From Ver.4.3.0 of the Vocaloid engine, a XSY group 'Miku V4 English' was added to VOCALOID. All vocals within the 'Miku V4 English' group can XSY with each other. This vocal release is part of this group. If the User owns another vocal from the 'Miku V4 English' group, XSY between the vocals can occur. Hatsune Miku was released for Vocaloid 3 on August 31, 2013, including an English vocal library. She was the first Vocaloid to be developed by the company, following their commercial release handle of Yamaha Corporation developed vocals 'Meiko' and 'Kaito', making her the third Vocaloid to be sold commercially by the company. Despite early adoption being mostly on the English side of the fandom, western interest has flagged since, whereas popularity took off to stratospheric heights in Japan with the release of version 2 of the Vocaloid software and introduction of 'characters' for the voice banks, the first of which was 'android diva' Hatsune Miku. This is awesome, and the chill tone works well for Miku in this cover 3. 2019-06-04T20:43:35Z Comment by Berri-P? Normally Miku v3 English is crap and I thought this would be crap but this is amazing. 2018-12-12T02:14:35Z Comment by Starri Music. This is such a great song I love it so much like woah. 2018-08-19T13:23:12Z Comment by Mayank T. Hatsune Miku is a Vocaloid developed by Crypton Future Media, and was originally released for the Vocaloid 2 engine. She has also been updated for Vocaloid 3 and Vocaloid 4, and also has had English voice banks released and has an upcoming Mandarin Chinese voice bank.
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Name(s): | Vocaloid, ボーカロイド (bōkaroido) |
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Scope/Focus: | Music |
Date(s): | 2004-present |
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Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesis software. The software is capable of pronouncing the English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean languages with the appropriate voice banks, and other languages in the process of being added. Despite early adoption being mostly on the English side of the fandom, western interest has flagged since, whereas popularity took off to stratospheric heights in Japan with the release of version 2 of the Vocaloid software and introduction of 'characters' for the voice banks, the first of which was 'android diva' Hatsune Miku.
Fandom
The Japanese Vocaloid fandom is very large and active, mostly on the social video-sharing platform Nico Nico Douga and on 2chan. The fandom dynamics are somewhat special since it is not based on a source text, and all media in it are by definition fan works. This creates a very fluid border between 'original', 'transformative', and 'derivative' works, with on one end of the spectrum original songs and PVs (Japanese fandom contains many professional songwriters) and on the other extreme covers produced by feeding saved configuration files to a different voice bank with no editing.
Common fandom activities are writing songs, performing songs, covering existing songs with Vocaloid, making videos for songs, drawing fanart, singing karaoke versions of Vocaloid songs, and playing existing songs on an instrument.
Related Fandoms
![Miku Miku](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/d88AAOSwoptdTJMm/s-l600.jpg)
Vocaloid fandom is closely enmeshed with both the UTAU fandom and the Utattemita section of Nico Nico Douga. The Evilious Chronicles and Kagerou Project are two multimedia fandoms that grew out of Vocaloid song cycles.
Vocaloid Voice Banks
Vocaloid Hatsune Miku Voicebank
(Work in progress)
- English
- Vocaloid 1:
- Vocaloid 2:
- Vocaloid 3:
- Vocaloid 4:
- GUMI (Megpoid)
- Vocaloid 5:
Vocaloid Miku Download
- Japanese
- Vocaloid 1:
- Vocaloid 2:
- Gakupo Kamui (Gackpoid)
- GUMI (Megpoid)
- Vocaloid 3:
- Akikoloid (not commercialized)
- Vocaloid 4:
- Vocaloid 5:
- Korean
- Vocaloid 3:
- Vocaloid 4:
- Chinese
- Vocaloid 3:
- Vocaloid 4:
- Spanish
- Vocaloid 3:
Archives and Resources
- Vocaloid on Fanfiction.net
- Vocaloid on the AO3
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