Talk:Hibiki Lui/@comment-189.145.232.206-20120711201353/@comment-53539-20120712115219

You know, its about time I said something on low-end Piko that I've been holding back for a while now.

Right, lets do a quick comparison right. This is what big Al was built for;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ilY_NwOylQ

This is not what big Al was built for;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p40LdCLDPaM

Why use Big Al here? Because he is the easiest to hear results with I find. But... Just as Big Al wasn't built for higher ranges, Piko wasn't built for lower. Its not a opinion as well, its pretty much fact since you can look up his opitmum ranges and everything from Sony, who supplied them freely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDOBo8hN8w

Just because you can tune a Vocaloid that outside their optimum doesn't mean they sound at their best. Its why Vocaloids have optimum ranges in the first place, its the ranges their samples cover and its why you get the best results there. When you drift outside of this, the engine has to improvise a lot, hene why quality suffers.

Yes, you might like Piko that low, but his singing results are TERIBBLE low quality. He isn't built to drift any lower then #C3 without consquences, he was built for a range of #C3 - #B4 and thats in the two highest octaves the engine deals with.

At the end of the day, Piko is not a low-toned Vocaloid and if you want him to go that low, your better off with VY2 or Gakupo, as they were built for the lower ranges, not Piko. ^_-