Hatsune Miku and friends recently held two sets of concerts, with one set in Hong Kong on October 2 and one set in Taiwan on October 6. Each venue featured both afternoon and evening concerts, and the concerts blasted through 23 songs and one encore song in Hong Kong, with Taiwan getting an additional encore
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VocaTone, the company behind the English VOCALOID3 sound bank Oliver, is now holding a competition to create music videos for Daniel Castro’s song “Birds”. The original song and lyrics can be downloaded directly from the contest site, and videos must include the song in its unmodified form. While it is not mandatory to create the
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The current rumor floating around (all seemingly sourced from one particular site) is that on Thursday, video game magazine(s) will announce details on an upcoming PSP rhythm game featuring GUMI called megpoid the Music#. If the leaked information is correct, the game will come out this spring for 6090 JPY, with a limited edition slated
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Miku Miku ni Shiteageru was one of Miku’s earliest hits, made within a month of the software’s release. Afterwards, the original producer, ika, along with MOSAIC.WAV, made a modified duet version of the song titled Minna Miku Miku ni Shiteageru for the Heartsnative album, which managed to hit number seven on the Oricon Daily charts.
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Miku Miku Online is a networked virtual world environment that essentially acts as a chatroom. It was released in mid September and a demonstration video was uploaded to niconico. The software allows multiple online users to essentially participate in a virtual chat “world”, where players are represented by 3D avatars rendered from MikuMikuDance models. The
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Coinciding with the start of Tokyo Game Show 2012, the website for SEGA’s upcoming autumn smartphone game release Hatsune Miku Live Stage Producer is now live. The game targets “iPhone 4 and above” as well as Android OS 2.3 and above, although some devices may not be supported. Live Stage Producer will be a free
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According to a teaser site set up by SEGA, a smartphone game called Hatsune Miku Rai<censored> will be announced at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. The voiced version of the teaser site indicates an autumn release for a game where you can be Miku’s producer.
According to two new press releases from YAMAHA, release dates and pricing have been seen for VY2V3 as well as VocaListener. VY2V3 is an update of the VY2 male VOCALOID2 soundbank to the VOCALOID3 engine; additional recordings were made to improve the quality of the voice, and the product actually comes with two separate sound
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Re:VB, the developer behind AniMiku, is organising a live Vocaloid concert to be held at Nekocon 2012. Also planned are two Vocaloid panels, covering Vocaloid music production and the creative team behind the events!
August 31 marks the fifth anniversary of the release of Hatsune Miku, and there were a ton of festivities this year to mark the occasion. As usual, pixiv, PIAPRO and Nico Nico were flooded with many celebratory uploads. Several live events were also held recently in the Tokyo area and even several of the concerts
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