GUMI VOCALOID vs GUMI SynthV (Comparison)

This video compares GUMI V6 (VOCALOID) and GUMI SV (Synthesizer V). It should be noted that for the Synthesizer V version no new voice recordings were made, but the same ones used for VOCALOID6 were reused. Also, it should be remembered that in these recordings Megumi was asked to imitate GUMI's singing style and not to use her natural tone.

[dementedcheesepuff]

Considering SV is half the price of V6, this is embarrassing. Yamaha needs to step up their game.

[warmnoodlez]

It's Gumi's identical voice, but from 720p to 4k

[ziver]

i get some people like robotic voices (same) and a lot of users complain about how not every voicebank has to sound human to be good, but this is gumi v6 *AI* voicebank, supposed to "make her sound natural and highly expressive" Yamaha isn't able to keep up with the realistic tunning demand, and rushing the release of v6 as if they didn't completely left v5 in the trash, didn't help them at all

[QaoQaoh]

Yeeaaaah, Synthesizer V is definitely much better for her, in V6 she sounds good, but keep having engine noise and it's not that natural as in SynthV is. In SynthV she sounds more clean and smooth, you can hear Ranka Lee and Megumi Nakajima and Gumi in here.

I'm so happy Internet CO. Decided to take her there.

[kitten]

Her new bank will be able to sing in Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese), English, Spanish and Japanese ❤!

[dogofchaos]

Wow, V6 sounds like she's singing from the bottom of a well compared to SynthV

[franpancho]

Dude, V4 sounds much better than V6, what happened?
V4 has 10 VB those with growl and XSY and the V3 Eng is still relevant 😢. And V6 the AI is basic but you can hear the robotics sounds in long notes while in V4 are weak.

[QuincyQt]

as someone whos used V6, its so clunky. it literally makes them sing flat sometimes, with no almost way to fix it, and you can hear it here. with voices like Po-Uta it's impossible to turn off the "AI" that isnt doing anything other than fight my manual tuning. it's a MESS.

from a technical standpoint, ease of use standpoint, price standpoint, and business practice standpoint - SynthV is better. So glad my girl Gumi got to SynthV instead.

[diegoviniciomejiaquesada]

She sounds more and more like Megumi/Ranka.

[SlayerReduxUTAU]

the whiplash from VOCALOID to SynthV is so noticable lol

[huhuhuhurricanestreamwow]

For those talking that she sounds not completely like her is because her old sound is a combination of vocaloid engine noise and her samples. Of course she won't sound like her in vocaloid. And considering the pass of time she still has the tone of her original recordings. Gumi in it's original conception was like weina ai, made to be a replica of Megumi so yeah, she's supposed to actually sound like Megumi. Now here's the twist.... Megumi doesn't sound like this anymore. It sounds like Megumi in 2007-2010 Macross frontier era. Her actual vocals are way more strong and mature(see suiso for an example for her as a singer instead of a voice actress). I kind of feel Megumi acted like ranka lee to capture gumi's voice back in her v2 era and now on her ai era. Megumi should get a voice acting award for this recording. And Saki and crypton should take note of the dedication of this team.

[JemuzuDatsWho]

yo wtf this Synthesizer V sounds AMAZING. Holy cow, I'm gonna look at your other videos comparing now, I didn't know this other program existed?!

[lethalinjection]

While I don’t think realism always has to be the endgoal of synthesized voices (chipspeech and cv Utau and po-uta have their charm) gumi is meant to be all realistic and human like

[LoneWolfMikoto]

Now I wait for Kira to use Gumi SV and write a song with her, that would be a blast

[lins_z]

The reason I loved gumi from the very beginning, when she was first released, was because you could tell they wanted to make her sound like Ranka Lee. She even had the green hair. Ranka is one of my favorite characters ever. The fact that her synthV version sounds much more like Ranka now is for me a huge plus. I’m so happy with it! I honestly would absolutely love to have all her older songs covered with the synthV version!!!

[reco-qo]

めっちゃ中島愛の声で嬉しい 俺がGUMIの発表時に求めていたクオリティがここにある
I'm so glad it's a almost same voice as Megumi Nakajima. There is a great quality what i expected when GUMI had released

[nemesis]

To those who say that SVGUMI is not GUMI
For a long time, Internet Inc. has been trying to create VOCALOID products with the aim of making them human-like.
The main reason why V2GUMI was used by many producers was also because it had the most human-like flesh voice among VOCALOID2.
This is the same reason why producers in western countries started using V3GUMI English.
When V2GUMI was popular, Japanese vocaloid listeners often said that GUMI songs at that time often depicted the inner life of a realistic girl in contrast to Miku.
However, for a long time, many people liked the VOCALOID noise so much that a false perception that the robot noise was GUMI's voice infected the VOCALOID community.
In creating the SynthV version, Internet Inc. appropriated GUMI's voice data from V6.
The reason why they did this is out of consideration for their fans, when originally they could have made it even closer to Megumi.
If you don't notice that and say "Robo voice is GUMI's individuality", I don't have to say anything.
You just like VOCALOID and were never interested in GUMI's voice from the beginning.

[fernandacalvin]

I like the V6 gumi better because it sounds more like gumi, but what I like most about the SV is that it doesn't sound like that engine noise in the background.
Vocaloid is not the same anymore
😢

[SoutaCherry]

One of the only companies to even somewhat care about the quality of the product and remember what it is people liked about them.

[NaddleSchidaddle]

Both sound great to me, but I can't deny that Synth V just is a lot more realistic... 👀 I just wonder what Yahama will do now, V6 probably will do even less well with Gumi also being on Synth V 🤔

One thing I don't like though is her Synth V design... Gumi used to get like lots of new designs for each Voicebank but they barely changed her outfit for Synth V... a bit sad but probably not too much of an issue.