So in the end, Luka v4 was my only real choice. The Crypton vocals come bundled with Piapro Studio (vocal synthesizer) and Studio One (DAW). V5 editor alone comes with 4 (or 8 for premium version) vocals as default, and they also have bundles with Fukase, Macne Nana English, or Gumi English. I also didn't want to pay the same price for a v3 Vocaloid. Im assuming by voice bundles you are referring to voicebanks. I was worried that Luka would sound completely robotic but after looking around for a bit I figured that most of the roboticness comes from a lack of tuning, and I'm more than willing to put time in to making her sound good. I mainly produce progressive metal and while I'm aiming to branch out into some outrun / vapourware I still want to skirt on the side of realism and so I had to rule out Miku. Realitone's Blue was beautiful sounding but not really what I'm looking for. SoundIron's Voices of Rage was cool, but it doesn't have a phoneme sequencer so I'd be stuck with the 100 words that they'd prerecorded and that didn't sound like a great idea overall. The UTAU editor was also a total nightmare, hahaha :( I was willing to give it a shot anyway so I got the Hakaine Maiko sound bank working and it was pretty amazing, but suffered from a lot of inconsistencies (different pitched screams for different syllables, squeals on da and su). I tried out UTAU but the licensing with the voice banks was a bit of a nightmare along with having to get a new license every 30 days (what if the UTAU web server goes down while I'm in the middle of writing an album?).
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So I ruled out the YAMAHA route.įrom there, the only real choices I had left were Cryptons stuff which comes with Piapro studio, UTAU, or similar software like Realitone's Blue or Soundiron's Voices of Rage. I was thinking about buying a physical copy since I'll be in Japan at my in-laws for a few weeks, but then I realised that my laptop doesn't have a DVD drive and I'd have to shell out even more to buy a USB one.