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BSUP01 Keine Tashi

Introduction

KEINE Tashi is a character and set of vocal libraries developed for the shareware UTAU, 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.

Id like to also announce that from now on I am dropping my previous UTAU projects other than covers and wont develop any new UTAU library

— Pundrak (@Phundrak) March 10, 2017

Character and vocal libraries

Heres a copy and paste of some old pages describing KEINE Tashi:

Presentation

Illustration de KEINE Tashi par Umi
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
154 lb / 70 kg
Heigh
60″ / 182 cm (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 (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 enjoys 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 keeps 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 25.7 MiB DL
tar.xz 32.5 MiB DL
zip 38.0 MiB DL
File size
60.7 MB
Total uncompressed size
94.4 MB
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
tar.xz 1.1Gio DL
zip 1.2Gio DL
File size
114 MB
Total uncompressed size
155 MB
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
tar.xz 243.5Mio DL
zip 268.7Mio DL
File size
36.9 MB
Total uncompressed size
42.0 MB
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
Illustration de KEINE Tashi EN
Status
abandonned

Usage clause and license

KEINE Tashi is released under the CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 license, 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, except for 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 email me.