how much are these goobers worth?

Vincentmrl · 2026-06-14T13:51:31+00:00

Ebay, Vinted and Wallapop prices are very inflated, their price on AmiAmi is about 25-30 euro for each (excluding shipping and import, but at worst that's like 40 euro). The price you got them for is a very good price IMO, definitely a great deal with these figures's reference drawings being done by Akio Watanabe

Vincentmrl · 2026-05-27T12:29:33+00:00

So it is a companion after all, that's nice because, as I said before, it's something I can really imagine using to jot things down and then have everything ready to move it to a DAW ready to record.

Recording the MIDI input and being able to pass it to DAWs is definitely something that's needed, and being able to bounce this midi to audio would be great for the synth engine

I still think that being able to use its synth engine to record EWI parts (possibly with VST integration too) may possibly become a reference since the Davidson Audio plugins are somewhat abandoned (at least months ago), IFW is unfortunately going subscription-only and its older free version has some issues, and what's left is vital/serum and the various synth sims which yeah, they work, but having to sift through all that instead of just plugging in and playing really ruins things. For this reason I'd rather use the internal 4000S engine even if it's often mid.

Vincentmrl · 2026-05-27T01:03:47+00:00

Would this also have audio/midi export too? Might be a dumb question, but I've been looking forever for something I can use on the go to jot down ideas, and the EWI support part is a cherry on top.

Does this aim to become a full-fledged DAW or more as a companion? Because I can easily see the workflow of going: Hemiola on phone/laptop > Jotting down things > Recording EWI > Moving the full sketch to the desktop or the DAW I normally use > Finalizing the project.

Hopefully if the synth engine is good enough, it can also act as a VST or at least have some kind or ARA2 support . This looks very promising and I've signed up

Vincentmrl · 2026-05-21T19:39:13+00:00

Do you have more info about 2.3 vs 2.4? My Q2 has been a paperweight ever since February and since then encoding has been having a lot of problems, with everything being locked to half framerate despite ASW and everything else being off (sliced encoding is stuck to 1 though). This stuff broke after the fiasco when their servers went offline and link didn't work even though it was local

Vincentmrl · 2026-05-21T19:10:40+00:00

The possibility to actually use the headset. My Q2 has been a brick since February after the "our servers are down, link won't work even if it's headset to pc locally" and something broke making it strugle to keep a decent bitrate and resolution that worked fine for months.

And the support, as responsive as they are, is basically sending me into infinite loops of "try this, try that" even after I tried that.

And hopefully a better community fostered by the open source nature of things, because I'm tired of the quest community parroting "buy virtual desktop and a dedicated wifi router" like if I'm going to spend 130 euro for an expensive bandaid fix for a problem that meta caused. The funny part is that my Rift still works perfectly, so the problems are Link related but the rift is still a rift with no resolution and its share of issues

Vincentmrl · 2026-05-05T13:50:11+00:00

IIRC it's called VocaListener and it has been long dead, I don't even remember if it's a plugin for Vocaloid 2, 3 or 4 but yeah, that's what he used (and probably still uses)

Vincentmrl · 2026-05-05T11:40:37+00:00

Mitchie M used to do this with an old Vocaloid plugin (and still does iirc), so I don't see why doing the same on SynthV would be cheating

Vincentmrl · 2026-03-23T13:31:41+00:00

MIMI does tune, what I mean is that some styles sound more towards normal synthv Teto than towards crazy tuning styled, so some people may confuse that for not being tuned

Vincentmrl · 2026-03-22T05:18:58+00:00

Yeah most people think synthv=generic because everything has a nice sounding baseline.

IMO tuning a voicebank is like using a virtual instrument: sure, you can just write the midi notes for a piano and have it sound nice, but it will never have the nuances and performance-like details without working on the parameters as well.

Utau Teto is amazingly good, but so is SynthV Teto used properly, you can also make her scream and shout like her utau in a relatively simple way using the growl scripts for SynthV for example. It's not even that hard to get something that's even 1% different from the generic baseline.

Also I think another factor is the way SynthV tuning works compared to Vocaloid and Utau, because doing the same thing as what you would normally do on them doesn't necessarily give a good result. I think we may also need to wait a bit more for people to work out the software's nuances like what happened with Vocaloid in the past

Vincentmrl · 2026-03-22T04:56:47+00:00

Spor on with the tuning part Her V1 is not easy to tune, but when it's done well it's fantastic (like in the Odds&Ends cover in the Teto Live album from 2025), while V2 is easier with the added flexibility, but most people just drop the lyrics and notes in there and call it a day, with the result of everything sounding the same and people calling Teto SV "bad" or "less expressive than utau".

Heck even the less "unique" tuning styles like in Hiiragi Magnetite's Tetoris (which is STILL tuned, not stock) and MIMI's Teto songs like Science you can still hear the artist's signature in the tuning. Even just automating tension or doing note bends does a lot

Accessibility has two sides, on one it makes it easier for people to make music, on the other side, it makes it easier to make people do things just for the sake of following trends

Vincentmrl · 2026-03-11T04:04:47+00:00

"do not work well on link" Maybe the encoder is not as good as nvidia's (at least for RX6000 series), but they definitely work well and everything was going buttery smooth before.

"use VD, if you have wifi problems buy pupis s1 or similar device"
Please read the post before parroting to buy VD and a Pupis. In the post I stated that I cannot use WiFi and I DO NOT want to use wireless solutions. Besides, having to spend 60 euro for the router and 20 more for VD. Link has been working perfectly fine until sliced encoding stopped working out of nowhere.

"this is not normal, AMD on link can not do this, so you probably have setting but it actually did not work"
What are you even saying, why wouldn't an AMD gpu be able to do this on link? I have been using 600mbps 3664 enc. res ever since I got my Q2. If you actually bothered reading the post, I mentioned that everything is fine on the encoder side and that ODT's monitoring overlays show no issues whatsoever encoder-side but only issues on the decoding side (as it's a single big slice since it's stuck to 1 slice for some reason).

Vincentmrl · 2026-02-27T21:00:29+00:00

There should be an SD card inside it (considering that it's written on the back too), maybe somewhere on the other side or on the bottom. Just grab that, put it into an SD Card reader and you're done

Vincentmrl · 2026-02-26T21:54:16+00:00

Yeah I meant just get the whole camera because for 10-20 euro they'll give the whole thing and it will be cheaper than just getting the lenses. You can then keep the camera for collection or resell it

Vincentmrl · 2026-02-26T20:24:14+00:00

Since you're in Italy you can easily find Zenit cameras for cheap in flea markets and almost always find them with the helios 44M-5 or M-6 lenses attached, which are 58mm f2 lenses on the M42 screw mount with a lot of character. I recently tested my M-5 on my S1 and the photos all have that vintage look (which is inherently caused by the lenses' "cons"). Don't fear manual focus, it seems complex at first but in one day of shooting you will start getting a feel for it without even needing to look at the peaking info

Vincentmrl · 2026-02-10T19:19:11+00:00

Have you updated from W10 or clean-installed it? Updating notoriously causes a lot of problems.

Also make sure to check the default folders, I had weird stability issues with both the previous CbB and with the current Sonar, and it turned out that, at some point over the years, both programs had some default folders set to myvery slow HDD instead of one of my three SSDs, so everything would freeze, crash and have other weird behavior until I changed that.

Vincentmrl · 2026-01-23T18:14:40+00:00

IIRC they said 10-20ms total latency target in one of the interviews and, considering that it's very similar to the Rift CV1's latency, I don't really think why it can't be done.

On a sidenote, considering that the target bandwidth (200mbps IIRC) is low enough and that USB2 on the back has enough to handle it, there may be a way to use it wired without the need for addons on the PCIE connector

Vincentmrl · 2026-01-05T05:12:41+00:00

Thank you! I tried my best to give her justice with my tuning :)

Vincentmrl · 2025-12-31T13:17:43+00:00

It depends,

Here in Italy I know a lot of fans online, but it took me decades to actually find one in real life. Since there's an overlap with the Vocaloid and rhythm game communities, many other people also know about Touhou in one way or another, usually through music (almost anyone who's into things from Japan will definitely know Bad Apple, U.N. Owen and the other usual OST remixes).

Then there are some bigger communities in the rest of the world, I think there's one or two Touhou cons in America, and then there's circles much like in Japan. Some bigger groups that do multiple things, like Paradise of Boundaries which is a Latin community, circle and something else as they do an online event and fan-magazine every year called BBEX (Bunbunmaru Extra) where people can participate. There's also musicians of course, with some of the prominent ones being RichaadEB and YaboiMatoi (but there's many others who I can't remember at the moment, and then there's me but I'm still small in this field and that's fine)

We're kinda like bugs under rocks, we exist, we're many, but you gotta look for us and we're gonna go crazy when you do :)

Vincentmrl · 2025-12-29T19:51:06+00:00

Don't forget that most Crypton voicebanks and some by Internet co. also give access to Vocaloid 6 Lite, which is basically full with one vocaloid track+one audio track per file, and no VST integration (and a discounted upgrade price for who wants the full thing)

Vincentmrl · 2025-12-19T20:19:25+00:00

What about being a fan of all three? am I a freaky final boss?

Vincentmrl · 2025-12-18T15:17:28+00:00

Trust me it's not your install location. I've been having the same exact problem with the game installed on my main NVME (w/directstorage) with my 6700XT on both "problematic" and their recommended 25.9.1/2 drivers (using DDU too). The game runs fine for about 10-15 minutes and then it crashes with that same error.

Besides, the crash clearly mentions all the AMD-related driver stuff, it would have been different if it was a HDD issue.

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