Soon Roko

Sōon Roko ( 騒音ロコ ー Souon Roko) is an Argentine VoiceBank for the UTAU software, owned and voiced by Text_to_Death, released in 2010. He currently supports the Japanese, Spanish and English languages. Specifically Japanese CVVC and VCV, Spanish VCCV and VCCV nJokis. And a special reclist of English along with arpasing and VCCV otos. He is a Furry/Anthropomorphic Dog-Zebra Hybrid.
Sōon Roko has a thick, masculine baritone voice. His lowest note for the Japanese language was F2 and highest was D5. He has a variety of expressions, such as (operatic) falsetto, operatic-like, gentle tones, power tones, and many more (to come)!
== History ==
=== Author Notes ===
Most of this information was grabbed from Sōon Roko VB Timeline (podcast?) video by text_to_death on his youtube channel. If there's any information to correct, please edit it.
"text_to_death" (Creator of Sōon Roko) will be shortened to "TTD".
=== 2009 - 2010 ===
* Inune Toto is considered in TTD's eyes, Roko's previous incarnation. He also had a femur with wings that accompanied him which was named "Fly Chan". The bank was lost many years ago since TTD formatted his computer and he didn't make a backup. Luckily, his friend gave him a DVD that had Inune Toto singing "Melt". Which TTD said it sounded like 2004.
* His first and only voicebank was on October 31st, 2009. Which was never released.
=== 2010 - 2011 ===
* Roko's first voicebank would be a CV released along with a cover of Rip=release on October 26, 2010.
* That cover on the channel "Pitiriax" would be deleted, since it was the same name as a shampoo brand. TTD couldn't recover the Rip=release cover but he found a cover of subspecies.
* His release date would be on October 26th, 2010.
=== 2011 - 2011 ===
* TTD teamed up with a "friend" to make a group of utau voicebanks. In the end, they got into a fight and it became nothing more after that. This came with Roko's second CV bank, Act2.
* This would be recorded on April 9th, 2011, and be released on July 7th, 2011. This bank is long gone but TTD did say he wants to re-oto it and release it again.
=== 2012 - 2014 ===
* At this point, TTD didn't speak to anyone in the fandom. But due to life circumstances, he was able to contact Rumple. The illustrator of Hispanic Vocaloids Bruno and Clara. It was a trade offer in his words "I'll make you an oto, and you draw me Roko." She agreed to this trade offer.
* Rumple was the one who changed things about his design. She put the dog collar on him, the jacket, and the tail. Which later TTD would change into a zebra tail.
* This would come with his first ever VCV, which was mono-pitch and also specified to have a 'Latin' accent. It was recorded on June 20th, 2012, and released on March 23, 2013. The demo was also made by Rumple. 
* Roko voice puppy was planned to be a second tone of the previous VCV. But it was very soft, when TTD put it in utau the difference in tone, timbre, and color was too noticeable. It became its own voicebank. It was never released either, TTD said it was what Toto voice would've been originally. TTD likes to think of it as a Toto VCV. TTD has plans to release it again in the future.
* It was recorded on July 11th, 2012. It hasn't been released yet. 
=== 2014 - 2015 ===
* This was the biggest utau project for TTD so far with Roko mega, it had 7 pitches. They're out of tune and they have a thick accent as TTD likes to say. It was the first Roko bank to get a little bit of attention. But not that much.
* It was recorded on July 7th, 2014 and released May 16th, 2015. 
* TTD attempted to record a V-Kei (Visual Kei) accented tri-pitch voicebank entitled "Trip". It was a CVVC with 3 pitches and he never released it. To quote TTD, "The oto is horrible, I don't have much more to say."
* This was recorded on February 8th, 2015. It was never released. 
* Another mono-pitch CVVC bank was made with a soft tone named "Mollis". TTD also mentioned it has an accent and that was it. He didn't release it either. It was recorded on April 3rd, 2015. It was never released.
* Since the beginning of time, him and Teren worked on Spanish reclists. This was one of many experiments. And also the only Spanish Roko VB that is still alive. This was a mono-pitch Spanish CVVC voicebank. TTD says he hates this voicebank.
* It was recorded on April 29th, 2015. It was never released.
=== 2015 - 2015 ===
* Roko Trash would be the first CVVC that he would release. It was a pitch test for a VB he would record later, which was Existing. It was the first Roko bank recorded with a BGM as well. TTD wasn't very familiar with CVVC otos very well, and I quote "That's why the VB is called Trash, because it has a shitty oto." He originally released it on Soundcloud, but then he made some fixes and released it on Youtube years after its release. 
* Trash was an 8-pitch CVVC voicebank that was recorded on October 13th, 2015. The first release date on Soundcloud is unknown but the second release was on September 12th, 2016.
* Ossobusco was a joke tri-pitched CVVC voicebank which was made in retaliation to a guy who made fun of Roko's voice. Whom of which poorly imitated his voicebank. TTD has no idea why he wanted to insult him. He released it and then deleted it on Soundcloud. He doesn't know why, maybe he needed Space. It's in Trash 1.5 as an extra expression.
* Ossobuco was recorded on December 21st, 2015. The first release date is not known and Trash 1.5's release is unknown as well.
=== 2016 - 2017 ===
* Existing was the first multi-pitch VCV recorded with BGM. Specifically 8 pitches. It has 2 extra soft CVVC pitches. It was the first Roko bank that got a good amount of attention. The design by Drunkenfist is the original idea TTD had for Roko. The zebra hoodie, the jeans, the belts, the facial expression. This was far from his final design.
* Existing was recorded on January 26th, 2016, and released on September 11th, 2016.
* Oblivion was the first VB he did with a pretty deep voice. It was entitled Oblivion because of that reason. Because he thought it would be ignored for its deep voice. But it would get some good reception in the end. He says he loves Oblivion. 
* Oblivion has 5 pitches and 4 appends. The first append being Dark which has 2 appends, low strong which was mono-pitch, Falsetto which was mono-pitch, and Classical falsetto which would be a mono-pitch CVVC. Oblivion was recorded on February 20th, 2016, and released on September 11th, 2016.
* This is what TTD describes as "the end of my sanity". The first Spanish Roko VCCV, Roko Real. He based the reclist on English VCCV by Cz. Which would backfire, since it made stress in Roko's pronunciation since it had so many extras. Most of the reason is from trying to support as many dialects of Spanish as possible and also it is a very long reclist. Though, he did this so it was easy to use.
* The demo he made for this had a negative reception from some people because of his Argentine accent. To which he described his reaction as being like "Of course I say sh, I'm Argentine.". Some people even suggested he fake his accent, but he denied the offer saying that he wasn't the problem. It was others because they were xenophobic.
* Real has 6 pitches. It was recorded on June 1st, 2016, and released on January 19th, 2017.
* In between the development of Real, Real_Suave (Smooth real) was a mono-pitch Spanish bank he never released. It's called that because it is Real, but smooth. It doesn't have an oto, so TTD made one quickly for the VB timeline video. It was recorded on September 5th, 2016. It was never released.
* Roko_Citric was a voicebank that has never seen the light of day, and that nobody knew. For context, TTD wanted to make a multi-expression CVVC VB. Each expression was going to be named after a type of citrus name. TTD only recorded the core VB, he calls it Mandarina (Tangerine) and a powerful tone which was Lime. He kept this one though since he liked it, it's currently in Roko Eclipse as "Power (CVVC)".
* Mandarina is a tri-pitch VB and Lime is a power mono-pitch. It was recorded on August 20th, 2016. Mandarina was never released and along with Lime, at least not under the name Lime.
* Fun fact: TTD was apparently very angry when he recorded the Lime voicebank.
* If you remember Trip 1, here's Trip 2. This is another V Kei CVVC voicebank that TTD didn't finish and didn't configure either.
* It was tri-pitched and recorded on August 20th, 2016. It was never released.
* Vapor is the first soft multi-pitch VCV for Roko. This VB is special in Roko's history because TTD had to get it out because Roko's birthday was coming up. "Boom, pow, bang. Ready and published" as he says.
* Vapor is a quad-pitched soft VCV voicebank. It was recorded on October 19th, 2016, and released 7 days later, on October 26th, 2016.
* Eucalyptus is a VCV Japanese mono-pitch whisper VB. TTD did it as an experiment to record a soft VB, but he didn't record the other tones so it just remained mono-pitch. It is in Roko’s Full Moon right now.
* It was recorded on November 14th, 2016. It was never released.
* Le Petite Erreur (The Small Error) was TTD's first Kire attempt. In the higher notes, it has a V Kei feeling. TTD says it's a failed kire, he feels like it doesn't have enough power in the highs or enough mellowness in the lows. He says the demo was great, rrrratatata.
* Le Petite Erreur was a quad-pitch kire VCV. It was recorded on February 26th 2017 and March 19th 2017.
* Trip 3 was the third attempt by TTD of a V Kei accented voicebank. This was mono-pitch however, it doesn't even have an oto.
* It was recorded on April 11th, 2017. And never released.
This is what TTD considers a new era in TTD's life. The first VCCV Spanish nJokis (Ñoquis, Spanish for gnnochi) voicebank that Roko would get.
* When he first worked on the VCCV list, the idea was to be as faithful to what Cz said, also to make the VB easy to use. But there were too many recordings and people just did plug-and-play. TTD decided he was going to make the bank 100% for himself. If it was unbearable for others, he wouldn't care. He tried to get as little vocal stress as possible and the best out of the least amount of recordings possible. TTD was very happy with nJokis. He loves the VB and the list.
* Leal is a 5-pitched VCCV nJokis Spanish voicebank. It was recorded on August 26th, 2017 and released on November 9th, 2017.
It's time to talk about God. /ref
* Full moon was a complete V Kei VB. It may be a bit exaggerated in the accent. This VB changed TTD's life, not only because of the tone of voice but because of the decision to make Roko a furry. Full Moon marked a before and after in what is the existence of Roko. TTD doesn't go much deeper there, he feels like this decision brought good things and the worst suffering in his existence.
* Full moon is a V Kei accented VCV with 7 main pitches. And 4 soft VCV pitches. It was released on September 15th, 2017, and released on October 26th, 2017.
=== 2018 - 2020 ===
* Going back to CVVC, Sunset, and Mist were two experimental soft and whisper VBs that TTD didn't plan to release. But they sounded so nice that TTD released them. Ramus was a fan of the VBs and even named them Sunset and Mist. TTD released the voicebanks because of him. 
* Sunset has 5 pitches and Mist is tri-pitched, they're both CVVC. They were recorded on January 25th, 2018, and released on May 13th, 2019.
* Roko Boreal was a VB that took TTD years to release. It is a Spanish VCCV quad-pitched nJokis VB that has a somewhat melancholy tone. It was meant to be an append for his first VCCV but it sounded like his natural, speaking voice.
* It was recorded on February 5th, 2018, and released on September 23rd, 2019.
* This VB doesn't have a name since it was an experiment (In the Roko timeline video, it's referred to Spanglish). It is the first Roko English VCCV that he tried to record with a shortened version of Cz list that he "obviously mutilated". It has a very thick accent and it is horrible as he describes. 
* It was recorded on February 12th, 2018. It was never released.
* TTD has attempted to record VCCV and arpasing in the past. However, they were both hard to record for different reasons. VCCV because it was so long and arpasing because the consonant clusters were difficult to pronounce.
* Since they were difficult to record, TTD decided to make his own English reclist which would later become ArpaCVVCVCCsing.
* It was a disaster in his own words. He even forgot how it's supposed to work. Luckily for each pitch, he made 3 different otos. One with ArpaCVVCVCCsing oto, VCCV oto, and arpasing oto.
* Roko Maze is an ArpaCVVCVCCsing (Custom reclist by TTD) with 5 pitches, along with arpasing and VCCV alias in case the user wants to use those. It was recorded on September 20th, 2018, and released on October 26h, 2018.
* Le Glossee Erreur (The Big Error) is another V Kei-styled voicebank which TTD considers not very well done either. He still likes it, it has a deeper tone of voice. TTD said "It's like Le Petite Erreur, but fat. Like Gumi power and Gumi power fat."
* Le Glossee Erreur is a VCV quad-pitch V Kei accented voicebank (TTD says "4 pitches but idk"). It was recorded on September 13th, 2018 and released on June 18th, 2020.
* Eclipse is a multi-pitch expression voicebank, released for Roko's 10th anniversary. Fly Chan makes an appearance again! First time in 11 years in his official eclipse art and in the release video for Eclipse. 
* Eclipse is a big voicebank. See voicebank information. This voicebank was recorded on December 23rd, 2018, and released on October 26th, 2020.
* Not so Fun Fact: This voicebank was delayed because of depression. This is probably the same reason why Le Glossee Erreur was delayed for so long as well.
* Opal was a VCV multi-expression. It was an attempt at fantasy folk music, kaoling wave music to be specific. It doesn't have an oto, it can't be oto'd either because it has weird names. TTD just didn't do it. 
* Opal is a quad-pitch at its core. It has 3 appends. Hard was a tri-pitch, falsetto was a bi-pitch, and cold was a mono-pitch. It was recorded on July 31st, 2019. It was never released either.
* Dusk is a dark quad-pitch CVVC bank that was originally meant to be a part of Sunset and Mist. But it didn't have an oto, so it was integrated with Hypermoon.
* Dusk was recorded on August 21st, 2019, and released with Hypermoon on October 26th, 2022.
* Floreal, Museal, and Craneal (Floral, museum, and carinal respectively) are all Spanish VCCV nJokis voicebanks that are yet to be released. TTD is unsure if he will ever record more Spanish banks after these are released.
* Floreal is meant to be a soft 5 pitch, Museal is meant to be a quad-pitch whisper, and Craneal is meant to be a bi-pitch belting (Mixed voice to be specific) voicebank. Floreal and Museal were recorded on February 21st, 2020, while Craneal was recorded on February 29th, 2020. None of these have been released yet.
=== 2022 - Current ===
* Hypermoon is the latest Japanese voicebank. This voicebank was meant to capture TTD's current voice since the last time he recorded a voice bank was 2 years ago.
* This bank changed a lot of what we know of Roko, it changed almost everything. Some of his design, his information, and also keeping him permanently a furry. (For context, TTD has stated that he is no longer interested in his human design and he's more happy with his furry design)
* Hypermoon is a big voicebank. See voicebank information. It was never specified when the recording process was done, but this bank was released on October 26th, 2022.
* Fun fact: It has a 21:10 demo from various people who volunteered to make covers of this VB for a demo. TTD let so many people in because he didn't even expect not even half of them to get their covers in, but everyone got their covers in before the deadline.
== Concept ==
Roko's species are a Mixture of Zebra and Dog (Great Dane and Husky specifically).
He is a young bad-tempered man, clumsy and quite rude. Despite his personality, he may well become the best friend you ever had. His main values are his loyalty and trust in others. For that reason it is very difficult he could forgive somebody for having betrayed him.
Roko's outfit can variate, but he actually seems to wear more constantly a white shirt with Zebra stripes (and no sleeves), blue long jeans with black belts, a pair of brown shoes with white laces, a dog collar, a grey piercing in one of his ears and a chain bracelete on his wrist. He also carries a fanny pack.
=== Etymology ===
* Sōon (騒音) - noise.
* Roko - Based on Rocco/Roco, a common name for domestic dogs.
=== Appearance ===
*Hair Colour - Blue
*Fur Colour - Blue, White and Black Zebra Stripes
*Eye Colour - Red with Spirials
*Outfit - He has several; but mostly a Black Tanktop, Blue Jeans and Browns Shoes
=== Relations ===
* Ohne Kuno - Close Friends
* Ongaku Senritsu - Friends
* Clariss - Friends
== Voicebank Information ==
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== Terms of Use ==
* You CAN make art of him
* You CAN make 18+ content of him
* You CAN make covers with him IF you credit Text to Death
* You CAN make originals with him IF you credit Text to Death
* You CAN'T use his vocals to make a new character
* You CAN'T feature him in songs that are offensive
* You CAN'T use his voicebanks in anyway that breaks the rules enforced by Ameya/Ayame-P for UTAU
* You CAN'T redistribute his voicebanks
* You CAN'T claim this character and voicebanks as your own
* You CAN'T use this character in a harmful and distasteful way.
* You CAN'T make a derivative from his voicebanks.
* You CAN use him or his voicebanks for commercial use, Permission required.
== Gallery ==
File:Roko Hypermoon.png|Roko Hypermoon by ryouichi
File:Roko 3A by utakoloid.png|Soon Roko 3A by utakoloid
File:Roko human mmd model by Andrezito221.png|Human MMD model by Andrezito221
== External Links ==
TTD Synth (Website Soon Roko can be downloaded on)
text_to_death's youtube channel
MMD model download
== Reference ==
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