High pitched noise in utau?

[gauzyguts]

My utau program makes this horrible high pitched screeching whenever i import a midi and I'm not sure how to fix it. I'm trying to complete my first ust and I want to do the background vocals, so I made a midi of the vocals and imported it into utau, but it's extremely high pitched and sounds like a violin. Why is this?

 

[Arissa]

What's the octave? Do you have any screenshots?

 

[gauzyguts]

What's the octave? Do you have any screenshots?

Uhhhh I have no idea, the notes are at F6 at the highest

 

[Arissa]

Uhhhh I have no idea, the notes are at F6 at the highest

Look at the piano roll to the left and see the numbers most of the notes are in, those are octaves(ex. C5, C4, D5, D4, etc.)

I can't really help you if I can't see what you see. Did you try selecting all the notes and moving them down an octave?(enter -12 in settings when moving notes)

 

[gauzyguts]

Look at the piano roll to the left and see the numbers most of the notes are in, those are octaves(ex. C5, C4, D5, D4, etc.)

I can't really help you if I can't see what you see. Did you try selecting all the notes and moving them down an octave?(enter -12 in settings when moving notes)

I did try moving them down an octave. All it did was make the screeching lower

 

[Arissa]

I did try moving them down an octave. All it did was make the screeching lower

What UTAU are you using? Did you reset all the settings(pitch, STP, etc.) And can you provide any samples?

 

[gauzyguts]

What UTAU are you using? Did you reset all the settings(pitch, STP, etc.) And can you provide any samples?

Here's a video of the error. the description gives more info I guess. I'm not sure why this is happening. I've tried moving the notes down but that does nothing. This wasn't happening before, but now it is. It happens with every voicebank I have and I can't find anything about this error online.

 

[Arissa]

Hm, that is odd. Perhaps try resetting? That or reinstalling the program

 

[gauzyguts]

Hm, that is odd. Perhaps try resetting? That or reinstalling the program

What do you mean by reset?

 

[Halo]

I can't help but notice you're using resampler.dll. Is that by choice? What does this sound like with other resamplers?

 

[gauzyguts]

I can't help but notice you're using resampler.dll. Is that by choice? What does this sound like with other resamplers?

Uhh gee i have no idea, that's just how it came. I'm still figuring all this stuff out

 

[Halo]

untick that box in the Project Properties menu. Use the default resampler and wavtool that should be set after unchecking the use resampler.dll box (though I'd also suggest looking into kanru hua's moresampler in the future! The resampler is the method that actually controls how the voice is sampled, so its really important).

 

[gauzyguts]

untick that box in the Voice Properties menu. Use the default resampler and wavtool that should be set after unchecking the use resampler.dll box (though I'd also suggest looking into kanru hua's moresampler in the future! The resampler is the method that actually controls how the voice is sampled, so its really important).

Thank you!! Do you happen to know anything about the problem I've encountered?

 

[Halo]

Only that it's probably the .dll messing up the resampling in some way. Otherwise, I'm not super sure what's going on unfortunately.

 

[Arissa]

What do you mean by reset?

I meant resetting the program and/or your computer

 

[gauzyguts]

I meant resetting the program and/or your computer

Okay! I did restart my pc, but i don't exactly know how to restart the program ^^; I'm like an old man, I'm bad with computers

 

[na4a4a]

erhm... It kinda sounds like wither you're using the bank at too high of a note (out of the voice's range) and the voice is distorting.
Or it could just be Utau's default resampler doing it...Resampler.exe(and .dll) aren't the highest quality with screeching being it's main characteristic.

But I wouldn't be able to tell unless I heard/had the original recordings.

 

[partial]

Can you select a note and hit CTRL + G, then share a screencap of what it shows here?

 

[Halo]

erhm... It kinda sounds like wither you're using the bank at too high of a note (out of the voice's range) and the voice is distorting.
Or it could just be Utau's default resampler doing it...Resampler.exe(and .dll) aren't the highest quality.

But I wouldn't be able to tell unless I heard/had the original recordings.

Nah, 'shappening with all banks in the same way, including defoko. Points to .dll (or program) being the issue, rather than any bank in particular, or the note being too high. Video didn't have any other resamplers than .dll tried so I'd check that first.

edit: now if it happens with resampler.exe THEN we have a crazy mystery on our hands haha

 

[na4a4a]

Nah, 'shappening with all banks in the same way, including defoko. Points to .dll (or program) being the issue, rather than any bank in particular, or the note being too high. Video didn't have any other resamplers than .dll tried so I'd check that first.

edit: now if it happens with resampler.exe THEN we have a crazy mystery on our hands haha

Interestingly, Resmapler.dll tends to match the version of resampelr.exe from the previous version of Utau.

Utau 0.2.76 came with Resampler.exe version 10 but Resampler.dll was version 8. Utau 0.4.18 comes with version 14.02 of the exe but the dll is actually the previous version 10. So the newer version of the dll in 0.4.18 shouldn't be all that bad (but not great either). It'll at least produce better frqs than the exe.