Okay, so the problem concerning this question is a somewhat convoluted one.
Recently a new Vocaloid song came out that many people are doing covers of and I want to cover it with Vocaloid 3. However, as Vocaloid 4 is more recent and the one that people generally make new covers with nowadays, the only redistributed files that any producer has released of it are vsqx files for Vocaloid 4.
Vocaloid 3 can load vsqx, but only if it's a vsqx that's intended for V3. (At least from my understanding.) If you try to load a vocaloid 4 vsqx it will state that it could identify the variable for "vocaloid 4" or something like that. Basically meaning it can't load newer vsqx files.
Well, I read a little into it, and concluded that the best possible way to convert a VSQX to VSQ, possibly even one of the only functional ways, would be to convert it to MIDI, load it into V3, and write in the hiragana by hand. If the VSQX was romaji I could have just converted it to a UST and it would load in V3 just fine, unfortunately it's in hiragana. So...
With the help of an acquaintance who had both Vocaloid 4 and SynthV they were able to load the vsqx into SynthV and from there convert it to a midi.
Now I have the full converted MIDI file of the VSQX, which I can technically load into Vocaloid 3... it's just missing the syllables because they have to be manually added.
But I don't know hiragana, nor do I have a hiragana keyboard. I can technically type in hiragana with japanese input by typing in romaji (it would automatically convert to hiragana) but even so I can't take the hiragana and convert it to romaji manually simply for the reason that I'm not fluent in the language.
Thinking about this, I had a few ideas:
1. I could possibly ask someone to help me romanize the hiragana so I could type it in manually, possibly with an image reference from my acquaintance of how the vsqx looks in V4.
2. I could see if it was possible to acquire just a plain document that included the rundown of every syllable from start to finish, and then by using copy and paste while referencing pictures of the file in V4, piece it together so that it replicated the original.
Option 1 would mean that I would need to find a translator as well as someone who had dabbled in Vocaloid, which seems to be setting up a high expectation. I don't know if it would be so easy to find such.
Option 2 is possible, but I don't know how or if it's even possible to get a simple, raw list of all the syllables in a vsqx file. Maybe from the code? Or possible even from one of the selections in the dropdown menus. When it comes to going about that, I'm just lost. Maybe there's a setting in Vocaloid 4 that can do that? Or a plugin?
I'm wondering if anybody can help me with that. If anybody knows about a possible method to get a text document that's just a rundown of all the syllables in a file (preferably for each track separately,) with a plugin, a setting, code, or anything else that works, please let me know.
(also, sorry about the bold lol, I was using it to highlight the points of the issue so that if anyone was skimming and saw something they had info on, it would be easier to read and identify)
Recently a new Vocaloid song came out that many people are doing covers of and I want to cover it with Vocaloid 3. However, as Vocaloid 4 is more recent and the one that people generally make new covers with nowadays, the only redistributed files that any producer has released of it are vsqx files for Vocaloid 4.
Vocaloid 3 can load vsqx, but only if it's a vsqx that's intended for V3. (At least from my understanding.) If you try to load a vocaloid 4 vsqx it will state that it could identify the variable for "vocaloid 4" or something like that. Basically meaning it can't load newer vsqx files.
Well, I read a little into it, and concluded that the best possible way to convert a VSQX to VSQ, possibly even one of the only functional ways, would be to convert it to MIDI, load it into V3, and write in the hiragana by hand. If the VSQX was romaji I could have just converted it to a UST and it would load in V3 just fine, unfortunately it's in hiragana. So...
With the help of an acquaintance who had both Vocaloid 4 and SynthV they were able to load the vsqx into SynthV and from there convert it to a midi.
Now I have the full converted MIDI file of the VSQX, which I can technically load into Vocaloid 3... it's just missing the syllables because they have to be manually added.
But I don't know hiragana, nor do I have a hiragana keyboard. I can technically type in hiragana with japanese input by typing in romaji (it would automatically convert to hiragana) but even so I can't take the hiragana and convert it to romaji manually simply for the reason that I'm not fluent in the language.
Thinking about this, I had a few ideas:
1. I could possibly ask someone to help me romanize the hiragana so I could type it in manually, possibly with an image reference from my acquaintance of how the vsqx looks in V4.
2. I could see if it was possible to acquire just a plain document that included the rundown of every syllable from start to finish, and then by using copy and paste while referencing pictures of the file in V4, piece it together so that it replicated the original.
Option 1 would mean that I would need to find a translator as well as someone who had dabbled in Vocaloid, which seems to be setting up a high expectation. I don't know if it would be so easy to find such.
Option 2 is possible, but I don't know how or if it's even possible to get a simple, raw list of all the syllables in a vsqx file. Maybe from the code? Or possible even from one of the selections in the dropdown menus. When it comes to going about that, I'm just lost. Maybe there's a setting in Vocaloid 4 that can do that? Or a plugin?
I'm wondering if anybody can help me with that. If anybody knows about a possible method to get a text document that's just a rundown of all the syllables in a file (preferably for each track separately,) with a plugin, a setting, code, or anything else that works, please let me know.
(also, sorry about the bold lol, I was using it to highlight the points of the issue so that if anyone was skimming and saw something they had info on, it would be easier to read and identify)
