Now, Fukase's license is a turn off for me. If I were to buy such expensive voicebank I would like to be able to do commercial stuff with it from the get go. But on the other hand, many of us are hobbyists who won't ever profit from our music so his license might not be that big of a deal, for me it is a turn off but I totally get why someone wouldn't mind. And his package offers two solid voicebanks in two different languages...which are both objectively good voicebnks. Unlike Arsloid who has one pretty good japanese voicebank and two other low quality vociebanks that are useless outside of XSY which is pretty overrated to begin with in my opinion.
I keep wavering between these two, I don't know what I'll do about it. I REALLY like Fukase's voice tuned low, he sounds so good, like this:
But then I remember the license and think "Crud, what if I become a rich and famous producer and have to go through the trouble of contacting a Japanese company?!" I have contacted several Japanese companies for various reasons over the last couple years, I HATE writing business emails in Japanese. It takes me a long time to write and to read legal agreements. Even though all the replies so far have been good/timely from various Vocaloid-related companies.
I guess I'm worried about HOW you send them the money each time you make something. Personally, I want to make my own original characters for Vocaloid songs, but even if you do that, you still have to pay Fukase's handlers for using his voice! But his voice is good/useful because of being bilingual.... orz
For his design, I sort of like it but sort of hate it. I like parts of it (the fact that he's spooky, I like black, white, and red), but then I hate parts of it a lot (I hate his stupid hat, I hate that weird little guy grabbing on to him, I hate his cane).
For Arsloid, I didn't really care about him. But Green (yes, you) keeps trying to wear me down and make me like him and it's working. I really like how Green tunes him and makes him speak English, he sounds mind blowingly good and I keep thinking "Whaaaat?! He has this hidden potential!?!" If I got him, using him wouldn't be a problem because I have V4.
For his design, I don't really care that much for idol groups/their outfits (especially not his red pants), but other than that he's fine.
I can't decide who to pick or what I would do with either if I got them. (Trying not to think about either because I have too many Vocaloids and not enough skill to make music for them yet.)
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