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Lance_Vader's Utwig voicepack FINALLY RELEASED! Now you can throw away that stupid whiny voice and listen to how the Utwig should really sound!!!
Professional voice acting, hard-worked postprocessing.

Lance_Vader's Complete Utwig Voicepack (http://www.mediafire.com/?abzvgdxnemo)

Yee-haaaw!

INTERESTING FRAGMENTS:
Angry Utwig:
- utwig029.ogg (Comical Hopping Mad Utwig)
- utwig013.ogg
- utwig017.ogg
- utwig025.ogg

Depressed Utwig:
- utwig033.ogg: 44 sec-52 sec ("As it [the Ultron] struck the ground [...] incapacitated all")
- utwig022.ogg
- utwig030.ogg

Other:
- utwig032.ogg: 50 sec-1 min 12 sec (Prophetic Utwig)
- utwig037.ogg and utwig038.ogg (Painful sight of the Ultron's husk)
- utwig041.ogg and utwig042.ogg (Getting the Ultron back)
- utwig044.ogg and utwig051.ogg: 32 sec-end (High casualties)
- utwig063.ogg and utwig065.ogg (obsequious Utwig creating a Great Mask)
- utwig075.ogg (Credits, the second loss of the Ultron)

You can download independently from SaveFile some of the "highlights":
utwig075.mp3 (http://www.savefile.com/files/845070)
utwig029.mp3 (http://www.savefile.com/files/845079)
utwig032.mp3 (http://www.savefile.com/files/845088)
utwig065.mp3 (http://www.savefile.com/files/845096)

Effects used:
An equalizer to amplify the higher frequencies (>1000Hz, in two "hills" with 2500Hz and 12500Hz as their peak)
Lower pitch to 87% of its initial value
Ring modulation with 18Hz and 31% wetness (triangle waveform); LFO frequency 0.35 Hz, LFO waveform exponential upwards, LFO to 50% frequency and 70% depth.

Anybody actually interested? I saw much more people than this in the Lance_Vader's Utwig voicepack (http://uqm.stack.nl/forum/index.php?topic=3681.0) thread.
What are your opinions?

I have lots of opinions and none of them are very complimentary towards you.

What happened to "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"?

Flaming people is both a form of artistic expression and high quality entertainment.

Just tell them. It's better than nothing.

If it's done well and for good reason. Just saying "I don't like you" in a backhand way doesn't seem very artistic to me,  Mr Ugly. Ooh, see how artistic I am?

here's a few

- you shouldn't expect to get a reply on an online on the same day/couple days you post
- you shouldn't make extra threads about the same thing
- you shouldn't have me waste my time telling you opinions you won't do anything useful with :P

The voice acting was alright, but the voice was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to deep.

Going by the samples, it sounds very high calibre. I'm unsure as to whether using such a deep voice is best for the Utwig, but I would probably use it were it not for the fact that I never play Star Control's main game with the voice acting on.

What a relief! I thought you were going to start a rant about my obsession with the Utwig voice!

That's true, but my obsession with the Utwig voice was driving me very impatient; also, I had some stupid reluctances about continuing the older thread.

Anyway, I solemnly promise here and now that I will never ever ramble about the Utwig voice again! I've started to actually like the original voice in fact...

You don't have to tell your opinions if you don't want to. Also, telling your opinion, even if I wasn't going to heed it, shows me that at least somebody cared to download the add-on.

The raw voice of the voice actor, or the voice after reducing its pitch to 87%? If it's the latter, I can easily make an alternate version. For comparison, here's a sample of the raw utwig062.ogg (in mp3 format): utwig062.mp3 (http://www.savefile.com/files/846050)

This sounds great, but...at the risk of sounding like a complete and total Thraddash...how do I use it?

Hi, I think some of you guys are mean.

Anyway Valaggar, some constructive critcism for you:

I only listed to a couple of your smaller files, but the voice sounds okay. However the production doesn't sound too flash. Its a bit crackly or something. I dont think i'd ever replace the original, but if i did i'd want the crackliness to go away.

That mp3 was alright, his natural voice works, but I guess you made it too deep

Another thing I noticed, he sounds very normal. Not sad, or withdrawn, or forlorn or anythin, which he prolly should, since hes Utwig.

See The Ur-Quan Masters Technical FAQ (http://uqm.stack.nl/wiki/The_Ur-Quan_Masters_Technical_FAQ#How_do_I_use_add-on_packages.3F).
(You're right about the Thraddash, I feared the same thing.)

Good, I won't shifting the pitch anymore. A new version will soon be posted.

This should only be a problem before getting the Ultron back; if this annoys you, you can use the "Happy-After-Ultron" version.

You mean the buzzing which appears from time to time? I think it's the result of reducing the pitch, it goes away if I don't do that.
Or perhaps you are referring to the ring modulation? If it doesn't sound good, it means that I should try another waveform.
Or maybe it's because of the equalizer. It doesn't sound good without pitch shifting anyway.

New variant follows:
Click me! (http://www.mediafire.com/?abzvgdxnemo)

Sounds really good to me. Well done!

I did come across one issue, though: After the captain says "Hmm, sounds like things were going pretty well. So what happened?", the voice and the text no longer sync up. Half way through the response, the voice the voice loops back into an earlier part of the conversation.

Otherwise, I really like this and think it's a nice improvement.

Soo... we'll call it Version 0.1.0.  If that's my fault, Valaggar, just e-mail me, and I will re-do it.
Can you tell us which one it was, or what it started with?

Yes... this is bug 999: the Utwig can't use speech files with more than 4,320,000 samples. To circumvent this, I've reduced the sample rate where it was needed, but utwig033.ogg was modified afterwards by me (I had to introduce some missing lines) and probably I've messed the sample rate. I'll be fixing this in no time - the problem is in the UQM code, the speech file has no problem.

EDIT: Fixed. (http://www.mediafire.com/?abzvgdxnemo)

Does the page usually load slowly, or is it having issues?

(not an insult or anything, I'd just like to know if I sould wait for it to load or not)

EDIT: nevermind... ;>.>

bjwaymods.net is temporarily down.

I hate the original Utwig voice, too, by the way.  It's not just you, Vallager.  And like Shiver, I usually turn the voices off anyway.  When I played the PC version, for some reason we didn't have sound on our computer.  I imagined the voices as much better than they actually were, and thank goodness for that.  The dialogue is a lot funnier when you read it yourself.

Well, let's just shut up with these complaints about voices. Before meep-eep locks this thread.
It seems that they annoy a lot of people, and anyway we can't get any good outcome by complaining.

EDIT: Bjwaymods.net is down for too long. I'll re-upload the voicepack in another place and try to fix that annoying clip-like beeping that occurs in some places.

I'm sorry for cross-posting, but I just want to announce you that I'm simply exasperated by the production defects of this voicepack and have renounced working at it.
And I don't hate the original voice anymore (probably as a result of the aforementioned exasperation).
Thread locked.

EDIT: Re-uploaded with a different effect set and no defects here (http://www.mediafire.com/?abzvgdxnemo).
Thread unlocked.