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I was gonna make a profile post about Mastodon after seeing what's happened to Twitter. Not planning to join just yet because I generally enjoy a quiet life on the internet with just a few accounts now, and I dunno how Mastodon will cope overall with its newbie boom, but I'm definitely keeping...

Her voice is so cute! I'm glad Dreamtonics are releasing more first-party banks with unique voices.

I feel a bit inclined to agree that the V2s that are still around should be sold at cheaper retail prices than currently. But on the other hand, V2s still come with the V2 program bundled as was the old standard, which is probably the main reason why they're still expensive. I think there are...

It probably doesn't help that Japanese users are still loyal to Vocaloid and CeVIO, and Vocaloid itself has just been upgraded to V6 with AI (including crosslingual) support. The English-speaking fandom used to rag on Vocaloid for being behind other synths in recent years, but now it's back in...

VocaDB already attempts to keep track of artist discographies, but it's not a host for content - if a song disappears, any links will simply go dead. I'd say preservation might be trickier for the vocal synth fandom because some producers might not want their stuff to be actively shared again...

Late to the party, but I've always relied on GIMP if I need to do something more strenuous than editing a screencap (I just use MS Paint for that lol). It's true that it has a clunky UI, but if you know what you're doing with the tools, you can create Photoshop-tier results. There are also...

My personal bias is for German, but realistically I can see V6 adding support back for Korean and Spanish, with SynthV following suit in the future. (I mean, Solaria already comes with a Spanish dictionary.)

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...