are sounds that are only made in some languages, why can’t we make Vocaloids sing in Languages we don’t have yet like Latin or Greek, especially if it’s a slim chance that we’ll EVER get a Vocaloid for said language?

Did you know that there’s a whole genre of songs out there like this, dedicated to people’s fetishes & usually have PVs drawn & set up like dating simulator games?    They all have a very similar upbeat sound to them & use a lot of synthesizers too, and just get very repetitive to me after a while, but their is some variation in them here & there.  I understand that they have their time & place and hey, why not have fetishes make life more interesting you know, but they’re not my style.

I picked this song out of the whole genre though to review today just because reading the lyrics themselves, I just feel horrible for Len & Piko. I mean, gosh, they get stared at for long periods of time…

are chased around by hordes of fangirls…

get sexually harassed & publicly embarrassed…

I mean dude, isn’t that a crime?  I mean seriously can’t the boys come back and sue the hell out of those girls for scandalous pictures & forced wearing of fetish clothes?  And they would be found guilty immediately.  Or the judge would  be won over by the girls saying “we’ll give exclusive pictures of them if you let us go.  The BEST pictures.” Eck.

Ah, Len sounds a bit choppy due to earlier Cryptonloid’s short voice samples, & Piko sounds a bit nasally, but they end up covering each other’s weaknesses when they duet (also, is it me or do they sound better singing short phrases in the chorus than they do singular verses?).  It’s a song with nothing spectacular in it, just a nice duet with scary-ass women who are horrible enough to force someone to dress up against their will, and yes I wouldn’t have a problem with this song if they willingly put on the clothes for fun or money though(or both!), but hey.

And aww, look, the author themselves provided the video with lyrics(but didn’t translate them).  See the author’s comment:

I, GobouP, have written and composed this song, originally in Japanese. But once I saw the site shown below, I realized that this song was translated in English.Then I’ve re-edit the video’s subtitle.

That’s sweet you interesting person you.

Ah, I owe y’all some good Piko & Len songs, along with Meiko & Kaito and a Lola review.  I’m catching up, don’t worry!

whoops i seem not to be posting anything but fandom stuff

I’ll get up to some kind of review tomorrow if I can help it, sorry guys!

macdesu:

bobosweet:

macdesu:

spiced-milk-tea:

What would happen if AH-Software decided to do what every other major company was doing and make Extends/Appends/Clever Name for their banks.

What would even happen.

Yuki Kaai Ghetto Extend

A reality.

OMFG

-plusle:

and just remember there are no dumb fandoms only dumb people in fandoms

mystsaphyr:

kawaiine-kagami:

c-c-chuck:

mystsaphyr:

when people tag pictures of Miku with “UTAU”

when people tag pictures of teto as vocaloid

when people tag youtube videos with their pitchloids as vocaloids

when people tag pitchloids as UTAU

ask-rinlen:

akiglancy:

askneruandhaku:

…my soul

Happy Saturday everyone, just 4 weeks of school left for me c:

p5stuck:

sunriseovervenus:

Remember how I often say that I wish I had someone to help me sort through Vocaloid stuff? Someone patient, nonjudgmental, and who won’t call me a “bad fan” for not knowing all there is to know after being a fan for a year and a half?

I’m hoping I’ll find that person right now. I’m going to ask a question and you are not going to scream at me. Ready? Okay. Here we go.

I often see comments on YouTube along the lines of “____ is so awesome, I can’t believe she’s UTAU! She should be a VOCALOID!”

*sigh* What’s the difference between the two?

omg it’s totally ok this is a pretty complicated subject, let me walk you through the non-fandom half of things

Singing Synthesizers are a relatively common but rarely-made program that gives you singers in different ways. 

The three best synthesizers are Vocaloid, UTAU, and Cadencii. These three are pianoroll-style synthesizers. No one cares about Cadencii because Cadencii is kind of awful, even with such a nice sound.

Vocaloid is a professional-use synthesizer using high-quality voicebanks with a steady rendering sound and very simplified and easy-to-edit options. 

UTAU is sort of the indie freeware version that actually has a completely different interface, with much more fickle rendering. UTAU is also a custom synthesizer; there are multiple rendering samplers you can download, there’s a ridiculous amount of “flags” you can put on the song file that change the way the voice sounds, and you can record a voicebank with any technique you want. 

It’s worth mentioning that Vocaloid is not superior to UTAU, and vice-versa. UTAU, due to unique recording styles, sounds much more human than Vocaloid does. Vocaloid, on the other hand, has a way better sound rendering. Because it’s so controlled and free with perimeters, it is naturally more easy to work with a voice (though the voice will often sound very bad unless you put work into it). UTAU’s take on octaves are very pleasant and natural, but Vocaloid is too controlled, so recording only a low or mid octave will cause the voice to sound strained and often off-key (i.e. utatane piko).

They both have their pros and cons, and you should compare them by how you want to work with a synthesizer. You want a sandbox free-reign that gives you a better sound faster? UTAU. You want to create a refined example of singing using your editing skills? Vocaloid. 

Basically, people who say “____ sounds just like a Vocaloid” aren’t paying any compliments beyond the user’s technical skill (as an UTAU will sound kind of awkward if you don’t edit your voicebank’s file just right).