stellophiliac

i've been thinking about recording an utau voicebank for a while. i had some time home alone today (after studying for like 3 hours) so i made a super basic cv voicebank following salem wasteland's tutorial

this is meant to be based off the voice of starvie, my undertale oc, who i've done a bit of voicing for before (by voicing i mean just three vowels for a music sampling thing).

it's a little choppy because my samples weren't super high quality, and this was my first time configuring oto.ini (basically the configuration file for how the samples should play), so there are some mistakes which i'll fix sometime.

i'm pretty happy with it considering it's my first try, but i don't know if it's similar enough to starvie's voice for my taste—the utau samples aren't as breathy as starvie's previous samples are (to be fair, it's harder to be breathy when you're doing actual consonants). they're closer to my actual voice, which i feel is higher-pitched than what i imagine starvie would have.

oh, and here's starvie's "original" voice if you're curious. the first file is the actual samples i recorded (over three years ago!) and the second is an example of it in action (made by my friend who does music stuff)

volume warning: the first file is really quiet. the second one is normal volume

i don't know if i should rerecord most of the samples to make them more legit (there's over 130 samples). i also plan on turning this into a cvvc at some point, which has like 50 more samples

what i'll probably do is have this as a "normal" voicebank, then record more accurate samples as a "soft" voice color, so that my work doesn't go to waste

i like (love is a strong word) macos, but good god doing utau stuff leaves a lot to be desired

by default, openutau comes with two resamplers: worldline and worldline-r. they are… not amazing. they work pretty well with some banks (like aica), but not with a lot of other banks. especially with hitsune kumi, which i like using, it makes a lot of schwoop noises. not pleasant

a very large majority of resamplers are created for windows. there are supposedly ways to get them to work on mac and linux with wine, but so far i have had no luck

for a few months i’ve been using macres which is a fork of tn_funds and designed for mac. it’s pretty good—much better than worldline for kumi—but it’s a looping resampler, so it sounds weird with longer notes and i have to render those notes with worldline. it’s okay, but there’s still noises about half of the time

i found straycat-rs literally like fifteen minutes ago, which can be built for mac! it’s a stretch resampler, so i don’t get those looping issues. it makes some weird crunchy noises with r and w sounds though, which kind of sucks, but i can just use macres for those notes so it’s no big deal