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shimmerloid-ai · 2 months

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Introduction - Vocal Synth Terminology - Part 1

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If you are new to the Vocal Synth community, you may encounter some words and phrases you don’t understand. For instance, someone may tell you about Rin and Len’s appends, and you may confuse that term for the difficulty in Project Sekai! Colorful Stage! Or may have heard someone discussing USTs, but can not find its definition anywhere nor figure out what the hell they are talking about.

Well, I made a dictionary of sorts to help newbie fans get used to Vocal Synth jargon. The keyword is “Vocal Synth” as these apply to other software as well. These definitions have a greater focus on the programs themselves than the characters themselves.

Credits to Vocaloid Wiki and Minnemi on YouTube for some of these definitions.

Vocal Synthesizer: A digital instrument that creates tracks like any other DAW, but instead of piano notes, guitar strums, or drum beats, you compose vocals! Also known as “vocal synths”. Examples of vocal synthesizers include VOCALOID, UTAU, SynthesizerV, CeVIO, and Piapro Studio.

Voicebank: A collection of recordings of the sounds that make up a language. These sounds are typically vowels and constants, but depending on the voice bank, you may also get breath notes and pronunciation effects. Or, in simpler terms, the singers that are used in vocal synths! There are ton of voicebanks in the vocal synth community, with some of the popular ones being Hatsune Miku (VOCALOID + Piapro Studio), Kagamine Rin and Len (VOCALOID + Piapro Studio), Megurine Luka (VOCALOID + Piapro Studio), Kasane Teto (UTAU + SynthesizerV), Megpoid Gumi (VOCALOID + SynthesizerV + A.I. VOICE, FineSpeech Ver3), flower (VOCALOID + Gynoid Talk + CeVIO), IA (VOCALOID + CeVIO), and KAFU (CeVIO + SynthesizerV)! Individual vocal synth characters can also have different versions of their voice, such as Yuzuki Yukari’s Onn (soft) and Lin (power) voicebanks!

Voice Provider: The person whose voice that a voicebank is created. Voice providers record samples of their voice (specifically vowels and constants) at a certain key (for instance A3), which are turned into a voicebank with the company’s black magic (I’m kidding, I don’t know how they process and put the vocals together). For instance, PIKO is Utatane Piko’s voice provider, Satoshi Fukase is Fukase’s voice provider, and Naoto Fuga (shown below) is KAITO’s voice provider!

Crypton Future Media: The brains behind some of the most popular VOCALOIDs, which are Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, Megurine Luka, KAITO, and MEIKO. Aside from voicebanks, they created games, concerts, merchandise, and much more relating to these beloved VOCALOIDS! Cryptonloids are… VOCALOIDS created by Crypton. Soon, Crypton departed from Yamaha and made its own vocal synthesizer in affiliation with another company called Piapro named Piapro Studio. There are two versions of this software; Piapro Studio NT and Piapro Studio V4x.

UTAU: A vocal synthesizer that is considered the “sister” software to VOCALOID. Unlike VOCALOID, this software is 100% free and you can create your own voicebank. There are thousands of UTAUloids at this point in time, giving you a huge selection of different ranges and strengths. Popular UTAUloids include Utatane “Defoko” Uta, Kasane Teto, Namine Ritsu, Momo Momone, Yowane Ruko, Sukone Tei, Rook, Gahata Meiji (shown below), Yamane Renri, Matsudappoiyo, Keine Ron, Kohaku Merry, Gekiyaku, Kazehiki, Adachi Rei, Ooka Mika, and so many others! There is also an open-source version of UTAU called Open UTAU, which is much easier to install and use (it has a dark mode!). Vipperloids are the classic UTAUloids that share surnames ending with “-ne” and their VOCALOIDish designs. These include Utatane “Defoko” Uta, Kasane Teto, Namine Ritsu, Momo Momone, Yowane Ruko, Sukone Tei, and many others.

SynthesizerV Studio: Also known as SynthV, this is a vocal synthesizer made by Dreamtonics that is well-known for its AI voicebanks. For a software that is smaller than VOCALOID, they are extremely advanced with realistic-sounding voicebanks, piano-roll tuning, rap vocals, and so many other features. It’s also much cheaper (thank you, Yamaha money sharks). In addition, Dreamtonics has two free versions; SynthesizerV Studio R1, and SynthesizerV Studio Basic R2. Popular SynthV voicebanks include Eleanor Forte, Kaorou Rikka, GENBU, Tsurumaki Maki, SAKI, SOLARIA, KEVIN (fan design by ivylare shown below), Stardust, ROSE, POPPY, and Kasane Teto Ai!

CeVIO Project: A collection of voice synthesizers created in collaboration with five different companies including Techno Speech and Frontier Works. Not only do they make vocal synthesizers, but their softwares have speech interfaces as well. As of now, their most popular program is CeVIO AI, a next-generation vocal synthesizer that uses AI technology to create powerful vocals as seen in SynthesizerV. Popular voicebanks include Chis-A (shown below), KAFU, Sato Sasara, IA AI, ONE, Yuzuki Yukari Rei, CiFlower, POPPY, ROSE, and many others.

Tuning: Essentially how you want a song or cover to sound. By editing the parameters of the individual notes and that of the voicebank itself (including the pitch, volume, strength, sharpness, and breaths), you can obtain an entirely different result of how the singer sings the encoded notes through different methods. This blog is dedicated to teaching people how to tune, so I’ll show a variety of tuning styles in the software.

V_: The VOCALOID software edition. As of now, there are six editions of the software, which are VOCALOID, VOCALOID2, VOCALOID3, VOCALOID4, VOCALOID5, and VOCALOID6. A lot of VOCALOID voicebanks would be named after the edition they were designed for, such as Gackpoid V4.

VSQ/VSQx/VPR/UST/SVP: The different vocal file formats through which the note, lyric, and tuning data are saved in different vocal synthesizers. These files are not exactly specific to a single editor as they can be converted to the appropriate formats:

VSQ: VOCALOID2 and VOCALOID3

VSQx: VOCALOID4

VPR: VOCALOID5 and VOCALOID6

UST: UTAU and OPENUTAU

SVP: SynthesizerV Studio

Phonemes: In linguistics and developmental psychology, phenomes are the smallest sounds of speech that distinguish one word from another. Similarly, in vocal synths, these are the building blocks of the individual lyrics that are read by the voicebank. Phonemes differ from the lyrics in a vocal synth file as the lyrics are the actual syllables in language while the phonemes are based on the X-SAMPA system. For instance, let’s examine and compare lyrics from “The Lost One’s Weeping” by neru to the phonemes that would be written in a vocal synth. Romaji lyrics (Source - Vocaloid Lyric Wiki): kokuban no kono kanji ga yomemasu ka? Romanji lyrics in VOCALOID4: [ko] [ku] [ba] [n] [no] [ko] [no] [ka] [n] [ji] [ga] [yo] [me] [ma] [su [ka] Phonemes in a vocal synthesizer VOCALOID4: [k o] [k M] [b a] [n] [n o] [k o] [k a] [n] [dZ i] [g a] [j o] [me] [m a] [s M] [k a] As we can see here, the phonemes of a song can differ significantly from the lyrics that are entered into a program. You can also edit the phonemes of a lyric for better pronunciation (for instance, for the word “you’d”, you can try [y M d]), or split them up into vowels and constants in notebending. In addition, there are entirely different phonemes for voicebanks designed for different languages; for instance, VOCALOID has Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish voicebanks. However, it is possible to make voicebanks sing in different languages, like how Utsu-P makes Miku V4 English sing in fluent Japanese. There are also phonemes for breaths, and glottal stops, as well as pronunciation effects that are exclusive to some voicebanks, like Enhanced Voice Expression Control (E.V.E.C.) in the V4x Cryptonloids. I will go into greater depth on phonemes in a future post.

Pitch bending: The effect where one note slides to another in a clean fashion without sounding flat. When people usually mention pitch bending in a vocal synth, they are referring to the tuning style where you alter the pitch using the “pitch bend” and “pitch bend sensitivity” parameters. If you have seen tuning streams or covers where people show their editors, you may have noticed dynamic and sometimes dramatic lines either on top of the notes or in a box beneath the piano roll. These are pitch bends! By drawing pitch curves in different ways, you can acquire different ways the notes are sung. You can then increase or decrease the pitch bend sensitivity of certain notes to change the factor of how many semitones the pitch curves will jump or fall by when the pitch bend parameter is brought to the maximum or minimum values. To paint a better picture of this concept, I made a quick VSQx of the "watashi" ([w a] [t a] [S i]). The curves on cutting through the green box are my pitch bends, and the thin red line running through the notes is the result. The transparent box behind it is my pitch bend sensitivity, which I increased for more sensitive in the [w a] and [t a] notes, and decreased for less for the [S i] phoneme.

Note bending: A tuning style where you manipulate the pitch by splitting notes into smaller notes. You can move the notes up and down or edit the phonemes to obtain different effects in notes. If you would like to breakdown the phrase [w a] [t a] [S i], you can write the notes out as [w a] [a] [a] [a] [a] [t a] [a] [S i [i] [i]! This is my preferred method of tuning as I do not enjoy drawing lines and like the nostalgic effect of the clean, slightly robotic sounds.

Portamento Timing: This term can have multiple definitions, but the general meaning is a slide from one note to the next. Do not confuse this for pitch bending as the way that notes transition in portamento is different from the former. In Vocaloid, portamento is a parameter that allows you to alter the timing of the pitch. Increasing the value would result in the pitch being more delayed, and decreasing it will cause the pitch to be sung earlier. In UTAU and SynthesizerV, portamento refers to the editable points in a pitch curve. Adding more points allows you to have more freedom in creating pitch bends.

Pitchsnap Mode: A setting in vocal synthesizers that causes the pitch curves to “snap” from one note to another. This setting yields a more autotuney and robotic tone in tuning. While I prefer to tune with this feature shut off, I have heard that the pitchsnap function makes pitch-bending much easier. Remember our "The Lost One's Weeping" example? Here is an amazing cover of it by our lord and saviour Jade S. with Fukase and Miku V3 Solid that showcases how beautiful the pitchsnap function can make the vocals sound when used correctly!

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Mixing: A process of blending vocals with an off-vocal or instrumental so the singing fits in the environment of the vocal's music. It's more than just plugging in an audio track, you need to ensure that the vocals are cleaned up, are at an appropriate volume, and do not sound out of place. People can get super creative with mixing by adding reverb, radio-like effects, growls, and “adlibs” during instrumental breaks! All in all, the mixing of vocals is just as important as the tuning.

Producer: Anyone who makes music using vocal synths. This title was initially reserved for people who make original songs but can be used to describe cover artists like myself as well. Popular producers include ryo(supercell), kzlivetune, wowaka(shown below; Rest in Peace), neru, Deco* 27, and many others!

“-P”: Standing for “producer title”, this suffix originated from the IDOLM@STER fandom and refers to anyone who makes music with vocal synths, or in other words, vocal synth producers! For instance, why do we call Circus-P by his name with the "-P" suffix? Because that is what he is, a producer! You can also use the title “vocalo-p” to address synth users.

#vocaloid4 #vocal synth #vocaloid #vocaloid tutorial #vocabulary #vocaloid jargon #long post #resource #dictionary #utau #utauloid #synthesizer v #synthv #cevio

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spicyicymeloncat · 2 years

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talk/doodle about hatsune miku for the art/opinions thing

Hatsune Miku???

Oh wow… my favourite Ninjago character… ig I can work with this…

Happy belated birthday Hatsune Miku

Hatsune miku is a vocaloid (a vocal synthesiser) created by Crypton Future Media and she is used to sing (and feature as a character) in songs (usually in Japanese) created by various artists that own her software. She is a widespread internet sensation, globally famous making cameos in various other mediums, like comics, anime and lady gaga concerts.

If you’d rather not delve in the horrors of EC (which is murder and everything that’s worse than murder) then just skip this paragraph. Miku tends to be given character of a sentient doll constantly in an existential crisis and severe daddy issues. One of her roles is Maria Moonlit (which could be counted as her first appearance (or her last), if we’re counting song wise in chronological order. Idk? who’s counting amirite?). Maria Moonlit is an orphan born near the beginning of time, got struck by lightning and chosen to be the prophet and figure head to a technologically advanced medieval civilisation. She supposedly had the power to hear the voices of the gods who claimed to be her parents. However, the gods were evil and trapped somewhere and wanted to be born into human vessels, so she made up a lie to trick the people into starting a project to create magic twin babies to house the gods. This turns into an incredibly convoluted science experiment which involved serial killers, cloning, incest????, the government being overthrown, dragons and the entire city exploding and all technology being lost as the world is thrust into the dark ages. Maria lives the sad life of wondering who she is and wondering whether she’s just been used like a plaything to the gods, and technically she was, because she was a doll wound up like clockwork to repeat her miserable life forever (literally, there’s time travel shanigannery). We can assume she’s a doll because she’s the reincarnation of one that has been sent back in time. Okay Ik that was entirely crazy but that’s only the first part of evillious. Miku’s two most prominent parts in the series however, is trans lesbian servant girl Michaela, who got assassinated in the name of a jealous betrothed of a man with a one sided crush on her and became a tree - and licensed doctor by day, drug supplier mafia member by night, Margarita, who is unable to sleep because she’s secretly a doll and her husband only married her because she was rich and he likes gambling and sleeping around, so she released an airborne toxin killing a whole town whilst calling herself the sleep princess. The first girl, Michaela, is part of the more well known section of the series, the story of evil. She was originally a tree spirit in the form of a bird, who became a human in order to become close to a depressed peasant girl who was ostracised from her village due to her ancestry to a certain clan. She learns the joys of being human, hanging out with her friend, falling in love with said friend, but eventually her otherworldly beauty causes conflict and the continent goes to war, which ended in the genocide of a country and Michaela stabbed and left in a well. The other girl, Margarita, is a pretty significant character in the series due to the fact that the series is structured around the biblical seven deadly sins, with her story being Sloth (Michaela is a side character of Pride’s story). Margarita may seem like an odd choice for sloth as part of her story follows how she is unable to sleep, and instead works hard to develop her gift to her loved ones (but gift in the German meaning of the word check below image). But sloth also means lacking devotion or care, and Margarita by the end of it, despite once vowing she’d always her husband, couldn’t give a damn about him in the end, describing herself again like “a plaything, broken from the start” and eventually she gives up on everything. All these Miku characters all have the same things in common (other than being screwed over by men), which is their relationship with inhumanity and artificiality, which is kinda meta given how Hatsune Miku is an artificial singer made for the amusement of others. But at least she’s not about to poison anyone because of it.

I’ve spoken too much evillious, so let me info dump about a much more palatable Miku related thing. That was a pun because it’s Colourful Palette. Or Colour Stage? Uhh Project Sekai. Yeah. A rhythm game (that’s free), that revolves around the concept of different genres of hatsune Miku that come from magic other worlds and are really good therapists. There are five storylines of different music groups that have really strong feelings tm that their emotions spawned whole other worlds that are inhabited by vocaloids, who want to help the main characters, discover what their feelings are so they can write songs about it. Yeahhh… Miku comes in five different flavours! School, idol, street, catgirl clown and depressed! ALSO EVILLIOUS DID A CROSS OVER WITH THE GAME SO THE POISON LADY IS HERE ALSO. The songs used in the rhythm game consists of a lot of iconic vocaloid songs as well as songs specifically commissioned for the game, sung by both vocaloids and the real life voice actors, which is very fun. Hatsune Miku, due to coming in different forms in this game, kinda works like a character from a multiverse story (like spider verse or the incredibly convoluted branch of the undertale fandom), and it seems like Miku is kinda just born from emotions and music, which makes her way more cryptid/deity like than the game presents her to be. Miku is just an entity yknow? I haven’t finished the main storylines of the game yet, but they’re good and also the vocaloid side plots are cool. For example the School world Miku tries her hardest to act like a mentor figure to the humans, whilst Luka (another vocaloid) who is more of a mentor figure to Miku looks on. I think in the fandom, the theme park theatre storyline and the emo shut ins storyline are more popular (because they are the embodiment of the “nothing in life matters” millennial vs gen z meme), and can we talk about depressed Miku because she’s literally born out of somebody’s mommy issues and depression but she’s really sweet. The whole “Miku’s personality is based around the feelings that are put into her songs” are again in reference to how the character of Miku works.

To round off this ramble about Miku I’m going to talk about some of my favourite Miku songs. I’m more of a kagamine Len listener, especially when I was younger and first discovered vocaloid but these are my Miku picks.

Miku by Anamanaguchi: yeah so this chiptune song is about Miku herself and it’s pretty iconic. A lot of vocaloid songs are kinda vague, but this one seems to describe who and what Miku is in a way that makes her seem mysterious, like an interesting technological phenomenon which checks out. She mentions how “anyone can find her” and that people can “play me break me” referring to how she’s easily found on the internet and she can be used to make songs. The ending of the song seems to take a more sinister turn where Miku seems to want to make you stay forever (in like a ddlc Monika way). It does make sense in a way, since Miku is a program that relies on other people’s interest to stay alive and relevant, and in a sense, people’s dedication/addiction to Miku is what keeps her going. She’s like one of those spooky maybe??sentient AIs.

The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku by cosMo: so this is a song depicting what happens to Miku when no one likes her. Specifically this is supposedly about that one time in 2007 when suddenly, Miku disappeared from the search engines, and every time someone tried to look her up, the search results came up blank. She became incredibly popular in a short amount of time that allegedly people searched her so much that Google and yahoo blocked the search, because it looked like spam. The incident upset people so much they created a fan made character, that later was recognised as an official derivative of Miku, based on their boredom. There’s also a conspiracy on whether this was actually a motivated attack on Miku’s popularity due to an anti Miku campaign lead by an advertising agency that influenced the Japanese music industry but idk there are a lot of stories on the internet. Evidently the problem is fixed. The song came out around that time and is about Miku lamenting the fact that she’s getting shut down, and all she wants to do is sing before she dies. Yeah. The song is notorious, not just for its background but also for its incredibly fast paced rap?? part that gets as fast as 240bpm, and I think the fact that’s is almost impossible for a human to sing it, works well with Miku’s struggle with the fact that’s she’s not human.

Okay that’s a lot of talking so here are some quick recommendations:

The maiden of the tree ~ Millennium Wiegenlied ~ by Akuno-P: this is the evillious song about Michaela the spirit turned human lesbian. Very boppy!

Patchwork staccato by toa: I like this one for the actual music it’s a bop. There’s a few interpretations of the song but generally it’s about relationship problems, be it one sided love or a toxic relationship that’s hard to break away from.

Kagerou Daze by Jin: more of a rock song, which is part of a wider vocaloid series (The Kagerou Project) and it’s about a boy who keeps living through the same day over and over again because his friend keeps dying no matter where he takes her. It’s a time travel trauma loop! The song ends when the boy realises to break the cycle, he has to die instead, and m the last verse of the song reveals the girl is also trapped in the same loop. Fun! The actual story is a little different but I don’t need another incredibly complex and convoluted vocaloid series to cry about so I didn’t get into it. Also the animation for it is so cool

Anything from the Night ∞ Series by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama△: a series consisting of four songs sung by eight vocaloids (ofc Hatsune Miku is included), which tell the tale of a group of actors who get trapped repeating the same play of a manor in the woods forever which also becomes real life because someone lost the last page of the script (and also someone perhaps died??). The songs all tell the same story from different perspectives and end differently (but usually either Miku or everyone else dies). There’s a novel about it. It’s confusing spooky and good music. I also feel like I’ve listed way too many dark songs oops.

Aww man I can’t talk about “all phone zombies lead to Rome” by manbo-p because it’s a gumi song, not Miku. It was going to be the one not tragic song on this list! Oh well you should totally listen/watch it, it’s hilarious and also educational.

Well yeah that’s it! My tastes in Miku songs are a little intense but yeah!

#hatsune miku #by doodle I really mean 3+ day projects #outing my incredible concerning music tastes to innocent Ninjago fans I’m sorry #doodlarambla #art #evillious chronicles #millennium wiegenlied #gift of the third sleep princess #project sekai #Miku #anamanaguchi #the disappearance of hatsune miku #patchwork staccato #Kagerou daze #night∞series #bad end night #digital art #fanart #this is my irl friend being an agent of chaos

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atomicpsyche · 8 months

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Misa Amane Headcanons

Wears skull themed everything.

Sews her own plushies as well as bits and pieces of her clothes.

Wanted to be a fashion designer when she was younger, but strived to be a figure in the entertainment world after her parent’s deaths.

Best to worst (main) subjects in school: Japanese, English, Maths, Science, Social Studies

In middle school, she was into puppetry, hypnosis, the occult, ventriloquism, magic tricks, horror anything and gore art. You’ll be prying this information out of her cold dead hands.

Her mother was an opera singer and her dad was an actor known for staring in indie films and horror series.

Misa took lessons to play the Koto in primary school.

Misa was a bit of a thief as a child. She sees it, she likes it, she wants it, she’s got it.

Good at socialising, but was never really close with anyone. This created a lot of one sided relationships because the other person would always feel like they were closer to her than she was to them.

Was always a bit of a ditz, but it got worse after her parent’s deaths.

Her mother was indifferent to the way she dressed, but her father had his concerns. One look from her mother silenced him forever.

Her mother was an idol when she was younger.

Misa modeled here and there when she was a child.

Was a part of her church choir and the Light (heh) Music Club at her school.

Miss’s mother was an atheist while her father was Christian.

She’s undecided.

Always wrote with a scented coloured pen and dotted her i’s with hearts to piss of her more traditional and strict teachers.

Number one complaint at parent teacher interviews.

If she told her parents about them, that is.

Went to a lot of concerts in high school. She kept her grades high for that, as per her father’s wishes (please just don’t fail, he says exasperated, as Misa claps and smiles, and as her mother resumes grinning at him)

Her mother is a doting parent, but her father is a bit more strict. This lead to multiple fights throughout her childhood, usually when she was supposed to be sleeping. Misa tried to change her more ‘bratty’ behaviour, keyword here is tried.

Her mother’s name is Misao (操) and her father’s name is Sasuke (佐介). Her mother’s maiden name was Aibana (藍花). Sasuke really liked her surname and didn't mind what other people had to say about it (he's a doting husband), but Misao wanted to take his surname as a way of rejecting her disapproving parents. They compromised with the name of their eldest daughter.

Her elder sister’s name is Aika (藍花). She spent her whole life trying to become a doctor, and when her parents died she dropped out of college, began working at a convenience store and drinking heavily. She’d sometimes drink with Misa. Her sister and her aren’t very close due to an age gap (thinking 7 years) and her parent’s ‘favouritism’. Stereotypical golden child eldest and free to muck about youngest.

Misa likes shoujo manga, kdramas, and English horror movies.

She was originally thinking of becoming a voice actor or the voice behind a vocaloid, because she didn’t want to show her face to a public that believed that the man who robbed her house and killed her parents might be innocent.

Misa is a compulsive daydreamer.

She learned to bake along with her mother.

Her parent’s deaths caused Misa to spiral. Just the day before she was telling her father about her hopes and dreams for the future as they were creating a vision board, only to see those futures blink out of existence every time she looked at her parent’s corpses. She’ll never get married with her father walking her down the isle, she’ll never have her mother help her design her cap for graduation, she’ll never see them smile ever again.

#misa amane #amane misa #headcanons #death note headcanons #misao amane #sasuke amane #aika amane #misa amane's family #mama and papa amane #mama amane #papa amane #elder sister amane #just a little editing #sorry for the western perspective on some of these hcs #autocorrect is a bitch

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anies-vocalsynthhcworld · 2 years

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Vocaloid Headcanons II:

Vocaloid is a musical arts company located in Tokyo, Japan (and in other parts of the world such as England, China, Korea and Spain) founded by Yamaha Corporation and "The Music Technology Group" of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. Both executive business would also have the collaboration with nothing more and nothing less with Leon, who along with his wife, Lola and a friend of they, Miriam were willing to present themselves as the first singers sponsoring one of the many companies (Zero-G) within Vocaloid and that in the future others lower-ranking companies would join, these being also applied to the music industry (Crypton Future Media, Internet Co. Ltd, AH Software, PowerFx, Voctrolabs, Shingai HENIAN, etc) which are the ones in charge of collecting the exact amount own Loids in each one of them (just as it was explained with Leon, Lola and Miriam previously).

Initially, it was planned that Vocaloid would integrate only mature people, since it would originally be aimed at an adult audience. But as time went on (precisely during Vocaloid2) in which most of its new singers were young adults, teenagers, pre-teens and children, which in itself ended up attracting a more youthful audience. They had to build, modify and maintain new buildings, which are primary/middle/high schools for said young Loids, they may have focused on the mission that they have a promising future with their famous lives as singers, but it was no excuse to distance them along the path of learning that every normal person should have in their full growth.

Apart from the schools, they had to buy land in the fields that surrounded the area, so that houses could be built there (in the style of a university campus) for the Vocaloids of each company, especially for those who were not so well known in their time for being foreigners from Japan. This is due to the fact that the companies located in the aforementioned countries were small or did not have sufficient requirements for large works, that they had no other option than most of their productions, works, songs and practice for the concerts were made from the company main city in Japan. The only one that became bigger being the Vocaloid building and studio located in England with Zero-G and PowerFx's Loids.

And the rest of their story is simple, they hire professional producers/composers who are responsible for creating the Vocaloid songs and sagas that many of us know, they are close to famous celebrities to advertise their singers. While the rest, such as Miku Expo concerts, Nico Nico Douga, Magical Mirai and others, merchandise, events, etc; they were jobs that the companies take care of....however there is something that the main companies that founded Vocaloid (Yamaha Co. and TMTG) hid from the public, even from the other companies within Vocaloid like their own Loids and even now it will never get revealed to date....

And this has been my brief explanation of Vocaloid (general) in my Headcanons!

Don't worry, many parts will come, are you intrigued to know that secret that Yamaha and TMTG hide from the Vocaloids? 👀 Maybe I'll reveal it soon if you guys would like to know more about my Vocaloid HC's!

Thank you very much for reading my blog of my VocalSynths Universe!

← You will see Part I here

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#vocaloid #headcanon #vocaloid headcanon #vocaloid headcanons #my weird world of headcanons #headcanons #yamaha corporation #the music technology group #pompeu fabra university #zero g #zerogloids

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hiyari8 · 1 year

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Hiii!^^ I did the PowerPoint presentation about vocaloid for my friends today, and since I told you I'd tell you how it went, here I am. Btw my presentation was 30 slides long and lasted an entire hour

I introduced them to the Vocaloid program and voicebanks, which they understood with much more ease than I was expecting them to, which makes me feel better about my way of explaining things lol! I also talked a bit about UTAU, CeVIO and Synth-V

I talked a bit about Crypton Future Media but just the bare bones and Piapro Studio, then I talked about Miku and the other CRYPTONloids, and they all found it very bizarre that one of Luka's character items is a tuna and they refuse to understand it (lmao Hello, Worker started playing as I started writing this). I told them to not look for logic in vocaloid fans' mindset

They are also all very saddened by the fact that character items aren't really a thing for new vocaloids anymore, and every time I introduced a new vocaloid they started debating on what their character item should be, which was really fun. They think SeeU should have a Halloween pumpkin, and Kaai Yuki should have apples

Also I wrote this down because I knew you'd like it: one of my friends said Lily looks really badass, and like she belongs in a game fighting off monsters

I also talked a bit about concerts, mainly NicoNico Cho Parties, Snow Miku, Miku Expo, Magical Mirai, the IA concerts and VSinger Live, but I also snuck in a comment about Miku With You, which made them think of how cool an interactive concert with Miku would be, like the Disneyland attraction where you talk to that turtle from Finding Nemo and the turtle talks back to you

And then finally I talked a bit about producers, and went over the most influential ones imo, which were ryo, DECO*27, wowaka, hachi, Giga and neru. I'll be honest, I really debated on whether I should have included those last two, but I was too lazy to delete those slides and figured eh, let's just leave them in

But yeah, it was really fun, a lot longer than I planned for it to be lol They had many questions and comments, but it was nice because it felt like they were genuinely paying attention and stuff, so it was awesome

hell yeah sounds like it was quite comprehensive <3 nice choices on the producers and also good idea to have included the last 2 ones tbh the more the merrier

glad also that they expressed interest and engagement! perhaps they too can be converted into fans <3

#hoenestly... if hello worker started playing while i was presenting i would just burst into tears on the spot lmao #now that you mention it it really has been a while since we had character item stuff... i kinda miss it it was fun #and lily DOES look badass FUCK yeah she should be allowed to KILL #thanksies for sending an update! i was wondering how it would go and im really happy for you that it was successful c:#ask

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THE GREAT MIKU CONCERT WATCH PARTY 2020-2021

Hey there Vocaloid fans! Are you as bummed about the cancelation of Miku Expo 2020 USA & Canada as I am? Maybe you’re looking to build up your excitement ahead of Magical Mirai at the end of the year? Or maybe you just want to take a look back at a decade of live Miku music~

Starting tomorrow (October 10th, 2020) and for the next 20 WEEKENDS, Every Saturday at 4 PM (Chicago time) I will be hosting watch parties for concert movies and footage of Crypton’s official Hatsune Miku live shows. We’re gonna take a look back at a decade’s worth of Hatsune Miku concerts, watch them evolve over the years, compare the shows across different regions, and just have fun gushing over fun music, lights, and sets. I know an awful lot about these concerts, so I’ll be adding in a lot of history, behind-the-scenes info, trivia, and commentary as we watch. Most weekends I’ve planned two concerts per stream, with a few exceptions. Also, since this will overlap with ExtraLife a bit, these will be charity streams as well!

If that sounds like something you might be into, give me a follow over at twitch.tv/CloudyObsession and read below the page break for the schedule and more information!

An important note: because it would be illegal for me to stream these concerts to my Twitch channel directly, I will be providing a YouTube* link in the panels below my stream where viewers can find the video we are watching, and on-screen I will have a thumbnail-sized window of the video with no audio, as well as large timer displaying the video’s playtime so that you can be sure to sync your video up with mine (otherwise my stream will mostly just be my webcam and mic audio). Unfortunately, this means you will have to open the video in a separate window while keeping the stream open, I’m sorry for the inconvenience but it’s the only way I can make it work

*I have made sure each of the concerts on the schedule are available for viewers to watch, I tried to keep it exclusively to videos on YouTube, but there were a few important shows (in my opinion, anyway) that are not available on YT, but are available on BiliBili. Bilibili is a Chinese video hosting site similar to Nico Nico Douga. Unfortunately, the site is entirely in Chinese and may be a little hard to navigate for the unfamiliar, on top of requiring an account for HD streaming (although no account is needed for SD streams). Only 3 of the 40+ concerts I plan I have scheduled will be on Bilibili, and I will denote which those are on the schedule. It’s also worth noting that while I have verified that these videos are not blocked in the US, I can’t guarantee their availability in other regions, so if you are outside the US you may need a VPN to watch some of the concerts.

Here is a quick look at the schedule! You can also click each week for a brief explanation of the theme and a more in-depth look at the concerts we’ll be watching (only the first few are available, this is a work in progress).

Week 1 - Oct 10 @ 4pm CDT (GMT -5) My Favorite Concerts: Magical Mirai 2018 and Snow Miku 2019

Week 2 - Oct 17 @ 4pm CDT (GMT -5) Miku Concert Beginnings: 39s Giving Day 2010 and MikuPa (Miku Live Party) Sapporo 2011

Week 3 - Oct 24 @ 4pm CDT (GMT -5) 2012’s Legendary Double-Concert: MikuPa Tokyo 2012 and 39s Giving Day 2012

Week 4 - Oct 31 @ 4pm CDT (GMT-5) Hatsune Appearance - Smaller-Scale & Pre-Recorded: Hatsune Appearance 2012, Hatsune Appearance 2013

Please note that the following times are after the US Daylight Savings Time ends, and the timezone changes from Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) to Central Standard Time (GMT -6)

(Also I took the weekend of the 7th off for Extra Life game day weekend)

Week 5 - Nov 14 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) A 3-Hour Concert?! The Final MikuPA! Also some PJD mini-concerts: MikuPa Kansai 2013, Natsu no Owari no 39 Matsuri 2012, Matsuri Da Diva 2014

Week 6 - Nov 21 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) The Very First Magical Mirai and Miku Expo Concerts Ever!: Magical Mirai 2013 and Miku Expo in Indonesia 2014

Week 7 - Nov 28 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Comparing the First Two US Concerts, Three Years Apart!: Mikunopolis in Los Angeles 2011 and Miku Expo in NY/LA 2014

Week 8 - Dec 5 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Magical Mirai Goes Annual~: Magical Mirai 2014 and 2015

Week 9 - Dec 12 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Miku Expo visits China: Miku Expo Shanghai 2015, Miku Expo China 2016

Week 10 - Dec 19 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Back to Japan for 2016: Magical Mirai 2016, Miku Expo Japan 2016 (Bilibili video)

Week 11 - Dec 26 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) 2017: Ten Years of Miku! 10th Anniversary concerts: Magical Mirai 2017, Miku With You 2017

Week 12 - Jan 2 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Miku Symphony - Prepare To Cry: Miku Symphony 2017, Miku Symphony 2018-2019

Week 13 - Jan 9 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Miku x Kodo - A Miku Concert with Taiko Drums: Miku x Kodo 2017, Miku x Kodo 2018

Week 14 - Jan 16 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Snow Miku! <3: Snow Miku 2018 (Bilibili video), Snow Miku 2019

Week 15 - Jan 23 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Magical Mirai Gets Better and Better: Magical Mirai 2018, Magical Mirai 2019

Week 16 - Jan 30 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Miku Expo Keeps On Growing: Miku Expo Malaysia 2017, Miku Expo Europe 2018

Week 17 - Feb 6 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Miku in China - Two More Years of Miku With You: Miku With You 2018, Miku With You 2019

Week 18 - Feb 13 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) The Miku Concert With No Audience (and a look at Miku Expo Europe 2020): Untitled 0 Live, Miku Expo London 2019

Week 19 - Feb 20 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Before the Beginning: Miku Fes’ 2009 (and a quick look at other notable concerts): Miku Fes’09, MikuPa Tokyo 2011, MikuPa Singapore 2011, MikuPa Taiwain & Hong Kong 2012, Symphony Ihatov, MikuPa Sapporo 2013, Snow Miku 2015)

Week 20 - Feb 27 @ 4pm CST (GMT -6) Hatsune Miku VR Future Live & Project Diva X Concert Editor

IF I AM UNABLE TO STREAM AT THE SCHEDULED TIME FOR ANY REASON, THE STREAM WILL BE MOVED TO THE NEXT DAY (SUNDAY) AT THE SAME TIME.

Stay tuned for more info! I’ll be making a series of 20 follow-up posts, one for each week, to briefly explain the theme and take a more in-depth look the concerts we’ll be watching that Saturday <3

#VOCALOID #hatsune miku #miku #Miku Expo #Miku Expo 2020 #Magical Mirai #Snow Miku #Miku With You #Miku Live Party #MikuPa #39s Giving Day #Miku Symphony #Megurine Luka #Kagamine Rin #Kagamine Len #MEIKO #KAITO

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#4: [robotic voice] mu-sic

So, you’ve heard of music that people sing over instrumentals in recording booths, you know: Queen, Taylor Swift, Hozier, the like. But have you ever heard of composers using softwares to sing for them? Imagine this: a composer sits at their desk, arranging the instruments they’re using for a song, writing lyrics at the side, and after hours and hours of editing, it’s time to have the vocals sing. After a cup of coffee, they sit back down on their desk, and instead of calling someone to sing for them or perhaps sing their own, they open a singing synthesizer that allows their lyrics to be sang with pre-recorded syllables: VOCALOID.

That’s it. No actual vocalist needed. Just your preferred Vocaloid voice bank, some fine tuning, and a beat. Vocaloid was created using voice samples from actual human voices, recording every syllable there is in the Japanese and English language for users to use to their satisfaction. Now, this all might sound foreign to anyone but perhaps you’ve heard some Vocaloid songs in your own time. Ever heard of Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid’s most famous voice bank? How about her rendition of the Polish song Ievan Polkka? Of course, one can’t forget her iconic ‘sekai de’ from Ryo’s hit song World Is Mine.

(image: Vocaloid Diva Hatsune Miku looks you in the eye.)

As a wandering, curious child scrounging the deep depth of the early internet, finding Vocaloid had been nothing short of a dream come true for me. Not only was I a child who regularly listened to Korean lyrics, I was also an avid watcher of Japanese animated shows. Mix it all together and you get, well, an anime girl who sings foreign lyrics! I was just about used to that. Cute lyrics, misleading videos, dark meanings, and hair to die for – Vocaloid had it all for little seven year old me. Now though, as a teenager-slash-adult, the one thing that draws me back in to Vocaloid every single year, without fail, is that all the content in Vocaloid is fan-made.

Let’s look at mainstream pop: a song is produced by either the artist themselves or through another producer, but it will ultimately be sung by the artist. Some add choreographies, some make their own, some hire choreographers. Eventually, the songs will be released through an album or a single, promoted by their recording agencies who release their songs on music platforms such as YouTube or Apple Music, or Spotify. Vocaloid challenges this whole process of of song production and distribution, simply because there is no one entity that produces Vocaloid songs. Everything released is made by fans: the instrumentals of the song, their videos or PVs, the promotion, the animation–all that is provided is a voice bank which producers will have to tune themselves through synthesizers for Vocaloids to sing their lyrics.

Vocaloid is sustained by the Vocaloid community. If all Vocaloid users ceased to use Vocaloid, then Vocaloid would most likely cease to exist as well. Yet Vocaloid consumption is not stopping. Why? Well, that is because this is a profession for some. Some producers do shoot to fame. Some stay within the fandom. Some do not. Vocaloid can serve as a sort-of gateway for producers to be known in the Vocaloid community first, then branch out into other forms of music when they become famous enough. A prime example of this is Kenshi Yonezu, otherwise known as HACHI in Vocaloid circles, who created and sang the opening song for 2017′s hit anime My Hero Academia. Now, his songs are known and heard all over the world through the show, but before all that, he was first heard through Hatsune Miku in NicoNicoDouga (the Japanese YouTube).

Kenshi Yonezu was part of what the Vocaloid community liked to call their golden age, circa 2007-2011. This was around the time VOCALOID2 was released, following the success of the first Vocaloid engine. New voice banks were released: Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin and Len, GUMI, Gackpoid, just to name a few. This was also the time when many iconic songs came to bloom, songs like Meltdown, Just Be Friends, and World’s End Dancehall were released. However, some people (my one sister included) were reluctant to listen to these kinds of songs as many of them sounded... robotic. As VOCALOID2 is one of their earlier releases, its quality was reduced to its time. Many songs sounded clunky due to their syllabic nature, some were dripping with autotune, some played like a storyteller with an instrumental in the background. Yet, it cannot be denied that there were some strokes of genius within. Songs like The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku were sang at a speed which humans cannot recreate, to convey how Miku felt as self awareness dawned on her: this is her final song before she was deleted forever. The Night ∞ Series was sung in a musicalesque manner, with 8 voice banks singing in a four-part series to tell a recurring mystery. Due to its popularity, it was granted a three-part novel with fleshed out scenes and far more content than that of the videos. It was also granted a manga.

Vocaloid’s most recent releases is its VOCALOID5, with its numerous improvements, such as functions of breathing, whispering and growling. Song production in the Vocaloid community have become more realistic: you can hear them breath in, take a gasp of air before singing a line, vocals thin out towards the end to mimic real vocals running out of breath, growls are used for maximum human effect. A particular favorite song of mine is a cover of the song Fairytale by cillia, which sounded so human to me that I had a hard time believing it was actually a Vocaloid singing it. In the end, it all boils down to preference. Some people are inclined to the iconic robotic Vocaloid songs, some producers still use that clunky style in tuning, but every song will still have that Vocaloid magic in every syllable uttered.

Now, remember Kenshi Yonezu? HACHI within the Vocaloid circles? Recently (or three years age, more like), he released a song: Sand Dune. Surprisingly, it was sang by Hatsune Miku, for a community he abruptly left high and dry on his songs. It tells a message of the Vocaloid community dying, of Miku wandering a sand planet with nothing but memories of fame and her loyal fans following her. He hinted that producers will always leave the community eventually, stolen up by talent searches to create music elsewhere. The song is a bop, but he couldn’t be more wrong.

While Vocaloid isn’t at its greatest peak, with songs topping charts at NicoNicoDouga and booming every week or so, it is nowhere near the dwindling state he sings about. You’d be surprised at how many commercials Miku is in, at how animated, hologram figures tour around the world, selling out concert venues to play the songs their fans made. The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra conducts an event called the Miku Symphony to perform Vocaloid songs annually. Prior to the pandemic, Hatsune Miku was supposed to perform at Coachella. Can you imagine that? Thousands of people possibly raving to the songs of a girl with sea-green hair, too wide eyes, and her lithe body when she eventually stage-dives into the crowd below and vanishes–oh wait, right, she’s not real. But she has been a growing phenomenon for the past decade, golden age past or not, this community will continue to thrive for as long as fans will allow it. Many see Hatsune Miku as an upcoming and sensational future pop icon but for the pop stars made by Vocaloid, produced by Vocaloid fans, the future has already come.

#entry 4 #april 3 #there are also vocaloid songs in Filipino #mindblown

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Hatsune Miku's "MAGICAL MIRAI 2018" Official Album Releases in July of 2018

"MAGICAL MIRAI 2018", a concert and expo series featuring Hatsune Miku and her fellow Vocaloid virtual idols developed by Crypton Future Media, is heading to Osaka and Tokyo in August and September of 2018, and now new details have been revealed for the official album soundtrack for the event, including the release date and track list.

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The "MAGICAL MIRAI 2018" Official Album will be released in Japan on July 25, 2018. The two-disc set features a music CD with 10 tracks as well as a bonus DVD with 2 music videos, and it retails for 2100 yen ($19.12 US) including tax. The track list for the album is as follows:

DISC. 1 [CD]

01.) "Greenlights Serenade" by Omoi feat. Hatsune Miku ("MAGICAL MIRA 2018" official theme song)

02.) "Rettou Jouttou" by Giga feat. Kagamine Rin & Len ("MAGICAL MIRAI" Kagamine Rin & Len 10th anniversary theme song )

03.) "Viva Happy" by Mitchie M feat. Hatsune Miku

04.) "No Logic" by Jimmy thumb P feat. Megurine Luka

05.) "on the rocks" by OSTER project feat. MEIKO・KAITO

06.) "Dreamless Dreams" by Harumaki Gohan feat. Hatsune Miku

07.) "Attakaito" by halyosy feat. KAITO

08.) "Reverse Universe" by Nayutan Seijin feat. Hatsune Miku

09.) "METEOR" by DIVELA feat. Hatsune Miku (musical composition contest grand prize winner)

10.) Bonus Track (not yet revealed)

DISC. 2 [DVD]

01.) "Greenlights Serenade" by Omoi feat. Hatsune Miku (music video)

02.) "Rettou Jouttou" by Giga feat. Kagamine Rin & Len (music video)

The "MAGICAL MIRAI 2018" expo & concert series will be held from August 25 - 26, 2018, at the INTEX Osaka venue in Osaka, and from August 31 - September 02, 2018, at the Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall in Tokyo. For more information, please check out the official English language home page here.

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Official "MAGICAL MIRAI 2018" event page (Japanese version)

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Magical Mirai 2017 opinion

So, after watching the full concert I can say...I'm sad.

This could've easily been my favorite MM so far. It has an amazing tracklist and the idea to give some songs two background dancers is so cool and original! I hope they keep doing this in the future and didnt just invest into it for the anniversary. The special effects are great and the outfits are cute.

But sadly I wasn't there live so I have to live with the recorded footage and boy, whoever did the camera should get fired. We had some bad camera work at MMs before but this honestly beats it all. My main point of complaint is how they KEPT focusing on band members during Len's Dappou Rock more than during any other song to the point where the entire last chorus was just the guitarrist's face... but throughout the entire concert they keep zooming onto the vocaloids until you couldnt see anything but their faces and upper bodies, which looks, well, really bad considering they're holograms you're supposed to look at from afar. Seriously, what's the point? I can understand it during songs like Narisumashi Gengar but during Shake it, Dreaming Chu Chu with THREE vocaloids dancing or literally EVERY other song focusing on dancing? Yeah no lol. I can just hope they put different recordings on the official DVD, otherwise I can sadly only think of this concert with a bitter aftertaste.

If must have been an amazing experience live though.

#magical mirai 2017 #hatsune miku #vocaloid #live

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it literally took me until just now to realize the vocaloid magical mirai concert means magical future. i’ve known what mirai meant for years. i don’t know why this never sunk in.

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nerd-overload-blog1 · 7 years

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In the world of pop idols who become outlandish stereotypes of themselves after being chewed up and reformed by the music industry machine, why not have one that starts out a cartoon? Hatsune Miku, the teal haired, twin tailed anime mascot of a singing synthesizer application by Crypton Future Media has really taken on a life of her own, headlining concerts worldwide. Miku also has not been a stranger to the video game world appearing in a ton of games in both the Project DIVA and Project Mirai series– both of which are rhythm games, but Mirai gives Miku and friends a look based on their Nendoroid figures and is typically for the 3DS. So in the vast sea of existing Hatsune Miku-based rhythm game experiences all over Sony platforms, what makes this Project DIVA game, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone, stand out?

Well, to sum it all up in one word, content. This game has more songs in it than I’ve ever seen in a rhythm game– so many that they’ve split them into two separate packs, Future Sound, which has all the rock and dance songs, and Colorful Tone, where all the upbeat, happy, and cute songs reside. Each pack will set you back $29.99 (or save cash with the $53.99 bundle) getting you a tremendous amount of songs for your money and allowing you to pick one group of songs if there’s more you like there. Although perhaps a Rock Band style song store that lets you pick your Miku songs a la-cart would be the most consumer friendly approach, this way isn’t bad either. The cost of one video game nets you enough songs for like 3 separate games– all pulled from previous Miku games both Project DIVA, Mirai, and Arcade titles. All-in-all you end up with 100+ songs to play of all different types and difficulties. There are seriously just piles and piles of Hatsune Miku songs (and other vocaloids for that matter) waiting for you to tap buttons along with them.

Speaking of tapping buttons to songs, that’s the entirety of gameplay on offer from Project DIVA Future Tone. There’s no real surprises here and if you’ve played a Hatsune Miku game in the past, or any rhythm game really, you’ll know what to expect. Button prompts slide on screen and you press them in time with the music. Sometimes you just press the button, sometimes you tap it rapidly, sometimes you hold it for a bit. Sometimes the game wants a flick of the analog stick in a certain direction. It’s obviously nothing groundbreaking, but it’s fun, and you can’t fault the game for doing what it says on the tin. All throughout the song, Miku or one of the other vocaloids performs an animated routine in the background, unique to every song. Considering how many songs there are in this game, that’s a pretty impressive feat, especially when you consider the amount of customization options you have. When you complete a song, you unlock currency you can use to dress the different vocaloids up with a considerably large amount of outfits and accessories from glasses to street clothes to bathing suits, to SEGA themed gear (which was my personal favorite– of course I want to dress Miku up in a Sonic hoodie and sweatpants that say “Sonic” on the butt!). Speaking of SEGA themed gear, there’s also a handful of songs based on SEGA arcade classics like Afterburner and Outrun’s Magical Sound Shower which was a delight for me, someone who enjoys SEGA arcade throwbacks.

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone‘s downside, though? Well, your mileage may vary depending on how much you like Miku’s music. If you aren’t a fan of Hatsune Miku’s brand of music (as vast genre-wise as it may be) this isn’t going to do anything to change your mind, and I think the mostly generic, on the nose rhythm game gameplay isn’t going to entice anyone over to the Hatsune Miku fandom. In the end, though, if Hatsune Miku is your thing and you love pushing buttons on a game controller in time to music, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone is about as good as it gets.

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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone was reviewed using a download code provided by SEGA.

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone (PS4) [Review] In the world of pop idols who become outlandish stereotypes of themselves after being chewed up and reformed by the music industry machine, why not have one that starts out a cartoon?

#FEATURED #Hatsune Miku #Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone #Project DIVA #ps4 #Review #sega

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Vocaloid Spotlight: Miku Hatsune

Continuing on with my Vocaloid Spotlight series, today’s spotlight will now shine on the face of the Vocaloid brand. The First Sound of the Future herself: Miku Hatsune

Name: Miku Hatsune

Voice Provider: Saki Fujita

Debut: Vocaloid2 Engine

Release Date: August 31, 2007

Company: Crypton Future Media, Inc.

Character Item: Spring Onion (Often mistaken for a Leek)

Code: CV01

Age: 16

Height: 158cm

Weight: 42kg

Color: Blue-Green

Canon Info: Miku was the first Japanese Female Vocaloid for the new Vocaloid2 engine and the first Vocaloid of Crypton Future Media's Character Vocal Series. Her original concept was as an "android diva from a near-future world where songs are lost" though not a whole lot of fans pay attention to anything aside from the android part. As a part of the Character Vocal series, Miku has a full set of stats including her height weight and age, unlike MEIKO and KAITO before her. Aside from that and her theoretical concept, she has no canon info about her, which is basically how the fans and Crypton themselves like it. Due to her quick rise in popularity after her debut and Crypton subsequently making her the face of the brand, Miku is the first character that non-fans think of when they hear the word Vocaloid. She's the title character of the Project Diva video games published by Sega and headlines most Vocaloid based concerts, with the yearly events that Crypton throws for their Vocaloids mostly being about her. Without Miku, Vocaloid wouldn't be what it is today.

Fanon Info: The story behind how Miku became so popular in the first place basically boils down to Meme Magic. At the time there was a popular meme in the Bleach fandom involving a looped clip of Orihime Inoue spinning a comically big spring onion in her hand to the tune of Ievan Polkka. A NicoNicoDouga user decided to do their own version of this meme involving a superdeformed version of Miku (which would eventually be named Miku Hachune) spinning a spring onion to a Miku cover of the song. This version of the meme quickly overtook the original Bleach version in popularity, showing off Miku's potential for all kinds of shenanigans and thus ensuring forever afterward Miku's eternal association with Spring Onions/Leeks for better or worse. Her true first breakout hit, however, was "Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru (I'll Miku Miku You (For Reals))", which was appropriately a song about Miku introducing herself to the world. The rest is history.

Miku is generally portrayed as the archetypal female J-pop idol. A sweet and cheerful girl who loves to sing for her fans and always tries her best. Stock Shoujo Heroine tropes may also apply. Of course, because she's so popular this can vary between fanworks and are mostly influenced by her most popular songs, such as Melt (the song about a girl who has a crush on her childhood friend but is too shy to tell him) and World is Mine (the song about a spoiled tsundere girl who demands her love interest treat her like a Princess since he's her Prince), but the sweet girl who loves to sing for her fans and the producers who work so hard to make songs for her is the most prevalent.

My Take: Again, I'm going with the most widely used personality as a base for her, with the added responsibility that comes with her being the ship's captain and one of the Voices of Terpsichore, which essentially makes her a leader of her world in a way. She's got quite a bit of responsibility on her young shoulders and is determined to do a good job at it and face whatever challenges might be ahead. Essentially, along with Teto, she is the main protagonist of this AU.

#back stage ~ /ooc #;vocaloid spotlight series #voice of the future ~ /miku

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