Talk:IA/@comment-216.93.215.210-20140208005338/@comment-32500188-20140208032029

Personally, I find V3 to be easier to use than UTAU... but then again, I bought V3 before even trying UTAU out, so that probably makes a bit of a difference. I'd suggest if you haven't already, look up a few video tutorials just to check out what features or similarities that might or might not interest you. I know this one in particular helped in making my own decision on whether to get both or not. :-)

IA would be a good one to start with, as she's fairly easy to use once you get a good grasp of her strengths and weaknesses. Only big issues I find that her main bank has is it tends to run a hair flat untuned and you might come across a few rare "fuzzy" notes, but that's easily correctable by editing the pitch parameters a bit and phoneme swapping respectively.

However, if you don't have at least an okay level of understanding Japanese itself, you might be better off getting an English Vocaloid for the sake of getting your money's worth. Avanna is a fairly easy as well with from what I've read around different places, but the downside is she doesn't have a starter pack since she's download only. Oliver or YOHIOLoid would be good choices as well. (And at least with YOHIOLOID, you have the option to use either language whenever you need to.)