♪♪ BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY nani ga koko made anata wo ugo. . . oh hi. I have it on good authority (read: the calendar) that three English Vocaloids celebrate birthdays this week. Usually, we celebrate with pictures and songs and at least one of the editors gets stupid drunk. Well, tonight’s a school night, so
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Crypton has tweeted from their Vocaloid2 CV account that a test version of “Kagamine Len Soft Append” has been uploaded onto Crypton’s blog. Additionally, Hatsune MikuMiku blog has revealed that a sample of Len’s “Whispering Voice Recording” using Asami Shimoda’s raw voice has also been uploaded. To listen to the voice samples just continue reading
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What do you think about the new MyList modifier?(polls) As we mentioned in our latest WVR entry, the VocaRan scoring is new for 2010.  It complicates things to the point where tallying a score is now just as complex as judging Olympic gymnastics, but it’s for the better, right? Well, we don’t know yet. We
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Though my time with Vocaloidism has so far been very short, I’ve been very busy analyzing the rankings each week, making charts to compare and contrast the methodology of the countdown.  With the addition of the new multiplier for the Mylist points, a lot of questions come out about how it will affect the ranking. 
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Another week, another review. But something's kinda "off" with the WVR recently... Maybe people have yet to recover from the transition.

Around Christmas, there was a fairly quiet announcement about the Project DIVA Arcade game getting two location tests. We didn't write about it at the time, as there was fairly little to cover (and maybe we were just a little preoccupied with getting and giving gifts). That said, however, the first of the two loketests is now underway, and some videos are beginning to show up on the net....

It goes without saying, but the fandom likes “magnet.”  Not enough to make it Song of the Year, but it at least was an uncontested 2nd.  With popular songs like this, covers, parodies, and all sorts of things come out of the woodwork as a show of support.  Here’s a short list of the high
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For the first time after a long while, MikuMikuDance did not see an upgrade this month, meaning it stayed at Version 6.08.  However that doesn’t mean that nothing happened.  There were plenty of news and notes and holiday festivities.

Hi everyone! Kevin here. If you are reading this message right now, then it means we are now successfully on the new server that we talked about several months ago. The blog was down for a short period of time somewhere during the start of the New Year but now it’s back up again better
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Information from the Engloids’ blog has revealed that they recently had an interview with Bil Bryant, who’s the Production and CEO of PowerFX, the company behind English Vocaloids such as Sweet Ann and Big Al. The interview talks mainly about PowerFX’s involvement with making Vocaloids and the development of Big Al. For more on the
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