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I must admit, Haru is fast becoming my favourite Kamitsubaki VB, mainly because she doesn't sound as pitch-shifted and "moe-fied" as the other girls. I really like her rap capabilities too, so I hope we get more demos showing that off.

Wait a min, is this about Kanru Hua?

I'm personally of the opinion that VBs should be divorced from VPs (I mean, people still like SeeU and Yohioloid despite the controversies surrounding their VPs), but I still appreciate that info coming to light. Dreamtonics is definitely one of those companies that aren't deeply into ethics...

If there's one other issue I can hear with Ninezero so far (aside from people not liking his tone), he sounds like he's constantly shouting in the demo. Of course, Dreamtonics almost always posts terrible demos that undersell their VBs, so it could be a case of poor internal usage. But he's...

The name is definitely a wildcard after all the "normal" names we've had for the letter VBs so far. It's also cool to see a VB with an English accent that isn't American or British. (The VP is Australian). I'm definitely hoping he can pull off lighter metal genres too.

I was trying to think who the voice reminded me of, and someone on Twitter said he sounded like Jack Black as a voice synth. Now I can't unhear it!

In all fairness, similar restrictions have appeared for previous vocal synths, such as the Cryptonloids. They mainly operate as a failsafe measure, just in case an extremely controversial or inappropriate song gets too viral to the point it begins to damage the image of a company. There's tons...

This was what I was trying to say in my original post. Truth be told, most if not all fandoms are experiencing the curse of parasocial relationships now - yanno, fans treating creators and companies like their best buddies, when they really don't know anything about them at all. It's really...

So this kinda relates to the recent Dreamtonics drama, buuut... Does anyone else find it weird how parasocial the relationship between the fandom and the various companies and dev teams has become? It might just be a result of the Western vocal synth fandom skewing so young and me getting too...

I'm not familiar with her UTAU VBs, but listening to her SynthV VBs, I don't think she stands out a whole lot among the other Chinese voicebanks, barring perhaps Solid.

I literally made a prediction in the 2023 Vocal Synth Predictions thread that German support would become a thing in commercial synths, then a German dictionary using English phonemes drops for Asterian and Solaria. It's nowhere near the same as SynthV having native German support, but I'm happy...

This probably says a lot about my taste in Vocaloid music, buuut... Shu-t. He's an OG when it comes to Vocaloid (he started back when the V1s were still available), and he's still probably the most famous Meiko producer. 'Cradle of Destiny' blew my mind way back when I was still a noob to the...

I like how so many people here are predicting the fall of Piapro NT based on how little to no news we've received on it this year. Saying that, I can kinda see Crypton doing a u-turn and dropping a surprise announcement of a Miku V6 with AI and cross-language support. That would bring NT back to...

I normally don't attempt to make predictions on these threads because I'm terrible at guessing the future (a great case in point, the sudden appearance of V6), but I'm gonna throw in my wild card - with the rise in mainstream awareness and popularity of vocal synths in the West, eventually a VB...

It definitely feels like a throwback to the V2 era of character driven VBs, with the key difference being that even English companies are getting in on it this time. In the past, I don't recall English companies paying so much lip service to the fandom, aside from eventually jumping on the...

I think what annoys me about these fake/joke VBs is that the vocal synth fandom has long been marred by misinformation and fake info, especially in the Western fandom. Way back in the early days when Vocaloid was the only successful commercial synth and people only cared about the Cryptonloids...

I know character profiles still exist for some modern VBs, but this really took me back to the late 2000s/early 2010s golden age of Vocaloid, when nearly everyone was inspired by Miku and tried to create characters that were beyond just being representations of a voicebank.

Theatrical reminds me a lot of Tonio, but in a good way! I also really like Gentle.

It's probably worth mentioning that Vocaloid's engine also renders its VBs in a way that gives them a distinct sound, to the point that some people have complained about VBs sounding too "Vocaloid-y" or obviously artificial in the past. It's hard to explain as well, but the simplest way to put...

At the very least, it's some proof that SeeU and Uni aren't dead as VBs. Active development may have completely fallen off, but at least they will still be sold and promoted for the foreseeable future.