Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!

The music contest commemorating the release of VOCALOID3 has now had its deadline extended from March 31, 2012 to June 30, 2012. The contest involves submitting a song made using one of the eligible VOCALOID3 sound banks to Nico Nico Douga before the deadline and tagging the video with a specific tag and locking it.
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Yes, the time has finally come that the Chinese Vocaloid’s design is revealed that was promised little under a month ago at February. The delay, I can say, was well worth the wait, not only did we get Tianyi but also a few friends and stories to go with them. We also found out the
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Part three is live!

At interaction 2012, a symposium focused on novel interaction techniques organized by the Information Processing Society of Japan, junior employees at YAMAHA demonstrated a keyboard that allowed real-time synthesized vocal performance using the VOCALOID engine. The interactive demonstration received one of the five interactive paper awards at the symposium and a video describing this keyboard
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Here’s this week’s UTARan; the next SP will be up as soon as it is uploaded, but until then enjoy a whole new load of songs this week.

I’m actually somewhat on time? What is this madness. THIS IS THE WEEKLY VOCALOID RANKING.

FM 139.7, an online magazine about “East-Asian Pop Culture” that primarily focuses on Japan apparently published their first issue of their VOCALOID-centric online magazine, VocaloLight. The first issue, laid out in full color with various VOCALOID illustrations (from official art or art posted on PIAPRO), presents several articles, including an overview of the new VOCALOID3
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The two day back-to-back Vocaloid concert set that occurred on 3/8 and 3/9 respectively have been viewed by tens of thousands. It’s time for someone from Vocaloidism to highlight what we’ve seen, and to weigh the impact. Have a look after the break.

This week on the Vocaran, we have a bunch of new songs, including an arrange of a famous 40mP song by Dixie Flatline! Check it all out below.