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Fixing .freq Maps

    Okay. I know I probably haven't actually contributed to the UTAU community much, but I know that at least sometimes my curiosity can truly do something good.

    So, I made a new UTAU. Several of them, actually. One of them was recorded by a two-year-old girl, which makes it pretty obvious why I would need to go in and edit the .freq files in the editor because just regenerating them really didn't get me anywhere. With one of the ones I recorded, I actually have problems with certain consonants making my voice squeak, thus completely ruining the quality of the vowels. ALL OF THEM.
    To fix my problem of not knowing what in the world I was supposed to do in the editor, I turned to the Internet. That was about equally as useful as asking a rock for information would be, so I just tried some stuff until I got the hang of what I was doing.

Now onto the actual tutorial!

    I'm not going to teach you everything about the freq map editor, but just the things that will get you by.

    Before I start teaching about the actual editing, I'm going to teach about common problems in the freq maps. After that, I'll teach about the interface of the editor and how to actually fix some of these problems.

Common problems

     The two things I see the most often are, luckily, the easiest to fix.

  1. a brief change in pitch/ voice squeak.


    2.  the reading of the frequency on an unvoiced consonant or breath sample.



 The interface

 

 

Look! I added letters!
You're welcome!

A- These multiply the pitch. I honestly don't understand the point of them.
B- This one deletes an area. This is one of the most useful tools.
C- These divide the pitch. Yet again, I don't know how they could actually be used.
D- OH MY FAVORITE! This one sets the pitch of a selected area to the average (Not to J).
E- This resets it to what it was at the last time you saved. And yes, That's a horrible E. I give you permission to make fun of my handwriting.
F- This changes the average pitch to the average pitch of an area (the reverse of what "avg" does).
G- Save
H- Set. セート=set. WHOO I FEEL SMART.
I- This allows you to insert a number. To set it use the button below(H)
J- The average pitch of the entire note.
K- Also the average pitch.
L- I'm guessing the volume. I don't get why it's even there.
M- The pitch line thing.

You must double-click A through F to get them to work.

How to actually fix stuff

For the first one, you simply highlight the area where the odd pitch change is and double click "avg"(D).

That should look like this-



For the second, you just highlight the consonant area and double click "-"(B). If there's still part of it there, just do it again.

It should look like this-






So, there you have it. Once you mess with it enough, it's really easy. Just to make things even easier, I made an image for reference!




SAVE IT SAVE IT SAVE IT SAVE IT SAVE IT!

Now, go have lots of fun with that. I hope this helped!

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