Beatboxing UTAUloids...?

[songzombie]

Considering we've come from Japanese CV to VCV and more, as well as feasible English in UTAU, do you think beatboxing UTAUs are possible?

Lol, I came up with the idea just now when I was making noises with my mouth .-.
While I know pretty much nothing about beatboxing (apart from boots'n'cats), I don't think it's that much of a stretch to have samples and arrange them in a way that sounds like beatboxing (kinda like 'Incredibox'). One issue is probably getting UTAU to accept a sample with a vague pitch (but we can do it with Maiko Hakaine, why not beatboxing :D?)

Who will be the first BEATBOXING UTSU!??!1

...Consider this a lame thought experiment.
(if there's already a beatboxing UTAU can somebody link it? I'd love to see it)

 

[oteto]

Bmm pa ch bmm bmm pa ch! This is an awesome idea.... im gonna try and make Teto do it!

 

[MystSaphyr]

It's been done before!
Works great in a capella choruses:

【全部UTAUで】チョコレート・トレイン【連続音リベンジ】 ‐ ニコニコ動画:GINZA

Granted, I'd love to hear a deeper "kick drum" type of beatboxing but idk how the resampler would handle that since most of the time you're just blowing into the microphone to get a deeper noise.

Also, it's not UTAU, but Yukari has some (kinda silly sounding) beatbox samples in her exVOICE.

 

[Kiyoteru]

UTAU is kind of like a souped up sampler that we use for making vocals, so pretty much any noise goes..

As for the pitch thing mentioned in the OP, the method for giving a pitch to breath samples is a short note in the same wav as the breath, so that the frq detects that instead of being confused with the pitch of a noise.

 

[songzombie]

Wow, I didn't know that about Yukari, I suppose I'll go and check it out.
Also I'm glad people replied :P (and I forgot that about doing the thing with breath samples)

Spoiler: off topic

Is there a way to look at Nico Nico videos without an account? I don't want to sign up just for that.

 

[Terindie]

Beatboxing in UTAU would definitely have to be recorded creatively, considering how it's done.

I have a friend who beatboxes. Perhaps I can get him in front a microphone and we can experiment a little. I imagine the magic would be mostly in the envelope editing though.

 

[songzombie]

I'd love to hear the results of that ^^

 

[Lorreine Geralde]

Wow, I didn't know that about Yukari, I suppose I'll go and check it out.
Also I'm glad people replied (and I forgot that about doing the thing with breath samples)

Spoiler: off topic

Is there a way to look at Nico Nico videos without an account? I don't want to sign up just for that.

Apparently, my UTAU "REVIVAL SE" voicebank have two breath samples and they sound ridiculous, trust me.
As for viewing Niconico videos without an account, just put ".am" behind nicovideo.jp domain, just like this:

--->niconico.am/watch/sm22887413

 

[Lorreine Geralde]

Apparently, my UTAU "REVIVAL SE" voicebank have two breath samples and they sound ridiculous, trust me.
As for viewing Niconico videos without an account, just put ".am" behind nicovideo.jp domain, just like this:

--->niconico.am/watch/sm22887413

Correction: it should be like this (that editing is ridiculous OTL):

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22887413 ---> http://www.nicovideo.jp.am/watch/sm22887413