This document made by our demo song creator is based on what he explained at the VOCALOID seminar taken place in Tokyo on October 8, 2004. We would be honored if it becomes useful for creation of your vocal tracks.

YAMAHA Corporation VOCALOID development team

Section 1. Editing in the VOCALOID EDITOR

The VOCALOID EDITOR is a fantastic vocal-synthesizing software package that enables anyone to easily create vocal tracks by using a series of simple operations. Basic operation involves inputting musical notes on to a Piano Roll style interface, adding lyrics to the notes, converting these lyrics to phonemes, then synthesizing the notes. The end product will be smooth-flowing words with natural sounding pronunciations sung in the melody that you have written.

However, in order to create more effective and realistic vocals you will want to add extra subtlety and nuance in order to create a vocal track that is unique and emotionally expressive.

We will give you some tips to help you create realistic vocal tracks using the VOCALOID EDITOR. We hope these tips will be of some practical help to you in creating your vocal lines.

A performance by an outstanding vocalist has many elements. A vocalist enthralls listeners by making full use of his or her original vocalisms and expressions. In doing so, the vocalist uses effects such as voice quality, tone, rhythm, accent, intonation, and vibrato. These effects are constantly fluctuating, sometimes only slightly, but often quite noticeably. These "changes" are the factors by which you can make vocal expression more real and impressive.

How can you achieve these effects using the VOCALOID EDITOR? Unfortunately, you do not get these dynamic effects in the synthesized vocal by simply inputting notes and lyrics and synthesizing them. This is because this editor is designed to enable users to manipulate the synthesized vocal from the ground up in any way they think fit and so starts with the basic building blocks.

However, do not worry! The VOCALOID EDITOR has a set of expression icons and control parameters that add expressiveness and nuance to any Vocaloid track so that you can achieve very realistic vocals. You should make the most of these functions to expand the "expression and nuance" elements of your Vocaloid track. Simply adding these expression icons and control parameters to the synthesized vocals that you have created will make a great deal of difference to your Vocaloid track.