What do you feel that you need to work on to be better in the UTAU community?

OngakuCD

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
So as the title says, what self-improvements can you make or think you should make to enjoy being in the UTAU community. For me in the beginning, I was sipping on that "notice me" tea and I felt as though my goal is should be to make an utau that will be popular. Now, I'm at a point where if a cover I make gets popular, cool, and if it doesn't, oh well.

I think I need to be involved moor too. I've always been in the community, but not like, apart of the community. I was that neighbor that lives on the end of the street that people may or may not know about. I just found it hard to try to find my own clique of join somebody else, so I always just stayed solo.

Making usts. My main focus in utau is VCCV English and the pool of ust for those voicebanks are not only small/limited, but predominantly created for like three people. So I'm slowly starting to become comfortable using FL studios and watching tutorials on how pitchbending works. That way I don't feel dependent on waiting for someone to make a ust for me to just plug-in and play.
 

Skiyoshi 十三

Lotus#12915
Defender of Defoko
Certainly creating more content in general. Lately I've been not posting much at all, and my last actual cover was a month ago. I think if I could take the time to learn music theory I could create utau originals and bring some sort of notice back to the utau community.

I'd also like to view/interact with other's works more, as it creates a nice feeling for the creator that someone listened and enjoyed their work whether it is an original, cover, or just art. Another part of that is I'd like to use other people's utau more. I know that means a whole lot in this community.

I'd attempt ust making myself but I'm just absolutely tone deaf, OTL.
 

Sors

Local Guppie & UTAU Korean Advocate
Tutor
Defender of Defoko
Improving my Art is what I should do. There are two reasons for that:
First, I'd like to stop relying on others for art and second, i want to minimize requests, and instead offer trades, because well, even witg my closest uf friends, I keep feeling rude when asking without providing more than just covers as compensation
 

RenzoA

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Learning how to oto, make PV's (I do photo editing but I feel that isn't enough since people can do that too) and improve my digital art...
Mainly its because I feel like I keep requesting or asking random people to do it for me and it just doesn't feel right for me. I mean, I guess its okay to ask for help but not completely throw the responsibility on someone. (i did that >.> im sorry)

And I guess another thing is being social to other users. They can help you by giving their views and opinions or they can assist you in many utau things. I guess the only thing that stops me is my introverted self and the fact that my sentences don't make sense when they're too long. xD
 

Arissa

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
I think I need to be more dependent, as in learn how do do things on my own, like otoing and whatnot. Ik it sounds kind of a sheltered lifestyle for being in a community, but it's no fun to need help and not receive it. When there's help I can provide, I'll do that, but I don't like being on the receiving end, makes me look like a liability than someone who contributes.:sad:

Also maybe I should do more trades, rather then a new thread like,"Oh I'll draw for everyone and anyone for freee", not that I'm demanding money, but it'd be nice to do equal business with others, rather than me setting myself up to do all these things and get nothing whatsoever in return ;^^

And I've been in the community for almost a year now, and have been being social and helping out with what I can and being active, so I think I'll just have to keep up what I've been doing for now :smile:
 

lunari162

Defoko's Slaves
Defender of Defoko
I have to stop feeling bad when my covers aren't noticed. I've barely done anything and barely know anyone, so I don't know what I keep expecting to happen. On a related note, I need to improve my social skills. I have no ways to connect with the community aside from here, and even if I wanted to, I'm too afraid to try.
 

taigz

dead
Defender of Defoko
Tbh, I feel like, a lot. Creating more actual content than just wips, for example. I have a lot of wips I haven't finished, but I might finish one of these soon. Improving my art is another thing; I just can't rely on other people to draw stuff. My voicebanks also... now I REALLY got to finish my voicebanks.

Tuning and mixing, while I can do those two, it's not really the best I could do... I could improve more on that too. And I feel like I need to socialize more with other people in this community. Also, tbh, learning how to oto VBs helps. While I can oto my banks I feel like I really need more experience with it...
 

ReticentResolve

Ancient Master of Filibustering
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
Well, I'm no good at usts, so I've been trying to make utaus that are extremely simple to use, along with just sorry if making a large number. Most of which are unreleased.

Also, trying my hand at making reclists. I've been working on a couple of native american languages. Cherokee one's almost done.

Also, i gotta start doing better artwork.
 

Nohkara

Pronouns: He/him
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
I have reach many of my "need to improve" goals in this 4 years:

-Have learned to record VB property: keeping tone and pitch of voice (nearly) same between sample to sample. Also the vocal range and usage of own voice has slightly improved

-write own reclist plus writing oto.ini from scratch pretty fast

-Lear to oto plus understanding why xxx way configured sounds tends to sounds better than yyy way configured sound

-drawing descent-looking digital art and get better at character designing

And things what I want to learn and/or get better at:

-art: learn to draw full illustration and backgrounds why I'm so lazy?! Welp

-I want to take actual, real, singing course/lessons, so my voice could reach even higher and higher more naturally and without straining my voice :"D

-want to learn to write an original song plus make USTs?!

-mixing?!?
 
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WendytheCreeper

(>☉ ͡ヮ☉<)
Defender of Defoko
I'd really like to pump up my ability to create more often. I feel really slow compared to everyone else and I'm trying real hard to not get discouraged! >.< Especially since I often feel down about my work ethic and how much I compose...

I also want to be engaged in the community again...I actually need to talk to people again, and not feel like people would think I'm annoying or trying to get attention (as in, using a person solely for that purpose).
 
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Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
I guess what I need to improve on is to have fun with utau? If that makes any sense, play around with other voicebanks, update my utau's voicebank.
Improve on otos, tuning and produce more cover artwork.
Work more on having confidence in my work.
 

Soursop the fruit

✧ Fruity & Happy ✧
Defender of Defoko
Since i can't do much UTAU stuffs except working on my Voicebank...I think it's my web design & programming skill cause that's what i'm focusing for my life.
Like we already have nominated skins, i can help hentai with the CSS, help others who have problem designing their official page.
Or maybe when i can finally create program scripts, our forum can get more upgrades without spending any muns.
 
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