How I create Arpasing USTs

A method I have started using is this: Create a VSQx first. If you are familiar with the Vocaloid software yourself then this shouldn't be the difficult section.

1. Import vocal midi into Vocaloid
2. Insert lyrics (Leave the dashes and etc!)
3. Export as .VSQ (Only .vsq, NOT vsqx)
4. Import .VSQ into the UTAU application
5. Export as .UST

We have our .UST at this point. Looks exactly the way it does in Vocaloid with the words and dashes in the notes. At this point we're going to use an external tool called "LyricParser (B.1.5).jar" which I will link as a resource.
Lyric Parser is an amazing tool that will take usts (Especially ones exported into .usts from Vocaloid) and parse them in the VCCV English format with it's dictionary of 5000 words. Don't worry! This won't be a problem in later steps.

1. Open LyricParser (B.15).jar
2. Find, locate, and import your .UST
3. You will see words that the application doesn't recognize and it will ask you to type in syllables, I DO NOT RECOMMEND DOING THIS. Press cancel on every prompt.
4. Your .UST will export in the folder where LyricParser is.

You now have a UST created in the VCCV method.
Now here's the clarification here; Arpasing is almost exactly like VCCV, but with simple phonetic changes and much smaller. You can replace the VCCV phonemes with Arpasing phonetics. Here is a basic conversion chart for VCCV to Arpasing provided by Kiyoteru: https://arpasing.neocities.org/resources/czampa-arpabet.html

It is at this point that you will most likely come across words that were NOT parsed. Example, the word "crawl" is not in the phonetic dictionary with LyricParser. You will have to manually splice the word "crawl" by clicking and dragging the note with the word back, editing what appears on the rest ahead, and keep doing so.

The word "crawl" would be "[k r] [r aa] [aa l]"

Note: You can use the Arpasing Assistant for notes that don't get parsed into VCCV, but I mean I don't do it. Creates too many notes and things can be off-time.

You have a vocal midi with all the notes aligned correctly but do not have Vocaloid to import it into. This will work just fine but may be a bit less user friendly than with the Vocaloid Editor.

1. Import your vocal midi into UTAU
2. Write the words of the song in each corresponding note, but split syllables per note. If you had "helping", you would put "help" in one note, and "ing" in the one after that. Same process for words with 2+ syllables.
3. Save .UST

I talked about this in the upper procedure, but I'll say it again. There is an application that can parse .usts with words in them into the VCCV style, it's called LyricParser (B.15) and it contains a 5000 word dictionary. We will use this to convert the majority of our new ust into VCCV.

1. Open LyricParser (B.15).jar
2. Find, locate, and import your .UST
3. You will see words that the application doesn't recognize and it will ask you to type in syllables, I DO NOT RECOMMEND DOING THIS, IT WILL NOT EXPORT. Press cancel on every prompt.
4. Your .UST will export in the folder where LyricParser is.

You now have a UST created in the VCCV method.
Now here's the clarification here; Arpasing is almost exactly like VCCV, but with simple phonetic changes and much smaller. You can replace the VCCV phonemes with Arpasing phonetics. Here is a basic conversion chart for VCCV to Arpasing provided by Kiyoteru: https://arpasing.neocities.org/resources/czampa-arpabet.html

It is at this point that you will most likely come across words that were NOT parsed. Example, the word "crawl" is not in the phonetic dictionary with LyricParser. You will have to manually splice the word "crawl" by clicking and dragging the note with the word back, editing what appears on the rest ahead, and keep doing so.

The word "crawl" would be "[k r] [r aa] [aa l]"

Note: You can use the Arpasing Assistant for notes that don't get parsed into VCCV, but I mean I don't do it. Creates too many notes and things can be off-time.