Male UTAU voicebank help please!

Hayley-Wilson

Hayley-Wilson

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I've been trying to work on a few male voicebanks, but I'm really struggling to get decent results.
I know most people use the lower ranges for the male voicebanks, but when I downloaded KAI KIM to play with in UTAU, I noticed with the g+20 even at the default note he sounds male. So then I'm sat starting at my own UTAU's wondering what I'm doing wrong (or what they did so well).
So some advice on what to do would be great! I have at least 1 male voice donor, my other two male UTAUs are made from female voices with pitch changes in Audacity on the VBs, but they sound.. I dunno.. odd. I'll get some demo's up as soon as I can, but I haven't yet made any.

Thanks! :creepygrin:
 
Kiyoteru

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Pitching is a big nono. Often people see it as a form of laziness and cheating, but I say don't pitch unless you absolutely cannot voice act it and also if you can pull it off well.

Anyway, the thing about KAI KIM is that it uses the g flag. Stick a g flag on yours if that's really all you want. Otherwise, perhaps you could try voice acting, practice singing low and things like that. I've been told that one of my own voicebanks sounds like a 15 year old male, and I'm a 13 year old girl with a pretty high voice.
 
Hayley-Wilson

Hayley-Wilson

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I tried adding a g+20 flag to my UTAU Jimento, but it doesn't sound male to me. It just sound deep and muffled.
You can hear him sing a little here: https://soundcloud.com/tumsas-lineali/cito-voicebank-test

I've also got a demo/sample of my UTAU Riku, who's voiced by a friend of female friend of mine. However, I drop the pitch of the samples in Audacity before I place them into UTAU. It seems to give me a better result than the g flag, but I still don't think it sounds, male.
Here's the link: https://soundcloud.com/tumsas-lineali/riku-voicebank-demo

Though, I am a perfectionist and I'm probably just being fussy as hell.
 
stormylullaby

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You don't have the UST in the male octave, which is why it sounds like that. You need to lower the UST by 12 spaces (Edit -> Select All Notes ->Edit -> Move Region by Number -> input -12), which is a full octave.
It'll sound better that way.
 
NaughtyPichu

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There's no problem with pitching if it gives the voicebank the desired "timbre", but it will always sound unnatural and unless that's what you're going for/willing to compensate for you may have to just voice act the best you can, and/or your voice donor should voice act a little too.

Listening to the sample I agree with stormy 100%, it's most likely octave it's it. Move it and It'll probably sound just fine. I hear a pretty masculine voice in there somewhere so I'm pretty positive it'll sound male if you do that.
 
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