Talk:Kokone (VOCALOID3)/@comment-79.185.46.173-20140119134834/@comment-53539-20140206225001

I feel almost like what we're getting at the end of the day won't be "true" falsetto, at the end of the day Vocaloid is built for the singing registry.

For some reason, due to the fact that falsetto is normally taken as a high pitch, people automatically presume this is all there is to falsetto. A highpitched vocal. But, falsetto is caused by a particular method of the muscles in the throat and the way they react, and not by pitch or anything like that.

Back to the main issue of falsetto, its HARD to get a female falsetto thats obvious because unlike male vocals, the falsetto vocal isn't so noticeable. The issue a LOT of folks can't actually identify when females go into this registry, and 9/10, the "falsetto" female vocal is just a "head voice". People don't expect falsetto to be a registry that can go as low as contralto either, which also complicates things.

Until science stuck a camera down a female throat, these issues led to the belief that falsetto was something women couldn't do, that only men could do. Its something a lot of vocal books don't want to admit females are capable of, or shy away from confession they do over.

In fact, I wonder if Kokone truly is capable of falsetto, or whether or not she is caught up in all the typical confusions that surround female vocalists and falsetto vocals. This is something I'd go close to putting money on.

And even if it turns out she is a "true falsetto" capable vocal... *sigh*... a female falsetto isn't as useful as a male falsetto, since the male one allows the vocalist to sound like female vocalists making the vocal versatile... Whereas a female vocalist just ends up sounding like a child... Which often isn't as useful as the male falsetto. :-/

@Finger, Big Al also does what would be counted as "falsetto" voice in traditional falsetto sound-alike.

The difference between all those past vocal though is that they are not the greatest results, Iroha included, because they weren't built to cover "falsetto" so those results are not as good as Kokone's trying to be put out as.