#maneo

[the-expanse-fashion]

Maneo, The Expanse, Season 3, Episode 7

[utau-bowl]

MANEO Review

An UTAU user named Paraqs has come to my attention for their great UTAUs! I‘ve wanted to take a look at one, and I decided to take a look at a low masculine voice.

Art by paraqs

Maneo Monopitch Sample

Bio

Gender: Male

Age: 21

Height: 6"/182 cm

Likes: Wine, Books, Cooking, Sleeping Dislikes: Knives.

Personality: Maneo is a very kind man, and is seen as very motherly. He enjoys nurturing and taking care of others. Because of this, he wishes to be a housewife type person in the future. Despite being very kind, he rarely speaks and only talks if he thinks he needs to. Though he is blind, he somehow knows where things are and his way around things.

Creator: paraqs

Official Site

Maneo’s official site is on Wix. A link to his download can be found under the “Voice distribution” page.

Design

Maneo’s design communicates a dark,moody character, which does suit his personality. The silhouette is bulky and blocky, and his outfit helps him stand out. The only problem is that I feel the colors/outfit design are a bit too dark for what his character is like. Overall, however it’s very visually striking and appealing.

First Impressions

Maneo is currently a monopitch CV. He has a deep, dry-sounding voice.

Configuration

His pronunciation is very tight and over-enunciated. This can cause problems with envelopes not overlapping correctly, but also contributes to his greatest strength-his ability to sing very quickly and rap.

His oto is off in a few places, mostly on the vowels. 

Unlike most CV, he also has end breaths (written like a R, o R etc.)

He has a tendency to sound dry, coarse, or “dead” depending on the song, the more you listen to him the more you realize it’s a problem. Much of it is UTAU resampler noise, but many other resamplers make this issue worse.

Ease of Use

He is designed to be a low baritone/tenor vocal, but is very flexible and can even handle mezzo soprano parts pretty well. I think it’s because he generally sounds young and just happens to have a lower range due to recording.

He has a “neutral” tone that can slide into most any tempo range or genre, but if you want a lot of power or a ballad-geared voice you won’t get that out of him without a lot of extra work. 

Maneo is very receptive to flags and basically any of them can work(just don’t use the H flag, it distorts his voice a lot.) He also sounds good at both extremes of gender factor.

Other Comments

Because of his strong pronunciation, using him for other languages(English, etc) is slightly easier.

My recommended flags: H0Y100

My recommended resamplers: EFB-GT

Final Thoughts

Maneo stands out by being a young sounding UTAU with a lower tone and wide range. He has a lot of attributes that make him unique and a good asset for people who want to use this type of voice.

[dolorosa]

Clinging to the EU with my fingernails...

[purpleskull97]

Imagine...

Mantha: Hey, Cleo, are you sure you’re from Egypt?

Cleo: *looks up from reading a monster book* Yeah, why?

Mantha: Because I thought you were from....BI-reland

Cleo: MANTHA! NO!!!

[theheirandtheprincess]

Magnus: Are we fighting?

Cleo: If we were, you would be on the floor, bleeding.

Magnus: Okay, I accept that as a likely outcome.

[dolorosa]

As per a British friend's Canadian wife who is coming to the end of her second 2.5-year spouse visa, UKVI is apparently refusing to process indefinite leave to remain visas for people on spouse visas! They have given no reason for this, simply saying that they can't accept them at this time and to keep checking the UKVI website for updates. They're allowing those eligible for ILR whose visas are about to expire the 'luxury' of being able to apply for an extension of their current visas, at a cost of £900 plus £500 'NHS surcharge' (this latter fee a disgraceful way to make immigrants pay for their healthcare, even though most immigrants in the UK work and thus pay taxes that contribute to NHS costs). This is absolutely outrageous. ILR is a prerequisite for naturalisation applications, so what this is doing is putting people's citizenship plans on hold and setting them back for who knows how long. UKVI is an utter disgrace, and the fact that their own incompetence and, frankly, lack of capacity to handle the volume of applications they receive is causing serious harm to people's immigration status and life plans is horrifying. I wish more people understood the shameful way immigrants were treated in this country. I wish they cared.

[dolorosa]

Went to an anti-Brexit protest, and then a birthday party where we spoke Welsh and sang lots of Swedish and/or Eurovision songs.

[dolorosa]

Back when I didn't have British citizenship, I used to have nightmares where the process of applying for a visa involved lying still and not reacting while Home Office flunkies took it in turns to gun me down. (This is not uncommon. One of my other migrant friends used to have nightmares of being dragged out of his bed at night by immigration officials.) At one point I was so stressed about my immigration status that it affected my ability to work, and I had to go to counselling. The fact that EU residents (and their non-EU family members) here in the UK have now lived for more than nine months in legal limbo, with no information or reassurances about their ongoing right to live and work in the place they have made their home is unconscionable. Immigration is scary enough when you have a clear understanding of the rules and guidelines, and how long you'll be allowed to stay, and what you have to do to be able to continue staying. The fact that EU residents have not been given even that information is an outrage. It's morally reprehensible.