phundrak.com/content/en/keine-tashi.md

# Introduction

KEINE Tashi is a character and set of vocal libraries developed for
the shareware [UTAU](http://utau2008.web.fc2.com/), a singing voice
synthesizer. I developed KEINE Tashi over the course of several years,
from 2012 to 2015. Three vocal libraries have been released to the
public, the most used one being his *JPN Power Extend* one. On March
10th, 2017, I announced I would cease any kind of activity related to
UTAU.

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# Character and vocal libraries
Here’s a copy and paste of some old pages describing KEINE Tashi:

## Presentation
<ResponsiveImage
src="https://cdn.phundrak.com/img/UTAU/KEINE_Tashi_1024.webp"
width="1024"
preview="https://cdn.phundrak.com/img/UTAU/KEINE_Tashi_512.webp"
previewWidth="512">
Illustration de KEINE Tashi par Umi
</ResponsiveImage>

-   **Codename:** BSUP01 恵音བཀྲ་ཤིས་ KEINE Tashi
-   **First name:** Tashi (བཀྲ་ཤིས་), Tibetan name meaning “auspicious”
-   **Last name:** Keine (恵音), Japanese name meaning “Blessing
    sound”. It reads as “keine”, although its regular reading should
    be “megumine”.
-   **Model:** BSUP (Bödkay Shetang UTAU Project)
-   **Number:** 01
-   **Gender:** male
-   **Birthday (lore):** June 28th, 1991
-   **Birthday (first release):** October 14th, 2012
-   **Weight:** 154lb / 70kg
-   **Heigh:** 6′0″ / 182cm (very tall for a Tibetan)
-   **Hair color:** black
-   **Eyes color:** brown~black
-   **Appearance:** Tashi wears a modernized Tibetan suit from the
    Amdo Region (Chinese: 安多 Ānduō), colored in blue. He also wears
    some turquoise jeweleries.
-   **Favorite food:** meat momo (Tibetan raviolies)
-   **Character item:** a Tibetan manuscript
-   **Voice and creator:** [Phundrak](https://phundrak.com) (me)
-   **Likes :** to meditate, calligraphy, old books, manuscripts (is
    that a self-insert?)
-   **Dislikes:** selfishness, lies, arrogance
-   **Personality:** Tashi is somebody very calm, sweet. He really
    enjoy old books and manuscripts, and he LOVES meditate! He's never
    hungry, so, he can stay meditating for 2~3 days meditating, just
    like that, until he realizes that he should eat something. And he
    always keep quiet, it's really hard to make him angry.

    But when he is, his anger becomes wrath. Anyone who experienced it
    can attest how complex and difficult it is to calm him down.
    Strangely enough, shortly after being confronted by Tashi, the
    victims of this wrath see their quality of life greatly improve.
    Maybe these people needed to hear some truths they refused to face
    before?

## Vocal libraries
### JPN VCV
-   **Download link:**
    | Extension | Size    | Link                                                                              |
    |-----------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    | 7z        | 25.7MiB | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_VCV.7z)     |
    | tar.xz    | 32.5MiB | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_VCV.tar.xz) |
    | zip       | 38.0MiB | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_VCV.zip)    |
-   **File size:** 60.7MB
-   **Total uncompressed size:** 94.4MB
-   **Number of voice phonemes:** 1264 (253 audio files)
-   **Average frequency:** G#2
-   **Vocal range:** C2~D3
-   **FRQ file presence:** partial
-   **Release date:** October, 14th 2012
-   **Phoneme encoding:** Romaji with hiragana and CV romaji aliases
-   **Supported languages:** Japanese
-   **oto.ini:** Tuned myself
-   **Recommended engines:** TIPS, VS4U

### JPN Extend Power
-   **Download link:**
    | Extension | Size   | Link                                                                                       |
    |-----------|--------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    | 7z        | 1.1Gio | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_Extend_Power.7z)     |
    | tar.xz    | 1.1Gio | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_Extend_Power.tar.xz) |
    | zip       | 1.2Gio | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_Extend_Power.zip)    |
-   **File size:** 114MB
-   **Total uncompressed size:** 155MB
-   **Number of voice phonemes:** 3020 (546 audio files)
-   **Average frequency:** C3
-   **Vocal range:** B1~D4
-   **FRQ file presence:** partial
-   **Release date:** June 28th, 2013
-   **Phoneme encoding:** Romaji (hiragana aliases)
-   **Supported languages:** Japanese
-   **oto.ini:** Tuned myself
-   **Recommended engines:** VS4U, world4utau

### JPN Extend Youth

-   **Download link:**
    | Extension | Size     | Link                                                                                       |
    |-----------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    | 7z        | 237.7Mio | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_Extend_Youth.7z)     |
    | tar.xz    | 243.5Mio | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_Extend_Youth.tar.xz) |
    | zip       | 268.7Mio | [DL](https://cdn.phundrak.com/files/KeineTashi/BSUP01_KEINE_Tashi_JPN_Extend_Youth.zip)    |
-   **File size:** 36.9MB
-   **Total uncompressed size:** 42.0MB
-   **Number of voice phonemes:** 1954 (182 audio files)
-   **Average frequency:** C4
-   **Vocal range:** F#3~A#4
-   **FRQ file presence:** partial
-   **Release date:** June 28th, 2013
-   **Phoneme encoding:** Romaji (hiragana aliases, romaji added with
    the oto.ini update)
-   **Supported languages:** Japanese
-   **oto.ini:** Tuned myself
-   **Recommended engines:** fresamp, VS4U, world4utau

### JPN Extend Native
-   **Status:** abandonned

### TIB CVVC
-   **Status:** abandonned

### ENG
<ResponsiveImage
src="https://cdn.phundrak.com/img/UTAU/KEINE_Tashi_EN_673.webp"
width="673"
preview="https://cdn.phundrak.com/img/UTAU/KEINE_Tashi_EN_246.webp"
previewWidth="300">
Illustration de KEINE Tashi EN
</ResponsiveImage>

-   **Status:** abandonned

# Usage clause and license
KEINE Tashi is released under the [CC BY-SA-NC 4.0
license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), meaning
you are free to:

-   **use:** make use of the vocal libraries in UTAU or any other
    singing vocal synthesizer software.
-   **adapt:** remix, transform, and build upon the material
-   **share:** copy and redistribute the material in any medium or
    format

my work, on the condition of:

-   **Attribution:** You must give appropriate credit, provide a link
    to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so
    in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the
    licensor endorses you or your use.
-   **NonCommercial:** You may not use the material for commercial
    purposes.
-   **ShareAlike:** If you remix, transform, or build upon the
    material, you must distribute your contributions under the same
    license as the original.

Although I cannot add anything to this legal notice, I would also like
if you followed the following rules of thumb regarding this character:
any religious use of this character and its vocal libraries is
forbidden, with the exception of folk music, and Buddhist and Bön
songs. However, due to the current controversy, any song linked to His
Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa is strictly forbidden until said
controversy has been officially resolved. This is also applicable to
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Venerable Shamar Rinpoche, and Tai
Situ Rinpoche. If you have any question or if you are unsure, please
send me an email.