Tuning (Song)

Vocals

Price $15-20

• Miku's voice is intended to be a cute-sounding Japanese vocal and was designed to have a characteristic personality to her voice. As a result of the vocal direction, Hatsune Miku is not intended to be a realistic sounding voice.

• Her strength lies in her ability to climb up high into the octaves while maintaining a strong mid-tone range, without losing her cute sounding tone. She is able to reach notes very few singers can reach.

• She ties with Prima on ability to hit the highest optimum note of any VOCALOID2 voicebank at #E5.

• Due to her voice style, she's not intended to give professional quality results, however, this makes her able to sing in a very wide variety of genres.

• Another contributor to its high music usage was that it could produce some of the widest variety of vocal variations for a long time and could easily be morphed to sound very different to her original vocal. This led her to being able to be adapted for a number of genres of music. 

• She does not produce as many quality tones as Megurine Luka does. 

• Miku, compared to other VOCALOID2 vocals, had a strong attack and marked consonants.

• A noted weakness of her’s is the ⟨MA⟩ related lines of text, which other VOCALOIDs such as Megpoid do relatively with ease.

• She has a number of slurry or chopping vowel sounds within her vocal due to less vowels within her vocal bank.

• She has a slight skirly tone that makes her difficult to tune for certain slow musical genres.

• Many of the flaws within the vocal bank itself are a result of Miku being the first Japanese VOCALOID2 voicebank.

• There are unchangeable glottal stops between a handful of her vowel transitions.

  • This can be fixed by using [w] if the previous note was [M] and [j] if the previous note was [i].

• The ⟨KO⟩ and ⟨TA⟩ samples seem to have their consonants spliced.

• She can not produce a voiceless ⟨U⟩ or ⟨I⟩ in VOCALOID2. This issue is fixed in VOCALOID3 and 4 with the [*_0] phoneme.

  • Even though [*_0] works with any phoneme, [M_0] and [i_0] produce the highest quality results. These results can only be achieved when as a short note before a pause or in between ⟨K⟩, ⟨S⟩, ⟨T⟩, ⟨H⟩, ⟨F⟩, ⟨P⟩, ⟨SH⟩ and ⟨CH⟩.

• Z automatically defaults to [dz] instead of [z].

• J automatically defaults to [dZ] instead of [Z].

• She’s capable of producing glottal stops in VOCALOID3/4.

• She is a voice acted vocal.