In celebration of the album Nyan Cat coming out in February via EXIT TUNES (as well as the Nyan Cat animation receiving 50 million views on YouTube), daniwell, the original song creator, has released a video on

The “zeroth” vocafarre event featuring VOCALOID3 was held today at Nico Nico Douga’s live event space, nicofarre, located in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. The event was also streamed live on NicoNicoDouga. Various company representatives discussed their upcoming products and introduced new ones as well, including of course YAMAHA, creator of VOCALOID. The press conference
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In its continuing series of commercials featuring artists such as Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, the Japanese Google Chrome YouTube account has now posted an ad about Google Chrome featuring the whole social network that revolves around Hatsune Miku and VOCALOID, with livetune’s new song Tell Your World playing in the background. The video features
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The official website for Project DIVA has now confirmed that GUMI will indeed appear in the upcoming 3DS rhythm game, Hatsune Miku and Future Stars Project mirai after images of a pre-release copy of this Friday’s Famitsu magazine circulated on the Internet earlier. This makes her the first non-Crypton official VOCALOID to join the SEGA
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YAMAHA has now added Tone Rion, a VOCALOID3 voice bank produced by entertainment bar Dear Stage, to its lineup on its website along with a preliminary package design. A demo song titled “Thousand Regrets” is now available for listening as well, embedded on the webpage as a YouTube video. According to the website, Rion is
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In addition to announcing a VOICEROID+ version of Yuzuki Yukari (where she talks instead of sings), AH-Software has now posted a dizzying array of possible bundle options for both VOCALOID3 and VOICEROID+ versions of her. The base price for the VOCALOID3 version is 11800 JPY, with the VOICEROID+ and VOCALOID3 Editor coming in at 9800
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YAMAHA has posted on their site a list of upcoming VOCALOID3-related releases for the winter season which include pricing and release dates. TONE RION, SeeU, VOCALOID-P data series vol.2, Yuzuki Yukari and CUL are arriving in December, and IA is arriving in January.

The official website for IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES- is now online with character illustrations and information about the upcoming VOCALOID3 sound library based on well-known anime and game song singer Lia. According to a post by Yamaha about upcoming releases, the new software is set to be released on January 27, 2012 in two
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