FAQ

Why no sound?

• Open Preferences and test the audio device.
• Make sure resampler selected in Preferences is compatible. If your resamplers were patched, try unpatched ones.
• Make sure a singer is installed and selected.
• Open up midi window. If notes are semi transparent, and phonemes pitches, and expressions below don't show up, the lyrics does not work with the selected phonemizer and the voicebank.

Why the voicebank doesn't show up?

• OpenUtau relies on character.txt to detect voicebanks.
• Create a character.txt in the voicebank folder and put a line "name=" in it.

Why extra step for voicebank install?

• Utau has a long history, carrying debts. Encoding is one of them. Remember all the gibberish?
• OpenUtau need to convert encoding of voicebank file, install is the easiest way.
• It also creates a opportunity for you to config the voicebank, so that OpenUtau can understand better and automate things.

Red pitch line goes everywhere.

• The ust or midi file may have a bad tempo set, like 50000.