Talk:UTAU/@comment-27598213-20190108194820/@comment-53539-20190109013553

"I'm just thinking, why buy cookies from a store when you already have the ingredients and means to make them yourself?"

Because thats not what you've got you've used the wrong metaphor here. What you have is all the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies. But you've not got the chips to put the chocolate in and you are not going to get the effort together to get them. In sort because of your laziness to put the effort to get the chips, you'll end up with a cookie, but you'll never end up with a chocolate chip cookie. Whereas at least the store bought ones include the chips and if your going to be lazy, why did you try and make chocolate chip cookies?

I could also argue about if your out and about you don't exactly have a oven with you in which case the store bought ones is. But that would apply if you didn't have the ability to make a UTAU at all.

If your UTAU was a Vocaloid, and after I have brought Sonika, I'd not even touch your UTAU because there just is better. Before you plough into this, ask the UTAU fandom and find out why you should. From experience the issues with taking "m" and "a" and combining them as separate sounds is that the "ma" version is suppose to be the correct sound. ITs smoother and "m" and "a" are roughly jointed, you have no control. I would also wonder myself if there was more to there existing a separate "m" and "a" because in Vocaloid there is a reason and its to do with things like the starting consonant sound and the ending vowel sound in Japanese. For example "Kuma" ends with a "a" and that "a" may have its own extra trailed off ending sound. But "Mako" is a example where "m" is at the start and therefore would have a beginning "m" sound. In both cases the "m" and "a" attaching sounds are so the Vocaloid has smoothness into and out of the word its saying, with it helping with pronunciation and while weak at its job, as Vocaloid has issues with consonants, it basically makes the consonant easier to hear among other issues. Since I don't know much about UTAU, I can't say if its the same, but if it turned out, you'd get some really robotic results. Basically Vocaloid goes "K-Ku-Ma-a" (there is no need for a sound between "ku" and "ma" I believe but I can't remember since its been 6 years since I looked this particular example up) and "M-Ma-ko-o". Just the same in English "Sing" is "s-si-in-n" (English has ending consonants unlike Japanese).

I have no idea if the same as I'm saying for UTAU but you should ask if it is for your UTAUs sake in case you mess up. There is usually a reason for a certain sound existing.