Cha Cha Cha!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uqROxMIQUtg1CFwHTBrypaY727rvQuU-?usp=sharing

Lossless DL, Vocaloid Project Files, Instrumental, and a lil thing I wrote about the project itself... Which I will promptly copy paste here:

(mucho texto warning)

Vocaloids used:

GUMI V4 Power

GUMI V4 Whisper

GUMI V4 Adult

Program used:
Vocaloid 5

All mixing done in DAW. The raw vocaloid output does not sound very good.

I initially bought GUMI V6 AI along with the Vocaloid 6 software on release,

and for the longest time I wanted to make something in bad katakana finnish.

As soon as I started work on the song, I quickly found out that though

GUMI AI sounds immaculate when singing, it's other capabilities are *severely*

limited by the nature of the library and the available controls of V6 for the AI banks.

I *could* have used the Miku V4X packs I bought back in 2019, but unfortunately,

Miku isn't green. So the only reasonable option left was to buy the Gumi V4 multipack.

Clearly.

So, no, this isn't AI or Vocalo-Changer, it's all hand written. And thus very embarrassing because I’m not very good at Vocaloid!!! But I thought I'd share it anyway due to the demand. Please let me know if you decide to cover my version of the song in any way!

(the reason I opted for the older Vocaloid 5 instead of Vocaloid 6 is because V6’s timing in DAW works exclusively via ARA2 which my DAW does not yet support, making using the program in-DAW impossible. And the reason the song is tuned down -6st is to better fit GUMI’s natural range.)

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Finnish-Japanese Ramble!

I've gotten a lot of comments about the pronunciation, and boy I’ve a lot to say.

The biggest struggles the bank had was ironically extremely reminiscent of that of

native japanese speakers attempting to speak finnish.

To begin with, Japanese is spoken with a very closed mouth which shows in numerous vowels.

O isn't as distinctly different. Many people heard "Juomista" (drinks) and "Huolista" (worries)

as "Yuumista" (league of legends cat) and "Huulista" (lips)

>I hold onto Yuumi with both of my hands, like :D

No such thing as the Y-vowel exists in japanese. Depending on the library used, ’the openness’ of the mouth will dictate whether the U will be prounounced similarly to the finnish Y or the universal U.

Furthermore, consonants in finnish are extremely straightforward and punctual.

Every R and L is a characteristic single roll soft L-ish R, which results in some funny lyrics,

such as "Haluun olla sekasin ja vapaa huoRista :D" instead of "huoLista"

>I want to be out of my mind and free from all worries (huolista)

>I want to be out of my mind and free from all the whores (huorista)

Thankfully none in the comments even realized this.

Japanese just also simply does not do two different consecutive consonants (with the exception of n), which are abundant in finnish, -ks-, -tk-, -lt-, and so on. Even when dropping the vowels inbetween via manual editing, it never quite sounds "right".

So overall, no, it's by no means perfect, but it’s decent!

That was probably a lot of words that only I'll ever find interesting, but I hope it offers at least some insight to the project! I'll probably be making more vocaloid stuff in the future soon enough, but I'll need to get back into the groove of things first.