Converting VCCV English USTs for use with AERIS CV-VC ENG Divine (Kire 2.0)

1/1/2020

Violin

Hello! Violin here and I'm going to try to explain to you how to quickly convert a UST from standard VCCV English to work correctly and fully with AERIS CV-VC English Divine (or Kire 2.0). This list uses a lot of elements of VCCV and if you're not familiar with VCCV, I recommend that you watch Cz's tutorials on it, link here.

Also this guide might be a bit complex as it already assumes that you have some knowledge with UTAU and more specifically, UTAU English and VCCV English.

Alright, without further ado, let's start. I also just want to mention that the UST that I'm going to be using for this is the same one that Cz uses in their tutorials. (Link here) Also, I won't be going over tuning, mostly because I'm just Bad at it.

Alright so here's the first section of the UST! Now as you can see there's some ! which we can fix. For reference, the lyrics for this portion of the UST are "So there it goes again".

Now for starters we can replace the [dhA] with [dhAr] because ar/Ar/Er/0r are full vowels! Meaning they have -CV/V C/CV/VC- as well as -V/V/V- and some limited VV, I'll touch on these in a min.

2nd, with regards to the Ar- ri portion, there's 2 ways to do it. I recommend that for any and all VVs with ar/Ar/Er/0r you do VC V, as is in the original VCCV. So [Ar-][ri] would be replaced with [Ar i].

But what about that 2nd way to do it? Good question, now I want to say that I do not recommend using this method over using the VC V but it is still here. We're going to replace [Ar-] [ri] with [Ar *] [* ri]. This chops up the [Ar i] from a VC V into more of a CVVC format.

However, I find it a bit less smooth and more work so in these cases, I just stick with the VC V.

Now, with regards to the [it-], this bank has glottal stops! Which in these cases I would use, but it's up to personal preference really. Also, the glottal stops are accessible via ['] and the ending glottal stops (which I would use in this instance) are accessible via [V'-]

For the rest of this part of the UST, the "goes again", it remains the same.

Now we move on to another part of the UST! For this part the lyrics are "I've lost it, now it's time to pretend"

Right off the bat, you can see there's a few spots we have to adjust here too.

Let's start with an import one, the [Iv], unlike standard VCCV English this bank does not have any VC. Which are aliases like [Iv]/[9s]/etc. This bank DOES have both V C (aliases such as [x g] and [O z]) as well as VC- (ending consonant aliases such as [en-]/[Oz-]/etc). However, this bank does have full C Cs! So, we're going to replace the [Iv] with [Iv-] and then we're going to add in a [v l].

Also, an important note. When using C Cs it's important to either use the flag [P0] or by turning down the vowel of that specific note to around 60/40. Or by using a combination of both.

We're going to continue with this trend of using C C for the following [9s] section too, replacing it with [9s][s t]. Also something to note here is that you could also replace it with [9 s][sti] as st is a CCV and is recorded. I'm also going to replace the [it-] with a glottal stop, as shown before.

Continuing on with the next part, "now it's time to pretend" there's a lot of work to be done here too.

For starters, we're going to replace the [ts] with [ts-], move the [it-] note back a bit, and also replace the [tI] with [stI].

Now with the next section the [Im], we have a few choices. Remember when I said that there aren't any VCs? Yeah there's actually a few VCs but they only are for m,n, and ng VC. So for [Im] we can do [Im] or [Im-] [m t], I'm going to do [Im] because it's a very short transition.

Next, we're going to convert the [pr][_re] into a CCV, as this bank has full CCV support!

We're going to leave the rest alone as there's not much else we can do here.

On to the next part! For this part, the lyrics are "that I'm still not a lost cause"

Now, for starters we're going to change the [Im] into [Im-] [m s] as this is a longer transition. Please note that unlike Standard VCCV English [m st] is not in this list and must be submitted for [m s]. This goes for all C CC.

Next, we're going to change [il] into [il n]! As there is full support for Vl C!

For the next option, you could replace [ddu] [u l] [l9] with [ddll] [ll 9] with ll being the held l if you so desire. I'm going to keep it as is though.

I'm also going to add a C C in place of [st], so it would be [l9] [9s-] [st-] [t k]. Remember again for C C it's important to use either P0 on the note, or turning down the volume for that specific note, or a combination of both.