My Favorite Non-Vocaloid, Yamine Renri

     Do you remember my post about UTAU? Well, it was about several related programs to Vocaloid, but it included UTAU. If you don't, here's the post link:
     Related Software
     Since I now know more about UTAU, I'll remake that description a bit.
     UTAU was first released in March 2008. It is shareware, if you know what that is. If you don't, it's basically watered-down open source software. If you don't know what open source software is, shame on you. Um, anyway, some of the differences between it and Vocaloid are:
-It is free to download,
-.wav files can be imported into the program, so you can make your own voicebank,
-The core engine hasn't been worked on since 2013, and
-The core engine stinks.
     Well, that's a bit of a frank way to put it, but it's honestly accurate. The average UTAU (colloquially UTAUloid) sounds a bit like this: Sugarvine, sung by Crecia Selestewa. Even with tuning experience, it still sounds like this: Monochrome, sung by Aido Ishiame. Well, kyaami's usage of UTAU doesn't count. She just makes any synthesizer sound human. But regardless, UTAU is not very good, at least compared to Vocaloid.
     All of those facts make it even more impressive that I found an UTAU who:
-Has a very pleasant voice,
-Is easy to tune,
-Is relatively popular for an UTAU (at least, that I've seen),
-Got ported into Synth V, a promising new software that even surpasses Vocaloid in some areas, and
-Sounds like THIS.
Her name is Yamine Renri.
I made a playlist with just her singing. Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmQ_IJr1UlwBdt-uB1TgCLKNZgXMiGhso

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