YouTube link. (Worse quality, lol)

- - - { C R E D I T S } - - -
(Song & Lyrics) DATEKEN
(Originally sung by} 鏡音リン (Kagamine Rin)
(UST) http://www.youtube.com/user/ShiitaKitsune64
(UTAU) 柳音アユ (Yanagine Ayu) ft. 雅音シン (Masane Shin)

(MP3) http://www.4shared.com/audio/-DxgYvFv/ur-style.html
(Ayu's VB DL) http://www.4shared.com/file/V9HqvARE/2_online.html
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Shin's voicebank is unreleased, private, and will be private until I finish doing the oto.ini's properly.

To-Do List

This is mostly a note to self. XD

[EDIT!!!] KAZUMI 3 & her Power Append's release will be delayed because I decided I wasn't doing those voices properly and will be killing myself re-recording all of those as well as Shin's. ^^

- Design KAZUMI's Append outfit. (Done with all the appends she'll ever get... maybe.)
- Release KAZUMI 3
- Make Shin's voicebank... properly
- Finish Ayu's Tsumi to Batsu
- Draw cover art for 16-bit Warz; Corruption Garden
- Record breaths
- Finalize Shin's design
- Do English voicebank for KAZUMI
- Redo Ayu's design?

Voicebank Release ~ Yanagine Ayu 2.0

Download Ayu 2.0

{ Updates in this Release }
All new voicebank (everything is re-recorded with my new microphone).
That means she has a much better sound quality than 1.0

Will be adding more sounds and re-recording some for the next update~

For a sample, watch the video & Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!
For the MP3 of the song, click on the video. The link is in the description. ;D

【UTAU】 StargazeR 【KAZUMI】

Since the procedure to change VCV ust to CV was requested, here's how to do it for yurahonya's StargazeR ust.

1. Click here and download the Untriphonizer (VCV->CV) Plugin. Also, if you do not already have the UTAU English patch, you should probably download that as well, since that will make following these instructions easier as I have the patch installed. Follow the instructions that come with them to convert the UST to CV first.

2. Yurahonya uses his/her own custom plugins for UTAU so first you have to reset the project settings. To do this go to Project -> Project Properties -> Click the button all the way at the bottom of the box that pops up. (And just in case, click the button to the left of the OK button.) Click 'OK' for any other popup boxes.

3. Now we have to reset the Preutterance & Overlap values. Select all the notes (Ctrl+A) and right click on a note. Go to the last option on the drop-down. In the pop-up box, press the 'Clear' button beside Preutterance & Overlap. Then spacebar on the box for STP. That should clear all three boxes. Then press 'OK'. Once these steps are done, the UST is already pretty much CV.

4. Extra steps to make sure your UTAU sings the ust properly: Select your UTAU of choice. Make sure that if it has special filters to make it better you enter those in the project properties box (in the last line before the 'OK' and 'Cancel' button. Next, select all the notes, press the ACPT, P2P3, and then ACPT button in that order. They should be under the Trace & Render buttons. Finally, click on Render.

Please note that if you reset envelopes and/or use A-la-carte on the entire UST, you might not get the effect that yurahonya (or any ust maker) placed on the notes' pitches.

Enjoy~

More updates

Planning an English APPEND for Ayu with my own English CV reclist.
(I think there's way more sounds than Japanese which means her voicebank might be huge after the addition of the APPEND, which is why I'm making it an APPEND. I will be recording all CVs for a vowel sound in one file and then splitting them by oto.ini to save time.)

I redid Shin and decided to make him Ayu's older brother. He sounds like an older, more feminine Len. (Will be releasing Alluring Secret ~black vow~ featuring Shin after I draw a lot of art for it.)
Shin will probably be my private UTAU as his voice sounds too similar to Len and I don't want him to become like a replacement for Len.

I also have a sort of background story for all three of my UTAUs while I was trying to come up with image ideas for Alluring Secret. So I will make a post for that later on.

Also, I'm 1/3 done with editing the UST for SNSD's Genie (JP ver.). The midi I have for it is for the Korean version so some verses needed major editing and I still need to get it more accurate (cuz it's really throwing off the instrumental too, which is horrible for covering with a chorus).
In any case, I picked a couple of Japan UTAUs and overseas UTAUs. I picked mostly deeper toned females (probably not the right term) and left out some UTAUs that I've used already. It sounds really cool and I wish I could just get those 2/3 off tempo verses corrected so I could quickly finish the rest. I picked an UTAU for each member of SNSD too. The art for it is going to give me a lot of trouble too. XD

Priorities for Now:
1. Alluring Secret ~black vow~ (Ayu & Shin)
2. Genie Chorus (9 UTAUs)
3. English prototype APPEND (Ayu)
4. Semi-complete VB for Shin

Other Stuff To Do:
Hotaru UST; Chinese VB.....

***I might release Shin as an English only UTAU if my English reclist works well & I can work my Len voice in English***

Unreleased Songs (still):
- Koi wa Sensou -clubhouse mix- (KAZUMI)
- KazuKazu Night Fever! (KAZUMI)
- Fukai Mori (Fukai Mori)
- Matryoshka (KAZUMI ft. Ruko) - Working on art 20% done

RELEASE! Yanagine Ayu

(( The title of this post reminds me of Cardcaptors. XD ))

Here is her debut video!


UTAU Wiki - Also has the link to her voicebank download~


Since this is Ayu's ACT 1, I will be considering upgrading her to ACT 2 like I did with KAZUMI.
As to which one will be the multilingual UTAU, we shall see. ;D

More UTAU projects~

Still working on Mozaik Role--actually, haven't made any progress on it.
Working on a prototype UTAU. Her name is Yagine Ayu and basically her voice is the child version of KAZUMI's. If I like her enough, she will be ACT 2'd over winter break. If she's too similar to KAZUMI, I'll just scrap her and continue updating KAZUMI into full voicebank + Chinese. If I like her better than KAZUMI, I will scrap KAZUMI and make Ayu my main. :3
(Though I secretly wish I had a male voice so I could make a male voicebank.)
Started working on KAZUMI's Chinese voicebank but it fits Ayu's voicebank better so I might change that.

Songs Unreleased:
1. Matryoshka (KAZUMI ft. Yokune Ruko)
2. Fukai Mori
3. Love is War -clubhouse remix-
4. Tsumugi Uta (KAZUKI)
5. Lion (KAZUMI & Yokune Ruko)

KAZUMI updates & future releases.

First off, I'm working on KAZUMI's official MMD model.
I'm planning on making her head out of two custom girl models; her body out of Gumi, FL-chan, and some other models (probably Piron's stuff).
I'm planning on debuting her model with BeMYSELF, covered by KAZUMI (short version only though.)

When the model is more perfected, I will release Renai Circulation; covered only if I find a good ust or midi for it.

Songs that I have yet to release for KAZUMI
01. Koi wa Sensou -Clubhouse remix-
02. Tsumugi Uta
03. Lilium
04. Mozaik Role

I know I said on my Mozaik Role preview on Youtube that I would finish it by the end of this week, but that's probably not going to happen because I'm a slowpoke and have a short-attention span. LOL.

- - Updates on KAZUMI's oto.ini - - - - - - -
I've been fiddling with KAZUMI's oto.ini and fixed a lot of her sounds except for the overlap/start of note stuff because I still don't get what to do with those. But anyway, KAZUMI sounds great for the most part if you set all the notes to 40ms overlap and pre-utter (and use A LA CARTE note linking). I believe the last version of KAZUMI released had the oto.ini I set for Paradichlorobenzene plus some minor tweaks. The ust for Paradichlorobenezene did not have any linking so I configured the sounds in that song according to ear to make KAZUMI sing more naturally.

- - Future Future Plans - - - - - - - - - - - -
The next time I get back home, I want to expand KAZUMI's voicebank and probably include one or two more languages. As English seems a little complicated, I'll probably do Mandarin and work a little on English, depending on how much I have to record. I will probably never do a VCV voicebank because Kazumi is already pretty smooth as long as you know how to configure notes and her oto.ini according to song. I also plan on re-recording some sounds in her current Japanese voicebank and including appends (higher & lower notes). If you've noticed from using KAZUMI for a variety of songs, she sounds dead singing some songs and she really doesn't respond well to G-flags. Her range is small (just like my real singing voice ;D).

I also want to finish re-recording Shin, though who knows if I actually will since he sounds a hell lot like Len and I don't think more shotas are necessary.

KAZUMI ACT2

Eh, I guess Kazumi 2 should be called ACT2?
I don't really get these terms as usually, aren't they applied to Vocaloid? Ah well.

Here is a new release for KAZUMI {ACT2}.
http://www.4shared.com/file/n-P4EdAY/KAZUMI_2.html

New updates for this release:
Added a few sounds so that Kazumi can sing Lilium, namely si, ti, tu, etc. Not very major.
Re-recorded a few sounds that were ticking me off. LOL.
Updated the oto.ini -- all sound files should have configured oto.inis. Once again, feel free to alter them to your liking as I honestly have no idea what I was doing. I go by ear & instinct mostly.

Later on this month, I expect to be making a more official release for KAZUMI with new official art.
Oh and a comparison of the two ACTS... though there shouldn't be much difference aside from oto.ini and mic quality.

Art is about 50% done.

KAZUMI 2

Here is her mostly completed voicebank.
... If you ignore how I rushed through most of the oto.ini.

There's still sounds that are not configured, so feel free to configure (or re-configure them) to your content.

DL → http://www.4shared.com/file/TOpSOm5e/KAZUMI_2.html

Update on KAZUMI~

Yah~ I haven't been doing much regarding UTAUs but since I'm home and hopefully this microphone works much better than the one I used at school, I will be trying to re-record all of KAZUMI's voice files. Hohoho. This is going to be a lot of work.

She might sound slightly different & hopefully better once I'm done re-recording everything, so wish her luck! This might take a few days or a few weeks, but hopefully, it'll be sooner than later.

Well then, until later! :3

To Do List

1. Finish Su-su-su-suki, daisuki!
---a. editing KAZUMI's UST
---b. drawing MV
---GOAL: After Halloween
2. Finish Shin's SPICE! demo
---a. making necessary sound files
---b. editing UST
---GOAL: By mid of November
3. Make art for Romeo & Cinderella so vid can be uploaded to Nico
---GOAL: After Halloween
4. Finish Just Be Friends UST
---GOAL: Whenever
5. Finish common Shin Japanese sound files & preliminary release
---GOAL: By end of November
6. Start on KAZUMI's English & Chinese sound files.
---GOAL: November
7. Re-edit Song of Robot's Ear
---GOAL: After Shin's prelim release

KAZUMII : Full Profile

NAME // KAZUMI [カズミ]
/gender-male = KAZUKI [カズキ]
/translation = beautiful harmony
AGE // 16
BIRTH // October 16
WEIGHT //
HEIGHT // 169 cm [5'6.5"]
HAIR COLOR // Pink
EYE COLOR // Red
ITEM // Glasses
VOICEBANK // Almost finished
CLOTHES // Click
VOICED BY // kazumii (xAkutenshi)
PLAYLIST// Click
DOWNLOAD// Click

PERSONALITY//
Kazumi is super calm & likes to act cool. This is why, when she sings, she usually sounds like she lacks emotion. Her favorite songs to sing are songs with great guitars & bass. Her best ranges are C4 & C5. C3 makes her sound slightly manly and she hates that. Above C5 makes her sound broken. D;

Aside from wearing & loving punk-lolita fashion, she also doesn't mind being dressed in lolita clothes as long as there aren't way too many frills. She also likes Shibuya-kei and visual-kei.

Slightly, narcissistic, Kazumi loves it when people compliment her. She loves her friends but has a hard time showing it & dotes on her "little brother" Shin.

She loves stalking pretty boys & hot guys. Her favorite things are things that are pretty. For example, flowers, butterflies, sparkly stuff, and cute accessories.

She is disgusted by insects but not scared of them. She hates perverts (especially fat old men) & is scared of getting cooties from them. (hah, cooties)

That's pretty much it~! ;D

Kazumii's USTs

I'm only listing the ones made by me here. For others, you can visit utau-library, which I am following.

When using these, you must give me credit.
All USTs are HIRAGANA. They include UST, original midi, vocal midi, instrumental, and readme.

-under the darkness- by c.g. mix
//Short ver.
//Oct. 21, 2009
Download

Shangri-la by angela
//Fafner of the Azure OP size
//Oct. 17, 2009
Download

Others that are not finished:
Every Heart by BoA (Inuyasha)
Just Be Friends (Megurine Luka - Dixie Flatline)
Like you, Love you -edit- (Kagamine Rin)

I do take requests as long as a midi exists for the song. If you find the midi for me, that's great. I don't mind googling for it either. Depending on my interest in the song, I might do short or full sized.

Kichiku megane OP -under the darkness-

Currently, I am working on "-under the darkness-"'s UST.
Yes, that's right, the one that a lot of people want but can't have because it's restricted.

Actaully, it took me 5 minutes to find the midi (it was pretty good & clear-cut too) and then about 30 minutes to extract the vocals.

The lyrics are the worse part because c.g.mix likes to split up their simple one syllables into two syllables. So, for example, yuu (normally pronounced yu) would be yu-u. Imagine that. It sounds terrific, but when I go to input the lyrics (I split up the romaji & then convert to hiragana, which is easier to input by the UTAU lyric box) I have to make sure the lyrics fit up with the syllables.

I'm going to make the short version first, probably with harmonies. I will be releasing this when I make a quickie art for KAZUMI, who will be singing this. Yes, as a girl because she sounds echo-y when she's a man. Shin is too underdeveloped for this song, lol. I want him to sound more natural before I use him for this awesome song! The video will be posted on my youtube & niconico with the UST & MP3.

So, until then~

Shin-kun's debut~ with KAZUMI

耳のあるロボットの唄

Ok~ So I fell in love with this song today~ It's Teto's original, I believe. You can see the PV here.

So adorable~ It's been stuck in my head the whole day already!!
I'm going to put all the other songs I've been working on, on hold and make a duet between KAZUMI and my still in-progress Shin.

Of course, I also wonder if I have time to make cute chibi art for the two of them to go with the song.

I don't even have a design for Shin yet, haha. >_>

The UST was pretty troublesome since it was split into so many different parts. There are two sets of harmonies for some verses and of course, the hiragana didn't show up correctly in the .vsq files so I had to enter them myself. T_T

The song is too good to pass up~

譜現シン ( Tsugumi Shin )

Yesterday night, I randomly created a new UTAU. It took me a long while to find a name for him. After making his あ sound file, I tried it out by opening one my Meltdown UST files by Yura Honya and replaced the lyrics to あ's. Surprisingly, he sounded exactly like Kagamine Len! Now, I'm wondering if Len's real vocalist sounds like me...

Anyways, he has about 18 voice files currently and it's definitely not enough to make a demo with. I'll continue working on Shin but probably not today because I've got other stuff to do... like studying and decorating my side of the dorm room. The walls are still pretty blank~

Ah! But I will think about Shin's design while I'm working!

See you~

Welcome to kazumii's UTAU blog~

I actually have no idea how long this obsession is going to last~
(Mood swing-y person, I am).

Anyways, I just spend my time on the wrong things.
I should be studying, haha.

UTAU is a very fun program to use! Especially when you know its something you created~

My first UTAU is KAZUMI.
Kazumi happens to be my favorite Japanese female name. So if you turn KAZUMI male, she should be called KAZUKI, which happens to be my favorite male name for various reasons.

Actually I wanted to make twins but I don't think I can make a male voice bank that sounds the same age as KAZUMI.

KAZUMI's voice is very versatile~ If she goes into lower range, she sounds like Len. If she goes higher, she sounds like Miku and if she stays in the C4 range, she sounds like Luka!
Not that I wanted her to sound like the original Vocaloids... but some interesting stuff, right?

My microphone isn't very high quality so she does sound very fuzzy and she does not enunciate as well as Teto. Very sorry about that~

You can view some concept artwork here at my dA.
And you may download KAZUMI to mess around with here.
And this is my directory where you can download some of her songs~

Currently Working On: Every Heart by BoA cover
Bird of Paradise (Rin song) cover
Migikata no Chou (Len ver.) cover
Meltdown (Rin song) cover

A lot~! :O

Also, I'm wondering if I should take requests for making USTs of anime songs. If I can find the midi for them, it's not that hard~ :D

Thank you for visiting my blog~