Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-153.107.193.210-20181111225120/@comment-53539-20181113185240

Higher pitches can be more dynamic but have a lack of tone diversity, though lower can be more expressive due to higher tones but flatter due to lower expressing. Not 100% true to the tee. Vocaloid also has trouble with lower tones over higher itself, its a long term problem. Its better to use a Vocaloid that has a optimum tempo that can have it.

Pitching up does not ness. hide those flaws, its just becomes harder for you to hear them due to the shorter wave lengths either way. However, some vocals don't like high at all and sound awful. Usually its the males, but some of the lower tones like Lily have issues, but Lily isn't particularly built to go too high. Many producers don't seem to know how to handle lower toned vocals, and many got used to Rin, Len, Luka, Miku, etc first in Japan. I will note Vocaloids octaves are in reverse of the typical piano roll listing in software say FL studio.

''IT can be confusing the first time you put C#4 in FL studio and then in Vocaloid and one is high pitch and the other lower. ''

However, I will note that most Vocaloids are actually mid-tone females and the Japanese female vocal itself can favour higher frequencies hence why it sounds "pitched up". Vocaloid itself lowers the octave of voicebanks and devs have go fix this prior to release.

Either way, this paints a multitude of things that can contribute to your perception of this. But it may not be 100% true when you really at things... Saying that... I grew up with the Atari STE's vocal synth.

https://chipspeech.wikia.com/wiki/Rotten.ST

So when I said a kid the typical sound I heard was a deep robotic vocal.