Generating freqmapsEdit

Frequency maps (.frq files) are needed to make an UTAUloid sing. When you render a song, the program checks the presence of the freqmaps, and generates them it it hasn't find them.

To generate them before hand, go to Tools→Voicebank Settings.

This window should pop up:

To generate a .frq file, right click and select "Initialize Frequency Table"

This window will pop up:

To generate multiple frqs at a time, click "Select Multi" and select all the voicebank files before clicking "Generate Frequency Table."

Making The OTO.iniEdit

Remember this window?

This is also the oto'ing screen.

Name: The file name.

Alias: The name of the file in either hiragana or romaji.

Offset: This part cuts off silence or noise before a sample. Appears as a purple higlight in the oto editing screen.

Consonant: The part of a sample UTAU doesn't stretch. Should contain the consonant and up until the vowel becomes stable. Appears as a pink highlight in the oto editing screen.

Cutoff: Marks the end of the sample. Appears as a purple higlight in the oto editing screen.

Preutterance: Marks the ending of the consonant. Should be put right inbetween the consonant and vowel. Appears as a red line in the oto editing screen.

Overlap: Marks where the sample overlaps into the previous sample. Appears as a green line in the oto editing screen.

Vowels (あ/a, い/i, う/u, え/e, お/o, ん/n) should have a lot of overlap, and little to no preutterance.

Hard consonants (b, ch, d, g, j, k, p, t) should have little, or negative, overlap.

Soft consonants (f, h, l, m, n, r, s, sh, v, w, y, z) should have some overlap.

All samples should be cut off before the vowel tapers off.

Octave ShiftsEdit

Banks with octave shifts, or multiple pitches, have a much larger range than monotone UTAUs. It is recommended that users who want to make multi-pitch banks use at least three pitches, though banks such as Ritsu Namine and Laru Mine use more. To get UTAU to use these multiple pitches, users use prefixes and suffixes to denote the pitch change. Below is a chart of common symbols used.

To get UTAU to use these pre/suffixes automatically, you must set a prefix map.

Go to Tools→Voicebank Settings and click "Edit Prefix Map"

This window should come up:

You select the pitch or pitches, then enter either the prefix or suffix used. Then click set.

Voice InformationEdit

To show information on your UTAU, first create a "character.txt" file with the following:

name=(UTAU name, voicebank name if applicable)
image=(The name of a 100x100 .bmp or .jpg file, such as "character.jpg"
author=(Your name)

Then, create a "readme.txt" with other information on your UTAU. Save both these files in the voicebank folder, and when you open UTAU and click on the voicebank pitch, something like this should come up: