Ohh boy, I think the first ever VB I made was like... 2-3 years ago? I don't have a sample of it, but it was at the time when I was still VERY shy and didn't even hit puberty yet, so it was this cutesy whisper bank. Sadly I lost the bank when I got a new computer, but eh, it's better that way. xD
After about a year, I decided that "gee, I should make a new VB, cause I wanna make it sound good >:3" so I made Taji Inokuma, my first "known" VB which I do have a sample of
over here. At the time though I didn't have an avatar for him because I didn't know how to draw (that well). That bank sounded a lot more mature and powerful (even though I forced myself to sound that way) but didn't have any other pitches and the oto sucked.
Then UTAU stopped working and I got to a stop in improving Taji. It just refused to play any sounds and I didn't know what to do at the time, so I decided to just leave it be, making UTAU sit in the corner of the desktop for like another year.
After said year, I had this brilliant idea to try and download another sound driver, which I obviously couldn't do, so I had to stick with Razer Surround, which surprisingly let me use UTAU normally again. I played around with Taji for a while before I got the motivation to make what we know today as Tori Yugana. Production was slow because I was still too shy to record (everyone in the house could hear if I started to shout into the mic xD) so I had to record when nobody was home. This of course took a long time, but after finally recording Tori's ACT1 CV, I felt pride. Because of this, I wanted to try new ways to oto, new ways to mix and new stuff altogether. Then finally, about 6 months ago, Tori was released. :3
(Sample)
Nobody seemed to notice anyway, so (I don't remember what I did, I guess I put stuff on Soundcloud and then this happened. xD) and I got less and less shy and actually more and more confident in myself, so I decided to try and make Tori's VCV bank, which I tried to make him sound a bit more mature. Of course then the whole breakdown happened, me releasing the incomplete version to the internet and letting the VCV bank sit in the corner for a while before I started to work on it again.
(Sample)
Oops, this just turned into a story about how I made them instead of how different they sound to each other, so tl;dr First VB was a cutesy whisper bank, Taji Inokuma was a more mature and powerful sounding bank but had terrible oto, Tori ACT1 got 2 more pitches and got more power and Tori VCV is still in the making and sounds a bit more mature than Tori's CV bank at the cost of less power. xD