this thought came to mind with the unpop opinion thread but im not in the mood to throw myself in there mostly bc i couldnt expect someone seeing my stance as slightly hypocritical but its on my mind so.
i just gotta say ive always greatly disliked ppl who go and make vocaloid samples to turn them into UTAUloids... in the sense of 1) its very much not an example of the vocaloid sounding "better" when youve rendered it through one engine and are now re-rendering it again through another engine thus fucking the quality over even more (theres like a 5% chance anyone is actually managing to rip raw audio files from vocaloid so) and 2) its a pointless kind of effort for something you cant/shouldnt even be sharing and encouraging ppl to do anyways bc like, what are u even gonna do with it other than make one post for clout on soundcloud n never use it again??
in general im not a fan of seeing people openly encourage and talk about breaking TOS... things like pirating to test vocaloids you want to own, or pirating to use discontinued banks, or going into files to activate a vocaloid you lost activation to.... keep it to yourself and dont instruct ppl how to do possibly illegal things?? its not that i havent ever done those things or expect ppl to not- but its just not great to encourage it over legal options. and that includes encouraging people to make utau banks of vocaloids because it "sounds better" somehow- bc it breaks the TOS of vocaloids and utau and its also kinda pointless to try imo.
i guess the angle of 'hypocrite' from me comes from the fact i have made character voicebanks out of Sonic and Shadow the hedgehog lol. and theyre definitely similar kinds of banks, but ive never felt they were on the same level as vocaloid-to-utau banks- in the sense that obvs, sonic isnt an existing vocal synth. and secondly, while theres some obvious issues regarding TOS and i understand some greyness there, its not going against some other TOS like vocaloid. additionally i put a lot of my own work into making them sound good from these talking samples, which i feel is one of the appeals to trying to make it work. while the vocaloid utau ones arent for much else other than to try and say the vocaloid somehow sound better through an utau resampler than vocaloid's engine. i care abt my work though in a way that makes it different than just "haha funny sonic sings" lol so maybe thats just me. but ive just never had a good opinion on those vocaloid utau rendered posts... it mostly leans on me as being a way to get a ton of reposts and likes bc again, when the hell are you ever gonna use it again? in most cases utau wont really sound better and your only real advantage is pluging and playing it into a nicely tuned UST and calling it a day (which again, most of these SC posts i see just do that lol).
