3 Different ways to do glottal stops in VOCALOID (and other programs)

 A glottal stop (to oversimplify it) is when there's a small gap of silence between two vowels, like how british people say "bottle", for example. (a glottal stop can also occur between consonants but for the purposes of this example, I'll just be covering vowels)

1. Using a phoneme

Putting a [Sil], [Asp] or [?] Phoneme in between two vowels will make an okay-sounding glottal stop, this is the easiest method. For certain voicebanks, [Asp] will actually draw pitch towards the note so you can move it down a bit to sound more realistic.

Sadly this won't really work properly in VOCALOID2 since Sil, Asp and ? skip the note in front of it if there's not enough space between them.

2. The spiky thing

Drawing a dip all the way down to the bottom of the pitch parameter and then zooming in and adding spikes can result in a very thick sounding glottal stop effect.


Make sure you switch to the PBS parameter and turn it all the way up but only on the part with the dip.


It'll end up sounding something like this, I don't *love* this method simply bc it doesn't work at high ranges and it can be a bit too loud for me sometimes.


3. The V

Drawing a little V in both PIT and DYN (basically the exact same way) will result in a consistently clean sounding glottal stop, it won't have any vocal fry effect to it but I don't think it needs it. This is the method I use the most.


 Any PBS past 4 or 5 should be fine, it doesn't have to be super deep.


An example .vsqx file containing all of these glottal stop methods can be found here

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