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autisticmight · 1 year ago

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sorry that vocaloid "hot take" (come on. it's been a ~hot take~ since like 2003. it is lukewarm at this point) is just. so annoying to me. genuinely upsetting. i am also a singer!!! so are a bunch of the people who lend their voices to vocaloid!!! vocal synths are a way to sing when you can't; a voice that you will never yourself have come from your mouth but which still shapes the words that you cannot!!!

dismissing them in such a way just feels disrespectful to all of the humans involved in the vocal synth community, from the producers to artists to animators to the humans who cover those songs, all of whom add a little part of themselves to the songs

#from some perspectives i guess that vocaloid is equivalent to folk music for the tragically online #vocaloid concerts are a place of great community as well #it's like. miku isn't just a synth. she's all of our voices singing together #i also feel like that person thinks that vocaloid is exclusively 'write words and a melody and the robot will sing for you'#rather than something that requires technical ability and skill in order to produce #and connecting it to ai is. i feel like that would have happened regardless of vocaloid #because vsynth communities have become increasingly about respecting the artist and the software as very different things #with a few arguable exceptions of course due to the goals of some voicebanks being to emulate the singer as closely as possible #i have. so many emotions #helen stfu

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