CeVIO Creative Studio

CeVIO Creative Studio \ˈshe-ˈvē-ˈō krē-ˈā-tiv ˈstü-dē-ˌō\', is a finalized product of the previous "Creative Studio FREE" released on September 26th, 2013. Previously it had used the name "CeVIO Creative Studio FREE", boasting the fact it was freeware to new users, but this update dropped the "FREE" and became payware. Many users disregarded this update and continued to use the freeware, despite the new capabilities and surprinsingly less-expensive-than-a-VOCALOID price. CeVIO Creative Studio won two awards this year, the "MicrosoftⓇ  Innovation Award 2013" and the "CEDEC Award".

Capabilities (Speech)
Speech and Song are this program's main features. The Speech portion offers a large dictionary of words to which Satou Sasara, Suzuki Tsudumi, and Takahashi never pronounce or read wrong. If they do, you have the option to manually edit it yourself. The Speech portion was created with help of the HTS method, this method is famous in the VOCALOID fanbase because this method created the online synthesizers Sinsy, Open J-Talk, Renoid Player, and many more. The Speech portion offers different types of voices for each character.

Satou Sasara's voices are Normal, Happy, Angry, and Sad.

Suzuki Tsudumi's voices are Cool, and Dere.

Takahashi's voices are Normal, Casual, and "Dent"(?).

There are parameters for the voices, which include pitch and speed mostly. There's also settings for Volume (VOL), Length (LEN), and Tone (TON). Editing this section is much similar to that of editing flags in VOCALOID3. Adjusting Tempo requires clicking at the timer at the top.

Capabilities (Song)
Satou Sasara is the only one capable of singing at this point, but the singing part of this program is now much more efficient than it was in the FREE verion. In the FREE version, you were free to create tracks, insert lyrics, and add breaths to the end of notes, but even then those would get caught up in the end of her already automatically set breaths, and that was basically it. If you wanted to do anything else you had to open up VShifter but that didn't really stop the choppiness of her vowel transitions. But you could import MIDI's and .xml files as well. For a better list of comparisons, visit here. (To make a user's experience a tad easier, a nico user invented a program to convert a .ust from UTAU into a .ccs file for CeVIO Creative Studio FREE.)

However, in the product version, we can now do so much more. Fine-Tune Amplitude Timing, which allows editing of the choppiness. You can adjust pitch like you could before, but now Pitch-bends are also able to be edited. Vibrato and vibrato timing are also able to be edited. Most importantly, Volume/Dynamics can be edited. There's even Gender Factor added, where you can make her voice more or less mature. However you can't really make her sound like a boy. The option to import MIDI's and .xml's is still present. However the program mentioned above won't work now that the file extension has changed from .ccs to .csv.

Resources

 * 1) CeVIO's homepage
 * 2) CeVIO's advertising of CeVIO Creative Studio
 * 3) Nicopedia's information on CCS Ceviofree.jpg
 * 4) Comparison of CCS & CCSF

External

 * 1) videos tagged "CeVIO" on niconicodouga
 * 2) CeVIO on twitter
 * 3) videos tagged "CeVIO" on YouTube