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There has been a request on how I convert Utauloid and VOCALOID files so I thought to write a tutorial for you all.

First of all you need to learn Japanese, hiragana and katakana at least, that is the hardest part but it's the best way to learn it because you are naturally forced to learn because otherwise we wouldn't have a converted file.

If you are a beginner in Japanese, first of all you need to set up a Japanese keyboard, look on Microsoft or Apple sites on how to do that. The basics are explained:

あ　　　　　　　　　ア　　　　　　　　a
い　　　　　　　　　エ i
う　　　　　　　　　ウ u
え　　　　　　　　　エ e
お　　　　　　　　　オ o

The left is Hiragana, and the middle is Katakana, the right side shows what means what.

Hiragana and katakana symbols have the exact same meaning. Only that they are used for different things, hiragana is used for simple Japanese, while katakana is used to simplify English words. For example in the song "Melt" This cannot be said in Japanese, if you just said "Melt" native Japanese wouldn't know what you're talking about so they change it to "メルト" (Meruto) It's in Japanese but when spoken it sounds similar to it's English counterpart so at the same time, it can be understood by both English and Japanese speakers.

You can look up online to learn Hiragana and Katakana, but also you need to learn things like "Sha" (しゃ) or "Cha" (ちゃ) It is easily detected by the second symbol being smaller than the average size, it is in the Hiragana and Katakana alphabet but there is a cheat way to do it without needing to learn all of that.

If you wanted to type in "Cha" for example, you just type in "chi" then "x" then "a" in the same vocal box, that will automatically turn it into a "Cha" (ちゃ) you can even do this outside of VOCALOID.

Now for the converting part.

FOR UST FILES

Open up your UST file in Utauloid and first of all, you can export the UST file into a MIDI.

If the Utauloid file is already in romanji (written Japanese using an English keyboard) or English you can just import it into VOCALOID 1,2,3 or 4 without any problems.

Now if it's in hiragana, just export the file into a MIDI as normal.

FOR VOCALOID 1:

VOCALOID 1 is a lifesaver, you can import a hiragana file and most of the time the vocals don't come in jibberish or aaa's, even if it does, just follow the instructions:

Type in the first word in the first vocal box and it will automatically fix the rest for you. if not, you will have to open Utauloid with it's UST counterpart on one side of your screen and VOCALOID on the other. Go from the first vocal box and start typing in the vocals with the help of Utauloid.

FOR VOCALOID 2,3,4:

Import the MIDI file into VOCALOID and have Uatuloid and VOCALOID on one side of your screen and start typing in the Hiragana with the help of Utauloid.

UST FILES COME IN PARTS:

UST files mostly come in parts so as you finish one file, open the next in Utauloid, export it and import it as a part in VOCALOID, so soon you should have a full file with all the sung parts in it.

PHONEME'S:

The words that stand aside the vocals which are in brackets are a description of what the vocals sound like. In rare cases, some files can be in that sort of format, especially in VOCALOID 1 and 2, multi language songs and singers that can do multiple languages such as the voicebank MAYA.

ODD SYMBOLS IN UTAULOID:

Some symbols are seen such as "見" and "x", these are to be ignored, they are breaks so you can just delete them after importing the files in VOCALOID.

The "-" symbol is normal, it is a continued vocal from the last box, use an English keyboard to type in that one.

ODDER SYMBOLS IN UATULOID:

Some files have things written in like s h, and then n or an l r. An entire may be like that with some various hiragana.

Here is the reason:

The song was made using an unique Utauloid voicebank, it's vocals are determined by different words and or symbols, each will give a sound.

All Uatuloids and VOCALOID's have a library containing all the vocals it knows, some Utauloid's may have something completely different and they cannot in their viewed format be converted in either English or Japanese unless if you want to take the extra time to listen to the sound and write in what it sounds like to match the original vocals.

Either way it can be a phoneme, so you can try changing the VOCALOID view to a phoneme view and put them in like that, see if the symbol can be recognised in the singers phoneme dictionary. It could be a multi language song.

BREATHS IN VOCALOID:

Some breaths do not operate after being imported from Uatuloid to VOCALOID, you can either delete them or fix them, not all VOCALOID's come with breath samples.

The "つ" Symbol:

When you see this symbol by itself as it's normal size, you can type in "tsu" as normal, but if it's small without being combined with another symbol then it is for example:

って　"tte"　っせ　"sse" っへ "hhe"

When a "tsu" sound is added when using an extra letter at the beginning like those examples, they will automatically turn into a small "tsu" sound then look at the next vocal, for example, if the next vocal is a "te" sound, add an extra "t" at the beginning, just add the first letter and then the next vocal in the same box, it will do the rest for you.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

1. I cannot copy and paste a hiragana symbol in, it just moves to the next box!

A: Yeah, it does that, and it always doesn't work. That's why we have to type them in and learn Japanese in the first place.

EXTRAS:

Don't have a certain voicebank or VOCALOID program? Try these links where you can download stuff for free:

elrincondelkitsune.blogspot.co…
fansdevocaloid.blogspot.com.au…

Description
There has been a request on how I convert Utauloid and VOCALOID files so I thought to write a tutorial for you all.

First of all you need to learn Japanese, hiragana and katakana at least, that is the hardest part but it's the best way to learn it because you are naturally forced to learn because otherwise we wouldn't have a converted file.

If you are a beginner in Japanese, first of all you need to set up a Japanese keyboard, look on Microsoft or Apple sites on how to do that. The basics are explained:

あ　　　　　　　　　ア　　　　　　　　a
い　　　　　　　　　エ i
う　　　　　　　　　ウ u
え　　　　　　　　　エ e
お　　　　　　　　　オ o

The left is Hiragana, and the middle is Katakana, the right side shows what means what.

Hiragana and katakana symbols have the exact same meaning. Only that they are used for different things, hiragana is used for simple Japanese, while katakana is used to simplify English words. For example in the song "Melt" This cannot be said in Japanese, if you just said "Melt" native Japanese wouldn't know what you're talking about so they change it to "メルト" (Meruto) It's in Japanese but when spoken it sounds similar to it's English counterpart so at the same time, it can be understood by both English and Japanese speakers.

You can look up online to learn Hiragana and Katakana, but also you need to learn things like "Sha" (しゃ) or "Cha" (ちゃ) It is easily detected by the second symbol being smaller than the average size, it is in the Hiragana and Katakana alphabet but there is a cheat way to do it without needing to learn all of that.

If you wanted to type in "Cha" for example, you just type in "chi" then "x" then "a" in the same vocal box, that will automatically turn it into a "Cha" (ちゃ) you can even do this outside of VOCALOID.

Now for the converting part.

FOR UST FILES

Open up your UST file in Utauloid and first of all, you can export the UST file into a MIDI.

If the Utauloid file is already in romanji (written Japanese using an English keyboard) or English you can just import it into VOCALOID 1,2,3 or 4 without any problems.

Now if it's in hiragana, just export the file into a MIDI as normal.

FOR VOCALOID 1:

VOCALOID 1 is a lifesaver, you can import a hiragana file and most of the time the vocals don't come in jibberish or aaa's, even if it does, just follow the instructions:

Type in the first word in the first vocal box and it will automatically fix the rest for you. if not, you will have to open Utauloid with it's UST counterpart on one side of your screen and VOCALOID on the other. Go from the first vocal box and start typing in the vocals with the help of Utauloid.

FOR VOCALOID 2,3,4:

Import the MIDI file into VOCALOID and have Uatuloid and VOCALOID on one side of your screen and start typing in the Hiragana with the help of Utauloid.

UST FILES COME IN PARTS:

UST files mostly come in parts so as you finish one file, open the next in Utauloid, export it and import it as a part in VOCALOID, so soon you should have a full file with all the sung parts in it.

PHONEME'S:

The words that stand aside the vocals which are in brackets are a description of what the vocals sound like. In rare cases, some files can be in that sort of format, especially in VOCALOID 1 and 2, multi language songs and singers that can do multiple languages such as the voicebank MAYA.

ODD SYMBOLS IN UTAULOID:

Some symbols are seen such as "見" and "x", these are to be ignored, they are breaks so you can just delete them after importing the files in VOCALOID.

The "-" symbol is normal, it is a continued vocal from the last box, use an English keyboard to type in that one.

ODDER SYMBOLS IN UATULOID:

Some files have things written in like s h, and then n or an l r. An entire may be like that with some various hiragana.

Here is the reason:

The song was made using an unique Utauloid voicebank, it's vocals are determined by different words and or symbols, each will give a sound.

All Uatuloids and VOCALOID's have a library containing all the vocals it knows, some Utauloid's may have something completely different and they cannot in their viewed format be converted in either English or Japanese unless if you want to take the extra time to listen to the sound and write in what it sounds like to match the original vocals.

Either way it can be a phoneme, so you can try changing the VOCALOID view to a phoneme view and put them in like that, see if the symbol can be recognised in the singers phoneme dictionary. It could be a multi language song.

BREATHS IN VOCALOID:

Some breaths do not operate after being imported from Uatuloid to VOCALOID, you can either delete them or fix them, not all VOCALOID's come with breath samples.

The "つ" Symbol:

When you see this symbol by itself as it's normal size, you can type in "tsu" as normal, but if it's small without being combined with another symbol then it is for example:

って　"tte"　っせ　"sse" っへ "hhe"

When a "tsu" sound is added when using an extra letter at the beginning like those examples, they will automatically turn into a small "tsu" sound then look at the next vocal, for example, if the next vocal is a "te" sound, add an extra "t" at the beginning, just add the first letter and then the next vocal in the same box, it will do the rest for you.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

1. I cannot copy and paste a hiragana symbol in, it just moves to the next box!

A: Yeah, it does that, and it always doesn't work. That's why we have to type them in and learn Japanese in the first place.

EXTRAS:

Don't have a certain voicebank or VOCALOID program? Try these links where you can download stuff for free:

elrincondelkitsune.blogspot.co…
fansdevocaloid.blogspot.com.au…