No.148
>>142What are some songs featuring them? I'd love to get a taste of how their voicebanks sound from your perspective.
No.149
>>148It's hard to find originals with them due to the fact that they're both UTAU. Producers don't care much for UTAUloids outside of Rei, Defoko and Teto so a lot of the stuff you'll find are mostly covers.
Here's what Cecil sounds like:
https://youtu.be/eb9sqia5mzIAnd Gekiyaku:
https://youtu.be/TXoBCQsZZ1wI feel like it's worth noting that Gekiyaku and the other ghost Kazehiki recently got Vocaloid 6 voicebanks so a lot of the original music you'll find with them doesn't use UTAU.
No.154
https://youtu.be/EhchvGEg8-0rest in peace these voicebanks
>>149Sakane Cecil legit sounds like a real j-indie singer with effects applied. I'm actually stunned. Like jaw drop to the floor stunned. I'm not sure if its just the tuning but this is massively impressive
Gekiyaku is interesting too, I am impressed by how high her range can go but I'd feel like I need some more songs to see what her full range/capabilities are.
No.164
>>154I love this shit so much man. My favorite obscure utaus are the ones that are literally made by kids with terrible japanese pronounciation and sovlful Deviantart-tier recolors of KEI's art. You can just tell they wanted to make the next Hatsune Miku and failed miserably.
No.311
>>141kakoi's voice provider said that she's interested in making a new utau voicebank. she said that she felt like there was something that she could've done/could've done more with kakoi, but if the new vb get made it'll be different from kakoi because her voice have changed too.
it's been 3 years since she tweeted that though, so maybe it was all just a nice pipe dream.
No.312
>>311A diffsinger bank for her would be nice. A lot of old utau (mostly popular vipperloids) are getting diffsinger updates these days.
No.332
>>331Hopefully not the case with Koto. With V6 she was bound to flop but now that she's getting a SynthV i hope people end up using her. Really like her voice.
>KAFUDid she have an UTAU bank i'm not aware of? I always thought she was a CeVIO exclusive (with a cancelled SynthV).
No.333
>>332Yea she is CeVIO but im kinda just ignoring that portion since at this functional point to me 'Vocaloid' is like the term Band-aid.
A name brand thing that was the first of its kind so it ended up being the general noun used. Sadly, the SynthV pack was indeed axed.
No.334
>>333I'm asking because the thread is about UTAUs but yeah i agree, for the longest time "Vocaloid" has referred to vocal-synth in general due to how many engines there are now
No.335
>>334The real question ends up being, can there be a third party to bring UTAUs and all the other 3rd party-ish stuff under one umbrella from the existing workable tools. I think that would make a proper UTAU revival possible. Other than that, they will probably stay niche unless someone uses that as their gimmick.
No.336
>>335OpenUTAU is the closest thing to that, and there's a possibility SynthU could be released next year
No.413
People recently found out about this decade old voicebank called Ichigo Yukaine (probably from this vid
https://youtu.be/sne_8fnFefU) and are making covers and art of her which i think is pretty cute. I doubt she'll ever be Rei levels of popular but the idea of someone making a voicebank as a kid and it becoming popular years later is pretty fun to think about.
No.415
>>413seems like she had a small cult following on NND in the early 2010's
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10654382 No.423
>>422Tried to make a cover of Meltdown with her.
Ust by Near. Oto by Ethannnnn.
https://files.catbox.moe/2hjiqc.mp3 No.606
>>142Unsure about Cecil but I could've sworn Gekiyaku (and Kazehiki) are popular? I see fanart with 1k+ likes of them all the time, and even Inabacumori and Daibakuhashin have made Gekikaze songs (Daibakuhashin has made made multiple too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak7OILqZPL4.) Their Vocaloid and VXB releases seem to have made people regain interest a bit like SynthV did for Teto, and they're definetely leagues more popular than the majority of VOCALOID3 releases.
No.609
>>606Kazehiki and Gekiyaku are both relatively popular but they're still probably wholoids to the average fan who only knows Miku and the red one from Mesmerizer
No.611
>>604That would just be Hakaine Maiko
No.612
>>609>they're still probably wholoids to the average fan who only knows Miku and the red one from MesmerizerThat also applies to literally every non-Cryptonloid though? I highly doubt 12 year old PJSK kiddies even know Gakupo, Una, or Kafu lmao
The Western fandom (even the wholoid lovers) also found out about Zundamon super late, and barely know shit about talk synths
Thank god..Just found this (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5vC5eD3AYo) Gekiyaku UTAU original from last year via 2 seconds on Twitter, and I swear I know or could easily find at least like 20, despite the fact I rarely go looking for Gekiyaku content on purpose it comes to me
She may be a wholoid here but I don't think she is in the Japanese fandom which is honestly a good thing because that just prevents her from being used in unfunny talkloids or made a heckin non-binary wooby
Even then I've already seen Gekiyaku talkloids which is more proof people like her
(Forgive me if I seem rude. I am not trying to be!)
No.613
>>611But Hakaine Maiko is made for screamo and my idea for the zombieloid would be to have it still sound somewhat human.
I made this sketch recently and came up with a backstory for the character. She's an 80's jpop idol that
committed suicide as a result of harassment and stalking. Her passion for music was so strong that it managed to outlive her and she returned as a living dead person to continue singing.
It's a bit Deviantart-ish I'm aware but I honestly just really like the idea of a zombieloid.
No.615
>>613Love this concept omgg
No.657
>>59UTAU has had a steady background presence for as long as I can remember. Popular covers from good banks and with an undercurrent of who-banks - it's stable. No need for a "revival".
If anything, the popularity of rei and defoko feels unprecedented to me. There is a new appreciation for choppy banks now that realistic banks are dime a dozen. Maybe the next step is a nostalgia boom for half-realistic UTAU engine noise banks like Ritsu and Renri.
>>141Give me more resampler support on linux. PLEASE. I hate booting into windows for utau.
>>154>Sakane Cecil legit sounds like a real j-indie singer with effects applied.No idea what you're talking about. She sounds very UTAU, sparkly transitions between notes and exaggerated in/out breaths. Which is a nice style imo.
No.660
>>657As much as i love Ruko, Ritsu, etc and would love for them to become popular again i think people should start giving the whotaus a chance for once. There's some hidden gems out there but they're overshadowed by Defoko, Rei and the VIPPALOIDs (not saying any of those are bad but they're definitely more popular than your 14 year old sister's CV voicebank from 2009).
No.674
>>660Most people insane enough to use a whotau will simply create their own eventually, right?
No.678
>>674nah i appreciate whotaus but hate my voice too much to create one myself
No.682
>>674Maybe, but they'll probably keep them private (me lol)
No.709
I only just found out Iku Acme's official vcv vb was taken down because of social media harassment and now I'm frustrated about the state of fandom again
~~It's also frustrating that both the mega and anonfiles link aren't working for me rn so that doesn't help my annoyance~~
she deserves so much better it's not fair
No.713
oh thank god! thank u anon
>>711 No.734
>>709Yes I got so pissed when I found this out too 😭 Poor guy had to disappear from social media entirely
>>711LIFESAVER
Her VCV design is so cute, it'd be such a shame if it went to waste
No.735
>>734I wouldnt say it went to waste. It was used while the vb was up for distribution and there's people who still have it downloaded. An actual waste of good design would be Ring Suzune and Sonika (v4).
>>344We dont talk about ISIS-chan
No.738
>>734idk if you guys were there but iirc he was the one harassing?
No.740
>>738I don't usually care for drama but qrd?
No.744
>>742>Can i just get a tl;dr?>It's people arguing about muh lolisho = pedophiliaYeah..that
is the tl;dr. Iku got an entire voicebank cancelled over dumb loli drama. Lmao.
No.746
>>744pathetic and depressing
No.752
>>742the whole page is silly as hell, they accused kannade of defending pedophillia when they seemed to just take a 'pedos should be killed' post too seriously. they said multiple times they're not defending pedos and just want it researched + someday cured to prevent future children being harmed but they weren't listening
depressing as hell, glad there's an archive of her vcv tho
No.753
>>752there was also the second H-loid VB that got killed over it
tbh i wish the character licenses would've gone to someone who could stay out of drama, but maybe they'll give them to someone else? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No.754
>>753>giving a westerner the rights to a porn voicebankthere's your problem
No.755
>>752I do think theres ppl who want pedos to always exist so they can go all sadist and kill them/harass them instead of being normal and wishing for them to…. not be a threat to society and cured/fixed so they dont feel that they wanna hurt kids anymore lol
Kannade clearly hates pedophiles and people acting like he was defending them are wild. like. idk as a csa survivor I think Kannade seems like a very cool person, wanting to fix shit at it's source would prevent other kids from being hurt, instead of just killing them once u find out since that often leads to kids being hurt first???? the people starting a fuckin riot over him like that are insane fr fr.
then ppl being like "WOW U DELETING UR ACC IS SO SUS" is also insane like wdym he was being harassed by multiple people???? some ppl feel the best response to that is just leaving social media. nemlei did it and no one acted like that was super suspicious coz its a pretty normal response to a mass harassment campaign imo? I was mass harassed on twitter once and actually had no idea coz I only ever got notifications from ppl who I follow or who follow me so I only found out coz someone DM'd me like "yo you ok?" and I was like "?????? yeah why wouldnt I be?" LOL
but if u dont know all the tools and dont implement them beforehand like I did ur kind of fucked, I dont blame him for wanting to hop out coz if I noticed all the weirdos harassing me I would have been tempted to answer and would have probably had to delete too. guy seems cool, pity the fandom is Like That.
No.756
>>755Had a stroke trying to read this but either way equating cartoon porn to actual child abuse is fucking stupid and its even more stupid that people letting lolisho live rent free in their heads is the reason we had two iconic voicebanks cancelled.
No.757
>>756ok I also agree to that (I literally own loli doujin I dont think they relate to pedophilia at all) but I think what happened was somehow the lines got crossed into irl territory when his friends and him started bringing up that he works with criminals to rehabilitate them so he ignored the loli discussion part entirely too tbh
idk honestly that entire drama was bullshit nonsense anyway it was entirely unnecessary we deserve the voicebank ppl to come back and for these morons to fuck off into oblivion so they leave us all alone. the anti lolicon crowd would call my dad a pedophile even though hes younger than my mom coz shes short and flat chested. they all need therapy or some shit to get over their weird nonsensical lack of understanding of fiction or some shit
No.758
Please don't derail the thread w/ dramafaggotry & twitteresque discourse, thank you. Keep social media behavior where it belongs.
No.759
Okay! Topic change (but still on topic of UTAU), go!
Meiji Gahata used to be a very popular Utau, she was apparently released in collaberation with Lifulu shop. However, since the shop stopped existing, her voice bank was discontinued. (At least, that is my understanding as far as I can tell.)
It was known for being very high quality, and had a fuck ton of append banks. There was going to be an english voicebank of her released in 2016, but it's development was cancelled.
I think more people should make covers (and possibly original songs) with her again, since she was very pleasing to the ears, in my opinion.
Someone made her sing that JP version of Say So (and it seems to be the most recent cover with her I can find), so I'll embed that as an example of her voice.
No.765
>>758Yeah I agree, that's why I just posted that wiki link + a single sentence tl;dr and called it a day. Won't discuss it further I promise 🫡
>>759sex She's so beautiful..
No.766
>>758sorry if i contributed to the derailing, just thought the first tldr wasnt accurate
anyway i was hoping that sometime fanloid utaus would come around… like for example making a gumi sv fanloid who's a robot, basically a powerful VM put into a cv utau. or making a zatsune utau from edited miku samples. though i guess the point of fanloids is to be an edited version of an existing voicebank lol
No.884
I've recently become obsessed with obscure voicebanks made between the 2008-2015 period. A lot of them have this unique amateurish quality to it. But what hits hard for me is the fact that we're listening to a version of the voice provider that technically no longer exists and is forever stuck in time.
No.1153
>>542>>543I made a cover with Hitori a few days ago
In fact, if you go on Youtube and search her up then filter it by upload date, you will see that it is the first time someone has used her in nearly 10 years
Surprisingly the algorithm seems to have picked it up so hopefully more and more people will know her name and we'll see more music being made with her, perhaps even a VCV/CVVC port
No.1419
Is there a reason why 90% of vocaloid producers don't use UTAU? I know the Vipperloids were popular back in the day but i only really see people use Rei and Teto now.
No.1422
>>141990% of Vocaloid producers didn't get into UTAU because it takes a lot of effort to make it sound like Vocaloid
Nowadays people just like robotic CV voicebanks so it's easy
No.1424
>>1422>it takes a lot of effort to make it sound like VocaloidNot really, all you need is a VCV and decent tuning skills
No.1558
do any anon's still have Gekiyaku's english utau vb? it seems as though its the only 1 not on her site anymore as far as I can tell
No.1569
>>1561 oh my god thank u so much anon
No.1644
(this is my first time here in these kind of places \^^')
>>766I'm not sure if it counts so apologies, but I do know there has been a fanmade Haku CV utau vb with original samples, as if she had her own voice!
https://bsky.app/profile/irunabara.bsky.social/post/3ldvy7xnpns2h ← Bsky post mentioning it
No.1645
>>1644Yep the Haku utau's been mentioned in the /news/ thread before. I personally think the voice is really cute but heard that it wasn't really approved by Caffein89 or something along these lines.
No.1649
>>1648an anon is making a tonarine sai utau if that counts >>>1486
there's been a couple sai utaus before but made by sentence splicing, this one is using rvc
No.2398
Rei is getting a sister soon, also created by Missile
Not sure if she'll be getting a robot too or it's just an UTAU but she's currently in development
https://x.com/missile_39/status/1903086234827887002 No.2403
>>2399holy shit I love her
No.2759
>>2399Wonder when this will be released and if she'll be as popular as Rei was once she's out. UTAUs are typically ignored by most of the community but since this is made by the Rei guy…
>>2755Cecil is not a whore
No.2816
I LOVE Denatsu Sora. Her voice is so strong and beautiful, and it really doesn’t hurt that she’s been very well-tuned in every cover I’ve seen her used in.
I’ve genuinely been enjoying the Caseoh UTAU too. It’s been a pleasant surprise to see such a popular personality kind of showcase how cool vocal synths are.
No.2822
>>2759See, that's where you're wrong anon. Cecil is a whore. If she's not a whore then why does she expose her gigantic, massive, humongous boobs and smoke a cig like the stereotypical prostitute?
No.2831
>>2827I don’t smoke I do edibles
No.2833
>>2832What is this and where can I obtain it
No.2834
>>2833Lemon Pepsi
Also, Brazil, lmao
No.2858
>>2816I don't know who CaseOh is, i feel old
No.2882
>>2858He's a streamer on twitch. Generally pretty family-friendly and a big reason that the Dress to Impress game on Roblox blew up last year.
I like this cover of Hibikase! (Apologies if the embed doesn't work.)
No.2945
>>148i've rediscovered this gekiyaku song i've liked for a few years recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXImjendcEs>>344only slightly related, but i wish erusalem kuruwane got more attention. she has such a cool design.
No.2992
If an altchan revival is possible then so is an UTAU revival, keep your heads up anons
No.3073
>>3066UTAU always wins
No.3261
>>3257I pray for the day she becomes more popular
No.3262
>>3261I think she has room to grow yet. She works well for quiet, soft music. The usage is there. Fans will follow.
No.3391
>>3261I’d argue she (and Dr. Dareka) is known by most jp and western UTAU communities now. Your average Vocaloid/synth fans not so much, that’s a given though with even the most popular UTAU.
No.3661
>>3660This is perfect for an AI voicebank of Rei
It's as fluid as the average AI voicebank and with multilang support but not at all realistic
No.3697
>>3660We'll get tori eventually
I want to believe