#change cevio

[voca-song-a-day]

Today's featured song is: "CH4NGE" by GigaP & q*left feat. KAFU! (warning: video contains flashing imagery)

[the-dragon-girl-27]

I feel like recently I've been doing lots of art i forget to post I should stop forgetting to post maybe ill spam old art i forgor to post at some point

I drew these back when that KAFU game was announced, It doesnt have costumes or modules like project diva from what they've shown i wish they did those here is my ideal world of where they did

[vocaloid-tunes]

Vulgar | Utsu-P feat. Ci flower

[late-night-vocaloid]

wait wait put your favorite vocal synth songs that you don't necessarily know if people would know in the tags (any level of popularity dw too much about it), the kind you can't stop replaying. what would you tell people to go listen to right now.

[bmpmp3]

holy FUCK IA's voisona 2.0 is OUT

[tameru]

[English translation] 天使の翼。/A4。feat. ���不 + ゲキヤク

Angel Wings。/ A4。ft. Kafu + Gekiyaku

Hey, how about it? This lovely moment. In this vigorous battle, exchanging glances Just forget it, shoot it to death already, wonder, the intercession of rotten through congratulations and condolences. At this point you don't have to speak anymore, give it up! lol I'm going off on a tangent, you know say? And yet I'm still constantly raripappa

What else could it be? I can't waste all this love I've been pouring out, What a sad story it surely must be Cut through it, connect it, it's deteriorated Today's song of support, too, try as you might, unsatisfyingly, uneasily, unpleasantly, "it's painful~🥲", it's turned into this

Ahh, you don't understand, you really don't understand a thing, so things like impatience, things like rage, you've never had a single thing to worry about, right? Fuck off, if you'd look on your back its been written "inferior"!

In the night that I cowered and fell to my knees, I want to impose that "this sucked!" Ahh! Those choices, anything and everything from those days, all of its colours are fading away. Even if it eventually becomes tiresomely irritating, I wonder if I'll be able to reach out to you. So that's why continually, on and on, I laughed and charmed this present moment, as far as the night of the blue, blue climax.

The corner of this world has curled up At this rate I'll never meet anyone, so I'm crying. For example, the manner in which we still can't grasp at anything, even the prayers fluttering about, even that extreme pride Aah... I get it, but…

First of all, rise above the decapitation, and sing praises of how the shittiness of this world might be a danger Sing it. Getting higher than the highest, If you seriously try piercing right through everything surrounding you… You're seeing this weeping face, aren't you? You think it's so funny, don't you? Since this is how the world works!? This is the crystallisation of everyone selfishly doing as they please, thinking they're special!

To the me who lied that "it's not a lie", I want to impose that "this was the best!" Ahh! As for each of the times I let only the important things fall, It was just that I simply felt like it. Blasting the inside of this empty brain, I want to laugh that "This is surely happiness!" Ahh! While shielding my back from the sorrow that will surely return eventually, by singing "I don't give a damn", I could love the things I've mistakenly been immersed in Look at me, since I've grown wings! So that's why surely, undoubtedly, I'll be able to fly anywhere and everywhere, as far as the night of the pale, brittle climax!

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

please look at me

[brain-empty]

god fuck i could make for some good voicebanks

[ukgk]

SSP PLUGIN RECOMMENDATIONS

Do you want to customize and expand your desktop buddy experience further? here are some handy links to miscellaneous plug-ins I’ve gathered from around the web, or you can even program your own, and they can also be written in any programming language so the possibilities are limitless! plug-ins are essentially  extensions or add-on built for SSP. I’m not a plugin developer myself, and have yet to test out each one of them for extended periods of time, so please refer to the readme files/ instructions provided by the developers (github usually has info) on how to use them if you get stuck or encounter issues.  these are just some of the more recently updated ones, I'll be adding more to the plugin page of my blog if you're interested.

Weather Station by Zicheq (of Ukagaka Dream Team) A plugin for both users and devs, for getting weather data! As a developer, you can set your ghost up to receive weather data from this plugin, to then do what you will with! Weather based comments? Outfit changes? Something else totally unrelated? It’s up to you! This plugin will handle the messy details of the user inputting their location and gathering the weather data for you. … (read more here)

Discord Rich Presence by Ponapalt (main dev of SSP baseware) This plugin is designed for displaying the name of the primary ghost you have open on the ‘currently playing’ status on the Discord for Windows application in real-time. also compatible with displaying your currently played song in FLUX (a really awesome music player ghost by Zi).

CeVIO-Talker V2 Plug-in by Ambergon This Plug-in was initially revealed for Day 21 of the Ukagaka Advent Calendar collaborative project in 2022. using this you can have a fully voiced ghost with a realistic sounding voicebank speak to you out loud! (in English too?) it Requires ceVIO Creative Studio and SSP 2.6.45 (or newer) to work, ceVIO is a vocal synthesizer software commonly compared to Vocaloid and UTAU that works via text-to-speech method. the primary difference between Vocaloid and ceVIO is that ceVIO is built for both TTS/speech and creating vocals for songs in music production. you can download a demo of CeVIO if you would like to try it out here.

GhostSpeaker by apxxxxxxe like CeVIO-Talker, this Plug-in was initially revealed for Day 17 of the Ukagaka Advent Calendar collaborative project in 2023. it’s a successor to the Bouyomi-chan plug-in and utilizes a free (Japanese) text-to-speech software called VOICEVOX and COEIROINK so that your ghost can verbalize their balloon dialogue and speak to you. you can listen to a demo in this github link.

GhostWardrobe by apxxxxxxe allows you to dress up your ghost in different coordinates, mix and match pieces and save and load the outfit combinations from the plugin menu.

CharameL plugin   by Umeici This software allows you to enjoy watching ghosts directly interact and chat amongst each other freely on the built in instant messenger.

[nitw]

i think synthesizer v and just vocal synths in general are a perfect example of how ai technology isn't bad in its own right, but it all comes down to how it's produced and used and who it affects.

the voicebanks made for synthv, vocaloid, cevio, etc are all based on recordings from Willing Real Life People As A Job and the effort that goes into perfecting the technology so that anyone can make something that sounds great and unique as long as they know what they're doing IS SERIOUSLY IMPRESSIVE.

and while i think synthv is the only one that really relies on any kind of ai features, it's only for things like automatically tuning small changes in pitch, or the length of consonants and vibrato, to make the pronunciation sound more realistic in real time. it's a handcrafted system, the voice providers only do about half the work. and most importantly; everything still comes down to the user's own skills, creativity, and understanding of how the program works. there's no cheating around it if you wanna make something really good!!

[lesbian-forte]

Criticisms of Vocaloid and why I like SynthV

I'm not trying to change anyone's mind here, but I would like to say my piece after certain takes seem to miss the point entirely. This might be a bit of a rant.

Vocaloid has gone stagnant in recent years. Yamaha doesn't care. Yamaha doesn't need Vocaloid and is a large corporation that gets much more money off of their DAW software and actual instruments as opposed to something as niche as vocal synths that are both only big in Japan and also only if they're in the top ten or so.

Yamaha stopped putting effort into Vocaloid during the V4-V5 transition. There is a reason V4 has so many cancelled voicebanks. Several developers were working on V4 and Yamaha rendered their devkit suddenly worthless. Devs would have to purchase a V5 devkit and start work over, or quit Vocaloid. And as vocal synth companies are generally very small, few of them would want to continue or even be able to afford it.

So they moved. Miku splitting off for Piapro gave them an opening, and others started looking for alternatives. Then IA went to CeVIO. And more and more. And by the time V5's sun was setting, all the third parties that worked on that were gone too.

But for a while, you didn't hear much from most of them. If a company released a V4 at the tailend of its lifespan or a V5, they had to wait for exclusivity to expire. And Yamaha's exclusivity deals are harsh (ending distribution of existing song voicebanks in the case of utaus with the same VP) and long, borderline predatory. So voices that companies wanted to update couldn't receive them until those expired, or else refresh that deal and stay constrained by a company that didn't even want to bother with them.

So, come V6, Yamaha was desperate. Internet Co had made an ultimatum that if a Vocaloid 6 didn't come out soon, then they'd be going too. That was their last, and after Crypton packed their bags, most important third party. So they accelerated their plans and looked at what the new guys were doing to be so successful.

They took the wrong lesson.

AI is not inherently better. Sample-based voicebanks will always have their place. Traditional samples can allow an unnaturally large range and harsher voice acting than would be possible to maintain. AI is more accurate to the voice provider, and you have a greater degree of freedom with its tone, plus updates and additional features are so much easier- but Yamaha took 'AI' at face value and made a low-quality copy that sounds significantly worse than prior Vocaloid versions and pushed it with Gumi. They could have stuck to improving their concatenative synthesis render quality further- that's what SynthV started as, R1 was just a very well-rendered sample-based program that is probably just a fancy utau under the hood.

But Vocaloid jumped on the bandwagon by doing the absolute bare minimum and claiming the ear-grating engine noise that can cause actual nausea is remaining faithful to the 'Vocaloid sound' even though styrofoam on the mic and a sometimes pleasant metallic twang sound nothing alike. They didn't improve accessibility, V6 has the same stability issues as V5, and the shiny new feature Vocalochanger is just RVC but worse.

Then, less than a year after product launch, they start up VxB and don't do anything to improve the software they're actively selling. Internet Co themselves called this out in the form of a Gumi tweet. Then Internet Co got in talks with Tokyo6 and saw a possible out, so they gave it a go. They're still under contract by Yamaha so what they can do is limited, but we saw them stray as well. And the result is a much better quality version (though arguably still worse than her V4) despite being an exact port.

We're still getting a Gumi Solid V6 because V6 can't do emotions and they still have to be separate banks, and VxB still got a major update even though it's dying in April with radio silence for V6 development, while CeVIO/VoiSona is releasing 2.0s that get major acclaim like Ci Flower's reputation totally getting turned around, and SynthV is sitting pretty with several voicebanks announced and several coming out in December alone, and the most recent in-progress update including both voice-to-midi (which is what vocalochanger should've been) and Spanish.

I do not like V6, V5, or Yamaha. It could've been amazing for Gumi or Una to get updates so they'd have crosslang (or better crosslang) capabilities, as I work in English. But the result was extremely poorly implemented and Yamaha has made no effort to fix that.

I use SynthV all the time, I'd do the same for CeVIO if it offered crosslang as well rather than just dictionaries and a couple English banks. I'm not against trying new things. But I either want the other programs to have the things to suit my needs in a quality manner that's intuitive to use or for the voicebanks I love to get versions on programs that already do. It's not that complicated.

The jokes and the yammering from rabid SynthV fans dissing Vocaloid can get to be too much sometimes. But you have to consider where that actually comes from. It's in response to suddenly being spoiled with a cheap, accessible, high-quality program when the expensive, poorly constructed, difficult one has been dominating the market with anti-consumer, anti-third party practices for years.

P.S.: Also you can do robotic tuning and mixing on realistic vocal synths, it's called doing the same thing as before and then adding it in post. You think utaites swallow vocoders or something? No, they just use different tools to get the same result as engine noise. Not fighting the voice when you're trying to go for realistic vs manual tuning and adding some very easy effects on when doing it the other way around is better, actually.

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Vocaloid Collection doodles

Yellow by Shu and Self Proclaimed Angel by Katachi P

[vocaloid-tunes]

do you accept requests for utau song covers? sorry if the answer to this question is in your FAQ, im not able to access it on mobile, the link is broken.

Huh, the link still works for me but maybe there’s a broader issue. I’ll make sure to double check later.

But to answer your question, YES! We are called “vocaloid tunes” because our blog is quite old (from 2013 aka when vocaloid was strongly a monopoly), but we post all vocal synth engines including UTAU, SynthV, CeVIO/Voisona, etc.

I guess “vocal synth tunes” is more accurate but we aren’t going to change our name, for everyone’s convenience

But anyways yea don’t be afraid to ask for UTAU or non-vocaloid songs. As long as it’s a “singing robot”, we don’t mind.

[deadly-espresso]

So uhhh development on my next song might be delayed

So umm I have been working on a new English song over the next couple of weeks, but recently, I've hit a bit of a roadblock. Weirdly enough it's not about the song itself... it's about the vocals.

So basically I had started by composing the vocals in SynthV, and what I had intended to do was run the vocals through a KITS AI model to make the voice sound different (I had previously done that with my MIRA remix). I intended to use the KITS AI model for TessTess (whom you may recognize as an UTAU voicebank) for my song because I thought it would fit the tone of my song very well (it was a youthful-sounding male vocal, it sounded a bit similar to the VOCALOID/CEVIO voicebank Flower in terms of quality). However, it recently turned out that due to changes to KITS, most if not ALL voicebanks made for the program had been made private without the input of their creators, and there is a possibility that TessTess' voicebank may have been deleted.

I did reach out to the creator of RiKU (RiKU and TessTess's creators used to be affiliated for some time) for help regarding the matter. I was able to regain access to RiKU's KITS AI model, but unfortunately I couldn't regain access to TessTess' KITS AI model because according to RiKU's creator the TessTess model had been deleted and sadly couldn't be recreated because they didn't have room for more models (Even then, they likely couldn't recreate the model without authorization from TessTess' creator)

So, yeah, I don't know what to do now. The only english AI models I still have access to are the SynthV lite models for Tsurumaki Maki, ANRI, Eleanor Forte, and Solaria. If you can provide any assistance regarding this matter, that would be highly appreciated.

[bmpmp3]

even though i enjoy plenty of vocals like this, im not a huge fan of like the trend of when a vtuber/utaite/etc voices a vocal synth and then they just have the design look like their persona but like with white hair or smth. like its fine its not that deep but i wish they made more independent characters, i think its more fun that way

[glaceplatz]

I drew Flower's CeVIO design a few days ago and changed it a little bit, the only thing that bothers me about this design is the orange in her shorts and in her boots.