Takeo Kasai LOVERS Review
Hello everyone! I got back from vacation two months ago and just ended up taking a reaaaally long break. With all the new people coming over, I thought I might as well come back and show everyone what started this blog! This review was requested by @emujiatara. I’ve had the pleasure of using Takeo before but that was years before this specific voicebank was released.
Art by ebettoran
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Bio
Name: Takeo Kasai (火災武雄) Age: 21 Height: 6'1 Weight: 129lb Birthday: 10/10 Species: Cherubim/Incubus Hobby: Playing guitar, singing, cooking, gaming, and sleeping. Personality: An uneducated kuudere with an sometimes obnoxious habit of being very playful. He's passionate about his guitar playing, his relationship, video games he plays, and cooking. Not very talkative, can sometimes come off rude. Very aloof, living on cloud nine of his imagination. Stand offish at first, but very loving later on. Very affectionate once it's allowed. Hates wearing glasses. Has sharp reflexes, and is scared easily. He also likes to show-boat his abilities for praise.
Official Site
Takeo has an official site on Wix. The download only comes as one combined voicebank, which is 611 MB when unzipped. it comes with partially generated frqs.
First Impressions
Takeo has a deep, bassy and gentle voice. He has a decently large voicebank, but not too overloaded. His talking voice (as shown in some omake files) is extremely monotone but his singing voice isn’t and that’s so cute to me `(*>﹏<*)′ Also love where his design/standing art went, it looks gorgeous!
Configuration
Takeo has 4 pitches recorded at A3/F3/D3/B2. This is a VCV+Arpasing, except the CV, VV, and CC parts with Arpasing format are separated into different folders. There’s 135 samples per English pitch, and the VCV uses a 3-mora script with a little over 500 samples. The English is pretty bare minimum and has almost no duplicates present, but I appreciate the addition of end breaths for every vowel. He also has VC transitions for use with Japanese and vocal fry o every vowel.
He wouldn’t work with the default resampler for me I’m like 80 percent sure that was due to problems on my end since my PC regularly messes up UTAU resamplers. There’s nothing wrong with the prefix.map anyways.
There’s a lot of background noise/artifacts in the samples which distorts the end result. This especially hurts the end breaths and vocal fry. The higher pitches are more nasally and the lowest pitch is softer, which is a little detail I really like.
My recommended flags: F0Y0H10c0B0g4
My recommended resamplers: f2resamp
Final Thoughts
Takeo has a nice voice and is fun if you like combined banks/using multiple languages at once.
Got any other UTAUs you want me to review? Send an ask!
