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In three years I lost most of my ability to form memories, but apparently I can finish songs sometimes. Like most of my songs, I started writing this one in 2018. Recently I considered using Daina in this one, but I knew if I didn't upload it now, it would take me months or years to remember...

More on realistic tuning, when people say "realistic tuning" they usually mean "extremely ornate tuning". Not every live singer decorates every note with loads of tone changes, volume changes, vibrato, and pitch bends. Sometimes live singers do very little in terms of these things, and that can...

Native Instruments is giving away (as in for free) a sample library of a Chinese hammered dulcimer called the "yangqin". They have demo songs on the store page. They are also offering a $25 voucher for anything in their store if you put in the code "HOLIDAYGIFT2020" at checkout. They're also...

I don't buy the argument that it's not financially viable to reduce the price of the VB's. Most of them are years old and have made 90% of all the profit they would ever make unless something is done to reinvigorate sales. Then they might be able to squeeze out a little bit more profit. Besides...

I think the Vocaloid brand is finished. V5 has a very poor reputation and nobody, not even Yamaha, wants to put out a product onto this platform. It's probably too late for a new engine or new VB's to be successful, but we still have like 70 different Vocaloids to choose from, so it's not like...

I really like the new design for NT. It doesn't feel like Crypton at all, but that's okay, because it still looks like a fancy new version of Miku. I also love iXima's newer version of V4. It reminds me of Miku's glorious V3 English design. The colors aren't as interesting as V3 English, but...

As far as I can tell, there is a strong correlation between detailed, creative character designs and financial success along with popularity in this market. Blank or dull canvases don't bode well for sales even if the product can produce excellent results. If Yohioloid had a more interesting...

I also think Yohioloid has a dull and uninteresting design, plus an awkward and uninspired name. I think the name and design are quite bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of creativity and expressiveness despite being well drawn. Like you said, it's just anime Yohio. Not only that, it's anime Yohio...

I think Luka V4X is fantastic and a worthy followup to Luka V2, and I also think Luka V2 is great. :luka_lili:

Thanks for your suggestion. I think the lead vocals in particular could use more melodic variation. They could also bring in more harmonic and rhythmic variety without changing the genre. If I gave the lead guitar and bass more variation it would be closer to post-metal than drone metal, and I...

I recommend Alter/Ego. It's free except for the French vocals. I find it about as easy as Piapro Studio, but it is much lighter on CPU usage. I find it much easier for testing out melodies because it uses MIDI and works like any other instrument. It even works with keyboard (musical or the...

I wrote most of this song two years ago, and just these past few months I found the energy to slowly bring it into a reasonably polished state. I'm glad this song is finally out there. I've been enjoying it for a long time, and it has been one of the songs that help me when I have panic attacks...

I will also recommend the velocity parameter. That's the main purpose of it. It shortens consonants so they don't end up swallowing short notes, or lengthens them for a more lax pronunciation.

I particularly ship: Daina x Ruby :daina_lili: x :ruby_smile_lili: Daina x Maika :daina_lili: x :maika_lili: Luka x Gumi :luka_lili: x:gumi_lili: Luka x Ruko :luka_lili: x:yokuneruko_lili: Luka x Miku :luka_lili: x :miku_lili: Miku x Teto :miku_lili: x:teto_lili: Ruko x Teto...

I'd also like to share the most amazing cover of Error that I've ever heard. It's a piano version with Meiko as the lead vocal, and all the other Cryptonloids as backup vocals. I just found this cover a few minutes ago while mulling over whether I should buy Meiko while the sale is going on. The...

Here's a cover version of Palette, a hard rock song from Yuyoyuppe. Jirai did a fantastic job on the vocals, and this is my favorite version of the song. Jirai used Kanon and a little bit of Anon for this cover. And here's a cover of "S", another song from Yuyoyuppe, and this one is heavy...

I also recommend getting a Crypton Vocaloid due to their versatility and coming with Piapro Studio. Meiko, Kaito, and Luka all come with English voice banks for somewhat less money compared with Miku or Rin and Len. One thing to be aware of is that Meiko and Kaito are V3's and I don't know if...

I generally don't mind sexy designs, but I also know it can be part of a larger problem of devaluing women. I would assume Cyalien has Sonika and some of GUMI's designs particularly in mind. If these were fleshed out characters and not just sexy images of women to sell a product, I'd be...

I wasn't aware they altered the samples. I figured it was just a matter of bad programming and the samples being handled poorly by the program. Do you have a link showing what they did to the samples?

There is also Sopichu Teigiga made from eSpeak, which is a text-to-speech service that is mostly artificial. Here's a duet between Defoko and Sopichu Teigiga: I'm also working on voice banks from eSpeak, but they don't sound as polished. Still fun to work on.