I would say it depends! Depends of the song, depends of the composer, depends of who's using the vocaloid. 1) You say that you don't listen to vocaloid because you don't like the roboyic voices.
Well I can assure that I don't love vocaloid because of that and there're plenty of songs where they sound pretty human like. Have you ever heard of MitchieM? He's famous for making the vocaloids, specially Miku sound extremely human-like.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLJoFp2... This one he used all Crypton's vocaloids, except Miku. Is absolute incredible what he could do. I was completely shocked with his usage of Rin and meiko specially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYU2ikx... About feelings.
That's something I'm used to hear a lot from people that doesn't really understand vocaloid. Here's my opinion, you don't need to agree, but plz try to see from my Pov. You say that a song with a vocaloid doesn't have feelings?
Then I ask you: does a instrumental piano song doesn't hold any feelings neither? The answer would be no. Instrumental songs does have emotion and feelings on it.
Because those emotions comes from the pianist and the composer. It's exactly the same thing for vocaloids. If you doesn't feel emotions or feelings in vocaloid songs is because you're trying so much to compare them with humans, that the fact that they are not humans blocks you from feeling the emotions putted in their voices by all those amazing composers.
Try think of them from what they really are: voices, musical instruments, not human singers, not anime characters. If you think diferently maybe you will be able to notice that. They are not just musical instruments for me.
They have a deeper meaning, but that's something that depends of each person. I can easily feel emotion in vocaloids songs. When you say Utaite-san sounds like you're talking about a single person.
Be careful when using the -san. Anyway, I love vocaloid completely, but that doesn't mean that I don't like Utaites. There're plenty of vocaloid songs that I prefer the Utaites version, like Valshe's cover for Soundless Voice, Valshe, clear and Dasoku cover of Imitation Black etc... But in the same way, there're vocaloid songs where the composer used the vocaloids in such an amazing way that there's no human cover that it's better than the original.
Hmmm one example would be the song Dead Line Circus. And there's also plenty of songs where both original vocaloid and utaite covers are amazing in their own way. For an example, the song Scissor Hand.
Miku's original song is absolute beautiful, and Vip:Tenchou cover for that songs is amazing as well, but in my opinion, none of them is better than the other.
1) I typically listen to a good mix of all 3! I tend to like UTAU and Utaite covers of many Vocaloid songs since there's so many good original Vocaloid songs out there with absolutely LOUSY voice tuning, to the point where the Vocaloid sounds off-key to me... so I listen to on-key UTAU and Utaite covers. But it honestly just depends on my mood and how well the original Vocaloid is tuned in the songs.
2) Vocaloid: Nekomura Iroha, hands down. She has a great mature, powerful voice and a lovely falsetto. I wish more producers would use her for original songs but for now I'm satisfied with hearing good covers using her (especially covers made by Fruutella.
Fruu uses Iroha perfectly!) UTAU: Too many favorites! There's such a variety of voice types that it's hard to choose, but I guess I'd narrow it down to Namine Ritsu, Pamyu and Yamane Koko for my top 3. Utaite: 96neko is my top favorite.
She's just fantastic, both as a singer and voice actress. I also rather like Gero, Faneru, Tightson, vip:tenchou and Kogeinu. 3) I honestly hate having to choose just one song xD But my favorite producers are Kaoling, EZFG, Last Note, sasakure.uk and Kemu.
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