Tuning (Song)

Vocals

Price $15

• Instead of the normal Spanish VOCALOID script, MAIKA has 16 extra phonemes. Although they're intended mainly for Catalan, Voctro Labs suggested that with her added phonemes she would be able to achieve a decent imitation of other languages like English, Portuguese and Japanese, although she can not sound like a native speaker.

• In her lower registers, her voice is softer and more airy, while in the higher registers she has a more intense timbre.

• She has a broad range, which switches from a chest voice to a head voice in the highest registers.

• Her voice is suited for a large range of musical genres and styles.

• Her voice has a good flexibility in terms of pitch and timbre.

• Various of her consonants can be reproduced alone across extended notes without a vowel. The fricatives [f], [s], [S], [x]; the nasals [n], [m], [J]; and liquid [l] stand well this, allowing use them in a syllabic way. Other phonemes like the [rr] can be reproduced alone as well, but suffer heavy distortion when they are without an adjacent note.

• In their raw state, MAIKA's [x], [s] and [S] phonemes are strong and louder compared to any other phoneme in the library, and needs proper tuning to avoid the pronunciation issue.

• 2 Job Plug-ins were developed for MAIKA. The first converts Japanese VSQx files into the closest equivalent in Spanish phonetics and the second does the same but for English.

• MAIKA’s [b], [g] and [d] can be close to her [B], [G] and [D].

• She doesn't have the aspirated phonemes that are used in English.