Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
After 4 years of promises, finally, it's here...
Yep, my UTAU still won't work correctly, and I'm still forced to use it with my locale not set to Japanese (which means the program is almost useless). But although this is not a very high-quality voicebank either, I want you to acknowledge how much it means that Sumuji Cheri VCV is finally a thing...
I think some of you already know this, but unlike many other UTAU voicebanks, Cheri's whole existence is based solely on the few poorly recorded CV samples I was able to take when I was just turning 14. Even shortly after that (and to this day) I was NEVER able to recreate Cheri's voice again. There were many (and I mean many) attempts on recording new samples for all new kinds of voicebanks for her, but none of them came even close to the original sound. I could just record new versions of Cheri that sound more like my current voice and abandon that old CV voicebank, but there's something so special about the original tone: Cheri is a remainder of the naivety of a younger version of myself, and that's why she sounds so nostalgic and unique to me. I thought that such an innocent and sweet voice had too much potential to be simply wasted in a limited low-quality abandoned voicebank, so I did what other users did with other old CV voicebanks like Defoko: I edited all the samples (including unused takes) in Audacity to create VC transitions. The first step was Cheri 1.5, a CVVC conversion I released last year. This time, I took it to it's full potential and made an entire VCV voicebank as complete as remotely possible. This is formally THE most high-quality voicebank that it is possible to obtain only with the old, monopitch, low-quality original CV samples, and it's honestly a lot. A few years ago, the idea of a Cheri VCV voicebank that would actually sound like the original Cheri was pretty much impossible. It still may not sound 100% like a naturally recorded VCV, but it's the peak of the "1." line (that's how I call the series of voicebanks I made with the original Cheri samples). I also think that if you could use other resamplers other than the default UTAU resampler.dll you could even reduce the noise of the samples! Other than that, I'm quite proud of the final result! The fact that she is even close in quality to other voicebanks like Sukone Tei's is just amazing...
Also, I made a logo for her!
I kept the old image file for this voicebank too since it's from the "1." series that derives from the original version. If I ever get my UTAU to work correctly I may start recording new versions of Cheri with a new tone of voice, and that would be no longer from the "1." line.
And why did I re-cover the same song I did last year? I don't know, it fits Cheri very well and it makes it a fair comparison...
-- Credits: --
- Song: Fukujusou by Gunyo
- DEMO Cover and UST by me (McKatherine)
- Voicebank voiced and managed by me (McKatherine)
- Pictures by me (McKatherine)
- Voicebank Download Link: drive.google.com/file/d/11BdxUkiSLcW1sWz6L5lMZSQAaLDxLCaC/view?usp=sharing
- DEMO Download Link: drive.google.com/file/d/18it1RzVVY7YBnE9L4U-jSk2551tbq7HB/view?usp=sharing
-- Past versions: --
- Sumuji Cheri 1.0 (CV): youtu.be/fCZ09R-qwMA?list=PLcO3bryCpHdPPtkQ_M0wCVmPCnKzWjwJm
- Sumuji Cheri 1.5 (CVVC): soundcloud.com/mckatherine/utau-release-sumuji-cheri-15-demo-children-on-their-birthdays
Thank you!
#utau #release
After 4 years of promises, finally, it's here...
Yep, my UTAU still won't work correctly, and I'm still forced to use it with my locale not set to Japanese (which means the program is almost useless). But although this is not a very high-quality voicebank either, I want you to acknowledge how much it means that Sumuji Cheri VCV is finally a thing...
I think some of you already know this, but unlike many other UTAU voicebanks, Cheri's whole existence is based solely on the few poorly recorded CV samples I was able to take when I was just turning 14. Even shortly after that (and to this day) I was NEVER able to recreate Cheri's voice again. There were many (and I mean many) attempts on recording new samples for all new kinds of voicebanks for her, but none of them came even close to the original sound. I could just record new versions of Cheri that sound more like my current voice and abandon that old CV voicebank, but there's something so special about the original tone: Cheri is a remainder of the naivety of a younger version of myself, and that's why she sounds so nostalgic and unique to me. I thought that such an innocent and sweet voice had too much potential to be simply wasted in a limited low-quality abandoned voicebank, so I did what other users did with other old CV voicebanks like Defoko: I edited all the samples (including unused takes) in Audacity to create VC transitions. The first step was Cheri 1.5, a CVVC conversion I released last year. This time, I took it to it's full potential and made an entire VCV voicebank as complete as remotely possible. This is formally THE most high-quality voicebank that it is possible to obtain only with the old, monopitch, low-quality original CV samples, and it's honestly a lot. A few years ago, the idea of a Cheri VCV voicebank that would actually sound like the original Cheri was pretty much impossible. It still may not sound 100% like a naturally recorded VCV, but it's the peak of the "1." line (that's how I call the series of voicebanks I made with the original Cheri samples). I also think that if you could use other resamplers other than the default UTAU resampler.dll you could even reduce the noise of the samples! Other than that, I'm quite proud of the final result! The fact that she is even close in quality to other voicebanks like Sukone Tei's is just amazing...
Also, I made a logo for her!
I kept the old image file for this voicebank too since it's from the "1." series that derives from the original version. If I ever get my UTAU to work correctly I may start recording new versions of Cheri with a new tone of voice, and that would be no longer from the "1." line.
And why did I re-cover the same song I did last year? I don't know, it fits Cheri very well and it makes it a fair comparison...
-- Credits: --
- Song: Fukujusou by Gunyo
- DEMO Cover and UST by me (McKatherine)
- Voicebank voiced and managed by me (McKatherine)
- Pictures by me (McKatherine)
- Voicebank Download Link: drive.google.com/file/d/11BdxUkiSLcW1sWz6L5lMZSQAaLDxLCaC/view?usp=sharing
- DEMO Download Link: drive.google.com/file/d/18it1RzVVY7YBnE9L4U-jSk2551tbq7HB/view?usp=sharing
-- Past versions: --
- Sumuji Cheri 1.0 (CV): youtu.be/fCZ09R-qwMA?list=PLcO3bryCpHdPPtkQ_M0wCVmPCnKzWjwJm
- Sumuji Cheri 1.5 (CVVC): soundcloud.com/mckatherine/utau-release-sumuji-cheri-15-demo-children-on-their-birthdays
Thank you!
#utau #release
