Unpopular Opinions

[Grzesiek11]

The Japanese fandom and the English fandom don't have to be the same. Japanese people use vocalo (NOT Vocaloid) to mean vocalsynth, so they *are* making a distinction. We have an English word for vocalsynth, we can use it.

Here's an unpopular opinion. "Vocalsynth" is a lame word. Lowercase "vocaloid" is much better sounding, and genericized trademarks are nothing new. Yamaha also holds the trademark to「ボカロ」btw so this is not at all different to using the word "vocaloid" in English, it's just more common to shorten words in this way in Japanese. I wouldn't be opposed to using the word "vocalo" either, it sounds pretty sweet as well. Anything but "vocalsynth".

I'm convinced the word "vocalsynth" was invented by the Big English Speaking Community as a way to continue selling Teto Is Not A Vocaloid to new fans.

 

[Heruru Meruru]

I just call Vocal Synths "'loids" at this point.

 

[IO+]

Thinking about it, I actually prefer using more (not entirely) genre-specific voicebanks to more general tone voicebanks. With genre-specific ones, I can easily know if a voicebank will sound good with the song, I don't have to test anything regarding tone. But general ones? I can't really find a use for them! My best examples are Meiko vs Luka (v4x) English. Luka English has a general pop-adjacent tone, while Meiko is clearly geared towards light pop and ballads. When I look for songs for Meiko, I can easily think of songs that fit her niche, but with Luka? I have no idea! She, along with a lot of other voicebanks, is so general that I simply have no idea what to use her for! Why would I use a general voice that'll get the job done when I can use a voice that fits this niche? I might be rambling, so please tell me if this is incomprehensible and I will do my best to explain.

Vocaloid English are quite troublesome because how their unintuitive phonetic structure and quite hard go get vocaloid english to sound good or Pronounce/Accent right. Which is completely opposite to the Synth V English bank that are much more mature and more friendly to edit. You might not believe what i say but this alone contributes such a huge impact of how english voicebank will "end-up" sound like. Just simply easy to edit can make a Night/Day difference for a singing performance.
Singing range and tempo range is just a "suggestion" and should be treated as such, most VBs can be push far beyone the limit before it sound like a noise.
Honestly anything will sound like a beeping sawtooth wave if push unreasonably excessive.

There is always some unwanted / leftover weird noise when exports. Some VBs are doing excellent, some are doing poorly. So what came out from any singing synth engine are not absolute. This is where mixing stage are for.