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Super random, but has anyone else noticed that redesigned Tianyi's dress kinda resembles a lotus? Other than that, I'm also a bit baffled by Yan He's redesign because it doesn't look like that much has changed between the original and new designs. Ling is an improvement, however.

I must admit, I was originally disappointed with V3 IA because she didn't sound much like Lia (who's voice I'm a big fan of), but overtime I came to appreciate how Vocaloid made IA sound distinct from Lia. CeVIO IA threw me for a loop because it's tonally close to Lia, and I've been hearing...

I don't mind the design, but I can see why other people are upset. It's the least 'Flower'-looking design we've seen so far (as in, it's very divorced from both V3 and V4 Flower's designs). For comparison, at least Miku NT's design takes cues from previous versions - Ci Flower doesn't seem to do...

There are some songs that are easy to remember in romanji (I.e. Senbonzakura, which admittedly doesn't translate too well into English), and others which are a nightmare to recall (I.e. Arifureta Sekai Seifuku, which I just refer to as Common World Domination). I do alternate between English and...

Is it okay for me to admit that I find people who insist on romanji song titles pretentious? It make it more difficult to even look up a song in the first place without an English translated title. It also doesn't help that some Project Diva games don't offer a fully translated title for some...

NFTs are trashy, but at this point so many individuals and companies are doing them that I've reached a stage where I've started turning a blind eye to such things. They're basically those multi-level marketing scams aimed at tech bros, and I'm now of the opinion that if you want to get involved...

I've recently been on a William Gibson kick - I've just finished off the Sprawl trilogy, though I do know a bit about Idoru from the Bridge trilogy and how it pretty much predicted Miku, albeit Gibson thought of AI for his virtual idols rather than a crowdsourced thing. If anything, Miku...

Comparing the new demo and the original song side by side, Sekai seems to have the same issue as Kafu where the VB sounds cuter compared to the VP. But knowing Kafu's situation, this was probably intentional. The tuning could also be a stylistic choice for that particular demo too.

The title is a very interesting question to this Miku stan, because I thought I would be able to answer it very easily, but in truth, I'm drawing blanks. I can tell you why I was originally drawn to Miku as a character when I was around 11-years old, though - her design plays to nearly...

Oooh, I like the design! It reminds me of the 1st Place girls, but way more boho than straight sci-fi.

I guess subscriptions could work for a vocal synth if people were allowed to treat VBs as more like long-term trials with a sub, alongside an option to permanently buy it later. Currently, vocal synths are too niche to pull off a sub-based model. Large corporations with staple software like...

Once again, Techno-Speech makes a questionable decision regarding CeVIO that I don't agree with. Considering the increasing amount of backlash against subscription and cloud-based gaming recently, and the ongoing hatred of sub-based programs, I can't see a sub-based vocal synth doing too well...

I'll add to this by saying AI should be the biggest new feature in V6, since it's obvious now that's where the future of singing synthesis is heading, and it could bring some attention back to Vocaloid if AI banks existed. (AI VYs, Cybers and V5 starters, anyone?) Of course, that depends whether...

Westerners have always been creeped out by voice synthesis in general, let alone singing synths - just look at some comments on any videos featuring the IBM 7094 singing 'Daisy Bell', or that one meme featuring Miriam singing "I feel fantaaastiiic~". (Admittedly, the latter is pretty sinister...

A massive shame about the NFT/crypto stuff, because I adore the character design. If anything, it's now being wasted on such a shady project.

I agree that the voice sounds like Flower, but without that "cotton balls in her mouth" sound she has on Vocaloid. Truth be told, I think it will be a new character that just happens to share Flower's voice type.

I like the idea behind Chris's voice type (suitable for RnB songs, and can pull off falsetto notes to boot), but in execution, he sounds like a male V5 version of Sonika without the attributes that made her charming. It's kinda hard to explain if you haven't heard him extensively. orz

Speaking as an old lady by this fandom's standards, it's weird for me to think that kids have been getting into Vocaloid through the more recent games. I can still remember when the very first Project Diva was announced, and I was pissed because it was on PSP and not the DS lol.

I played the hell out of it when it came out (because HOLY SHIT, a translated Miku game on a Nintendo system!), but since I moved onto the Switch a few years back, it's been sitting on my shelf. It's a PAL copy too, and PAL versions of Mirai DX have exploded in price on the secondhand market...