See where it compares with Utau? Lots of people are against people doing original songs, making albums to sell, merchandise to sell, because they think Utau is just for hobby, not something a person should make money from. Some people(very irritating to artists, I'll say) think art is just something of easy fun and that it's ridiculous to be charging money for it. Some people think art of certain quality is not worth selling. They may think the person selling them is arrogant or foolish, reminds me of art in a way. I think another thing is that people can get critical (or maybe they are just being honest at times), so there may be a voicebank/character available only by purchasing, and some people may think this is irrational because the bank may be bad quality or unappealing, so they think it's a rip-off or something to charge money for that Utau. So anyway, I think a lot of ppl against the whole monetizing a voicebank are in that mindset that UTAU is free, so voicebanks and whatnot shouldn't have prices on them, as Kiyo mentioned. I feel like I see this more in the overseas fandom(as far as commercialization of UTAU goes, my friend and her friends seem to have no qualm about making merchandise of their Utau, and do stuff like make art books, anthologies, keychains, open booths, etc for their Utau, seems pretty fun imo) Unless someones manages to make the most smooth, realistic sounding UTAU ever that retails for $30, and there are some producers out there looking to use UTAU instead of vocaloid, I dont see commercial utaus establishing itself in a market with Vocaloid dominating the game. The point I'm trying to make with this is that when you are bringing economics into utau (or anything) there has to be a benefit between the distributor and consumer. Furthermore, having a parent company over UTAU and funds would allow for better maintenance and upgrades for the program (from the engines, plugins, ect.). Purchasing default voicebanks like Windows100% would then make sense. What I'm interested in is why sell the voicebanks? Is it to invest in better mic, recording studios, or self gain ? Now, leading into another idea I mentioned before What if UTAU itself was not free, that it was brought out by YAMAHA, SONY, SAMSUNG, or Microsoft itself. If I buy, for example, a physical copy of Czloid, I will still have her running on my desktop just as if I downloaded her from a file storage site. Regardless if you get a physical copy (like a CD.which I find redundant in this situation) it's still going to end up on your hard-drive. They are not going to pay for an UTAU if that is their extent of using UTAU.
They can find the same quality for freeģ.Most utau users are young, and just do plug-in-plays.
Commercial utau are asking people to pay for a voicebank whenġ. JK, I think its because the idea of utau is to be a free alternative to vocaloid. outside of demos, you have no way of really knowing what you'll be getting with an UTAU. The worst quality you can get in the post V2 era would probably be Arsloid and Luka V4X, but they're still (arguably) higher quality than the average UTAU library because of the engine. Most voices have documentation on flaws, strengths, optimum tempo and range, a standardized reclist from Yamaha, and a minimum quality requirement (to avoid another Sonika). If someone had the budget to buy a HQ voice.
The majority of the fandom are kids/teens/young adults with very small budgets ( if any budget at all for recreation). No one wants to buy a library and then have to clean up the flaws. The Windows100% and Macne libraries may have been done on good mics, but their otos weren't much better than Defoko's unedited configurations or any other noob's first oto. It's not like Vocaloid where there's some modicum of Quality Assurance Guaranteed. etc.), be high quality (no one will buy a bank made on a Snowball in your bedroom with a bad oto), and maybe have some famous names promoting it. Because there are so many voices out in the wild, in order for someone to deem a voice worth purchase, it would have to be unique in sound, have features that no one else has managed to do (dozens of languages, different expressions, growl, etc.
#Is there a safe free vocaloid voicebanks download
Most voicebanks are free to download and use. UTAU is free to download and use (though it does have a feature that requires purchase). The stigma comes from the following (IMO).