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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【ニコニコ動画】週刊UTAUランキング #134 Holy crap, is the end nigh?? The UTARan ISN’T late?? No guys, I just happened to have the time today. I worked on this in-between a lot of household chores, dinner, and a commission. And a huge thanks to kurisuto for being so quick with the translation. Thus, let’s get right to it!
It’s been a few days since Yu Higuchi announced that he would not be developing any more versions of Miku Miku Dance . In the days following the announcement, there have been a recent increase in violations of the basic guidelines of MMD usage regarding the distribution and usage of Miku Miku Dance Models ranging
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Well! May has been a fruitful month for the Vocaloids, Toyota Miku, samples of new voicebanks, the Charity song project and many more… But, I think I could fairly say this May has bought the most million hits than all of this year months combined! xD So, I’ll cut to the chase, ACUTE and IMITATION
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Status update on June 04, 2011 - Vocaloid Otaku is back online as of earlier today. The site is currently still marked as a dangerous site, but part of Azure's announcement about the return of VO explains that it's a false warning that should be resolved soon: The infection will hopefully be resolved sometime soon. We'll post when we've gotten word that it's safe. Until then, browse with care, or simply stay away for a day or two until the all-clear is given.
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.
Vocaloid NND Weekly Ranking Weekly Vocaloid Ranking “Unselected” Well I’m finally back home, and going into the last week of highschool. I feel so old now… but then again I have college ahead of me, so more work? Oh well, while at Fanime I was at the Vocaloid Panel which gave very good information on
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Defoko is not pleased with Buns’ lateness! Well, real life happens. I HAD planned to try and work on this article while out of town at the Animazement convention, but I went and left my laptop behind, thus losing all internet access for four days. Because of this I’m throwing last week’s and this week’s
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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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