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I can see Una getting an AI VB next because Internet supports her a lot. Gakupo and Lily haven't been updated beyond V3, but I wouldn't say AI VBs would be impossible for them. Their VPs are famous so it might be too expensive to regularly update them, or perhaps they're too busy to record new...

I pop out shopping this morning only to be greeted with the news at lunchtime that V6 and Gumi AI are things. I'm glad Internet still cares about Vocaloid at this point lol. Is there anything about backwards compatibility for previous Vocaloids? I presume V3s can still be used in V6.

I joked about Yuma sharing his name with VY2, but I didn't think any corner of the fandom would actually blow up over it, let alone the Chinese fandom. Though I understand people getting upset about Dreamtonics deleting comments, even if they were nasty ones, because it looked like they were...

So I'm guessing if Takahashi Talk does well, they might feel confident enough to create a Song bank for him?

When I wandered into the fandom way back in 2008, Miku and Vocaloid were exploding like crazy and outsiders were extremely confused as to what it was actually about. Technology-wise, vocal synth software was pretty choppy in terms of phoneme transitions and had a long way to go before VBs...

Did anyone else think VY2 got ported to SynthV when they saw the title? Lol. When I first heard Yuma, I immediately thought he would be a likely future candidate as a "fangirl bait" VB. (If the first party SynthVs had traditional avatars, I could see him having a pretty boy popstar design.)...

Had to go look up PeerTube just now, but a vocal synth community running on a decentralised/open source platform that's already been coded would be cool! Speaking as someone who's owned a YouTube account for around 13 years now, I've experienced all sorts of problems on there, ranging from the...

VocaDB sort of does this already, but it's far more like the Vocaloid equivalent of Discogs rather than anything that encourages community discussions. (It's very handy for looking up and keeping track of what songs and albums producers have released, however!)

I miss the days of sites like dA being massive fandom hubs, despite their reputation of being cringe. Tumblr was something of a last stand against an increasingly centralised internet as it still embodied that 2000s fandom spirit, but the userbase quickly gained a... reputation, so to speak. And...

I was still really little back when everyone was struggling to access anime in the late 90s and early 2000s, but I did see all the entry-tier stuff like Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, etc. since I was lucky enough to have Sky satellite. I did notice a change by the late 2000s though - at...

The centralisation of the internet to something like three or four big social media platforms, along with algorithms that favour short content, has killed off a lot of aspects of old school internet that Vocaloid initially caught the tail end of, yet still thrived on. I should probably explain...

V5 goes back to Yamaha's original intention with Vocaloid way back in V1, in that it's aimed at more professional producers rather than hobbyists like V2 to V4 were. Considering how the Western fandom originally sprung up from masses of fan content, that decision has alienated them from Yamaha...

I was originally wondering if the wrong song was used for their beta demos because of how strained they all sound on the high notes, but sheesh. It's definitely a... sound. Lol. It almost reminds me of a worse, pitchy version of CeVIO.

Apologies for reviving an old thread with a reply to my own post, but I've been doing some more thinking on this subject since I originally wrote it up. I wouldn't say my views have done a complete 180, but I have developed more of a nuance regarding it. I think the biggest mistake I made...

The only thing I don't like about Tsudumi's design is her name being on the sleeves of her... jacket? Or are they detached sleeves separate from the rest of the outfit? It's a trend I've hated for ages in current fashion, so it's just a personal preference. (New headcanon: Tsudumi is so...

I don't think "vindicated" is the right word to describe this opinion at all (since it sounds super-fangirlish on my end), but after seeing the recent technical issues with SynthV, the odd business decisions related to CeVIO and the struggles of other engines such as Piapro NT, Maghni and...

I totally agree with this section of your post - unless we start educating Japanese fans and companies as to why NFTs are a bad idea, more NFT projects will just spring up in the vocal synth fandom. The Western and Japanese fandoms have long been "walled" and kinda closed off from each other...

Controversial opinion on vocal synths and NFTs: As much as I agree with almost everyone else in the fandom that associating with NFTs is shitty, it doesn't actually put me off from listening to a VB. Am I miffed about IA and Lapis being associated with NFTs? Yes, very much so. Will I stop...

I agree with the second theory that Miku being the most popular means her fans are more likely to listen to tracks from new producers. Why take a massive risk with a more obscure VB when you could use Miku and get some attention from her fandom? I also think part of the reason so many producers...