The official product page for INTERNET’s VOCALOID3 update to Gackpoid is now up, indicating a release date of July 13, 2012. The release comes in three flavors — NATIVE (an update to the original VOCALOID2 Gackpoid sound bank), POWER and WHISPER, and customers can also purchase a COMPLETE pack that includes all three sound banks.
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The full 3+ minute version of the first promotional video for VOCALOID CHINA PROJECT is now viewable from the official website. The animated video tells the story of how Luo Tianyi begins her voyage, although no dialogue audio is present. An intermission features a short singing clip utilizing the Chinese VOCALOID sound bank and the
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The VOCALO.ID team has now released online for free their second compilation album of VOCALOID songs, using various VOCALOID2 sound banks. The 17 song album includes songs from Miku, Rin, Luka and GUMI in various different languages created by 17 producers/production teams all over Indonesia, of which REDSHiFT likely being the most well-known. According to
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VOCALOID production group Vocalekt Visions released their new album titled Vocalekt Visions Vocaloid Vacation (V4) at their FanimeCon event as well as digitally through CDBaby (and thus it is available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, etc. as well). The album contains thirteen songs, including variations of the four songs on their previous mini-album, Tuned in the
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According to a post on Facebook, Crypton Future Media’s social networking web app MIKUBOOK has reached a stage where users have collectively made over one million “faves”. In celebration, a link visible to logged-in users drops in some fanfare before proceeding to a ranking of the top 20 songs as of the 1 million fave
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According to a post on the official Hatsune Miku Facebook page, footage of the MIKUNOPOLIS concert held at Anime Expo in 2011 will be broadcast on NHK World Premium starting at 12:15 AM Japan time on May 20th. NHK World Premium is a Japanese channel that is carried by many operators overseas and therefore can
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CreoFUGA, a website for music contests, is hosting a contest for original GUMI (V2 or V3) songs in collaboration with INTERNET Co., Ltd. and NAMCO Bandai. Winning entries would be used in a video game NAMCO Bandai is working on, although details about the game will not be publicly announced until late June. Participants would
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VOCALOID CHINA PROJECT has now added a 30 second preview of its fully-animated promotional video, featuring Luo Tianyi in a slightly different costume from her standard design. Production was handled by Seven Stone Studio and it will be shown on May 13 at CF03 according to a post on the animation studio’s website. The post
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Today, SEGA, Crypton Future Media and SONY unveiled two special PlayStation Vita bundles for the upcoming PSV version of NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA. The official website gives an overview of the specs and pricing. The limited edition bundles includes a special Miku-decor Vita in addition to the game itself. The Vita will have a
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PIAPRO has now started a new contest in collaboration with Good Smile Company to design an outfit for the 2013 edition of the Snow Miku Nendoroid. The outfit needs to invoke a sense of snow and ice and be based on a motif of candy sweets fitting Sapporo, such as white chocolate, marshmallows, gummi candies,
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