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I'm gonna be honest, sometimes I feel insecure about using old voicebanks because everyone seems to be moving on to the fancy cutting-edge AI technology and I'm still using concatenative voicebanks from the V3-V4 era (with the exception of maybe Chis-A, who's free anyway). Yes, I can use SynthV Basic, but since that's NG for commercial use I feel like I can't use it to make original songs lest I eventually sell them.

Then again, my idealistic 12-year-old self specifically wanted to be a Vocaloid producer, and the things I experimented with before purchasing Miku, such as UTAU, Sharpkey/Deepvocal, and the free versions of SynthV (R1 evaluation and R2 Basic), and even RenoidPlayer and Sinsy before I even had access to anything more than a Chromebook (I had a PC I could use since before Web SynthV came out), were just to get me ready. Part of me just wants to honor my tween-age wishes, and I'm also super used to Piapro Studio by now.

But at the same time, in both the vocalsynth fandom and music-production communities, people are largely leaving the old stuff behind in favor of AI-powered stuff, especially SynthV at least in the West. Many of my favorite vocalists are getting updates- and for those who likely aren't, fans are screaming for them to, acting like their companies are criminals for not giving them such- and some new vocals are super tempting too, especially if I could potentially use them well in my favorite genres. But I can't afford it right now, and even when I'm set up with a job I can't just go spending all over the place no matter how much people say "you should totally get X Y and Z!"

I think Gakupo should be Weird in a nerdy way, not in a creepy way. Like yes king I WILL listen to your infodumps about Heian period history and the Bushido code

Woaaaah in the beginning I was a bit worried about the very simple setting (though it was more elaborated and livelier than the simple one in the first clip shown on TV) but JESUS, SLIMANE YOU DARED DOING IT THE NOUGARO WAY AND SINGING THE BLASTING BEFORE-END CHORUS AFAR FROM THE MIC LIKE AN OPERA SINGER, RESPECT !!! I got the shivers!!

Edit : Also got slapped a second time, this time by Kaleen

Over the past few years, I have noticed that some companies that produce vocal synthesizers are ambitious and innovative, producing new features that exceed public expectations. Other companies may not produce new and exciting features, but they are committed to updating their current voice banks to keep up with the latest vocal synthesizer technologies. These companies should be supported by all of us.

However, there are certain companies that are currently in their "comfort zone" instead of pushing towards the advancement of vocal synthesizer technologies. Instead of being the actual pioneers with proven results, they cling to nostalgia and release half-baked products. They are delaying important updates that are needed to the current voice bank and giving empty promises to their customers. Meanwhile, they keep squeezing every last drop of "value" from their own characters. It's no wonder that more and more people are becoming dissatisfied with their attitude. Despite the complaints, these companies remain blind to their shortcomings and continue to live in their own fantasy world. Unfortunately, there are still fans who are blind to these issues and continue to blindly support these companies while criticizing those with legitimate concerns.

I know that Circus and Crusher's relationship was toxic, but man did they write some certified bangers together. (listening to reuploads of Wildfire and Crystalline)

Usually there's that one song of Soprano that is really moving, but today it hurts even much more and I do hope I won't add anyone more to the list...

gakupo whisper in the high range: a smol boi! soft and fluffy. wants the best for you :)
gakupo whisper in the low range: n̸̨̡̡̧͇͕̥͔̼͕̙̜̉̀̉̋͑̎̃̎̉̎̇͑͜͠͝͝ͅͅe̵͇͍͚̜̔̀̓͑̊̃̀͐̅̊̉͗̋̈́͠ĕ̵̡͎͕̯͔̱̯̥͎̰̺͐͜ͅ ̷̦̦̰̠͍̙̱͕͇͕̫̺̺͇͎̜̋̀̄̐̈́̾͘ͅh̸͓̠̜̳̯̘̿̔̈́̌̀̓̉̂͌̑͒͒͌̚ǫ̶͉̘͆̃́̑͋͒̀̅̕̕͝ͅŕ̴̘̯̦͕̐̓͗͝a̷̩̰͚̭̳̫̞͙̘̖̓͂̀͆͂̂̊̇̋͋͌̏̚

I bought Haruno Sora last night after I remembered she had a lite version and I fell in love all over again ;-; I've been working on this on and off with Feng Yi for a year or so lol and thought Sora would be a good fit! Still have fine tuning to do also Sora has some consistency problems in tone in her higher octaves and it is annoying because it isn't every note just some ;-;

Edit: Uploaded the harmonies not the main vocals rip fixed now

I meet someone who making music with pc that are just as good as 90s toaster.

It is a great honor to meet.

I went to the May 5th Concert. It was impressive. I expected the japan band though. The band that was there played really well though. I have to parse the video, it'll be up on the tubes.

I understand an ordinary peoples who use Crowdfunding system due to budget, but for a big companies. . . I just don't get it.

I think I might buy Haruno Sora synth V soon I forgot how much I loved her vocaloid vb and how well it transitioned to synth v maybe Sheena hmm

don't mean to spam but wow things aren't going right for me lately
i tried to buy una ai with one of those 'preferential sales' for registered users and it just keeps giving errors. help

right after i get neutrino running it decides to not work any more
why_are_we_here_just_to_suffer.mp3
curse u colab for not allowing me to use gpu any more!!

I must remind everyone of my favorite producers existence again! ANGL is amazing

I'd work with NNSVS more if it wasn't such a setup to get it started every time. DiffSinger is more convenient as i don't need to run a "server" to do it, but these free AI synths still take a long time to render anything. I don't have the most high-end hardware, so that's probably my fault.
I don't get how I'm supposed to tell DiffSinger what language it's supposed to sing in. In the end, classic UTAU are still the easiest, but remembering all the unique flags present with all the different resamplers is a chore. I wish OpenUTAU already knew what all the flags were for each one, but that's probably a lot of work.
I know that I should probably be using SynthV lite, but I don't want to work with watered down versions of the Pro voices. This really is an expensive hobby.

By the way, is it really true that Vocaloid2 voices sound different than intended in Vocaloid3/4? That sounds like an issue to me. Do the old V2 voices come with the editor? I would like to someday get Luka V2, but I don't want to risk getting the voice and not the editor to use it in.

Ok, so

I really don't understand people surpricing about good covers or originals done with V1 or V2 engine, they can sound really realistic and capable of many thing, is just different engine with different work systems. Most of the time people had just seen bad covers.

I heard or saw people say about "engine noise" in vocal-synths a lot but do you know how it actually sounds? can you describe how it's sounds like? and is that really a big deal?


I'm curious. . . What's your thoughts?

I can't believe that there's actually a Touhou x Project Sekai crossover. When I saw a Niigo Bad Apple cover in my youtube recommendations I thought it was a fan AI cover at first.