To be quite honest, I'm probably not the best person ever when it comes to making VCCV USTs because I'm lazy and don't do most of the transitions that make the UST sound smoother, but my USTs don't sound bad either. For English songs I mostly make my own USTs.

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Once again, CZ has a tutorial on USTing, you can find here: https://youtu.be/uBvv5uEVF_0

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Personally, I hardly ever use the flag editor. What happens a lot of times is that there will be a whole bunch of notes sitting next to each other of the same length that need the same velocity, and so I'll just select them all, open up note properties, then type in what the consonant velocity should be. I think it's a bit faster than the flag editor because it takes time to drag the slider for each note in the velocity graph.

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Also, instead of dragging notes back to create a rest then changing the rest to what the consonant should be, I split the note (cntrl+shift drag cursor), which maintains the note's velocity (don't have to reopen flag editor to change the velocities again), and prevents any modulation (don't have to open note properties and set modulation to 0). Of course when you finish the UST it's a good idea to set mod to 0 over the whole thing anyhow just in case.

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If there's an ending to a note with a long rest after it (like A-, nt-,any ending alias), because these tend to loop silence after the sound, I don't find it's a good idea to change the entire rest into the end sound. Just change a small portion of it, because sometime the "silence" that loops isn't all that silent.

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Speaking of loops, I find most voicebanks' vowels don't loop all that well (mine included), so I always use the e flag which tells the resampler to stretch the sound instead of looping it. This is mostly relevant to long drawn out note.

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I tend to skip doing the thing where if there's a CC ending, people always put a VC before it to transition into it. So if you have the word "won't", some people will do wO-On-nt. I'll only do wO-nt. Make's it easier to tune. Additionally if something is a needs a CC before the CV, sometimes I won't actually use the CC, I'll just do the CV, and rely on the previous sound to handle the extra C. So in the phrase "shoe string," some people would do sho-o st-str-r1-1ng, I sometimes just do sho-o st-r1-1ng. That doesn't always work, but basically the less chopped up your notes are the easier it will be to tune.

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I don't really have any important revelations to share about tuning. I am probably fairly mediocre at tuning, so all I can say is good luck.

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