I think some may have forgotten this was started as a review blog, and I kind of did too ; _ ; I’ve been going through a massive burnout these past 8 months or so and not really doing anything with UTAU at all, including keeping up with these reviews...I’m still working on the requests though, just maybe not in chronological order!
This review was requested by Yupphire.
*Art by Yupphire
Hear a Sample of Yu Fujimura
Bio
Name: 藤村ユウ/Yu Fujimura
Gender: ???
Pronouns: Any
Age: Looks 11
Height: 136cm (4'5")
Species: ???
Voiced and Oto by Yupphire
Yu Fujimura was born from one's desire to create music. Their physical form is only made up of miscellaneous notes and melodies, hoping to one day share them with the world.
Official Site
Yu has an official website on Carrd. Voicebank downloads are linked on the home page. The V2 VCV is 381 MB when unzipped and comes with fully generated .frq files.
First Impressions
Yu has a childish and feminine voice with nasal qualities who’s great for adding “oomph” and power to a project.
Configuration
The voicebank has C4, F4, and A#4 pitches and a Soft pitch recorded at E4. The only extras are end breaths and glottal stops, which interestingly are only available as vowel transitions. The transitions between pitches are very smooth, which I extra appreciate since I struggle with it in my own banks.
The vocal range peters out at about G3, but can go up to about F5 or so with no difficulty. Using the soft pitch makes the low range sound less nasally and more pleasant. but only increases the low range a little bit. I was a little disappointed with how similar the soft pitch sounds in tone to the other 3, I would love to hear this voice type with more timbres to pick from. The Soft pitch does have a slightly different enunciation/sound, but UTAU brightens the sound and makes it sound more like their other pitches.
Yu’s oto uses consistent values for every category except the offset, with a 1:3 ratio for the overlap/preutterance.
My recommended flags: F1Y50B0
My recommended resamplers: TIPS, f2resamp
Final Thoughts
Yu’s strong tone and pretty singing voice make for a really fun voice to play around with ♡ This is only the creator’s second voicebank, which is really impressive! Keep going!
Got any other UTAUs you want me to review? Send an ask!