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Remember before the Meikas came out, how we were wondering if Kotori was really the voice actress for a new Gynoid Vocaloid we were speculating back in February? And that she was supposed to be in a metal duo called Dual Alter World (aka DAW) (so we weren't sure if the Vocaloid she had would be a rockin'/metal-rific Vocaloid or not and wondered if she really would be screaming in the metal band).
Well, I've been following Kotori on Twitter since February and DAW finally posted their first music video... So I'm gonna link it in here, even though it turned out to be completely irrelevant to the Gynoid Vocaloids we ended up getting, just so I can feel like I didn't waste 5ish months of my life waiting and checking her Twitter. >>;
Well, I've been following Kotori on Twitter since February and DAW finally posted their first music video... So I'm gonna link it in here, even though it turned out to be completely irrelevant to the Gynoid Vocaloids we ended up getting, just so I can feel like I didn't waste 5ish months of my life waiting and checking her Twitter. >>;
Another article about Miku & vsinger in China from Global Times (state ran agency) Vsinger idols are gaining popularity in Chinese market - Global Times
I'm not sure if this is the right place, or if this deserves its own thread, but yesterday, on the official Piko Twitter, it was announced a hiatus due to a "end-stage kidney disease". :(((
Apparently it's serious enough to need a kidney transplant. He has already undergone surgery, and needs dialysis three times a week.
His full statement on twitter is in pictures, so I can't translate it. Maybe I can transcribe it later, but I can't promise anything.
ANN link
Twitter link (japanese)
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Apparently it's serious enough to need a kidney transplant. He has already undergone surgery, and needs dialysis three times a week.
His full statement on twitter is in pictures, so I can't translate it. Maybe I can transcribe it later, but I can't promise anything.
ANN link
Twitter link (japanese)
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If it helps there's already a translation of his message including some replies from fellow Utaite circulating about Twitter:
It seems he will recover from the sound of things and for now will be on hiatus. So it looks to be a good end.
It seems he will recover from the sound of things and for now will be on hiatus. So it looks to be a good end.
Wow that's good to hear. Glad he's recovering well. At first I misread that last line as "It seems he will never recover" and was really confused why you said "good end" that way asldfkjasldf. I was really scared for a minute!!
That was really messy/hard to translate in proper English. Zunko is reminding us all of the engines she's on. And then she teases that Kiritan will have a singing voice (she currently has one for UTAU) for a new engine worked on by M. Morise.
M. Morise's full name is Masanori Morise and he is a researcher who worked on STRAIGHT and WORLD. To my knowledge, STRAIGHT is a speech analysis and synthesis framework that can be used by the public (not commercial use)
WORLD is superior to STRAIGHT (uses less computing power) for real-time singing synthesis that is supposed to be as natural-sounding as the input speech. It is a vocoder. CeVIO and UTAU both use WORLD for their engines.
M. Morise's Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_morise
I assume the research is to turn a version of WORLD into a commercial real-time voice converter?
Kind of depressing, but CeVIO got rid of Satou Sasara's website (it now redirects to the CeVIO website). This was the old URL: さとうささら.com
I liked looking around on her site to see the artwork. OTL
I guess it kind of feels like they have given up on making Sasara a thing. Unless they have some new plans and might make another website and don't want to pay for 3 domains? (Hoping for CeVIO 7.)
If you felt like it, I guess you could go on Wayback Machine and grab whatever art you liked best...provided the links still worked and all, of course.
The reactions Yuu got when she revealed that she is Luka's voicer to Luka cosplayers is something else
At the start of the video
At the 10 minute mark. She also reacted to a few vocaloid itashas too in that video.
At the start of the video
At the 10 minute mark. She also reacted to a few vocaloid itashas too in that video.
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Tianyi was one of the MCs at a artificial intelligence performance event at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Beijing
You can see video from this from a state agency at the :24 mark at this page AI concert wows Shanghai audiences
You can see video from this from a state agency at the :24 mark at this page AI concert wows Shanghai audiences
English language interview of the Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai band:
jrocknews.com
Interview with Hatsune Miku band at Magical Mirai 2019
JROCK NEWS spoke with the Hatsune Miku band who played at Magical Mirai 2019. Find out what it is like to perform with a virtual singer!
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I kind of dropped out of the fandom for a short period of time when V5 was announced and happening and I hadn't paid any attention to it. Now that I'm reading about all the V5 news....It's really sad imo.
Hardly any vbs being released, Cryptons moving away from vocaloid entirely, internet co. not updating anybody....what is it about V5 that makes it so unappealing to companies?
Almost feels like Yamaha shoulda stuck with V4....
Hardly any vbs being released, Cryptons moving away from vocaloid entirely, internet co. not updating anybody....what is it about V5 that makes it so unappealing to companies?
Almost feels like Yamaha shoulda stuck with V4....
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Yamaha was already really restrictive with what companies could and couldn't do, allegedly (they're supposedly the reason Miku's had so many updates in comparison to the rest of Crypton's lineup - she makes the most money). With V5, they tried going back to the original concept of Vocaloid: a serious program for professional musicians. In the process, they disregarded a maaaaasive chunk of their audience who made Vocaloid what it became in the first place: hobbyists and amateurs. As if to drive the point home, they jacked up the prices, got rid of free trials, made V5 files incompatible with VSQ, made it almost impossible to use on computers that aren't expensive and heavy-duty... I feel like they kinda spit in our face, really. Or maybe I'm just taking it too personally.
A lot of companies were already drifting before the switch to V5. Most Japanese V4s, depending on the company, come with assortments of new music-making software, and then of course there's Piapro Studio. It's kind of sad, but it's still refreshing to see companies standing beside both their creative freedoms and that of the non-professional users like us.
A lot of companies were already drifting before the switch to V5. Most Japanese V4s, depending on the company, come with assortments of new music-making software, and then of course there's Piapro Studio. It's kind of sad, but it's still refreshing to see companies standing beside both their creative freedoms and that of the non-professional users like us.
After seeing V5's performance and the fan reaction to it, I feel like Yamaha should have stuck with V4 for longer and tried releasing some updates for it which include V5's features (because some of them were asked for for years before V5 and the fans really like them, but the hardware requirements and the more complex interface seems to be really putting people off buying it.)
That's what vocaloid always was though, don't get the wrong idea.