UTAU v0.2.09 / ameya.ayame — human power intensive vocal-oid type tool

from “UTAU support page” (in Japanese)

On Dec 18, human vocal-oid tool “UTAU” was updated to v0.2.09.
UTAU , which mean “sing” in Japanese, was first released on early 2008, and after frequent updates, now it has some reputation in Japanese DTM scene (especially in nico nico video).

The main feature of UTAU is to assign short voice samples (phoneme) into MIDI phrase, and finally create complete voice track just sounds like a voical-oid's.
This process looks like rearrangement of rap phrase on beat slicer. If you have enough time and hundreds of samples, theoretically you can create any phrases! On UTAU, lyrics are used to select appropriate phoneme samples, and MIDI data is used to specify melody. This is a main difference of UTAU against beat re-arrangement.

Although UTAU isn't a VST plugin nor software instruments, but its influences cannot be just ignored in Japan, so I introduce it on here ...

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A vocal synthesizer tool “UTAU” support page

(English translation from UTAU support page written in Japanese)

Introduction

UTAU is a wave editor to create vocal track by processing & editing short voice samples.
UTAU includes voice sample set from AquesTalk, and setting file for it,
so you can start to use this tool just after install it.

System Requirements

UTAU is developed & tested on following environment:
WindowsXP Professional SP2, Pentium4 2.66GHz 1GB RAM

New Features & Changes introduced in v0.1.63 (from v0.1.52)

Main Screen

Import of MIDI file
You can import MIDI file with selecting “File”→“Import”menu item. Although this feature may be not enough because it's only a quick hack.
Import of Vocaloid VSQ file

Save with original file format

Note editing features

Setting of pronunciation going ahead

Additions on note property

Changes & additions on pitch editor

	ameya.ayame (飴屋／菖蒲) blog:		http://utau2008.blog47.fc2.com/
	UTAU support page:		http://utau2008.web.fc2.com/index.html
	UTAU@Wiki (summary of blog):		http://www10.atwiki.jp/utau2008/
	UTAU BBS:		http://utau.8.bbs.fc2.com/
	UTAU user's wiki:		http://www20.atwiki.jp/utaou/
	[Download] UTAU & voice libraries		http://utau2008.xrea.jp/index.html
	VisualBasic 6.0 SP6 Runtime Library:		http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/win95/util/se188840.html (for zip'ed ver.)