UTSU - A cross-platform vocal synth frontend

Lethe

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Hi all!

For the last year or so I've been working on a program called UTSU, (unofficially short for UTAU-ish Thingy with Some Updates.) It's similar to the other UTAU clones that have been floating around recently, but I think it stands out because of its relative lack of new ideas and originality. I was inspired by this thread, so the whole project is posted on Github here and will always be completely free.

Here's a demo:



The program was developed and tested on a Mac, but it works on Windows and Linux as well. I'm releasing it in the Alpha phase, which basically means that many features are still missing but it's reached the point where I can add things and debug user issues at the same time.
Instructions for downloading the Alpha version of the software are here. :smile:

- Fully compatible with USTs from Utau and Utau-Synth, in both Unicode and Shift-JIS.
- Fully compatible with voicebanks in Unicode and Shift-JIS, including voicebanks with nested oto files.
- Voicebank editor that can edit/create oto.ini entries, pitch suffixes, and .frq files for a voicebank.
- UST editor that can create notes, resize them, move them around, etc. No rest notes.
- Note properties editor to modify flags, preutter, etc. of a single note.
- Envelope editor with built-in crossfading, in the style of UTAU-Synth.
- Portamento editor in the style of UTAU-Synth.
- In-depth vibrato editor.
- Compatible (in theory) with every existing resampler and wavtool, including moresampler v.0.8.4 or above (download at https://t.co/VSsFZpp0in)
- Comes with a default resampler/wavtool pair that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Can render a song or export it to a WAV file.
- Can modify flags, tempo, etc., of a UST.
- Auto hiragana<->romaji and CV->VCV conversion.
- Can open USTs and voicebanks on multiple tabs.
- User preferences, including custom color schemes.
- ...and more!

- Time signatures.
- VCV->CV and CV<->CVVC conversion.
- Spectrogram view of voicebank sound files.
- A bulk editor and suffix broker.
- Multitrack. (If you load a multitrack UST from Utau-Synth, Utsu will only load the first track from it.)
- Background music tracks.
- Rendering will be slow for long USTs--this is fixable and I will fix it...
- Support plugins.
- ...and much more ;w;

You can communicate with me by messaging me on Utaforum or Github, or just posting comments on this thread.

Suggest new features: I'm an UTAU-Synth user, so there are probably a bunch of Windows UTAU features I didn't even think to add.

Translations: The software only natively supports two languages, English and Japanese. Feel free to translate it into the language of your choice! A tutorial on adding new languages (and fixing existing translations) can be found here. Any design help with accessibility features (such as a screen reader) is welcome as well.

Report bugs: I tested with several voicebanks and USTs but no doubt missed a bunch of bugs. If you notice something, please take a screenshot and report the problem by either commenting on this thread or messaging me on Utaforum or Github.

Design: Utsu needs a sleek design, button icons, desktop icons, etc. Ideally I'm looking for a designer who knows how to make mocks and/or can use CSS. I can pay a one-time commision for design help, in the ballpark of $100 or less, but I'm not willing to go much higher because I'm not making any money off this project to pay people with.

Marketing: This includes promoting Utsu to the community, making a wiki/instruction manual, and adding a marketing website. (I own the domain utsusynth.com but have nowhere to point it to.) Again, I can pay a one-time commission fee for building a website and promotional materials. (@Soursop the fruit has agreed to make a website. Thanks!)
 
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Fif

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I think this is really cool, I think it has potential
 

na4a4a

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If you need space to make a website I can host it for you.
I'm willing to host any CMS and toss you ftp access.
I recommend bookstack for a wiki/manual.

Can't wait to see what this software becomes!
 
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How can resamplers and wavtools other than macres and yawu be used on Mac? Or is this not possible?
It'd also be nice to have plugins for Windows UTAU work with this- or, alternatively, have popular plugins as built-in functions (such as bizz's iroiro and arpasing assistant)
 
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Lethe

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@_caustic_
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind!

How can resamplers and wavtools other than macres and yawu be used on Mac? Or is this not possible?
It's theoretically possible, but you would need to either rebuild them from source, wrap them in Wine, or pester the creators until they make a Mac version.

It'd also be nice to have plugins for Windows UTAU work with this- or, alternatively, have popular plugins as built-in functions (such as bizz's iroiro and arpasing assistant)
Plugins are possible! I just don't know much about them. If you show me an example of an open-source plugin, I can learn the API and implement a plugin loader. I'm completely for the idea of having popular plugins as built-in features; the only blocker there is me not knowing what any of the popular plugins do.
 

Mei-Saime

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The setup worked. Do I have to reset my computer for UtsuSynth to work? Cause its showing up as a batch program.
 

Lethe

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According to my friend who made the Windows installer, you can run the .bat file and it will run the program.

@Shasta
It seems like you will need to download Java 8 before the Windows installer will work. The instructions for it are here. Does that help?
 
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Shasta

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Ok, updated my java and got it to run. The sound is really nice, but how do you open usts in it?
 

Lethe

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You can open them with File -> Open. The menu bar is on the top-left of the software for Windows.

By the way, my friend replaced the installer with a new one that shouldn't make you install Java first.
 
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Shasta

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You can open them with File -> Open. The menu bar is on the top-left of the software for Windows.

By the way, my friend replaced the installer with a new one that shouldn't make you install Java first.

Not working. I tried file>open, then I selected a ust and nothing happened.
 

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Not working. I tried file>open, then I selected a ust and nothing happened.
That's not good. :sad:
Can you try creating a file, saving it, then re-opening the file you just saved? If that works then problem is most likely compatibility with the file format. If you message me a link to the .ust, I can debug the program with it.
 

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That's not good. :sad:
Can you try creating a file, saving it, then re-opening the file you just saved? If that works then problem is most likely compatibility with the file format. If you message me a link to the .ust, I can debug the program with it.

I can save a file, but whenever I try to reopen it, it automatically opens in utau and regardless of what I do, I cannot get it to open with utsu. I tried file>open and right click>open with>then searched for utus in my programs. Neither way worked. So I can get utsu texts to load in utau, but I can't load anything in utsu. Except voicebanks, I was able to load my own voicebank.

Edit: as for the ust, I just used one from the my favorite vocaloid song medley packs. I also noticed there is no way to select certain notes rather than the whole ust.
 

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If at all possible, when you start the oto part of develop I highly recommend the option for an extra set of overlap and consonant lines.. (the red and green ones lol) so you can have consonants at the end of samples n stuff... NIAONiao is this way.

Please I beg of you
 

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