Internet Co. released two Gumi Extend demos. Also, June 26 will mark the second anniversary of Gumi’s original release, and Internet is organising a special event to celebrate this. More info and videos after the break.
The record label owned by Crypton Future Media, KarenT, will now sell albums featuring AHS Vocaloids, except Iroha since she’s jointly owned by Sanrio. The first three albums/singles will be “Platinum Romance” by Re:nG (Miku-miki-Yuki version), “Clocks” by Peperon-P and “blue” by by Plutonius (HayakawaP). KarenT allows only the songs featuring Vocaloids if the studios
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Crypton released a new demo for Kaito Append. This voicebank has been developed under the codename of “Soft” but the name is subject to changes. The song used is an original by WandererP, “Karakuri no Tokei to Koi no Hanashi”. According to Crypton, this demo could be thought of as Kaito’s “natural voice”, as only
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Yamaha’s Hideki “Father of Miku” Kenmochi, the developer of the VOCALOID engine, participated in the May Festival held by the Department of Technology of the University of Tokyo, during which he mentioned that important events will occur during early June. There’s still a lot of mystery around it, but more info has filtered out.
Somebodyrandom, a regular over at Vocaloid Otaku and one of the main editors on the Vocaloid Wikia, wrote an article for Vocaloidism on the subject of the Vocaloids produced outside Japan: how can the popularity gap between them and the Japanese Vocaloids be explained? Is it a problem of language, synthesis quality, or maybe fandom?
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And here are Part 4 and 5, with the Top 10 and… something else. Stay tuned for Part 2!
The “Everyone’s Vocaloid Project” contest winners, as well as one of the voice providers have been announced earlier today at Vocaloid Festa 02. Follow us after the break for character info! Update: MiKA of the band Daisy×Daisy will provide the voice for Ring! Read for a link to one of her songs as well as
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As Naho would say, sorry for the wait! The other parts will be coming soon, but for now, here’s Part 1! Update: Part 3 added! Part 2-1 and 2-2 will take longer, so next up will be Parts 4 and 5.
A Mac OS X version of the UTAU software has been released. More info after the break.
The creator of Miku, Crypton Future Media’s Wataru Sasaki, is participating in the “Vocaloid and the music software industry” lecture held at the University of Tokyo on May 28 and 29, as part of the “Gogatsu-sai” (May Festival, or MayFes for short). Samples of two different Kaito append voices – Power and Whisper (tentative) –
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