So I finally used Iroha! After seeing some helpful tips on Vocaloid tuning I suddenly found the process a whole lot easier, which led to this:
It's another MiYABi song, I really do love his works with Luka, I hope he continues with Luka V4X now that she's out. This song is especially lovely since I can sing along to it without losing breath! His other stuff I kinda have a hard time with. Not to mention I'm a sucker for Latin Jazz.
Anyway, I've already given my full thoughts on MiYABi in my last post, so I'll leave it here for now. However be sure to expect maybe one more MiYABi song in the future with a new UTAU VB I've come to like.
Well, I'm back after a long time off from making covers. Blame school for taking up my time; it was my final year so I've been under a bit more pressure to do well.
However, it's all finished and I'm off to Uni this year, so I'll likely be more flexible time-wise, leaving me to start getting down to re-recording my UTAU and making more covers/original stuff.
And speaking of covers....
I've not uploaded the last two ones I made. So, here's 'Fower of the Plateau' by mothy, originally featuring Miku Solid and covered with Sukone Tei.
Next is one that has managed to get over 1,000 views on YouTube: My Słowianie (English version is titled 'Slavic Girls') by Donatan and Cleo, covered using Namine Ritsu Eve.
Finally, here's one I've just finished and uploaded: 'Ageha' (Japanese name for the Swallowtail Butterfly) by MiYABi, originally featuring Luka and covered with Sukone Tei.
About the Songs/Producers
Flower of the Plateau
I discovered this on a re-ignited passion for mothy's Evillious Chronicles. There was a lot of plot I had missed by not listening to many of the non-central songs or reading the novels or manga. This one was an exception to mothy's usual sub-par tuning. I really loved Miku Solid's tone, but I thought I might change it up with Tei, since she sounds more sarcastic sometimes and I wanted to see how that would work with the song itself.
My Słowianie
This was Poland's representative song for the Eurovision Song Contest last year, and at first I found it tasteless (the music video is really just cleavage for 3 minutes), but eventually I hooked on the beat and Cleo's powerful, soulful voice. The song finished 13th overall in the final, but 5th in the televote alone.
I took some requests for Eurovision covers and one of my friends requested it in all it's Polish glory, which I accepted despite not knowing if an off vocal existed for the original polish version. Luckily the song is so huge over there that a karaoke was made for it, and I seized the opportunity to use Ritsu Eve's CVVC capabilities, as well as her sharp, powerful tone to fit the song. Creating Polish with a Japanese VB is hard work, and I'm pretty sure my limited knowledge of Polish meant there were one or two errors in pronunciation, but overall I'm extremely happy I managed to get this done.
Ageha
MiYABi is a producer who I've admired for a while. While relatively unknown, his works are always of superb quality and helped breathe some fresh air into my current playlist with a genre I had never known I wanted. Most of his songs feature Luka as the vocalist and are a combination of Jazz, House and DnB. He's branched out into a few other genres, but his best stuff, in my opinion, is still his jazzstep. Relaxing, yet interesting and engaging at the same time.
'Ageha' is one of his most viewed songs, and Tei's voice yet again fit with the song. I'm gradually getting better at tuning pitchbends and getting her to sound as realistic as possible, and this cover I think is an example of this progress.
I plan on covering another of his songs with Iroha, who I bought on a whim a few months ago when AHS had a big sale on for most of their products. I'm a little annoyed now that Iroha's getting a V4 bank soon, since now I'll most likely want to get that.
But not before Luka V4x!!! *trembles with excitement*
