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gwern comments on July 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 July 2014 10:50PM

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Comment author: gwern 02 July 2014 04:36:59PM 3 points [-]

Hard to say.

Part of the problem is that I don't think the Miku voicebank is very good - too high-pitched, as the Japanese like their singers - but Miku is overwhelmingly used by the Japanese producers, so I still wind up with a lot of Miku-using pieces I like. (Although I do try to swap them out for Luka or Ia-using versions when possible.)

And there's a couple ways a producer can use a voicebank: you can treat it as an instrument, you can use it as a voice which can sing impossible pieces like rap or extremely-fast chants, or you can try to carefully tune it to sound as realistic as possible, or you can embrace the roboticness of the voice as a singer.

I'd describe your link as possibly a Miku Dark (deeper-pitched), realistic tuning, in an electronic/techno vein. So if you were looking for more music like that, you'd want to look at pieces mentioning using the Dark variant on the Miku voicebank or less squeaky voicebanks like Luka, in genres like electronic techno vein, and described as realistic or well-tuned. And then you can follow up particular producers. (Remember that fame in online media is highly fickle, so if you find you like one track by a producer, the odds are that he has plenty of other work as good but not popular enough to show up in your search or be reuploaded from NND to YouTube.)

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 02 July 2014 11:21:30PM 0 points [-]

I see, thanks.