The VOCALOID editor engine has many devices for creating more natural singing.

On
the other hand, in order for a complex and delicate structure, even when the
connection of words before and after have the same musical scale and interval,
their sounds can still be different. When the people using step insertion without
any adjustments listen to the results, theyve probably experienced a feeling of
what the heck.

In order to bring the unnatural portions closer to a more natural singing voice,
parameter adjustments are important. Furthermore, in order to remove small nuances
from smaller compositions, we will also conduct some parameter adjustments.

The latter important adjustment is your imagination. If you do not have a complete
picture in your head of what the completed work will be like, you cant make the
necessary adjustments. Practice imagining the singer singing while making your
adjustments is the basic principle of parameter adjustment (thinking about matching
the singers voice with the melody and singing range is very important in achieving
natural singing). If youre unable to produce an image, trying to sing the phrase
yourself, or getting someone to sing it for you in order to compensate for
imaginative power is something good to try.

Out of the VOCALOID adjustments, we will primarily look at the adjustments of

parameters, facial expressions and vibrato. In order to smoothly understand whats
best to for making your singing closest to what you imagine, its important to
grasp these three adjustable values. These are the parameters which you could
change on the VOCALOID editor.

VEL (Velocity)
Adjust the length of consonants. Large adjustments doesnt do much, so usually
people doesnt adjust this value very much.

DYN (Dynamics)
Adjustment of the volume. This is probably the most important parameter out of all
of them.

BRE (Breathiness)
Control of the weight of the voices breathing. Will considerably effect various
nuances. Volume will also be adjusted.

BRI (Brightness)
Adjusts the brightness of the voice. This also adjusts volume.

CLE (Clearness)
Sharpen the voice. This parameter can make quite an impression, so dont adjust it
too much.

OPE (Opening)
Reproduce the variation of pronunciation through adjustments of the opening of the
mouth. This will also change volume.

GEN (Gender Factor)

Adjusts the voice to a more male or female feel. Works to not break the original
foundation of the voice.

POR (Portamento Timing)

Adjustment of the Portamentos starting position.
Portamento. A technique of gliding from one note
defining the intermediate notes; a smooth sliding
used primarily in singing and string instruments.
instruments, especially the trombone.
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to another without actually
between two pitches. This term is
Often called glissando for other
PIT (Pitch Bend)
Adjustments the pitch. Required for the removal of certain nuances.

PBS(Pitch Bend Sensitivity)

Adjusts the width of the pitch bend. Use this a lot to match the pitch bend.

Whenever you adjust a parameter, side effects causing the direction of the sound to
diverge away from your intention can occur. Changing BRE, BRI and OPE will also
increase the volume. If this is not your intention, it will be necessary to
compensate for the volume through DYN, and other measures.

Also, its considered taboo to change parameters values a noticeable amount while
pronunciation occurs. For example, if you suddenly change the PIT from 0 to 5000 in
the middle of pronunciation, it will turn into a very unnatural state at the moment
you changed the value. The same goes for other parameters as well. Do not make
discreet changes to them while pronunciation is occurring. But there are times when
discretely changing the value on purpose can lead to interesting results.

So its really important to change the VOCALOID Parameters properly in order to

make your VOCALOID sound more human!