Forgotten Friday #76 - 幸音ベニ / Sachine Beni

I saw this name, but I couldn't tell if it was "beni" or "peni". I was leaning towards making a Bazinga! joke. Sadly, it is Benny, not Penny.

Forgotten Friday #76 - 幸音ベニ / Sachine Beni

I read the Google Translation of the readme, and it said that you need to state that Miaow owns Beni. So, when it comes to vocal synths, I don't really think you need to credit the person who made them as long as you credit the vocal itself. Like, you say "This is Kasane Teto" as if Teto was a real person. If you Google Kasane Teto, you will see who owns her and all of that jazz.

For things like OCs, I do agree that if you use them, you should credit the person who made them. Which sounds weirdly hypocritical unless you have the hard line stance that UTAUs are people and OCs aren't.

I'm not doing the best today.

Who is Beni Sachine?

official icon packaged with bank

Do UTAU's age? Are they frozen in time? Well, when you say they were born in 1994, then they'll still be born in 1994 ten years later. 

I was looking at her bio and clicked on a link that took me to Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. I was instantly confused, because the picture seriously looked like pasta suspended in aspic. Reading the recipe, there is no gelatin anywhere in sight, and it was just a really unflattering picture.

Her bio isn't very well filled out. She's bad at judging fish. What does that mean? Out here in the countryside, there's soil judging and meat judging. So, if she's bad at finding flaws in fish, okay. But it just hits weird when you're not doing the best. Like, she walks up to a fish who is wearing a top hat, and she hates it, but she thinks "This fish is very obnoxious in his flaunting of wealth." I mean, the fish is wearing a monocle and a fake mustache. What other conclusion could you come to while the fish sips from a martini glass. It's just water, fancy fish! Stop trying to be fancy!

How is Sachine Beni's bank?

So, Beni has one bank, but she has a trial version of that bank for some reason. They were uploaded only a few days apart with the trial going first. Looking at the text files included with the bank, I think that Miaow was intending to sell the bank for money... But probably pretended that never happened and uploaded the real bank after people were critical of the situation. But, I don't know. I could be totally wrong on that.

Opening the bank in UTAU caused errors to happen, along with one that said "invalid picture". What does it all mean?!

I believe that Miaow wanted to start a series of UTAUs that were based off of pop idols. I think if I never read the text files in the bank, I wouldn't have any expectations and I'd absolutely adore this bank. But, with such big ambitions, I'm more drawn to being like "but, like, it's not all she hoped for". The recordings are very quiet, which means that they have some noise from being amplified. The OTOs aren't very good, and the microphone quality tends to be tinny. But, given all that, the voice provider (who is credited as Tiffany in the bank itself) really gives it her all and records a consistent bank. 

Where can I download Beni Sachine?

The official blog post for her download link is here. I usually would be pretty jazzed, but last week's article was such an awesome surprise with the voice that resulted and I feel dizzy and it's getting hard to type well. Words that usually don't need to be erased and rewritten are being erased and rewritten multiple times. Should I eat something? Should I go to bed? Yes.