In order to celebrate the release of VOCALOID3 Gackpoid, INTERNET is holding a contest where winners can get their songs added to JOYSOUND’s karaoke song database. Entries need to be uploaded before the end of September to Nico Nico Douga with the tag “JOYSOUNDがくっぽいど” locked. There will be separate awards for the Gackpoid, Gackpoid POWER
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According to a press release from AH-Soft, makers of several VOCALOID sound banks and the VOICEROID line of speech synthesis programs, the VOICEROID+ software package for Tohoku Zunko will go on sale on September 28. She was originally created to help promote the recovery of the Tohoku region and her character is based on zundamochi,
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In addition to the birthday wishes event, MIKUBOOK will also be holding a bingo event starting at 7PM Pacific time on August 31, 2012. The website will “call” out numbers, with participants clicking numbers on their sheet that have been called. After getting bingo and pushing the bingo button, the participant would win one of
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According to a post on the Hatsune Miku official Facebook page, Crypton is holding an event on MIKUBOOK where fans can submit a message and photo to the website until September 7, and five lucky fans will be randomly picked to receive goods. All of the submitted photos and messages are currently viewable on the
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Commemorating Lily’s 2nd anniversary and VOCALOID3 GUMI’s 1st anniversary, avex management and INTERNET Co., Ltd are holding a music contest, accepting entries in the span of time between August 25, Lily’s release date and October 15, with winners being announced on October 21, VOCALOID3 GUMI’s release date. To enter, the applicant must upload a song
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According to a post on his website, MASATAKA is recruiting fans to help him draw his next Miku PV. What he wants is for fans to convert a total of 120 frames from a MikuMikuDance animation to drawn art. After submitting a handle name, email address (email addresses might be revealed to other fans because
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Website http://miku-39.jp/ has now been updated with the addition of a customized music video for Mitchie M’s Birthday Song for Miku. Before watching the video, the viewer has the option of linking in a Twitter account, location information and a smartphone to further enhance the video. For example, the video will show your Twitter icon
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The music-listening companion iOS app Music Girl Hatsune Miku is now live on the Japanese iTunes App Store. The app features Miku, who bops to songs you play from your music library. The animation was made by MARZA ANIMATION PLANET, who also worked on Project DIVA and Project DIVA 2nd. Listening to songs helps level
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Recently, a new website called Vocanode sprouted up, offering to be a hub for creative VOCALOID/UTAU works outside Japan. While the website also hosts images and audio, the majority of the site is a directory of videos added by their original creators. Registration on the website automatically confers the user a channel, and users can
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It appears that i-style Project, the creators behind Aoki Lapis and Merli, are currently looking to fans for two important tasks. First, as was mentioned before, they are asking fans to audition for the role of voice provider for Merli through September 10. However, through September 3, they are also recruiting “official creators” who will
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