For what purpose did you created/are you going to create your own UTAU?

[glaciachan]

Well, more than a year ago, when I first downloaded the program, I didn't want to make an UTAU per-se, I just wanted to use them. A friend actually convinced me to record and make an UTAU. Originally, I wanted to be popular admittedly, but my purpose for using/making UTAU's has changed; I love it because of how much creativity it allows me; in addition I've made tons of friends and my art has improved so much because of UTAU. ;w;

 

[TheDrunkRecruit]

For sh*ts and giggles.
No, I was gonna record one as a joke a while back, based off of a, I guess you could say nickname? I have. But I never got round to it because I was a total noob.

But I've just finished the voicebank of my first UTAU. I started making him when VO.net was down. =P
I basically just made him for myself and to see how he sounded.

So yeah, for the sake of having made something original.

 

[Sylphique]

I created my UTAUs for myself. Vocaloids and Utaus were all created how their creators wanted them to be created (their designs and everthing). Lets take Mangakas for example; They'd have a lack of motivation, if they didn't like the characters they were drawing. People enjoy working with things that they create, because they are built of that person's own experiences, ideas, and feelings and it is something you can call your 'own'. In the end, I created my Utaus because I wanted them to fit the themes I was thinking of and wanted to work with and write music for. People know themselves the best after all. My Utaus represent myself （　´∀｀）.

If people don't like what their working with, they don't give their full potential; and if they don't do that, then you can't really be satisfied with anything that comes out of it- it's pretty half-assed ヽ(　￣д￣ノ.
So by creating something your self rather than using existing things you like, you're more likely to put in more effort~

Also, as a Writer, I enjoy creating characters ♥（ﾉ´∀`）.
And as an Artist, I love designing ♥（ﾉ´∀`）.
I love singing too, but I can't sing (´o｀)ノ♪ # #

 

[Ono]

Vocaloid is what inspired me to make my own. Seeing Teto and having fans call her an "Utau" made me curious. And after awhile of looking at tutorials and such, I decided to make my own Utau. This fandom still fascinates me as it did when I first started~

 

[MioDioDaVinci]

Ah, for multiple reasons. I've been meaning to sort this out myself. ouo;;

1.) Because I loved Vocaloid songs but I was dead broke in terms of internet monies. Besides, free and original is always better!
2.) Because there was something so exhilarating about giving a character a voice and hearing it come out of a computer. I literally giggled out loud the moment Salvador made his first sound. Not to mention I love the programing aspect of it and getting the joy out of telling people, "That's my voice in a computer program."
3.) I, for one, love experimenting. The clay sculptures, paintings, plushies, drawings, and everything else littering my room says something.
4.) I saw UTAU as another opportunity to grow, experiment, meet new people, and, as egotistical as it sounds, excel at. I'm still working on getting to the whole "excel" part, though. OTL
5.) Lastly, because making an UTAU is like having a child, where you spend months on end coddling them and teaching them until you send them out into the world to make a name for them self. I love the feeling of some one so much as mentioning one of their names. It feels like I'm just swelling to the brim with butterflies~ =u=

And there's probably quite a few more reasons, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. ._.

 

[RenzoA]

Hmmm, mostly because I found it facinating and fun. And, this sounds selfish, horrible, and is a general no-no in the commuity, but I know we all think it and strive for it; a bit if popularity. I wanted my UTAU to be good and popular, because when I was leaving Vocaloid and coming into UTAU I saw all the users that were well known and I wanted to be like that as well.

I'm certain we all feel that to an extent. XD

I can relate to that. Ever since Ive been checking out those cool UTAU covers, ive been having high expectations and goals about my UTAU. I kept dreaming about when my UTAUs became popular. Is capable of 3 languages and has 2+ voicebank appends....I guess I just wanted to be good in something that everyone would like me in xD I was curious and Its fascinating to play around with it too...Worst part is, I wanted to debut my UTAU this January...but then I realized that everyone in here is (kinda) serious in their work so i'll be taking some time and learn the wonderful world of UTAU xD

 

[Animé Fan]

At first, I got into UTAU just so I could become as popular as my sister, who knew about and use UTAU before I did. After years of no success and better development, I've decided that I should stop focusing on popularity and go for making UTAU that I know that I'll truly work with out of sheer love. UTAU are like one's own children; one must treat them with love and respect and not as a cash cow!

As for my own UTAU, they're sort of created to promote the appreciation of young male UTAU, since most boy characters are heavily looked down upon and only so few of them are positively recognized.

 

[수연 <Suyeon>]

I actually find the concept of it all fascinating - a ready made vocalist for [insert language here] that will never get sick, won't have a diva complex, never be late or cancel a concert, won't have an obnoxious presence on social media/tv... It's like if Motown artists or K-pop/J-idols spliced DNA with a computer. I like the fact that the humanity factor is kind of absent because it eliminates the need to justify why you like a particular voice for some people (some people don't separate the artist persona from the everyday joe persona that an artist has - for some artist, they are their persona and have no 'everyday joe' that they default to when not working. If that artist is a genuine prick? Well... :/ ).

Also, I don't always like my singing voice. Sometimes my brain says sing but my vocal cords just aren't having a good day. Some songs that I like are just outside of my range. Synths don't have that problem as often (unless it's a single pitch).
I must sound like some 1984 distopian mastermind, given the general attitude of 'Ohmigerd! robots are gonna take over! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!!!!!' some westerners can have.

 

[HoneyPai]

//dusts off this thread

Completely off this topic
Tbh how do you even find threads from 2012 without going in search of them?

 

[수연 <Suyeon>]

Some peeps probably do search for ancient threads for all we know. I didn't notice how old it was til I took a good look.

 

[dezzydream]

Answering the OP question:
I made my UTAU because I wanted to reprise the character role of a fanloid I made when I was nine. The only thing that she kept from the orignal concept was the surname "Kiseki." Everything else, including her hair, outfit, age, and personality, was changed.
Story time.

Spoiler: Kiseki Noke's Evolution Story

Kiseki Ahoge was and idea that came to me as a small weeaboo at the age of nine. She was a sixteen-year-old warrior chick who fought off monsters. I still have her old concepts from back in 2011. She was to be a best friend for my OC fanloid at the time, Midorine Pinku(She was also turned into an UTAU, but only her outfit and hairstyle changed from the original). For about 4 years, she was never touched again and I forgot about her existance. Fast forward to March of 2015. My 12th birthday was just around the corner, so I decided, "Hmm, how about as a birthday present to myself, I'll redesign one of my old OCs?" So I did that. And she still had some evolving to do before she turned into Noke. Noke's first actual design was similar to the current one, but there were some differences. First off, she had short hair, in kind of a bob style. She had cat ears instead of bunny ears. She had straight-across bangs. Her colours were a bit different. She didn't wear shorts under her skirt. And she wore long rainbow socks. I evolved her over the course of a year, and once she had a voicebank, she was released on my 13th birthday.

 

[kimchi-tan]

@HoneyPai @수연 <Suyeon> Our forum doesn't have any strict no-necroing threads rules so there shouldn't be anything to worry about especially since this is a discussion thread and not a kind of thread where things get resolved (like threads in the Help and Advice board, for example).

I originally didn't want to create an utau and just wanted to make good covers with utau that I like but then I suddenly wanted to make a sassy and expressive himedere utau this year. And similar to @theLoonyLibrarian, I wanted to see how my voice sounds through the program (even if it's voice acted) and it always amazes me like "did this voice really originate from my mouth??" XD

 

[Shasta]

Have a seat, this is a sad, dark story. So, it was Dec to Mar in 2012/2013. I had ended up getting really really ill, and with this, I fell into a helpless depression. It was really bad, I was only 13 at the time. Well, the doctor sent me to a specialist who then scheduled me for surgery. I was told my survival would be a miracle. So. It was March 23rd, 2013, the morning before the surgery. I had stayed up all that night studying how to do this. I recorded Shadow's first CV voicebank because why tf not? I was convinced I was going to die, so why not do this? Not like anyone is going to know. Well. A few ours later, I woke up in a hospital bed with a stuffed animal and a drawing of Shadow. As soon as I saw that, I took it as a sign. It was meant to happen. I showed her to my best friend, who loved vocaloid and he was amazed. We later created the second member of the project, Neko. Our friend wanted to get in on the action, so she voiced Storm, the third member of the project. My older sister got curious on what I was doing, and spending so much time one, so we showed her, and later the fourth member, Snow was created. Then from there.... It just became a part of me. Neko is the closest thing to my best friend I have, he ended up moving pretty far away, and we rarely talk now.. 4 years strong. I used to love the concept of the future... You know, singing programs, robots, and stuff like that. We have that now. This is the future. Now I am left wondering.... What is beyond the future?

 

[NipahIsLife]

Funny story, I originally created my Utauloid for talkloid purposes. I wanted to make animations of my Utauloid interacting with other Utauloids. I never got around to making any.

 

[Animé Fan]

Have a seat, this is a sad, dark story. So, it was Dec to Mar in 2012/2013. I had ended up getting really really ill, and with this, I fell into a helpless depression. It was really bad, I was only 13 at the time. Well, the doctor sent me to a specialist who then scheduled me for surgery. I was told my survival would be a miracle. So. It was March 23rd, 2013, the morning before the surgery. I had stayed up all that night studying how to do this. I recorded Shadow's first CV voicebank because why tf not? I was convinced I was going to die, so why not do this? Not like anyone is going to know. Well. A few ours later, I woke up in a hospital bed with a stuffed animal and a drawing of Shadow. As soon as I saw that, I took it as a sign. It was meant to happen. I showed her to my best friend, who loved vocaloid and he was amazed. We later created the second member of the project, Neko. Our friend wanted to get in on the action, so she voiced Storm, the third member of the project. My older sister got curious on what I was doing, and spending so much time one, so we showed her, and later the fourth member, Snow was created. Then from there.... It just became a part of me. Neko is the closest thing to my best friend I have, he ended up moving pretty far away, and we rarely talk now.. 4 years strong. I used to love the concept of the future... You know, singing programs, robots, and stuff like that. We have that now. This is the future. Now I am left wondering.... What is beyond the future?

*sob* That's one of the most beautiful UTAU origin stories I've ever heard!

 

[taigz]

As for me? Just a so-ordinary story. Ever since I loved Vocaloid, I found out about UTAU. Fortunately, I thought it wouldn’t work with such an outdated computer (no money to buy an new one). But then I found out it’s actually compatible with Windows XP, so maybe I could try it out. My first time using UTAU was a bit annoying as I can’t find any Japanese keyboard and the East Asian Languages pack… hey, I was so noobish back then. Thankfully there is an English patch, so I downloaded it for the program.

The first UTAU I used was Teto (as a noob I actually thought she was saying notes wrongly. It turns out that my computer can’t read Japanese) but then I found other voicebanks in Romaji, so I tried them out, and then I was inspired to make my own, using... a laptop mic. So then my first one, Ayane Kuroko turned out to be sh*t, thankfully I didn't release her.

So I tried again, this time with a webcam. I recorded and it actually turned out to be so much better than last time. I was so happy, I was ready to release her. And so Reiha was born. As for Yuren, I thought I could get her a genderbend and little bro, so there ya go. And yeah, that’s right, despite not being real people, your UTAUs should be treated as if they’re your own children or even just little siblings, not as cash cows. I agree with that one.

Sorry for long but boring story… I just wanted to tell everything for you to not ask a lot of questions lel.

 

[Piia]

Have a seat, this is a sad, dark story. So, it was Dec to Mar in 2012/2013. I had ended up getting really really ill, and with this, I fell into a helpless depression. It was really bad, I was only 13 at the time. Well, the doctor sent me to a specialist who then scheduled me for surgery. I was told my survival would be a miracle. So. It was March 23rd, 2013, the morning before the surgery. I had stayed up all that night studying how to do this. I recorded Shadow's first CV voicebank because why tf not? I was convinced I was going to die, so why not do this? Not like anyone is going to know. Well. A few ours later, I woke up in a hospital bed with a stuffed animal and a drawing of Shadow. As soon as I saw that, I took it as a sign. It was meant to happen. I showed her to my best friend, who loved vocaloid and he was amazed. We later created the second member of the project, Neko. Our friend wanted to get in on the action, so she voiced Storm, the third member of the project. My older sister got curious on what I was doing, and spending so much time one, so we showed her, and later the fourth member, Snow was created. Then from there.... It just became a part of me. Neko is the closest thing to my best friend I have, he ended up moving pretty far away, and we rarely talk now.. 4 years strong. I used to love the concept of the future... You know, singing programs, robots, and stuff like that. We have that now. This is the future. Now I am left wondering.... What is beyond the future?

*tries not to cry, cries a lot*
I'm so glad you've survived...

 

[RenzoA]

Have a seat, this is a sad, dark story. So, it was Dec to Mar in 2012/2013. I had ended up getting really really ill, and with this, I fell into a helpless depression. It was really bad, I was only 13 at the time. Well, the doctor sent me to a specialist who then scheduled me for surgery. I was told my survival would be a miracle. So. It was March 23rd, 2013, the morning before the surgery. I had stayed up all that night studying how to do this. I recorded Shadow's first CV voicebank because why tf not? I was convinced I was going to die, so why not do this? Not like anyone is going to know. Well. A few ours later, I woke up in a hospital bed with a stuffed animal and a drawing of Shadow. As soon as I saw that, I took it as a sign. It was meant to happen. I showed her to my best friend, who loved vocaloid and he was amazed. We later created the second member of the project, Neko. Our friend wanted to get in on the action, so she voiced Storm, the third member of the project. My older sister got curious on what I was doing, and spending so much time one, so we showed her, and later the fourth member, Snow was created. Then from there.... It just became a part of me. Neko is the closest thing to my best friend I have, he ended up moving pretty far away, and we rarely talk now.. 4 years strong. I used to love the concept of the future... You know, singing programs, robots, and stuff like that. We have that now. This is the future. Now I am left wondering.... What is beyond the future?

That's the most beautiful story Ive ever heard....too bad Neko moved away...I wish I could create utaus just like you and your friends. my friends on the other doesnt give a cr*p about anything...

 

[Skiyoshi 十三]

I made one because I really enjoy the escapism included when you create your own singing child or "persona" that inherits your voice. I enjoy the thought of creation, and utau really piques my ability with art when it comes to the character/cover illustration. I don't sing very well in real life because of lack of training, so utau kind of helps me get over my grief over lack of singing skill. Also, I knew making an utau would also help me learn Japanese (pronounciation, hiragana, some kanji) so it was also beneficial in a more general lingual sense.

 

[Mougeki Mero]

My story is very simple, common and boring XD Basically I always enjoyed VOCALOID and UTAU since I was 11 (2011); Two years later I started using UTAU. Then last year I became kind of fascunated with instrument voicebanks and I was amazed at how a specific VB (Soho's Bass) worked and I got motivated to learn how to play an instrument...On January of this year I bought an acoustic guitar and I am still learning it nowadays...on the meanwhile I wanted to make a VB out of my guitar, but I didnt have a nice mic. Thanks Gosh I found a soundfont made from the same guitar as mine on interbet, and got allowance to distribute those sounds as an UTAU VB. Then my UTAU Mougeki Mero was born. I got helo from my friends Amata and Kai! Nice people <3

On a side note, I also wanted to use UTAU for correction and guess what? I became better at using an acoustic guitar on UTAU rather than on real life XD