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UTAU/ FANMADE VOCALOIDS:
Since Vocaloid got popular, Fanmade vocaloids got popular too.
There are many diffrent types of fanmade vocaloids.


Diffrent types of fanmade vocaloid:
From http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Fanmade_Vocaloids

Many Vocaloid fans have created various forms of derived characters from the original Vocaloids refered as Fanmade Vocaloids. Some are only represented visually, and have no known voices, while others using the different octaves and/or voice configurations of an original. There are more than 1000 original Vocaloids combined, yet only a fraction of these are supported by their creators or other producers with actual singing or promotion. In Japan, these fanmade characters are never called "Vocaloids" on their own, but "characters derived from Vocaloids" or "derived characters". It is becoming (or perhaps already) outdated to mention various new derived characters, because of the number of official Vocaloid characters that has increased and the influence of UTAU, which allows production of a new character with an individual voice, the people who make new derived characters have completely decreased recently in Japan; Most emerging derivations are coming from non-Japanese sources now.

1 Collective Fanmade Vocaloids
1.1 Genderbent Vocaloids
1.2 The Hagane Vocaloids
1.3 Human Vocaloids (VOCALOID Fan Singers/Dubbers)
1.4 VOYAKILOID

Collective Fanmade Vocaloids
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There have been several total conversions of the original vocaloids made to resemble certain stereotypes or pop-culture references and often include several vocaloids under a single banner. These total conversions change the style of both the songs they sing and the art they are shown in. Though mostly satisfying a niche audience, they have a devoted fanbase and have many songs to their name.

Genderbent Vocaloids
Genderbent Vocaloids are Vocaloids with the gender switched. This is very common among American fandom. Usually Genderbent Vocaloids are actually Vocaloid songs pitch-changed to create a male or female song; they are rarely songs made with a different voice configuration.

Main article and detailed infomation: Genderbent Vocaloids
http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Genderbent_Vocaloids

The Hagane Vocaloids
The Hagane Vocaloids are a group whose image and songs are based around the heavy metal genre of music, particularly death metal and the majority being Nu-metal. They are often heard using the same voice setup as the original vocaloids but seldomly use audio distortion to push their vocal ranges to extremes to achieve a growling effect. Most Hagane songs rely on double bass and blast beat drum techniques along with heavier tuned guitars and bass to give that "down" effect usually used in metal today to achieve quality 'breakdowns'.

Main article and detailed infomation: Hagane Vocaloids
http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Hagane_Vocaloids

Human Vocaloids (VOCALOID Fan Singers/Dubbers)
Human Vocaloids (referred to as such due to their vocaloid-centric nature) are live singers with Vocaloid-inspired avatars. Some of them may attempt to sound like a Vocaloid using their own voices. They usually sing music that were composed to be sung/or covered by any of the official/fanmade Vocaloids. They are prevalent in Nico-Nico Douga but are present as well in YouTube. They are sometimes called Uttate Mita in Nico-Nico Douga, though it pertains to singers that do not use such avatars.

Main article and detailed infomation: Human Vocaloids
http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Vocaloids

VOYAKILOID
Voyakiloid (read as "grouching vocaloid") is a group of derived Vocaloid characters that represents failure. These characters are often portrayed as negative, down and unhappy, unlike the typical mainstream characters. Several Voyakiloid characters have been made by fans that reflect frustration in getting them to sound and sing right, although this is not always the case.

Main article and detailed infomation: VOYAKILOID
http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Voyakiloid


Utau actual definition
A Utau is a fanmade vocaloid that uses its creator's voice and not a premade voice bank. You can do this by downloading a UTAU program, sadly there isn't a english one yet, but its being developed.

Vocaloid Wiki's def:

Originally considered Vocaloids as well, UTAUloids refers to voice banks that work on UTAU, and is done to differentiate them from Vocaloids that run on Yamaha's Vocaloid and Vocaloid2 platform. UTAU is the work of "飴屋／菖蒲" （Ameya/Ayame）, meant to be the freeware counterpart to VOCALOID. Unlike Vocaloids, whose voicebank includes the VOCALOID software and engine, UTAU is an independent platform and users have to import voice sounds as WAV files manually into the program, which is easy to do. As a result, the ability to create "our own" Utauloids has resulted in a large boom of voice banks from all over the world.

Teto Kasane and Ruko Yokune belong as UTAUloids, though their creators from vip@2ch attempted to pass them off as real Vocaloids, mostly for fun.

The first generation of UTAU was difficult to tune than Vocaloids and had a robot-like singing, but the creator has been improving the program and releasing updates. Now the second generation called "sequence voice source" (連続音源) is available and this advance makes UTAU a worthy alternative to Vocaloid.

To see a somewhat-complete list of UTAUloids, visit this wiki: UTAUloids
http://utau.wikia.com/wiki/UTAU_wiki