really, all musical devices are toys, whether it be FL studio or a guitar or a piano. I'm not a professional guitarist or professional anything but that doesn't mean I cannot attempt to make music to how I see fit!
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Yeah definitely you can do whatever the hell you want. And just in case i never said amateurs cant make music the way they see fit.
Professional musician sounds like a term made by elitists or something. (completely ignoring that fact that it's a legit term)
maybe.. but if you think its a term made by elitists then it must be a term made by elitists. but yknow the definition is different for every person. like say professional may mean someone who is established or someone who gets paid or someone who is experienced or a musician who can lick his WENIS. it really depends
Bad worksman whom blames his tools, or so i've been told.
The Speak and Spell is an actual toy, for example, that made it's way on to several very succesfull albums by artists whom are far from obscure or amateurs.
Only vocaloid track i've really enjoyed to date is the miku module doing a metal rendition of the hannya shingyo, everything ellse is far too cutesy for me and that's really my only observation of it.
( i.e. people without exception making certain kinds of music with it that for the life me i would not be able to bear with much. )
I don't really see the point of advocating against the use of it though, to me it seems like just another synth and it's not like vocoders or autotune don't have their place in music either, nevermind being rather ubiquitous in certain genres.
exactly.
woah speak and spell i didnt know that... will check that out.
ahhh you listened to a track arranged by utsu-p. he actually has a lot of original metal songs using miku and i think he is the first one to make miku screech and growl
and i think thats the limitation of a vocaloid. its design and programming. miku is designed and programmed to be cute therefore you will get cute no matter what genre you compose but there are some composers out there like utsu-p who was able to bypass miku's cuteness. ill mention some of them in future news post
For a while I've been thinking about getting Vocaloid (especially since Miku's English version was release) and using it as a computer voice (examples: robotic/AI type characters, "battle gear" voices you'll hear from something like Power Rangers). Hearing some the talking parts in your examples is making me considering it, although I don't think I can to that level of craftsmanship (never touched a musical program at all), and it might be overkill for what I'd like to do.
GO FOR IT
I've only begun to use vocaloids, but I don't have the time to learn how to make them sound real. I've released two songs using Miku ("Nostalgia" and "I can't remember", if you're interested), and the voices still sound a bit stale. I think vocaloid music is completely legitimate. I mean, why not?
dont worry you will find "time" eventually just keep at it
ahhhh will check out your works then.
johnfn
Wow, those examples ARE really amazing. Mind=blown
Where do you find out about all these awesome tunes?
steampianist
I just typed in realistic vocaloids in youtube.