Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.243.3.60-20130827035331/@comment-53539-20130829073027

If you don't know Japanese, you are at a disadvantage when it comes to editing them so I'd stick with vocaloids of any language you understand for this reason. This hasn't stopped people attempting to use Japanese with some mixed results... Many end up just doing VSQ or VSQX file imports.

Even if you get the vocaloid without a suitable DAW, the next mistake many don't acknowledge is the reason a DAW is neede, or at least some form of editing software, is that you need to correctly mix the vocal and music together. Not bothering to do this puts the voice on a separate plain of existence to the background music when played, the two don't sound goo together and you end up loosing clarity often just based on this factor alone.

You can also get a very low quality level of English from Japanse vocaloids, but if your just doing this you might as well stick to English vocaloid vocals anyway as it takes some time to learn how to twist phonetics and only... Japanese vocaloids lack the full english sound set to do successful HQ english.

@IP 137; Japanese vocaloids, chinese and spanish have their own share of problems. Your advice is okay apart from that... When telling people advice, never say "this language sucks" or "doesn't suit the vocaloid software"... I'm just saying keep bias out of the advice and the advice neutral. :-/