【Sachiko】Piano × Forte × Scandal【Vocaloid Cover/VB Test】 +mp3/inst

💃💃💃 insert disco ball here 🕺🕺🕺

(I'm sorry I love the funky version of this song so much it makes me want to dance)

WARNING : This cover has a low quality instrumental and mixing. I hope you can tolerate that, and here's why:
This cover was inspired on the live version of the Matsuri da Diva 2014 sung by Meiko Haigo (   • Piano×Forte×Scandal | Matsuri da Diva...  ), which has a style and key that matches much better Sachiko than the original version. The original idea was to use an instrumental as similar as possible to the accompaniment of that live version, so tried to extract it with an AI of a website, and it worked surprisingly well, but it was in a really low quality and some parts had a very strong low pas filter, so I couldn't use just that. That's why I decided to mix it with some parts of the original instrumental so that it sounded decent. But there was another problem: the off vocal given by OSTER project had really strong backvocals, so I got the Project Diva instrumental (the second instrumental oster project did, this time without the backvocals) from a VSQx download, but it came in a low quality too, and as you can imagine that got even worse when I turned it 4 semitones down and changed the BPM from 135 to 132 to fit the live version: it got totally distorted and it was impossible to use it alone too. So I spent an entire day mixing both off-vocals, equalizing and alining each part for it to sound as good as possible and not like a Frankenstein made of different samples. It turned out pretty decent, but it had a lot of compression in some parts of the live version that made the mastering and mixing process really hard because if I used a little bit too much compression then the sound of the music would be totally destroyed.
Although the track has a really low quality, I'm happy with the result given the circumstances, and I hope you can still enjoy it like I do! And just in case you need them, I'll give them both to you (my isntrumental and the original low quality live version instrumental) within the mp3 pack!


(Thank you for reading the warning of the mixing, now I'll proceed to review my experience with Sachiko!)


Finally I get to use for the first time one of the best and most complex Vocaloids ever! I knew Sachiko for a long time, and I also knew she was one of the most high-quality vb's, but I was too scared to actually try using her. Why? Well, because the company promoted her like a very professional Vocaloid only ment for SUPER experienced and skilful users, and I also heard a lot of people saying "do not use her if you do not know what you're doing". They were not wrong though, but I was afraid of not being prepared enough for such product and scrweing it up or not having time to learn enough about her and ending up wasting her potential. But at last I took the risk and decided to install the vb, and oh my were they right... She truly is one of the best, most realistic, most expressive and most outstanding vocaloids ever! I don't care anymore if the tuning here sounds weird (I'm sure I'll improve by using her more), I had a lot of fun with her (more than I had ever had in a long time) and she quickly became one of my favorite loids! She was actually much more easy to use than I expected! And one of the things I loved the most about her is that she has so many expressive effects in her samples that the rest of V4 vocaloids lack, like vocal fry, a lot of consonants with exaggerted aspiration sounds before the vowel, and super dramatic intonations that makes each sound unique! Even in the untuned vsqx you can still hear a passion in the notes that you just cannot hear in other vocaloids and I'm totally in love with that! It truly is one of Yamaha's or Sachiko's promotion company's best work. Even her demo sounds good in comparison to the rest of the demos! To give you a reference, comparing Sachiko to an average V4 Vb like Miku V4 is like comparing a VCV Multipitch VB to a Monopitch CV VB in Utau, and it still bothers me how people use her just like any other vocaloid with songs that don't fit her range. Also, as an alto myself, she's actually the only female vocaloid whose vocal range is very similar to mine, and that's why I know it's not a good idea to make her sing songs like Rolling Girl in the original key and octave...

Oh, and as you can see I finally figured out how to apply the animation effects in aviutil to each letter for separate in the texts! I just had to check the 1char1obj box all the time...


Credits: -

Original song by OSTER Project
Cover/VSQx/tuning by me
Vocals: Sachiko (Vocaloid 4)
Art by Midori Fuu
PV by me

dl (mp3+inst+live-inst): https://mega.nz/file/dngCCKLA#SFjuB6n...

SC upload:   / sachiko-piano-x-forte-x-scandal-cover-dlinst  

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