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Gakuto Deshimaru χπ(Chi-Pi) Review

Lately I’ve gotten even more attention from UTAU users I’ve talked about on here and look up to and that is surreal I’m not going to lie. Today’s UTAU was made by Utautautau, whose plugins I’ve posted about many times on here. I’ve followed his circle for over a year now, and feel honored to be able to look at one of their UTAUs. Also, χπ is pronounced like “keep” in English. The more you know!

This review was requested by an anon.

*Art by Utautautau

Hear a Sample of Gakuto Deshimaru Chi-Pi

Bio

Name: 学人デシマル (Gakuto Deshimaru) Age: 17 Height: About 11 CASIO FX-991ES Plus 2nd Edition Scientific Calculators Weight: About 631 CASIO FX-991ES Plus 2nd Edition Scientific Calculators Birthday: December 16 Sex: Male Character Item: Scientific Calculator Likes: Mitsuha Renko (platonically), Kaiyou Mitsuyo (platonically), Math, scientific calculators, having to wear the same set of clothes (so basically uniforms), Vine, circles, triangles Dislikes: procrastination, regular calculators Personality: A total nerd that has outstanding academic performance, but still manages to have a social life. He's very open and noisy around his friends and would do a lot of things for them. Despite of being extremely self-aware, he's very oblivious when it comes to love.

Official Site

Deshimaru has an official site on neocities. This voicebank is about 100 MB when unzipped and has fully generated frqs. I linked directly to his page, so click the “take him” button under the corresponding voicebank you’d like to download.

First Impressions

Despite being your typical poindexter, Deshimaru has a very deep and powerful voice. It is hurt a little bit by UTAU’s extreme sawtooth noises in baritone/bass register, but that isn’t his fault so I forgive him. Chi-Pi is supposed to be a powerscale, but he’s more powerful throughout. I respect any male singer who records a C4 pitch for his UTAU, but the voice cracks and instability muddles up the power of Deshimaru a bit.

Configuration

Deshimaru is a 4 pitch CVVC recorded at A2, D3, G3, and C4. He uses a very lite reclist (only 50 samples, and that’s including the extras) but is still very comprehensive. There are even alternate pronunciations added like English L and fu/hu samples. Interestingly, each of his recordings is in hiragana but has a letter at the end denoting what set of sounds the sample represents. By now I’m fluent in hiragana, but thanks anyways. He has a wide range, only petering out below D2. He also has glottal stops, vocal fry, and 3 types of breaths. I love it when there’s vocal fry for every vowel combination like he has too. His voice overall is nasal yet still resonant and deep.

My recommended flags: B50h100

My recommended resamplers: TIPS, EFB-GT, w4utau

Final Thoughts

Deshimaru is a compact, easy to use CVVC with a unique voice and tone. I would strongly recommend him to anyone who wants to flesh out their voice library folder!🤓

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A demo rool for two new voicebanks for Gakuto Deshimaru.

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Gakuto Deshimaru χ Released

Hot on the heels of Renko Mitsuha, UtaUtaUtau, the creator of many popular UTAU and Synth V covers, has released a new UTAU!

Deshimaru Gakuto is a total nerd that still manages to have plenty of UTAU friends! His first voicebank is a 4 pitch kire-style CVVC.

[ Download Gakuto Deshimaru -Chi- ]

Have a wonderful time trying out Deshimaru!

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Gakuto Deshimaru ρν (Rho-Nu) Review

Hello again! The pace of reviews will likely quicken for the next month since I’ll be going on hiatus in late August. Want to make good on all my review plans! Today we’ll be returning to Gakuto Deshimaru. I reviewed one of his other voicebanks a while ago. It’s unusual for me to review multiple voicebanks of the same character, but I’m a huge sucker for visual kei banks so this one intrigued me. I will be using the romanized name for ρν, since I’m too lazy to copy and paste the Greek every time.

This review was requested on anon, but likely by the same one who asked for Deshimaru the first time.

*Art by minome

Hear a Sample of Gakuto Deshimaru Rho-Nu

Bio

Name: 学人デシマル (Gakuto Deshimaru) Age: 17 Height: About 11 Scientific Calculators Weight: About 631 Scientific Calculators Birthday: December 16 Sex: Male Character Item: Scientific Calculator Likes: Mitsuha Renko, Kaiyou Mitsuyo, Math, scientific calculators, having to wear the same set of clothes, Vine, circles, triangles Dislikes: procrastination, regular calculators Personality: Now that he wears contacts, his persona fully changes to a narcissist. Almost on par to his friend, Mitsuha Renko. He usually only wears contacts when he performs on stage, with this voice, or the other voicebank of Rho, a deep power bank!

Official Site

Deshimaru has an official website on Neocities. Rho-Nu can be found at the bottom of the page above the Toki Pona voicebank. The voicebank is about 96 MB when unzipped and has fully generated frqs and pmk files.

First Impressions

This version of Deshimaru has a strong, nasally masculine voice. He was recorded at A2, D3, G3, and C4, giving him a wide range. 

Configuration

Rho-Nu is a 4 pitch CVVC with a super compact reclist (just 34 base samples!) Extras are vocal fry, glottal stops, and rolled Rs. There are also standalone consonants, likely for better results in English.  The oto doesn’t seem to have been edited in setparam, since it uses whole numbers. Some parts appear to be copy pasted for each pitch, of course with the cutoff periods changed. There’s also  autoestimation cache files left over so I guess they used an OREMO base as a starting point or something like that. The VC endings use a 1:3 ratio, pretty common for this recording style. The few - CV aliases there are have the overlap set to 0 for some reason, a bit of a strange choice. Some of the CV parts in general also have the overlap a bit too small.

This is meant to be a vkei bank but I don’t hear it very much? The definition of a vkei bank is rather, loose, all it really means is that it takes inspiration from visual kei singers. But this Deshi lacks the usual accent/sound they have, other than being nasal and powerful. He still suits the genre, I just kept forgetting he was supposed to be a vkei bank while listening to the recordings. His default Rs are pronounced more like English Ls which is something.

I’m unsure if the recordings were cleaned up in post, but they have a noisy feel which makes the voice sound rather rough in the editor.

My recommended flags: B30H20Y80P100g1~5

My recommended resamplers: f2resamp, w4utau, EFB-GT

Final Thoughts

Deshimaru’s vkei bank is a good addition to the lineup and keeps his character voice feel while being more powerful. Another reason why people should stop being afraid and embrace CVVC <3

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