Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32500188-20140428192051/@comment-29714788-20160421031423

EmbraceEvil wrote: 1. implying utau sounds more realistic

2. A better UI is VITAL for westeners to even consider using it professionally 1. UTAU does sound more realistic, because Vocaloid alters the tone that the samples were recorded in. Take Ruby for example, she sounds extremely nasal but it was confirmed that her raw samples did not contain the nasal sound. Cyber Diva on the other hand doesn't even sound like a human, she sounds like a robot generated voice. When her demo songs were up some people said that they didn't like her because she sounds too human and they wanted Vocaloid to sound robotic, which I found absolutely ridiculous. Dex/Daina/Fukase are improvements over...whatever Cyber Diva was supposed to be but they don't sound that realistic either. I'm not saying that every UTAU always sounds like a human, but they sound more similar to their voice providers than Vocaloids do because they sound exactly like their samples.

2. You say that as if thousands of professional musicians in the west (who are not part of the Vocaloid fandom) use Vocaloid, when they don't with the exception of that guy who made the song Sad Machine. People still have the stigma that Vocaloids are AI robots that are going to take over the world or something, and it doesn't help that every weeb introduces it in that way. Most people who have heard of Vocaloid have never even seen its UI, they just think of it as the cute holographic anime girl so it's not like Vocaloid is regarded as a professional music tool in the music industry either.