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Sunny's UTAU Reviews

SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Hello,
So, I'd like to think of myself as a rather advanced UTAU user with a bit of a taste for quality and picking out both the flaws and good parts of a vocal. And so, I thought I'd start a small thread where I give critique and tips to popular voicebanks as something to do when I'm bored or as a little bit of a beginner's guide.
Before we begin, I'd like to give some warnings:

1. These are all my opinions, and sometimes my opinions suck. You should always try things for yourself and form your own opinion rather than blindly trusting someone else, even if they're popular (can I call myself that? eh.) or experienced.
2. I have personal biases. I am not a fan of noise, roboticness, or choppiness. I am so picky to the point that I don't like Kasane Teto SynthV, and character comes second to me as almost an afterthought. Virtually the only things I care about are range and clean audio, and I once said a 20 pitch voicebank wasn't realistic enough for me. I also heavily prefer masculine vocals to feminine ones, and almost never use anything other than furloids. There's probably more that I don't even know about.
3. I won't be reviewing English voicebanks. Just don't use them enough.

Basically, Tl;dr, don't take my word as gospel and only take your opinion and taste into consideration when considering which voicebank you want to download or use. The point of vocal synthesis is to have fun, and I get my fun from pretending to be a professional on a dead forum from the 2010s.

Now, without further ado, let's get onto my first utau review. And what better vocal to review first than the vocal both you and I likely used and heard of first?

Kasane Teto​

The Good:​

Kasane Teto is a classic voicebank with a very versatile and recognizable sound. Using her is guaranteed to be easy and pull in use. She works good with almost every resampler and most flags and has a very consistent quality and tone. Her status as a multiexpression voicebank allows her to switch between her voicebanks rather easily, while her aforementioned consistent quality and tone allows her to do so without much loss of quality. Skilled use of her expressions allows you to get realism or stylization fairly easily.

The Bad:​

Kasane Teto's voicebank is rather buggy and has a good few errors. Her voicebanks are also all rather noisy compared to more modern voicebank standards, likely due to the older status of her voicebanks. The main issue I also regularly run into is her rather limited range due to her only having a single pitch recorded for all of her expressions (why is the most popular and profitable utau voicebank only a monopitch? the world may never know).

All in all, Kasane Teto isn't good, but is also far from the worst. She has various problems and is okay for beginners, but probably isn't recommended if you want to do more professional and realistic works. Of course, if your goal is more realistic and stylized works and you want to be the next Haraguchi Sasuke for some teenage furry to make a medley of your songs (hah), then go for it. However, if you want to dip your toes into the more extreme depths of the engine, you may want to look elsewhere.
 
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heynotloid

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
Hello,
So, I'd like to think of myself as a rather advanced UTAU user with a bit of a taste for quality and picking out both the flaws and good parts of a vocal. And so, I thought I'd start a small thread where I give critique and tips to popular voicebanks as something to do when I'm bored or as a little bit of a beginner's guide.
Before we begin, I'd like to give some warnings:

1. These are all my opinions, and sometimes my opinions suck. You should always try things for yourself and form your own opinion rather than blindly trusting someone else, even if they're popular (can I call myself that? eh.) or experienced.
2. I have personal biases. I am not a fan of noise, roboticness, or choppiness. I am so picky to the point that I don't like Kasane Teto SynthV, and character comes second to me as almost an afterthought. Virtually the only things I care about are range and clean audio, and I once said a 20 pitch voicebank wasn't realistic enough for me. I also heavily prefer masculine vocals to feminine ones, and almost never use anything other than furloids. There's probably more that I don't even know about.
3. I won't be reviewing English voicebanks. Just don't use them enough.

Basically, Tl;dr, don't take my word as gospel and only take your opinion and taste into consideration when considering which voicebank you want to download or use. The point of vocal synthesis is to have fun, and I get my fun from pretending to be a professional on a dead forum from the 2010s.

Now, without further ado, let's get onto my first utau review. And what better vocal to review first than the vocal both you and I likely used and heard of first?

Kasane Teto​

The Good:​

Kasane Teto is a classic voicebank with a very versatile and recognizable sound. Using her is guaranteed to be easy and pull in use. She works good with almost every resampler and most flags and has a very consistent quality and tone. Her status as a multiexpression voicebank allows her to switch between her voicebanks rather easily, while her aforementioned consistent quality and tone allows her to do so without much loss of quality. Skilled use of her expressions allows you to get realism or stylization fairly easily.

The Bad:​

Kasane Teto's voicebank is rather buggy and has a good few errors. Her voicebanks are also all rather noisy compared to more modern voicebank standards, likely due to the older status of her voicebanks. The main issue I also regularly run into is her rather limited range due to her only having a single pitch recorded for all of her expressions (why is the most popular and profitable utau voicebank only a monopitch? the world may never know).

All in all, Kasane Teto isn't good, but is also far from the worst. She has various problems and is okay for beginners, but probably isn't recommended if you want to do more professional and realistic works. Of course, if your goal is more realistic and stylized works and you want to be the next Haraguchi Sasuke for some teenage furry to make a medley of your songs (hah), then go for it. However, if you want to dip your toes into the more extreme depths of the engine, you may want to look elsewhere.
It's incredible to me how we are such different people and we are in the same forum, I love choppy banks, with NO realism, extremely synthetic voices, strictly feminine (I only have one male voice, Mine Laru), and I never liked furloids (only Roko and Laru, I love them <3) and with your opinion, Teto has become seriously outdated, and its English must be the worst thing that has ever existed (I know you won't review banks in English, but I had to say it, TETO ENGLISH IN UTAU IS HORRIBLE)
 

SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Thread starter
Can you review Yokune Ruko too? I just wanna see your opinion on them :uhuhu:
She was the one I planned to review next, actually.
(Note: Yokune Ruko is referred to by any pronouns. I am using she/her for this review since I'm tired of seeing her masculine voicebank get all the attention.)

Yokune Ruko​

The Good​

All of Yokune Ruko's vocals on both sides are insanely high quality and arguably one of the best Vipperloids ever created quality wise. Almost all her voicebanks have very little noise or bugs and are very versatile and beginner-friendly.

Feminine Ruko:​

Feminine Ruko is by far the more versatile of the two, with many more voicebanks than the masculine side and with a degree more polish and a more interesting accent. She is probably one of the best feminine voicebanks for beginners, especially her tripitch/multiexpression "song" voicebank. She has a strong and slightly shouty sound on her stronger voicebanks and a very soft and dark sound on her softer ones. Her "rainbow sound" voicebank is also quite good, but for a bit more advanced users than her song voicebank. If you're looking to get a feminine Ruko voicebank and don't want to waste the space on her OpenUTAU pack (which is her tripitch and rainbow sound voicebanks), then I'd recommend her Tripitch voicebank over all the others.

Masculine Ruko​

Masculine Ruko, compared to feminine Ruko, is a lot more beginner-friendly compared to Ruko. She only really has one voicebank you want to worry about (her power kire one) compared to the multiexpressions of feminine Ruko, which could be a bit frustrating or complicated to new users. If you really know what you're doing, you can edit her soft and standard VCV voicebanks and turn them into two extra pitches for her kire to make it even more versatile (although, it might produce a bit of a lower quality sound). Ruko is almost like a unit in an RPG where you have everything else stack buffs onto her so she can do the same thing you've been doing the entire time but even better. She's also one of the strongest masculine voicebanks I have ever used, which means she's probably the best choice for most power songs.

The Bad​

Feminine Ruko​

Since most of her voicebanks have a unique and strange accent, her voicebanks can sound rather strange and muddy when singing below her range or on certain resamplers. Her CVVC and CV voicebanks are also really bad (although, who actually uses those?)
She has a few AI voicebanks, but they're all really bad and not recommended.

Masculine Ruko​

Masculine Ruko's main fault is that she's kinda a one trick pony. Sure, she has a soft voicebank, but it's unfinished and low quality and works better as just an added pitch to her main kire voicebank. You're not going to get satisfactory soft or even straight results from her voicebanks. She also shares the bad CV voicebanks with her feminine counterpart, although it's arguably worse since she just has less. You just get a lot less substance and variety from masculine Ruko compared to feminine Ruko, which is likely why I personally enjoy feminine Ruko more.
Masculine Ruko takes feminine Ruko and pushes all the traits of her to the extreme, which means newer users might enjoy masculine more initially, but gravitate more towards feminine Ruko with more experience.

All in all, Ruko is better in almost every way than Teto, with a larger range, more expressiveness, higher quality and occasionally even more character. However, she is a lot less consistent than Teto and targets a far different audience with more mature sounding and focused voicebanks rather than Teto shooting at all vocal types like a shotgun shot. I'd highly recommend Ruko over Teto if you're just getting into things or want to get more into professional sounding UTAU usage. Ruko is probably the most popular UTAU that can actually have Vocaloid quality if you know what you're doing, and I recommend her to both beginners and veterans alike.
 

SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Can you review PIERO’s VIVID voicebank? I’ve been trying to improve on his VBs but want to know where to start.
FYI he works best in Hifisampler with Velocity 170.
 
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SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Thread starter
Can you review PIERO’s VIVID voicebank? I’ve been trying to improve on his VBs but want to know where to start.
FYI he works best in Hifisampler with Velocity 170.
I try to only review popular vocals that people new to the fandom would be interested in using, since as I mentioned this is a sort of beginners guide. I might make exceptions for voicebanks I am personally fond of (I might review Mine Laru or Arujine Sarasa for example), but likely won't be reviewing voicebanks that might be found released by people on here, since people at the stage of using more obscure voicebanks would likely be at the point they'd know enough to make their own reviews. That, and I'd rather review voicebanks I have actual experience using, and I don't want to download more voicebanks that I'd likely only use once and never again (no offense).
 
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SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
I try to only review popular vocals that people new to the fandom would be interested in using, since as I mentioned this is a sort of beginners guide. I might make exceptions for voicebanks I am personally fond of (I might review Mine Laru or Arujine Sarasa for example), but likely won't be reviewing voicebanks that might be found released by people on here, since people at the stage of using more obscure voicebanks would likely be at the point they'd know enough to make their own reviews. That, and I'd rather review voicebanks I have actual experience using, and I don't want to download more voicebanks that I'd likely only use once and never again (no offense).
OK! Can you do Gekiyaku, then?
 

SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Thread starter
Ugh, maybe... But she has so many voicebanks, and so few are actually worth using over the others, so I think I'd review her later down the line after more simple and recognizable characters like the vips and the three utau girls.
 
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heynotloid

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
Ugh, maybe... But she has so many voicebanks, and so few are actually worth using over the others, so I think I'd review her later down the line after more simple and recognizable characters like the vips and the three utau girls.
Could you review more furloids? I don't really know many besides my beloved Mine Laru, and I'm interested :smile:
 

SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Thread starter

Sukone Tei​

Sukone Tei is probably one of the most unique popular utau due to a number of factors.

The Good​

Sukone Tei has some amazing quality and a pleasing, slightly soft tone. She's really versatile and can sound young, mature, or both. Her oto is largely well made and she has few bugs if any. Not to mention she's on the more realistic side of utau voicebanks. She's rather easy to use and can be used in most songs with most resamplers, similarly to Teto, but with a bit of a clearer sound.

The Bad​

Sukone Tei has exactly two voicebanks. Ignore all the other ones on her site, those are all just legacy versions and a bad CVVC made from her CV. Of the two, her VCV is the best one. This means her tone is the most limited one I have reviewed so far. She's more of a one-trick pony than Yokune Ruko's masculine voicebank. She'll provide you with sweet, soft vocals and not a lot else. She's good at what she does, but she doesn't do a lot. Compared to Teto, she's largely higher quality than pretty much all of her voicebanks, but without the varied tones allowed to her by multiexpression.
 

SunnyWolves

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Thread starter

Namine Ritsu​

Ugh... Ritsu. I will try and separate the art from artist here, since I am heavily biased against her voice provider, Canon, for several of their extremely bigoted and racist beliefs. Out of all the vocals mentioned so far, Ritsu is likely the one I've used the least for this reason. However, like my previous reviews, I will try and be fair and constructive.

The Good:​

Everything, essentially. Namine Ritsu was recorded on extremely professional hardware and with the right resamplers can sound clearer than most Vocaloids I have used. Genuinely a god tier vocal I cannot think of many bad traits for. She's genuinely one of the best vocals for literally everyone out there, with good multipitch and multipitch multiexpression voicebanks.

The Bad:​

Hm... Well, there's the odd weird pronunciation or two that leads to a weird sound. But that's... Kinda it. The worst I can say is that Ritsu is high quality, but rather plain and boring. You don't get an overly unique sound from Ritsu like one would get from Ruko or Teto, she's just... Boring.
Use her if you want a high quality and versatile voicebank, but also keep in mind who the voicebanks you're using's voice provider is, and if the voice of someone like that is someone who's voice is usable in your work and if you're willing to separate art from artist in that case.
 

kandirainbowzkingdom

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko

Sukone Tei​

Sukone Tei is probably one of the most unique popular utau due to a number of factors.

The Good​

Sukone Tei has some amazing quality and a pleasing, slightly soft tone. She's really versatile and can sound young, mature, or both. Her oto is largely well made and she has few bugs if any. Not to mention she's on the more realistic side of utau voicebanks. She's rather easy to use and can be used in most songs with most resamplers, similarly to Teto, but with a bit of a clearer sound.

The Bad​

Sukone Tei has exactly two voicebanks. Ignore all the other ones on her site, those are all just legacy versions and a bad CVVC made from her CV. Of the two, her VCV is the best one. This means her tone is the most limited one I have reviewed so far. She's more of a one-trick pony than Yokune Ruko's masculine voicebank. She'll provide you with sweet, soft vocals and not a lot else. She's good at what she does, but she doesn't do a lot. Compared to Teto, she's largely higher quality than pretty much all of her voicebanks, but without the varied tones allowed to her by multiexpression.
I actually love scottei, in fact my newest song (loveblind) uses her VCV!
 
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