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morrysillusion
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  • not to bring in more discussion abt ppl's reactions to v6, and i really dont frequent voctwit either bc i know i dont like it. but man, i tried the last few weeks to be mutuals w a few ppl around vocsynth bc 'i should try and connect w ppl i share interest with' only to be blatantly reminded that people Love being too negative abt things. im not talking about critique and discussion about issues w it. just like... exaggerated, insulting tweets that really dont do anything other than 1) rally up others who dislike it to join in on quick takes and 2) make you feel bad when you read it bc you are using it at all and dont feel as strongly.

    *I* have problems w v6, i have opinions about it! but even so its not....its not that serious? its just not. and even if these people arent "serious" i just have a hard time understanding why ppl act like that outwardly and think its bearable to be around (bc my god, for me, its really not). not everyone is like this for sure, and i feel some have settled down on it. but when i see it. boy.

    still. its why i prefer forums like this- its not to say you cannot be negative ever, or not crack a joke. but twitter's format is undoubtedly a breeding ground for snappy takes in short form, little regard to how it comes off or the fact that seeing it as someone's constant behavior online doesnt not make me think theyre very friendly lol.
    hm. im trying to figure out if - changed for carrying notes in v6? because. all of my vsqx/vprs with that are not...working right... or something else has changed abt the phonemes?? a note w N just isnt playing
    umm it would be so cool.... to perhaps have a zero g revival for v6.....maybe,...please
    definitely at a point where i cannot make a post for *every* flower song coming out in a week, less it becomes spam lol. so. heres a list in my status (including duets):











    not literally *everything* but this is like, every flower artist im subbed to on youtube! so many dang songs with many out on the same day. some of these artists are pretty small! so give em a look :)
    adding to the Yuma use notes: used him in more english. sometimes his S's at the end of words almost sound.. like 'sth'. kinda sounds like he gets a lisp lol. not super consistent (kinda changes depending on the pitch too?) but kinda funny tbh. but i actually think his accent it pretty good! anyways heres a bit i rendered of his english, in the lower range! :) Whyp - Free Audio Sharing for Everyone
    at first i was a lil dissapointed to see how little vocal modes Yuma has (idk how many Natalie has btw) buuuut the trend i have felt w vocal modes on dreamtonics banks is like. if you get 6 and they have vague/hard to describe names, theres gonna be two that just dont sound all too different. (at least, how i feel with Ryo tbh). so i can totally accept some more "straight forward" vocal modes and less of them, than trying to push for more when they may not sound too different anyways. but i do wonder if they may consider updating vocals with more varying vocal modes at a later date. i feel like that could be nice to see for some!
    dang... going through an archive i made of my 2013 tumblr blog that i havent looked at since i deleted the actual blog, and im starting to find posts where i got back into vocaloid lol... and its so weird seeing other posts where im hyped for vocaloids coming out back then. ei "omg im so excited for ruby! she sounds so good for an engloid!!" goddamn feels like a lifetime ago
    i know i gotta eventually ease up on being a perfectionist but yall would not believe how many CV banks i have recorded at this point while trying to find a good tone for my new bank... sooo many. multiple pitches...
    i have been having an annoyingly hard time finding people i want to commission for more art of Mez prior to release-- it doesnt help that within my own circle i have mostly been following furries so my immediate go-to's cant do it. the other thing too is that i want artists to be aware their art is going to be used with my utau because that means their art will 100% be used by others, and its very likely ppl arent going to credit them (its just something cant control as much as i want people to do so). even though its all free and not commercial use, i just like making sure the artist understands mostly in the case of stumbling across your art randomly somewhere and not knowing if someone just stole it. which is why i wanted to seek out artists i knew drew for utau quite often, as they'd understand it the most buuut im barely around utau artists on spaces like twitter, so i really dont know anyone, and sadly even utau specific places like utaforum etc are pretty inactive when it comes to making 'looking for' posts.

    ive been browsing through toyhouse as its the only place i can think of where i wont be bombarded by bots (thanks twitter) when seeking commissions, and im also not finding that theres loads of anime artists but many of them never draw men/dont have male examples.... or if they do theyre just, was too feminine and i know they wouldnt capture my character how i want. on the opposite end it seems when i do find a male centric anime artists, its like. only big buff baras lol.

    but TH has had a huge array of artists to dig through and im already jotting down a few i may go back to, even if i need to explain a bit that their art will basically be open to use with this character.
    properly recording my utau vbs and, while mez's design is final i think i will tweak some things like face shape just a bit. admittedly i dont tend to design first before voicing (bc i want to design to fit the voice) and i think ill tweak it as time goes on and my voices changes on T. but! my default pitch has dropped 3-4 semitones since my last attempts so thats cool.
    still looking for artists to get some art of my utau for the full release, but its been so long since i made a bank and worked hard on otoing it, so i may do a small beta release? because i kinda wanna add a lot onto it, but may want to put it out there in a early state too- idk, will have to see if i do enough to feel like it warrants that
    adjacent to the unpop onion thread but not really opinion related enough to share there- tbh thought for a while i was going nuts thinking flower's popularity specifically spiked with V5 but, its very true and i remember the moment it happened. for a good number of years i was making a list on google docs of all v flower songs i found. actually, heres the list, which may have some very very early songs if anyone is curious!

    but, thing is it got discontinued when suddenly i noticed a strong influx of flower being used. so much so that she was not obscure enough to keep track of the original very slow flow of songs!! before it was just a slow hunt for original songs and for a bit after i found all i could, i kept an eye on the key flower aritsts. but now they were coming out left and right from popular producers, and the number of unknown artist i wouldnt see was so much larger now. it certainly picked up when some artists like GHOST used her for english sure, but it really really exploded with V5. it is undeniable that i feel like 80-90% of flower being used in japanese songs are in V5.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    V5 made flower a MUCH more versatile voice. i have slacked on using many vocal synths in the last years in general but when V5 came out and i used the vocal fry, or the growl, and the breathiness that made her so soft- i was sooooo incredibly excited about that! it felt for a bit that no one in the west was appreciating its potential but it seems the japanese fans really got on it because flower's popularity definitely coincided with how V5 gave her more flexibility.

    so realistically, i think this really shows that if Ci Flower comes out without issues, it will also be quite a hit if the options in the software allow for all that creativity
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    In regards to Ci Flower, yeah we'll have to see, but it was sorta a blessing in disguise that she got postponed so much because now she's gonna get the emotion slider, it for example gives Tsudumi great range in expression, so I'm hoping same goes for Flower, also what would help in flexibility would be if she were responsive to dynamics in the Cevio editor, as those can have big impact in how soft or powerful the vb can get, to get an idea try them out with ChisA, who's fairly responsive to them. Also Cevio AI has attributes in the note properties where you can fine tune the vb, like if you wanna make the vb breathy/do end breaths there's a breath option or you can select staccato and such and recently Cevio got the falsetto option there which is super neat.

    We'll ultimately have to wait and see how she'll behave in editor as dynamics and emotion slider vary vb by vb but the potential for her to be flexible isn't lost just yet! It definitely won't be like V5 as the tools provide different kind of sound but I hope CiFlower will be a neat expansion to Flower that will provide another kind of sound and be flexible in her own way. Hoping for the best.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    very true! its kinda good cevio has had some time to develop now instead of flower being like, one of the very first releases. its certainly a software that im more curious about as theyve worked on it more so id be happy to see flower work solidly with it because of that. I used ChisA and bit and i loved her voice and how she worked in that editor, so i would be eager to try Flower if she felt similar tbh.

    the early bumpy road with cevio had me like 😬 (still does, at many points lol) but now as cevio's voices have developed more, and we have been able to see more uses of them, i think theres a lot of potential for a voice like flower (assuming they... go for a similar tone and dont change her voice entirely lol). V5 tools have been a great way to enhance her voice that we have had for a while now, but Cevio could be a great oppurtunity to bring something new to the table with how she could sound, if the bank really works with the tools provided!
    was clicking around at some smaller vocaloid artists i listen to and was hit w the fact that a lot of them are way younger than i thought. the japanese artists mostly, since i dont often translate the descriptions or anything. a couple were like "i just released this on my 18th birthday" and "i made this last year in middle school but im releasing it now" etc etc which like. i guess it shouldnt be that shocking, because i see a lot of younger producers in the west now too!

    but i just never thought about it since i wasnt reading the japanese. admittedly it sours some vibes even further with artist's who also write some real hard, depressing lyrics about trauma too and finding out their like 16??? its not different w them than the western artists too biut i feel a disconnect w the japanese ones since i dont actively know the lyrics when i listen. and i know i used to be the 16 year old just listening to these songs and relating, but now im an adult and im getting better so it makes me a bit more openly sad for them.
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    In a way, it's amazing that Vocaloid has allowed people all over the world, including kids, to express things they probably couldn't say in real life to someone else. But saying that, it's also quite sad too, especially when you consider how stigmatised mental health still is in countries like Japan.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    oh yes, for sure- the ability to go online and share things that have to do with your life in a creative way is certainly a great outlet... whether its art or music. but yes its hard to look at some where i start to notice a.... decline in someone's state, and have to wonder "will they get help?"
    problem. donno why i thought itd be a good idea to get into recording a utau bank with multiple pitches when i have been on T for a year and i have *no* idea how to use my own voice anymore since it changed.....uh..... hm. this may take more tries than i planned lol
    my intent was to basically give mez's jacket a faint jaguar pattern so if i wanted to i could hint at that animal basically furry-ify him if i was tired of drawing humans lmao. but i never draw anything with much detail in it anymore so i didnt really go hard on adding that pattern to the art i did anyways....oh well. just need to find someone else to draw him that puts more detail in their art lol
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