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 BEFORE YOU START This guide will only teach you how to correct pronunciation, there aren't really any concrete rules on pitch or whatever else tuning you'll be using this for. Hatsune Miku NT is a Japanese voice library that doesn't have any English capabilities whatsoever and this is a pretty involved process since you'll have to fully tune your main vocals in two separate engines, but I think the end result is definitely worth it. If you're down with all that, let's get started.

 STEP 1. TUNE EVERYTHING This section is going to be unnecessarily detailed and probably slightly intimidating but bear with me. Piapro Studio NT has certain quirks and oddities that I make sure to iron out before I do anything else, so below I'll provide a list of pronunciation tips to make Hatsune Miku NT sound slightly less stilted, of course these aren't the end all be all of natural pronunciation and I am also NOT a native 日本語 speaker, but I hope these help regardless. CONSONANTS SUCH AS D, B AND G By default, Piapro Studio NT will try to space every consonant out to be relatively the same length, this can lead to some issues with sounds being awkwardly drawn out or the attack sounding odd.  For example: The consonants at the start of these notes are going to be unnecessarily loud and unnatural sounding, D and B specifically don't usually have a visible "pop" at the start of the waveform.  In order to fix this, we'll have to do the following: For "d...