[Falsett]

...Goodness, you're asking about all the Vocaloids.

bottom line -
buy the one you like the voice of most.
All of them are difficult, some more than others, but if you work at it and devote time to it, then you will have large fruits of labour.

Let me leave you with this -
the harder you start out, the better tuner you will become if you stick with it.
for example, those who pick Sonika / SeeU / Miki / Kagamine ACT2 / etc. and worked with them are very very successful.

Of course, picking the easier route with simpler-to-use Vocaloids, such as Iroha / VY1 - VY2 / Yukari / Mew / etc. will leave you good start but will leave you terribly sobbing when you decide to get another voice.

[Maple]

sekai, on 08 January 2012 - 05:21 PM, said:

Let me leave you with this -
the harder you start out, the better tuner you will become if you stick with it.

I cannot stress this enough. Matt has probably the best tuning in the west. Which Vocaloids did he start out with? Luka, Miki, and SONiKA.

Although, they say Yukari's actually really un-user friendly, since she's geared for professionals. (For example, she has breaths at the ends of her notes.)

[Valkyrja]

Yuzuki is a bit of nuisance.

Her voice is so lovely, but you can't really modify it that much like some of the other 'loids. And her end notes do end much quicker then they should (but this is easily fixed by putting "h" at the end of them). Lastly, some of her words (like the "ha" sound) are a bit... Odd, and usually require editing. She can roll her R's quite nicely though.

But really, I'd recommend just about any vocaloid. They all have their problems, and they all can sound wonderful if you learn how to use them. But if easy usage is really what your going for, I'd go with Miku Append. She is quite easy to make sound nice, and is relativity problem free. Not to mention you get 6 banks for the price of one. The only downside is that you have to have the original Hatsune Miku bank for it to work :L

[ImmortalNyanCat]

Well thank you very much for the suggestions. You can also post some more if you like

[Kibbles]

Iroha!! Got a young deep voice, sounds well in both high or low notes and can do falsetto and is clear
Miki is awesome but is hard, her samples are filled with static (can be fixed) and her high notes are offpitch and glitchy

[ImmortalNyanCat]

Kibbles (o*･ω･), on 09 January 2012 - 03:25 AM, said:

Iroha!! Got a young deep voice, sounds well in both high or low notes and can do falsetto and is clear
Miki is awesome but is hard, her samples are filled with static (can be fixed) and her high notes are offpitch and glitchy

I thought that Miki sounded fine in high notes. At least she is not SONiKA's sister.

[Kibbles]

Her high notes are a PAIN i tell you xD and lol
Really her high consonants are horrible, especially "t" and "n"
And i noticed twice that there was a click resampling the sound it makes when you space bar. Some of that stuff can be fixed with "Sil" and by replacing consonants like T > D F > H
P > B N > M (or [n] > [N] or [J])

[ImmortalNyanCat]

Looks like no one has posted for a while 0.0

So, how are IA, Bruno, and Clara?

[AbstractCactus]

ImmortalNyanCat, on 09 January 2012 - 12:21 AM, said:

Also, how about GUMI, Gakupo, Rin/Len, Rin/Len append, Mew, and Piko?

Piko is definitely not a good idea for a first voicebank. He's very low quality and incredibly inconsistent between octaves.

[Maple]

Rion and Mew are really user friendly, (at least to my opinion) and can produce amazing results, so I highly recommend them.

[Falsett]

Oh yes, I made a blogpost about it:
http://skeyi.tumblr....sing-your-child

It has several reviews of the VOCALOIDs I've tried.

[ImmortalNyanCat]

sekai, on 04 February 2012 - 09:41 PM, said:

Oh yes, I made a blogpost about it:
http://skeyi.tumblr....sing-your-child

It has several reviews of the VOCALOIDs I've tried.

This was REALLY helpful

Well, it is all coming down to Yuzuki Yukari, VY1v3, SeeU, and Kiyoteru Hiyama. Also, no opinions on IA?

[Laskeri]

From what I've heard SeeU and Kiyoteru are really hard to work with.

[Valkyrja]

Actually just got IA today

I've only been playing with her for about an hour, but she is really nice. Her voice is a lot more versatile than I was expecting too.

She has nice smooth transitions between notes, and I have yet to run into a pitch problem. She also handles manual vibrato nicely. She is a bit like Luka however, where her voice can take some work to make it sound stronger. Also you need to edit some notes or else she'll sound quite bored. But overall? This vocaloid=love.

[ImmortalNyanCat]

Nekoshey, on 06 February 2012 - 10:25 AM, said:

Actually just got IA today

I've only been playing with her for about an hour, but she is really nice. Her voice is a lot more versatile than I was expecting too.

She has nice smooth transitions between notes, and I have yet to run into a pitch problem. She also handles manual vibrato nicely. She is a bit like Luka however, where her voice can take some work to make it sound stronger. Also you need to edit some notes or else she'll sound quite bored. But overall? This vocaloid=love.

Is she easy to use?