#ameuta

Reviewing the Ameuta family is now a longstanding tradition on this blog. Eventually I might review every single one of them, though I will admit making each of those posts unique is a little challenging...

This review was requested anonymously.

*Art by Otsuki Metro (大槻メトロ)

Hear a Sample of Ameuta Niko

Bio

Name: 飴唄仁胡/Ameuta Niko Species: Demon Gender: Male Age: late teens Height: 160 cm Likes: Noodles, museum tours Dislikes: Magic, losing  Theme: Purple Chitose Ame candy

Official Site

Here is Niko’s official page! The voicebank I’ll be talking about today is 砕/Kuda, which was released in 2016. It’s 31 MB when unzipped and has fully generated frq files. Also, here’s a list of what extra samples are included in his reclist, shared among the modern Ameuta UTAUs. You Probably won’t need this, but it’s nice to know what’s included.

First Impressions

Niko has a slightly androgynous, boyish voice. Like Niriya, who I reviewed before, he has stringed audio samples that are CV aliased. One fun thing about him is that instead of his given name being written in hiragana like the other Ameutas, it uses the kanji  胡 for ko, which means barbarian. I also think it’s cute he’s themed around a specifically Japanese candy and is pastel purple despite being a brash anime teen, I think that’s cute.

Configuration

Niko is a monopitch CV recorded at A3. He has a range of D3-A4, but can go a bit over that comfortably. He also has extra pronunciations, end breaths, vocal fry, and combined vowels. One thing I wish the Ameutas had is samples for more vowel combinations. They already have “ai” “ae” “ao”, and “au”, but not many others! The lack of smoother vowels is the main reason why I don’t use CV much. The stringed samples ultimately don’t do that much in terms of making a more natural sound.

The mic quality is pretty good here, but the voice just doesn’t translate well into the engine. Overall, he’s at about the same quality as the other Ametro UTAUs, not bad but not super special.

I like to add the g10 flag to him for a voice that better suits his character.

My recommended flags: g10H20F3E10

My recommended resamplers: fresamp12, EFB-GT

Final Thoughts

Niko is an above average CV with a cute, flexible voice and a lot of potential. I highly suggest you check out the other UTAUs in his series.

Hello again! School is almost done for me, so I have a lot of time to use UTAU and write reviews. I was glad to have so many requests to get through!

I tried including just the icon this time as an image and not the full body art. Even though in the case of UTAUs it’s usually okay to repost/reuse official art, I still don’t like doing it. Tumblr also doesn’t let me change the image size so they often end up being way too big (or sometimes, too small). I hope it doesn’t look funny.

This review was requested by Plakis Morakis. 

*Art by Otsuki Metro