Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-101.171.213.55-20140114124540/@comment-53539-20150527080410

The thing about re-pitching a vocaloid is the voicebank is still Kaito, Miku, etc. It doesn't instantly become another characters voice because you pitched it low, its still the voice of Miku or whatever character. Thisis something that fans have trouble understanding, the few still into this whole Shion family stuff. And besides, "Shion" was never so official in the first place, Kaito is just "Kaito".

As others have said, the re-pitching to create pitchloids often destroys the entire song. you loose the bass most of all, the bass being the core of any song that ties the whole song together, its purpose is to create balance and stability. It makes the higher pitches to have a solid, contrasting base to build upon allowing you to pick up on them more easily. The base not only allows not only to hear the treble more clearly, but also makes them stand out and adds layers of sound to make the whole song more dynamic. An awful lot of songs only sound good because their bass is balanced, and if you destroy this you can be left with a mess.

And repitching the treble can also destroy the treble range as well. There isn't a lot of tone variation up there unlike the bass range, so everything is more fragile. High pitch sounds don't linger in the air like the lower pitched sounds, this is why when you stand outside a disco or bar/pub, the bass tends to be all that you can hear from inside the building. So making them higher pitched means they have a lot less impact.

Not only that because you artificially re-pitched the whole song, it can also make the song have an extra layer of artificial sound... So if you have something like Vocaloid which is already artificial sounding, you end up with something even less realistic sounding.

All of this comes directly from some basic sound theory lessons and goes against the ideal formula for making music you can learn via college. So when people do this and like the result, it can be considered a sign they don't know basic music theory. :-/

There are good and bad ways of making a pitchloid and re-pitching a entire song is the worst way. Since pitchloids aren't as common as they once were because outside of CFM no one is acknowledging them... A pitched up or down voice for a Vocaloid is still going be be Lapis, Rion, etc, these days. there is almost no warrant to call a pitched voice anything but the original character behind them.