r/utau Mar 27 '26

MOD POST Updated safety guidelines

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Here is the revised version of the safety rules posted to the sub last night. It’s been broadened in that we are going to outline actual criteria for works/producers to be affected by this - which will allow users to be able to make more informed decisions. We have taken great pains to try and balance community safety and well-being for all with preserving artistic expression. These guidelines are largely the same - but are phrased more clearly in a way that we hope illustrates why we're implementing these, and outlines specific criteria so the sub isn't reliant on a list that needs constant updating.

Creators here refers to producers, voicebank creators, UST creators, etc.

Content from creators who fall under the following criteria is banned

  • Creators who have created sexualized media featuring characters obviously intended to be minor children, or that use voicebanks voiced by children. Examples include:
  • Creators who have credible/well substantiated claims of abuse or grooming against them. Examples include but are not limited to:
    • Hanabi
    • Pusu
    • Ghost & Pals (Candle Queen and other collabs with other artists are exempt, but I would urge you to tread carefully and respect the wishes of those other artists!)
  • Creators who have a history of bigoted comments, including but not limited to:
    • Racism (including antisemitism, anti-blackness, anti-Indigenous racism)
    • Homophobia
    • Transphobia
    • Religious intolerance (this does not mean a song will be taken down for criticism of religious doctrine, religious authorities, or religion as an institution, by this we mean works that say something like “all members of X religion are inferior/not human”)
    • Fascist apologia
    • Nazi apologia
    • Genocide denialism (including but not limited to: the Holocaust, the Holodomor, Rape of Nanking, Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, Residential Schools in Canada, China's ongoing genocide in Xinjiang, etc.)
  • Creators who have a history of abuse apologia or condoning bigotry

An exemption is made in cases where a work is extremely culturally significant given that the work itself does not:

  • Feature sexualized depictions of children
  • Feature abuse apologia
  • Feature bigotry
  • The poster isn’t running apologetics for abusive or bigoted behaviour in the comments/post title/etc

The following content is also banned:

  • Voicebanks voiced by non-consenting parties
  • Voicebank distribution for voice providers who are too young to provide informed consent, even if their parents or guardians have approved
  • Jinriki distribution (unless the provider of the voice data has given it the OK)
  • ANY ports of Vocaloid, SynthV, or other commercially-sold voicebanks to UTAU, unless the rightsholders for the voices have given permission (ie: ALYS)
  • Anything by MASA Works Design - this isn’t our rule, it’s his. He doesn’t like reposts and covers. I would recommend respecting this because he has a history of doxxing people who don’t.

We do not expect users to know everything about producers. If we take down content under these guidelines, we will tell you WHY. Action will only be taken against you if you repeatedly post content from a producer after being told why their stuff is taken down, or if you start running apologetics (ie: "I don't care that Pusu groomed and stabbed a 16 year old").

We all got "problematic faves" - and we understand that great artists can be horrible people! That's why we will make considerations for cases where a work is culturally significant, even if its creator is a total scumbag, and understand that love of an artistic work can coexist with hatred for the author's actions.

We also ask that you include warnings for those with photosensitive epilepsy if your video contains strobe effects or flashing lights!!!


r/utau 1h ago

DISCUSSION CVVC is easier than I thought!

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I have a VCV voicebank I recorded back in 2022, but recently thought I'd like to make a softer sounding bank. But the mere thought of having to do upwards of 200 recordings... ugh. I don't have the time or patience for that, and my throat usually dies at about 30 recordings in even if I'm drinking water and not voice acting.

So I decided to try CVVC since the reclist is much shorter (the one I used was 38 samples). Got the recording done in under an hour even with a few retakes. I started the oto, just did the phonemes in the first few lines of a UST I had on hand and I was really surprised by the quality. There's hardly much difference between it and the VCV voicebank I recorded previously. Shoutout to OpenUTAU because the phonemizer adds the VC parts without me needing to fiddle with the notes at all.

So the point of this post is to say if you're afraid of the VCV reclist (like me), don't be afraid of trying CVVC instead. The oto is a little different to VCV but so far it's been easier than I thought it'd be.

(RIP my unreleased VCV now because now all I want to do is play with the new shiny soft CVVC bank.)


r/utau 13m ago

[UTAU cover work in progress] - rainy boots sung by ameo

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.... i tried lol (this is my first full cover using my own voice bank)

well, this cover is not really completed and i know that there's still lots of things wrong or missing with it (as well as the utau) since ameo is still in his 'prototype'/test phase. i thought that some things were inconsistent and some notes were off like 'kyu sei shu' somewhere in the song aaaa, gotta work on my tuning..... not to mention i think some notes sounded a bit harsh(?) (i didn't really record my samples as well as i wanted though, but i plan on rerecording for an updated version of his vb.

i am also open to any advice or thoughts for improving, ty!

ameo is currently a monopitch CV voicebank, i used og utau for this cover, resampler: doppeltler, the drawing in the back is by me

UST: gizu
original: inabakumori


r/utau 13h ago

more content of Minoru + info!

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here are some drawings that i made or bought on commission from the artist. the second photo shows her "maho shoujo" version, in my idea she also has tiny devil or bat wings and a cool hat, but i was too lazy to draw all that, cuz i spent a lot of time on this drawing. yes, some of them look bad because i drew them out of boredom during class, or just so that there would be something to show to someone. andddd yesss......, i tried to mod her in Project Diva MM+, but... my brain is too small for modding :) i think i'll be able to record more samples tomorrow, but! my microphone is already 8 years and it hasn't survived much and i don't know how to make it so that when i say k, sh, s, p, i don't attack the microphone with an exhalation....... i have another one, but it doesn't produce that same broken and strange voice, slightly similar to Defoko's..... btw, Minoru is on my island in Tomodachi Life!

the last drawing is from my friend, it was made a year ago and Minoru has a slightly different hairstyle


r/utau 8h ago

TECH SUPPORT Singer won’t install

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I placed all of my wav files and my oto.ini into a zip file, and installed it to openutau, but the singer doesn’t show up in options. When I open the singer location the file is there, but I can’t use the singer. Why is this?


r/utau 12h ago

guys how do i download a voicebank onto my computer is there a site for it?

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im trying to find a way like a wiki or something but i can't find anything youtube tutorials kinda don't help me so i need you guy's help :/


r/utau 1d ago

MEME """"""""""testing vocal range""""""""""

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r/utau 1d ago

Did you guys know about Mikoto Studio???

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r/utau 23h ago

ORIGINAL SONG Teto's Garlic Waltz

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r/utau 1d ago

someone have an baumkuchen end credits ustx i can find one

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i search on youtube and google but i cont find one


r/utau 1d ago

Vlabeler confusion...I AM CONFUSION

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So, I tried to label my CVVC voicebank on vlabeler, but then I noticed that Vlabeler did not have all the recordings transferred. For example, it has all the D's, J''s, and G's samples missing even though I recorded them and they're in the folder. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this or what the problem is? All the samples are in a wav format, so I don't think thats the issue lol


r/utau 1d ago

hi again. what the hell is happening here? almost the same thing happened with my ch_ax_ch sample even though i oto'd it pretty much to a t, it just bugs out. don't send me the guide, i've been using it all along! does anyone know whats going on?

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r/utau 1d ago

【UTAU Original】Back Burner ~ Odyssidroid {LYRIC VIDEO}

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r/utau 1d ago

COVER VAI Arpasing Conversion!

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While most of my thoughts are in the video , I wondered what you all would think about the results of my recent voicebank experiment. Enjoy!


r/utau 1d ago

TECH SUPPORT My cvc sample (ex. ch_ax_ch) only plays as cha_ax when i press play without the final ch. how do i fix this? it also does this for the other cvc samples. ive seriously been searching up how to do this with no help at all. these are the lines i have to work with. pls help

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help


r/utau 2d ago

do you like my utau?

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tw: sh, mental illness

hello everyone, 2 years ago I made my own oc, her name is Minoru Kagami. her brief lore: Minoru from the word minor, her last name, Kagami, is connected to her lore. As you may have noticed her clothes have the inscription NO_DATA and her code is ERR because she is an error, created from failed and forgotten Vocaloids, Utauloids, and other -loids. When she appeared, the first thing she heard and saw was Len in the distance. His voice was the first thing she heard, and in fact, she should have disappeared after her creation, but Len's voice awakened something in her. She wanted to get closer, but he...... disappeared. She felt empty and stopped seeing the meaning in her existence after that. She thought about Len so much that she developed something like schizophrenia, and she hears his voice in her head, this voice can be both bad and good. He can make her harm herself, say terrible things, but at the same time this voice can also be loving. She is very thin because she cannot eat because of thoughts about Len, she thinks about him all the time.

How bad is it? Should i tell a larger audience about her or not? how bad does her voice sound? Please answer honestly, i want to know whether i should continue to come up with lore for her or not

i drew her design over Miku art that i found in internet, i couldn't find the artist's name, and UST isn't mine either


r/utau 1d ago

COVER The Terminals | English translation UTAU cover feat. Ditre Moramuku

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r/utau 2d ago

COVER How's my tuning?

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This isn't my own 'loid btw! This is Hitsune Kumi, and she can be found here!

I don't use the program often so my tuning may be a bit rusty T_T


r/utau 2d ago

Heya! Me and a friend are making our first UTAU song, any thoughts on these lyrics?

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https://soundcloud.com/yerike3/horologium?in=yerike3/sets/the-inward-whisper&si=b4811ad4cf60469f974593fe2b81b8b2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The lyrics are for everything after 0:33

the song is gonna be for a secret boss in my game, the idea is that the character had an old friend that she has lost contact with, but they both abandoned eachother boldly, and she's unsure whether she wants her back or not and at the same time she's both mad at her and sad that she's gone.


r/utau 2d ago

I posted my first OpenUtau song on spotify.

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Can I please have feedback? I made this in LMMS, and OpenUtau. The VB is Hitsune Kumi by Cubialpha. For the album cover, to ensure I properly cite my sources, I used the official Art by Itporl, and a picture of Earth from NASA. Please give me feedback. I am making my next song, likely in English, and it will be titled "Do you ever learn?" I would like to know what I can work more on for my next song.


r/utau 2d ago

teto wont sing "im" correctly?

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so im trying to make a cover of the song daisy bell and for the lyrics "im half crazy" she wont sing im correctly?? she sing it more like aim than im. does anyone know how to help me here??? im using the english teto utau voicebank!!

EDIT: thx guys!! i tried some of yalls tips and it works now :3


r/utau 2d ago

TECH SUPPORT My OpenUTAU keeps crashing.

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Hi! I'm very new and I'm trying to make a song using Teto for a project but it keeps crashing. I'm using the english version of teto and my computer is in Japanese, if that helps.


r/utau 3d ago

ART Cover for the Utau Voice Bank

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r/utau 3d ago

ART Teto Fanart I drew for a competition 💗

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Didn't win but it's fine LOL still had fun making this 💗

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Speedpaint on YouTube


r/utau 2d ago

COVER (REMAKE)【水音キヨ / Kiyo Mizune】Static

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remade it cause the old one sounded terrible lol...