Ack! My Dear Voice--!!

So I watched some tutorial videos about how to change your voice in Audacity. Then I tried. I recorded my voice randomly, and change the pitch randomly too. You know what? No voice is similar with a real male voice (yep, I'm trying to change my voice to guy's voice). They're too.. airy. So, sometimes it sounds like a 19-year-old male, and in other time it sounds like a fat guy's voice. Geez.. I only got a satisfying result in make-my-voice-higher.

Okay, you may question me why do I want to change my voice after I record it. Hello, of course it's for my UTAU. It is fine for me if I use my own voice (without any editing) for Shira's voice. But for Furai? Where can I get a 15-year-old guy voice? Schoolmates? No--of course not. I don't get along well with the guys. And I don't even tell my close friends about my UTAU project since they won't understand about this. Sigh.. Should I make Furai's voice from Shira's voicebank with using the flags?

Yeap, no song of the day today. What's the reason? Lazy. What else?

I am Impressed

The title says all. Yes, I'm impressed. I'm impressed with my acting. You guys already know I have another account in anihub, and it's a guy. Lately, I haven't used it because of many reasons (bet you won't ask why). But then when I checked my Rin facebook account, someone made a video for her friends in anihub. So she put her friends' pictures in order and named them. And you know what, my guy account comes before my Rin account! I'm sure she put the order starts from her bestfriends. But hey, my guy account? Comes before mine? Haha! That makes me want to use my guy account more. (nice, I just revealed my big secret to the world) But I'm not sure if she looks my guy account as a guy. Oh well. Never mind.

Another UTAU talk. Since I'm not sure if I can start to make my own utau voicebank, so I just downloaded others' voicebanks and use them. Recently, I made Soune Renji sings Migikata no Chou. Totally, out of tune. Not really. It's less-sound effects. So I just keep the wav. The song which I'm done with is Anti the Holic. I used Soune Ria's and Shion Yowa's voices. Probably Yowa sings Rin's part, and Ria sings Luka's part. I was planning to make Renji and Ritsu sing World's End Dancehall. But somehow it's way too slow. So I abort it. Well, Renji sounds good if he sings in low tone. Believe me. And Ritsu, I prefer his female voice. Which means he's good in high tone.

Today. Nothing's fun to tell, particularly.

Song of the day; here's the PV. seriously, I haven't watched this completely. I just like the song.

UTAU Project

.. and I'm still got stuck on it. Geez.. What's wrong? Is it because of the program or my laptop or myself? I already asked around, and find the answers but sometimes I don't get it or it doesn't work. Now I'm still waiting for another reply in VO (yeah, someone has the same problem with me and I'm glad). Well, I have a friend from Youtube. Probably now she's working with her own UTAU and maybe I can ask her. But she said she's not an expert yet, but she'll try to answer my question. Yet I haven't asked anything to her. Oh well. Maybe I just need to solve my problem with more effort.

Talking about UTAU, I already made my UTAUs' designs. I'm planning to make at least two UTAU. Their personalities, their outfits, their character items, everything. So here they are.

1. 松風　シラ　(Matsukaze Shira)

Probably Matsukaze means the sound of wind over the pine trees. And Shira.. just taken from Shirayuki which means Snow White. She has short hair, shorter than Rin's (I guess). The color is.. maybe cream and green on the each tip of her hair. Deciding the colors was the hardest part. I even asked my lil bro for suggestions.

Okay. So she's childish, careless, always curious about something, self-centered, cheerful, sometimes nosy, and.. else. Her height is about 159 cm (around 5'2" feet; eh?) and her weight is 45 kg (99 lbs). She's 16 years old. She likes apples, books, trees, friends, sleeping, eating, and cooking. She dislikes fire, hugs, kisses, insects, being hate, bullied, yaoi/yuri, ghosts, and get dirty. And her character item is chocolate (any other idea?). Her outfit's colors are dominated with green, black and white. I can't describe it well, so just wait until I finish the drawings. Her eyes' color is gold (reminds me of Train from Black Cat).

If you say she looks like me, she IS me. Well, she's not. Just the personalities. Her height and weight are counted into my wish-list. I'm so skinny and short.. Stop.

2. 松風　フライ　(Matsukaze Furai)

I don't know what Furai means. It just came across my mind. Whenever I type it in hiragana, it turns into katakana automatically. Anyway, their surname was Kazetai. But it seems I can't type both of them in kanji. They don't match. So I searched around for words within kaze (kaze means wind, in case if you don't know). His hair is black with blue color on the tip. I think I won't change it since I already like the color. Personally, I like his name. Furai. Sounds cool, doesn't it?

His personalities.. kind to everyone, friendly, funny, surprising (erm.. spontaneous, maybe?), strong, secretly always keeps Shira safe, popular, clumsy, and cheerful. He's younger a year than Shira, which means he's 15 years old. He's taller than Shira thou. 167 cm in height (5'4" feet) and 50 kg in weight (110 lbs). He likes jokes, teasing someone (especially Shira), sports, wagashi or japanese sweets, studying (somehow..), and lying down on the cold floor. He dislikes serious people, summer, cooking, failed cookings, dark, dogs and mosquitoes. His character item is ichigo daifuku (it's already decided <:). His outfit's colors are black, blue and white. So the difference between Shira's and Furai's outfit is just with the blue and green thing. His eyes' color is red (this one reminds me of Eve, from Black Cat either).

Furai is Shira's stepbrother. They have same father, but different mother. So we can say their father married with Shira's mother. When Shira's mother already pregnant, they divorced and their father married with Furai's mother. Shira born, and about a year later Furai followed.

And now, both Shira and Furai are travelling around the.. cyber-world (?) or world instead. If they're being asked about their nationalities, what should they (or I) say? Maybe they can only sing Japanese songs, but.. Can I just put the information that they're travelers?

About their outfits, I just can tell you that the outfits look really traditional. I don't know how to put it but they do look traditional. Wait until I post the pictures.

Song of the day (not from Vocaloid, sorry); I was planning this song would be Shira's debut song. but..

Burnt Cookies; AARGH!!

No, I didn't make cookies yesterday. But two days before today. Yep. Cookies. I made some cream scones before I helped my mom with her pineapple jam-filling cookies and cashew-and-cornflakes cookies. Almost half of our cookies are burnt. Especially my cream scones. About 2/3 of total are burnt. Oh well. My mom sprinkled some powder sugar on the scones, and it tastes delicious--a bit. Guess it'll be better if I dip the scones in melted chocolate. But maybe next time.

After I'm done with the scones, I helped my mom with the pineapple jam-filling cookies first. The jam was handmade. Our maid made it before. And of course it's not as smooth as the canned pineapple jam. I don't really like pineapple jam, so I don't want the cookies as well.

After that, I helped my mom with the cashew-and-cornflakes cookies. My lil sis and I mixed the butter and the sugar. Like usual, my lil sis did it with her own way. Like, moved the hand-mixer forward and backward or right and left. I shouted at her to move it in circle, and she just stopped and didn't move the hand-mixer. Oh well. We laughed all the time. When my mom done with the cashew, I mix both the mixed butter and the cashew by hand. The mixed butter was so... soft... It could be the softest thing I've ever touch (okay, stop).

And like usual either, some of those crunchy cookies are burnt. But you know, when our maid baked the cookies, once the... oven? No, the stove. The stove on the upside was covered with crystal glass (I don't know what its name but it is the same kind of glass with the glass in cars' windows). Suddenly, the glass broke. Not all of the glass, but the.. tip of each side. I didn't there when the glass broke, but it must be an awesome view when you see a glass that broke by itself. My mom said it's because overheat. Well yeah, we baked the cookies with two ovens at once. And both ovens used the stove for the heat.

Okay, that's all. I'm not really on a good mood to write. Just want to remind the.. erm.. "sweet" memories with cookies.

Song of the day; I already listened to this song before I know the PV.