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Cannot WAIT for more genre specified vocals for this engine... long overdue. I think Eclipsed will do a great job. Hoping very very very very much that these fellows have good character designs. Too early to pass any judgement but the videos make me wonder what's going on there. I think it's...

I think the ultimate resolution of this saga is very telling with regard to the SynthesizerV engine itself and Dreamtonics' goals with it as a product. First of all, to me it's very clear that the goal for KAFU 'The Right Stuff' was far beyond a port and that the intent was to push the envelope...

Totally makes sense. I understand the implicit frustration here of past information and public announcements being so disparate and random, but that’s precisely why I thought it was important to ask for clarity as to where things stand today from the new management’s perspective. Thank you!

Thanks for stopping by! As long as you're here, a couple of clarifying questions about some things you've mentioned: The "Maghni Moment 1" video, where the revised timeline was shown, promised 5 languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, and French) + 5 unannounced languages developed in...

Holy shit

Right. I'm completely on the same page with you here, I think. The complete opacity of the project and its communication has not worked to its' benefit. The statement has historically been that public transparency is a fine line to walk for a commercial project, but ultimately, they chose to...

So, we are approaching the end of December. Since we're approaching the end of the year, it seemed like an appropriate time to check in on the ongoing vocal synth projects. Here are my observations. 1) (Almost) All of the verifiable milestones provided for 2024 were missed. The last formal...

More than any parameter in a vacuum, I really think the root of the problem here is probably SynthesizerV’s extremely poor rendering capability for soft and whispery voices. Aspirations alone are generally nice, but otherwise the engine noise is incredibly noticeable in these applications.

Not surprised about the Aurum news, I cannot recall for the life of me if this rumor can be attributed anywhere but I remember reading, somewhere with regard to information pre and early Maghni, that Aurum's VP wasn't a professionally trained singer. That's never an automatic out for producing a...

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It IS a nakige.

I completely missed the chatter about this entity being an NFT outfit in the past somehow, and man that's unfortunate. Re-contextualizes so much of what has been said in a not so good way that is pretty copacetic with the idea of "a grift". In fairness, the public perception surrounding NFTs was...

I actually like the simplistic and easy to read design… this has all of the hallmarks of a 2020’s amateur JP startup to me so I’m not personally alarmed about legitimacy, but we’ll see quality-wise what ends up happening.

It sounds so much like Oktavia, I was genuinely astounded. Really really pleased with how it sounds. Wow. The design is a lot… I think it’s probably too much. Having trouble “figuring it out” for lack of better terminology. Not the strongest synth design. Though I do like the concept of her...

I really hope it materializes eventually. I think having both the cross-synthesized option and a concatenative NT bank would be extremely cool. I wonder though if Crypton will or does perceive concatenative technology as something embraced by the majority of the English-speaking community for...

For now I don’t think it’s in the books. They said in the magimirai presentation that V6AI Miku is filling the English niche for Hatsune Miku. So while it might happen eventually (and hopefully it does) right now they are positioning V6AI as the English product, not NT2.

My inkling is that they are genuinely struggling with Luka on their technology. The sole reason for that being how precisely the issues users are complaining about with Luka SP mirror the repeated issues of Luka NT within the context of her Project Sekai demos. This is purely speculation, but I...

This analysis in particular would not reveal anything about that. We would need to perform a similar analysis on the NT data. If this is a point of concern, the best I might be able to provide is a comparison of frequency data between Miku SP and Miku NT samples. As you imply, because Luka NT is...

Hi friends, I heard some buzzing secondhand that concerns have been floating around about Luka SP reusing audio data from Miku NT on their high pitches. This had me concerned that something explicitly anti-consumer was going on here, so I decided to perform some frequency analysis to get to...

The last demo was ridiculously impressive from a technical perspective. I am not interested in the e-girl/e-boy/tiktoker vibes of the character designs at all, and I personally don’t know if these register as “character vocals” to me, so I’m not the target demographic, but again I was really...

Has Kadokawa stated they are going to pay the ransom? I would be surprised if they opt to pay the ransom.