Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20180529221920/@comment-30302614-20180531143530

@anon 110: I do, strongly agree that the producer's tuning greatly affect how a song would turn out. However, I want to refute some points of your comment here.

First of all, while cilla has one of the best tuning skill in the fandom, taking her as an example just isn't quite right. We have to acknowledge that not every Vocaloid user is capable of creating a realistic-sounding song. If there are pros (like cillia as you have mention), there would always be decent users and amateurs (whose proportion I believe to be much larger than pros).

Secondly, I can not say that Vocaloid has reached the level of sounding like a human being, not yet. I can agree with @Ihavenoideawhatsoever on this part: Vocaloids still lack quite a lot to be on tier with human. Even if the user/producer does manage to pour emotions into the Vocaloid's voice, the robotic sounding is inevitable. Putting a human and a vocaloid cover side by side and you will the point.

@Ihavenoideawhatsoever: I want to give my opinion on your first paragraph. I completely agree that some Vocaloids can't do a genre, but choosing a Vocaloid for a song is all about being tactful. While some voicebanks can do a genre at ease, others just cannot, so you have to make sure the voicebank (and the individual vocal of that vocaloid) suits the song. Eg: high-pitched vocal for a low-pitched song is just meh :/ This is what plenty of users lack here: they choose the Vocaloid to their own liking, risking the fact that that Vocaloid may not be suitable for the song. Most cases ended up producing a straight up bad cover.