hello!
i believe this is my first time posting on this forum, but i've been a member for a bit now. i was wondering if anyone had links to any music created with VOCALOIDs pre-Hatsune Miku, or before August 2007. this would include music featuring LEON and/or LOLA, MIRIAM, MEIKO and/or KAITO, or Sweet ANN. i'm especially interested in music featuring KAITO and MEIKO, i think it'd be interesting to hear what the community was up to at that point.
i do know about the song on "History of Logic System" which featured prototype versions of KAITO and MEIKO, but i was interested in music that regular users of the software created. i also know of an album that LEON was featured on that I believe was in Russian, and there was a MIRIAM album that came out during this time, yes? i don't remember that entirely.
artwork of the VOCALOIDs from this time would also be pretty cool but i'm sure that's much less likely to exist as VOCALOIDs were not really viewed as "characters", rather just synthesis programs.
anyways, i just think its interesting to look back on this era in the VOCALOID timeline as it was before it really took off and turned into the community it is today.
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update: i found a couple of videos from niconico that are from 2007, but before August. what's weird is there is one from March that has Kagamine Rin and Len in the title, but i'm certain they were not announced (especially len) until after Hatsune Miku, plus it doesn't sound like its using VOCALOID at all so someone must have changed the video title after they'd been announced or something lol
something i'm noticing is the songs are either covers of video game music or they are original songs by indie artists. what else i find interesting is how few numbers are in those nico URLs lol its also very clear that pre-2007 MEIKO was the most popular VOCALOID (this was already known as she sold the best initially out of all V1 products) as she is most used, in fact she's in every one of these videos.
its kind of interesting how serious VOCALOID was seen in the western world compared to japan. like very few people used the software in the west as it was marketed towards professionals only, and that usage usually resulted in a full indie-electronic album. whereas in japan while the software was still marketed towards professionals, the anime-esque artwork on MEIKO and KAITO's boxarts could appeal to a much wider, more casual audience, resulting in lots of people buying them and covering their favorite video game songs or just posting experimental original compositions as opposed to full-length produced albums.
i don't know i'm rambling now but its interesting how marketing had such a big impact on what audience was reached and what they created with the software.
i believe this is my first time posting on this forum, but i've been a member for a bit now. i was wondering if anyone had links to any music created with VOCALOIDs pre-Hatsune Miku, or before August 2007. this would include music featuring LEON and/or LOLA, MIRIAM, MEIKO and/or KAITO, or Sweet ANN. i'm especially interested in music featuring KAITO and MEIKO, i think it'd be interesting to hear what the community was up to at that point.
i do know about the song on "History of Logic System" which featured prototype versions of KAITO and MEIKO, but i was interested in music that regular users of the software created. i also know of an album that LEON was featured on that I believe was in Russian, and there was a MIRIAM album that came out during this time, yes? i don't remember that entirely.
artwork of the VOCALOIDs from this time would also be pretty cool but i'm sure that's much less likely to exist as VOCALOIDs were not really viewed as "characters", rather just synthesis programs.
anyways, i just think its interesting to look back on this era in the VOCALOID timeline as it was before it really took off and turned into the community it is today.
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update: i found a couple of videos from niconico that are from 2007, but before August. what's weird is there is one from March that has Kagamine Rin and Len in the title, but i'm certain they were not announced (especially len) until after Hatsune Miku, plus it doesn't sound like its using VOCALOID at all so someone must have changed the video title after they'd been announced or something lol
something i'm noticing is the songs are either covers of video game music or they are original songs by indie artists. what else i find interesting is how few numbers are in those nico URLs lol its also very clear that pre-2007 MEIKO was the most popular VOCALOID (this was already known as she sold the best initially out of all V1 products) as she is most used, in fact she's in every one of these videos.
its kind of interesting how serious VOCALOID was seen in the western world compared to japan. like very few people used the software in the west as it was marketed towards professionals only, and that usage usually resulted in a full indie-electronic album. whereas in japan while the software was still marketed towards professionals, the anime-esque artwork on MEIKO and KAITO's boxarts could appeal to a much wider, more casual audience, resulting in lots of people buying them and covering their favorite video game songs or just posting experimental original compositions as opposed to full-length produced albums.
i don't know i'm rambling now but its interesting how marketing had such a big impact on what audience was reached and what they created with the software.
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