Yamaha today announced the version 1.0.0 release of their VOCALOID Deactivation Tool, which allows users to deactivate a currently activated piece of VOCALOID software so that the license can be activated on another computer or a different configuration of the same computer, in essence allowing easy transferring of licenses without burning through activations. The tool
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MMDおんだ式ミクバージョンアップ（＆ポニテモデル）公開中 Character models for MikuMikuDance seem to get constantly released, especially for the titular Miku, but one particular release on Christmas Eve of 2012 seemed to have a bit more interesting history behind it. On that day, 3D modeler On_Da released the “On-Da-style Miku” model, but that wasn’t the first time his handiwork had shown
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Japan’s branch of pizza chain Domino’s brought its collaboration with Hatsune Miku to a fevered pitch last weekend by launching a special retail campaign featuring Miku, coinciding with Miku Day. They introduced a new Miku-themed pizza ordering app for iOS, along with a demonstration video featuring CEO of Domino’s Pizza Japan Scott Oelker talking in
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Recently, on VOCALOID forum VocaloidOtaku, several users in the US complained about being unable to start VOCALOID3 Editor due to the software expiring. What seemed to fix the problem for the time being was to either uninstall galaco or disable automatic daylight saving time adjustment in Windows. There is currently no official statement or fix
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Ever since its introduction back in late 2010, the English version of the Hatsune Miku product page on Crypton Future Media’s website had remained largely unchanged, even as recently as February 16 of this year. However, by March 9, Crypton had updated the page with fully rewritten text, including a lengthy section detailing how people
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A panel titled “Miku: The Open-Source Girl Who Conquered the World” was held at SXSW this year, hosted by Alex Leavitt (social media academic researcher), Hiroyuki Itoh (CEO of Crypton Future Media), Kanae Muraki (US/EU marketing for Crypton) and Tara Knight (creator of Mikumentary). SXSW (South-by-Southwest) is an “annual music, film, and interactive conference and
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Volume 10 of the mook VOCALOID wo Tanoshimou came out today, containing information about the upcoming VOCALOID3 sound bank ZOLA. Some people who managed to flip through the pages have posted information about ZOLA on Twitter. Twitter user “You_T_from_BMC” recalled from his hazy memory that ZOLA consists of three males either in their teens or
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PowerFX is going to be holding a design contest for artwork that will be on the cover of their upcoming bilingual English/Japanese VOCALOID3 sound bank, YOHIOloid. According to the official product page, the contest will be held between March 12 and April 15, with winners to be announced on April 22. A photograph of YOHIO,
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While the big event over in Japan for Miku Day (3/9) was Mikupa Wakayama in Knasai (also broadcast on WOWOW), there were also a lot of other events going on, such as VOCALOID Cinema Party, where fans had a chance to watch 4K resolution promo videos. For fans wondering about the upcoming English release of
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As part of Tokyo Polytechnic University’s ongoing activities related to Yamaha’s vocal synthesis technology VOCALOID, the university had recently conducted a study via mobile web surveys aimed at avid music listeners in Japan between the ages of 12 and 39. The survey asked the target demographic various VOCALOID-related questions, such as how they came to
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