According to a post on the PIAPRO blog, Crypton Future Media has now made available the package artwork of the six VOCALOID software programs they have released to date through the Creative Commons Attribute-NonCommerical 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Previously, the name and the character design of each of the VOCALOID software packages were
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The well-known VOCALOID panel series at Anime Expo entitled Mirai no Neiro – The Sound of the Future has now announced the first guest for the Anime Expo 2013 panel — t.Komine, otherwise known as UtataP. His Project Diva desu. song was played at the Kanshasai and Mikunopolis concerts, and the recent Paranoia-inspired song Kochira,
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The official Mikupa website has now added information about Mikupa concerts to be held early February in Sapporo. There will be a total of four showings held at the Sapporo Shimin Hall over the weekend — a daytime and an evening showing for both February 9 and February 10. Touted as a compilation of two
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A recent revamp of the VOCALOID STORE has added physical disc versions of several software offerings to the English and Chinese front ends of the store. As of now, customers who order physical disc versions of the software will be able to have it shipped internationally using EMS. Even though the price listing itself states
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Official recordings of two VOCALOID events at the recent NekoCon 15 has now been posted on YouTube. The first video, posted about two weeks ago, is of the VOCALOID Producers Panel, where Tempo-P and EmpathP gave an overview on how music can be created with the software. It also featured a sneak peek of Avanna
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The official website for the GUMI-themed rhythm game Megpoid the Music# was recently updated with a release date and details on the limited edition version of the game. The game is expected to hit shelves on March 28, 2013 and the limited edition comes with two figures — a petanko mini figure and a puchikko
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Although this year’s Anime Festival Asia did not feature a return of the Mikupa concert series, it still had many things for the VOCALOID fans amongst its attendees — cosplay, merchandise, talk shows and DJ performances. While it would be pretty much impossible to cover everything, here’s a sampling of VOCALOID-related happenings at Anime Festival
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It appears that the website Tales @ Nihongo de ok has again leekedleaked a few tidbits about an upcoming article in Famitsu, this time about the latest Project DIVA game’s PlayStation 3 version, Project DIVA F. According to the writeup, the title will have a capital “F” instead of a lower-case “f”, and six new
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A new initiative titled “VOCALOID Trans-Pacific Project” (not to be confused with the more heinouscontroversial Trans-Pacific Partnership) was unveiled at DC Expo a few days ago. DC Expo (short for Digital Content Expo) is “an international event intended to shape the future of [the digital content] industry five or ten years into the future as
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YAMAHA has released both VY2V3 and VocaListener yesterday, and both are available on the VOCALOID STORE. VY2V3 is available in a 9800 JPY standard package, a 17800 JPY Starter Pack and a 9800 JPY download version on the Japanese store. VocaListener is a plugin for the VOCALOID3 Editor and thus there’s only a download version
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