Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32500188-20140428192051/@comment-25618373-20160421022040

Scintillarescenza wrote: Chorvaqueen wrote: You already answered your question. Literally no one outside us fandom nerds will use UTAU. Why would a company develop a voicebank (from a popular artist too!) for a platform difficult to use? This is like them manufacturing knives to sell as can openers and if you don't know how to open a can with a knife, don't worry it comes with a tips and tricks manual---in Japanese.

When UTAU gets a better UI, sure. Then how about settling on the conclusion that Vocaloid needs an engine update and UTAU needs an interface update? I see a lot of people on this wikia circlejerking about how Vocaloid is the best voice synthesizer ever just because of its high quality, when in reality, there are things other singthesizers can do better. UTAU does have a shitty UI and requires a lot of manual labour but people who want to invest time in it just deal with it or figure out ways to get around it. Vocaloid is easy to use, professional, user-friendly, etc. but getting them to sing the way you want is more complicated than in UTAU. It doesn't automatically sound realistic and that's obvious judging from the abundance of popular songs (and not songs that get popular for their tuning) where the vocals barely sound human at all. 1. implying utau sounds more realistic

2. A better UI is VITAL for westeners to even consider using it professionally