HOW TO RECORD MOT
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Even if you can use whatever program to record Gros Mot, it's much easier to use Oremo to handle such a big voicebank. It will take longer on average to record, but it'll spare you the slicing of your recordings.
OREMO DOWNLOAD LINKS:
Official download: OSDN
Wine wrapper for macOS: UTAForum
Mac native English translation: UTAForum
Downloads
Begin by downloading everything you will need on the download page.
The Basic reclist contains the CVVC and the VCV part of the whole reclist. An UTAU will be 100% functional with this list alone. On the other hand, the Extra reclist contains the all of the CCs. This reclist is optional but is greatly recomended.
The Guide BGM for OREMO is really helpful to get the timing right. It comes in multiple BPMs and pitches.
Setting up Oremo
How to read Gros Mot
Your local will need to be set to Japan in order to use OREMO.
To do that:
- Go to "Control Panel"
- Click on "Clock, Language and Region"
- Click on "Region and Language"
- Click on the "Administrative" tab
- Click on the "Change system locale" button
- Set your locale on "Japanese (Japan)"
- Restart your computer
Now OREMO can install and run properly on your computer!
Once this is done, open OREMO.
To open a reclist, click on "File" and then on "Load voice list". Now you need to set up a folder where your recordings will go. Click on "File" then "Set Recording Folder" and select your VB's folder.
Now click on "Show" an tick the following options:
- "Show waveform"
- "Show Spectrum"
- "Show Power"
- "Show F0"
Then click on "Option" and then "Recording Style Settings". Tick the option called "Automatic recording 1". On the "Guide Music File" line you will click on the folder icon in order to select your desired Guide BGM. You can hit "Test play" to see if the Guide BGM is working fine.
Now click on "Options" and then "Advanced Settings". Here you can tweak a bunch of parameters but I will focus on the "Fix Display Area" and "Show Target Tone" region. Start by ticking both of these regions.
In the "Fix Display Area" region, you can choose which notes you want to see. Just select an interval.
In the "Show Target Tone" region, you can select the pitch at which you want to record your voicebank as. A red line will appear on the piano roll to indicate this pitch.
You are now set up to start your recordings!
First of all, here is the pronounciation guide.
Gros Mot should be recorded like you would for a VCV reclist. Every time there is a double vowel in a string, there will be an ending consonnant. (Example: "bah-bah-beh-bah-bae-bah_b"). Even though the ending consonant is written like this "_b", it does not mean that you should mark a stop between the last vowel and the consonnant. I wrote it that way to give it more visibility.
The lines with a single phoneme such as "bui" or "zoi" don't need any timing.
I recommand reading the lines with a slow bpm to ensure quality.
That's it for now, have fun!