Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-25147000-20150320032731/@comment-53539-20150420194635

NickTheWoodenToaster wrote: 66.192.13.132 wrote: why is meiji so special? is she just high quality or something?

She's almost as good as IA, well when Konuko(?) uses her and other UTAUs they always sound great but the illustration of them always shows them angry. Zephyr-P says it's because they appreciate how good they sound. When others use her she always sound squeaky. Konuko also uses Ouka Alice and Mizuki Zuiga and other UTAUs they always sound amazing. Konuko's tuning is to die for ;_;

Sample wise, she is a good vocal... But Ia is overall much higher quality. As I said, what lets UTAUs down is UTAU... But sweet sounding/cute voices do get popular so its likely why she got such a rep.

Otherwise while better then the majority of UTAUs, I would say I've heard better voices. Though I would not like to link to examples, since there is a lot of issues finding the "right" song to demostrate the point with UTAU. Even with Meiji, the first time I encountered her I listened to 20 songs before I made final judgement on her, since there is a struggle to seperate her, UTAU and whatever digital effect the producer was using per song. There are some good examples out there... But I find you can't always find a song that shows the honest "raw" vocal that shows her true voice without the fancy effects slapped onto her to make her sound nice.

As with vocaloid, Good tuning =/= good vocal. :-/

I terms of UTAU I'd put Meiji a MQ at worst based on her worst results...

I will say that it doesn't matter who is better of Meiji and IA... Both are decent enough voices for their engines, and both serve purposes. Just as Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len do not do the same things as well as each other exactly, Meiji and IA are different.

As a vocaloid fan, and someone who has sat there and drawn up comparisons of Vocaloid and UTAU, I'm going to say IA is better. But its obivous why. I'm not a fan of UTAU, despite heavily supporting it as a alternative to vocaloid and illegal vocaloid.... At the end of the day, everyone has their preferences and some just like UTAU.

Remember, the only thing stopping my like UTAU... Is some complaints I have as well. I love the vocal synethisers from Cantor, to CeVIO to Voiceroid... The technology FASCINATES ME. I don't always like the results, thats all.

And yeah... I even have a place in my heart for Microsoft Sam and his mob. X-D