Should I use Utau or Openutau?

[DavidsDayOff]

Hello! I'm a very new Utau user who's currently using Openutau as it was easy for me to download into my family computer, but recently I heard very horrible things about Openutau being buggy, choppy, sounding horrible and even having an unsupportive community behind it! So I just want to ask if I should risk accidentally overloading my family computer with plugins and complex Japanese location stuff( I think I could summarise it as that), or should i take the easy but bad way through Openutau?

 

[SunnyWolves]

OpenUtau is very buggy from my uses, but if you're not wanting to bother with the frustrations of utau, you should use it. My biggest recommendation is using it a bit as a training wheels type of thing before getting standard utau and using that (thats what I did)

 

[Halo]

IMO OpenUtau is fine! The community is the same as the UTAU community, generally speaking (for better or worse).

In terms of bugs, it is open source so it is constantly being updated which can cause problems. I and a few others are always happy to do heavy troubleshooting when needed.

In terms of choppiness or sounding horrible, it should be the same as UTAU in almost every way-- I think there may be a long standing 2~5ms difference in some timing as well as one overlap difference which was a choice made intentionally to avoid a long-time original UTAU error, neither cause choppiness and only cause slight perceptual differences. It is practically speaking inaudible. It also interprets oto configurations the same as UTAU does, and uses the same resamplers.

I will disclose that I am a moderator both here and in the OpenUtau discord, so I'm biased. But wherever you heard this... they also seem negatively biased. In the end, theres certainly no technical issue here and the rest is up to your own opinion and preference. There are certainly annoying and abrasive users who use OpenUtau, the same way there has also been annoying and abrasive users who have used and continue to use UTAU in general. It comes with the niche hobby, unfortunately!

 

[DelphicVoiceAddragh]

As someone who uses OpenUTAU frequently, I wholeheartedly recommend it! Whatever you've heard about bugginess and choppiness is most likely from people who tried it when it was extremely new and never bothered to keep tabs on it. At this point, it's really just UTAU with quality-of-life improvements, support for more operating systems and native support for AI rendering (for those into that sort of thing).

I can't really speak on the community, given that I don't engage much with v-synth stuff much outside here and a couple collabs. While I have seen some questionable behaviour occasionally in the official Discord, it's 1. not any worse than most Discord servers and 2. dealt with fairly quickly. As Halo said, all bog-standard stuff for, really, any internet community.

 

[KukkiKat]

I personally prefer OpenUtau as it’s easier (imo) to use and doesn’t require as much tweaking or plug ins! From my experience, I haven’t seen any bugs at all so I’m surprised to see people say it’s buggy! Main difference is, flags are referred to as expressions so terminology is a little different between the two! As for it sounding horrible and choppy, they may be referring to the default resampler it comes with (which doesn’t sound great) but you can easily change it to another one just as you can in Utau.

One of my favorite things about OpenUtau is the Voice Colors and different phenomizers that are already installed! For the most part, plug ins aren’t needed for OU!

 

[drug9621]

I personally prefer OpenUtau as it’s easier (imo) to use and doesn’t require as much tweaking or plug ins! From my experience, I haven’t seen any bugs at all so I’m surprised to see people say it’s buggy! Main difference is, flags are referred to as expressions so terminology is a little different between the two! As for it sounding horrible and choppy, they may be referring to the default resampler it comes with (which doesn’t sound great) but you can easily change it to another one just as you can in Utau.

One of my favorite things about OpenUtau is the Voice Colors and different phenomizers that are already installed! For the most part, plug ins aren’t needed for OU!

the default resampler sounds alright to me???????? o_O

 

[WinterSing]

Both probably