Hideki Kenmochi, one of the developers at YAMAHA behind the VOCALOID sound synthesis engine, flew to Los Angeles to give an overview and short tutorial of VOCALOID software at Anime Expo 2012. In his presentation, Mr. Kenmochi gave an overview of VOCALOID and described at a high level how the VOCALOID synthesis engine actually worked
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A two minute promotional video featuring Yuezheng Ling, Yuezheng Longya, and Luo Tianyi was released several hours ago. A song of Luo Tianyi plays in the background of this video, and although sometimes the vocals match the mouth flaps, the actual speaking and singing by the characters in this clip aren’t voiced. This promotional video
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As was announced on the Hatsune Miku Facebook page, Kinokuniya at this year’s Anime Expo had a limited set of CDs from music label KarenT available for $25 each. The 11-track CD featured well-known artists such as mothy, Dios and minato. Over half of the 250 copies were sold on the first day. By the
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Time for another vocaloid ranking!(already?)
A few days ago the official VOCALOID website announced the English VOCALOID Facebook.
At their Anime Expo panel, Aniplex USA showed a trailer of footage from Mikunopolis, indicating their intention to release the product stateside. Previously, it was only available as an import with BD, DVD and CD versions, making it difficult to acquire for fans outside Japan. The official website will eventually contain information for the upcoming
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A demo song for galaco’s beta voice bank has now been added to Nico Nico Douga and YouTube. The short video features an animation of galaco with a megaphone along with a short clip of her singing a cover of Kou Shibasaki’s latest single, ANOTHER:WORLD. INTERNET’s Noboru Murakami did the tuning for this song. The
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Ugh, so late, but I’m trying my best to catch up!
The official Mikupa Twitter account revealed that there will be Mikupa concerts held in both Hong Kong and Taiwan in October of this year. The two (day and night) Hong Kong concerts will take place on October 2 in KITEC Star Hall, and tickets are available through HKTICKETING in three tiers: A tier for 680
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NAMCO Bandai has now officially announced through the Taiko no Tatsujin developer blog that GUMI songs will be featured in the arcade version of the game. The three songs slated for the drumming rhythm game are Hachi’s Matryoshka, YM’s Juumensou colorful ver. and DECO*27’s Mozaik Role. Furthermore, GUMI as well as the other INTERNET VOCALOID
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