User blog comment:Stinkyhat/Kuroda (?) and Cillia's Vocaloid Tips/@comment-32500188-20150421122604

Kuroda's name is right, so no worries. (~-^)

Haven't tried my hand at it, but what I have been doing is looking at the way cillia's been editing the VSQx files in the videos and comparing what's on screen to what's in the actual editor in front of me. I know

I know in the first one when she's tuning the Fairytale VSQx, she uses a lot of short notes with phoneme extenders [ - ] in them (as well as some long ones), and shows a way of extending nasal consonants via the notes themselves, as opposed to using the VEL parameter. (This way, it gives you more control over the length of time, as well as makes the ennunciation sound more natural, and a lot VSQs I've seen use this method.) cillia also mentions using [ Sil ] for slight pauses in between phoneme transitions. (This is good to use when you don't want certain notes slurring into each other.) Another honorable mention of using the SineVibrato Job Plugin for certain note vibrato expression. (It's extremely useful and I sometimes use it in conjunction with the built-in vibrato... though recently, I replaced it's usage with Drak-pa's Expressive Vibrato plugin, as it gives a lot more control and slightly more natural results in place of both the in-editor default vibrato and the original SineVibrato.)

I'll have to save what I learned in the second video for a bit later as well as some other of my own tips, since I have to jet for work in a few minutes, but a lot of what's shown can be caught on if you do like I did and have the VOCALOID editor open and follow her edits as best as possible. ;-)