OpenUTAU Tutorial (tm)

I have been thinking this over since I saw tweets saying OU was hard to use, or that it just sounded worse than UTAU.
So, I thought I'd make this to help out!
I am using a new editing program so I apologize for the unmodified audio
My template: drive.google.c...
No need to credit, feel free to redistribute. it's 6 bytes like it's really not a big deal lol
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to put a comment, I will reply eventually :)
Banks I showed:
Fuwa Maria/Mario (by HIRA) auspicious-voi...
Kumi Hitsuboku cubialpha.wixs...
Bank creation tutorial i mentioned: • How to Make an UTAU Vo...
‪@yupphireutau‬
OpenUtau wiki with tutorials: github.com/sta...
Also see this for more information: www.openutau.com/
discord link: discord.gg/C38...
Please be polite and considerate. Thank you for your understanding.
If you're new to UTAU or thinking of moving to OpenUtau, and you're wondering what this program offers, here's a list of features OpenUtau has that UTAU doesn't:
mac support
64-bit only system support
audio file import support
multiple singers at once/multi-track harmony support
ghost note support
many languages in interface
no requirement to change system locale (though I do suggest doing this anyway, it isn't strictly needed)
phonemizers
AI banks (ENUNU/NNSVS) natively supported
standard/modern piano roll editing
pan slider
2 voicebank file locations
encoding adjuster for voicebanks
built-in frequency regeneration option
above 8-bit integer limit oto entries (basically it allows the use of large/complex banks)
multiple resampler support
curve expression support (with worldline-r)
automated append support
piano roll portraits
one-click note removal
open source (if you dont know what that entails dw about it)
ongoing, automatic updates
some of these are possible in original utau with the help of plugins, but not many
'utau ran so openutau could sprint'
Hako, 2023
Big thanks to the developers on this project, esp StAkira, maiko, oxygen dioxide, lotte, kiyoteru, astel, all of yalls
Chapters:
0:00 Intro/Preface
1:36 How Utau banks work
12:37 Locale changing
13:27 installation
14:41 backups
14:52 what is the cache
15:12 what are the logs for
15:51 about plugins
16:24 resamplers
17:01 singers folder
18:29 templates... pt 1
18:46 wavtools (not much to talk about here)
19:00 process to start a project/how to use template pt.2
19:26 basic menu usage
20:35 phonemisers
21:25 renderer choice
21:46 parts
22:10 piano roll basic menu functions
26:03 pitch copying shenanigans
26:44 vibrato
27:03 quantization
27:33 misc note tricks
27:53 plugin menu (part)
28:18 tail notes
28:47 quantization pt 2 electric boogaloo
29:10 various reset functions
29:30 envelope edits
30:04 turn the grey tuning into pink tuning
30:20 expressions/flags
31:50 editing lyrics
32:29 note defaults
32:53 multi track functions
33:08 installing singers/banks
33:35 singers menu
35:51 built in oto editor
36:41 alias/phoneme editing
37:03 freq reset function
37:40 help me(nu)
37:56 how to make a good bug report
38:19 how to clear the cache
38:30 debug window
38:50 preferences menu
39:04 secondary singer path
39:37 render settings
40:07 AI related settings
40:21 interface language changer
40:51 portrait on piano roll
41:12 importing audio tracks, scroll settings
41:30 simplest resampler setup
41:39 chad resampler setup
42:26 various import methods
43:06 exporting audio
43:48 exporting a project (super simple)
43:56 ADDRESSING THE RUMOURS!!!!
44:28 final thoughts
45:46 how to take a screenshot (instead of a photo of a dusty laptop...)
46:00 thanks for watching!