User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/CFM broken record issue +the issue with other synths/@comment-39901408-20190726091930/@comment-39901408-20190726110531

Ohhh I get it now. I don't think I fully grasped the point of this post until now, lol. It's 5:16 AM lol.

I agree, vocaloids do get a scratchiness, just a lot of the UTAUloids it happens more. (and yeah, I might have come off as a Vocaloid lover or something... I really do like UTAU though. I agree that there are several things that Vocaloid could improve, as well. UTAU's just difficult to use sometimes, doesn't always sound good, and I guess I'm lazy XD)

You have a point to how the higher-quality Vocaloids outsing the popular ones. (I've never heard Sachiko and Prima before so I listened to them just now and... holy crap. and prima sings opera. wow.) It does end up making UTAU look way worse when you hear singers like that, lol. And with V2 Miku, all the songs I've heard of her aren't the highest quality, but I haven't fully noticed until now. Compare her to Prima and it's just... wow.

I had no idea that the first vocal synth was that difficult to use! But I know what you mean about needing a voicebank for each song. Real singers can change their voices to fit the song almost perfectly but a Vocaloid is stuck. I've never really thought about it that way, cool.

That's a cool singer. I'm surprised I've never heard her before. It would definitely be difficult or impossible to simulate her with a vocaloid.

I think I understand a little more about this now. I guess it is true that human singers aren't perfect. (well I mean of course they're not.) I think that's part of the effect, though. Humans can negatively react to something that's too perfect to be human, or something that is almost human but not quite. (it's called "the uncanny valley," idk you might know about it already)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

I've never actually thought about using Vocaloid or any other synth to "replace" actual singing. Well, it is replacing it, but what I mean is I can sing. I can sing very well, but I just like the way the synths sound for certain songs of mine. I'm not trying to make the vocals sound entirely human, I guess. Which might sound like a contradiction because I was complaining about how UTAU sucked lol.

It actually makes me feel better, kind of, that it's difficult to replace a human singer using a machine. I'm not opposed to it, really, but I don't like when something unintelligent can do something better than I can.

I enjoy reading your comments on this wiki, you have some interesting points. It's nice having someone on the internet who really talks about stuff. Thanks

(it's 6 AM now I hope this post doesn't look too bad)