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How old were you when you found UTAU and Vocaloid?

SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Seems like this is a continuous forum over the years, so I guess I can reply.

I heard Mind Brand on Scratch when I was 9 or so, probably a while after Coin Locker Baby came out. I was big fan of MARETU for a little bit, and Darling was my top song on Spotify for two or so years. I tried to make an UTAU voicebank back in 2021-2022 but it didn’t turn out well.
Mid-2023 I listened to Spotify’s Hatsune Miku playlist to overcome my hatred of her and wound up getting obsessed again.
 
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turboking

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
*takes a long drag*
I was 12 years old when I first heard of Hatsune Miku
in 2009
I was 13 years old when I got into UTAU
in 2010
I tried making my first UTAU (Which is Alex!) in 2010

I had some great friends in the early years of the overseas community. Was never one of the popular UTAUs, but I was also just doing my thing in the corner.
I slowly got out of using UTAU in 2015-2016 when I started college, but vocaloid never really left me.
And then I broke my laptop that had a lot of my UTAU stuff on there
lost my 4shared account that housed the dl links to my voicebanks. Cried a little on the inside when I tried getting back into using UTAU in like 2019-2020.
And then eventually came full circle here in 2025 :smile:

I'm so happy that there are people who take voicebank commissions these days, because I remembered in 2019 asking one of my old friends if anyone did otoing commissions because did NAUT have the time to do all that. (Still don't)
 

SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
I got into vocaloid in I wanna say 2018-2020? I was about 10-12. I first got into it after watching a comedy animation on YouTube that referenced Aku no Musume and quickly fell in love after listening to the og song. I later got a copy of SynthV R1 and Eleanor Forte, later pirated a copy of V5, and then eventually got into UTAU usage, which is my preferred method of vocal synthesis even after getting legal versions of SynthV Studio and Vocaloid. I then tried to learn to make good covers by practicing mixing on audacity and then FL Studio.
I got into Mine Laru in I wanna say 2021. I was still in the days of not using UTAU because I thought it sucked, so I just joked about how hot I found him hot. After I got into UTAU, I was looking for a soft male vocal for a cover request and realized how bad Ruko's male soft voicebank was, and so decided to try and see if there were any other soft males on my laptop. I tried Laru's float voicebank and never looked back.
 
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SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
I got into vocaloid in I wanna say 2018-2020? I was about 10-12. I first got into it after watching a comedy animation on YouTube that referenced Aku no Musume and quickly fell in love after listening to the og song. I later got a copy of SynthV R1 and Eleanor Forte, later pirated a copy of V5, and then eventually got into UTAU usage, which is my preferred method of vocal synthesis even after getting legal versions of SynthV Studio and Vocaloid. I then tried to learn to make good covers by practicing mixing on audacity and then FL Studio.
I got into Mine Laru in I wanna say 2021. I was still in the days of not using UTAU because I thought it sucked, so I just joked about how hot I found him hot. After I got into UTAU, I was looking for a soft male vocal for a cover request and realized how bad Ruko's male soft voicebank was, and so decided to try and see if there were any other soft males on my laptop. I tried Laru's float voicebank and never looked back.
You pirated V5? Out of ALL the Vocaloids?
 

Mr.Cloud_AlternativeAcc

Teto's Territory
I started listening to vocal synth music when I was 10, around the same time I started making instrumental originals. I started making vocal synthesizer music when I was 12 & 1/2, starting with Synthesizer V Studio lite.
 
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