OpenUtau
OpenUtau is a free, open-source editor made for the UTAU community.

Getting started


It is strongly recommended that you read these Github wiki pages before using the software.
- Getting-Started
- Resamplers
- Phonemizers
- FAQ
How to contribute
Tried OpenUtau and not satisfied? Don't just walk away! You can help:
- Report issues on our Discord server or Github.
- Suggest features on Discord or Github.
- Add or update translations for your language on Crowdin.
Know how to code? Got an idea for an improvement? Don't keep it to yourself!
- Contribute fixes via pull requests.
- Check out the development roadmap on Trello and discuss it on Discord.
Plugin development
Want to contribute plugins to help other users? Check out our API documentation:
- Editing Macros API Document
- Phonemizers API Document
Main features
Navigate the interface naturally and fluently using the mouse and scroll wheel. Keyboard shortcuts are also available.

Easily create songs and covers using the feature-rich MIDI editor.

Create expressive vibratos with the easy-to-use vibrato editor.

Pre-rendering and built-in resamplers let you quickly preview your work.

See the Getting-Started Wiki page for more!
All features
- Modern user experience.
- Easy navigation using the mouse and keyboard.
- Feature-rich MIDI editor.
- Support for importing VSQX (Vocaloid 4) tracks.
- Selective backward compatibility with UTAU.
- OpenUtau aims to solve problems with fewer steps. It is not designed to replicate UTAU features exactly.
- Extensible real-time phonetic editing.
- Includes phonemizers for different phonetic systems (VCV, CVVC, Arpasing, etc.) in many different languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and more).
- Expressions replace the standard UTAU "flags" for tuning.
- The built-in WORLDLINE-R resampler supports curve tuning, similar to many vocal synth editors.
- Internationalisation, including UI translation and file system encoding support.
- Unlike UTAU, there is no need to change your system locale to use OpenUtau.
- Smooth preview/rendering experience.
- Pre-rendering allows OpenUtau to render vocals before playback, saving time during editing and tuning.
- Supports ENUNU AI singers. See the ENUNU wiki page for more info.
- Easy-to-use plugin system.
- Versatile resampling engine interface.
- Compatible with most UTAU resamplers.
- Runs on Windows (32/64 bit), macOS, and Linux.
What it doesn't do
- While OpenUtau can do very minimal mixing, it will not replace your digital audio workstation of choice.
- OpenUtau does not aim for Vocaloid compatibility, except for some limited features.