VOCALOID Where to download the V4 editor?
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I agree with @Wario94. I could be wrong, but I haven't heard of any arrangement where buying a physical disc gave you access to the download version of the editor (or vice versa). Either way, if I remember right, V4 isn't an editor that Yamaha is selling anymore. I think you can still get it as part of bundles or something on third-party sites, but that would require you to pay for it again. It would probably be just as easy and cheap/cheaper to get a disc drive that you can attach to your laptop by USB cable or something.
I agree with the external disc drive idea - I have one for music CDs so I can rip them to iTunes. I don't think you get a free digital copy of any Vocaloid software if you buy the physical version, and only Internet Co. is selling V4 now (but only in bundles with their Vocaloids, I think). External disc drives aren't too difficult to set up either, since all you need is a USB port (or two - my disc drive requires two USBs to be plugged in to it at the same time. Clunky setup, but I only need it running for ten minutes or so).
Thanks guys, I didn't even know external disc drives were a thing!
You could also just get a Crypton V4. They're expensive, but they come with Piapro Studio, which is almost exactly the same as Yamaha's editor, except it doesn't allow Cross Synthesis, but it does allow advanced tone controls for Crypton V4's. The downside here is that I believe it will only ever support vocals from V2-4. You'd have to buy a hypothetical Crypton V5 to get a version 5 of Piapro Studio, and I know of no discounted upgrades.
Another alternative would be to get the V5 editor. Also expensive, but it has clearer output than V4 editors, and comes with several voice banks. I believe you qualify for a discount if you own Yamaha's V4 editor.
Another alternative would be to get the V5 editor. Also expensive, but it has clearer output than V4 editors, and comes with several voice banks. I believe you qualify for a discount if you own Yamaha's V4 editor.
Piapro Studio allows Cross Synthesis (XSY), but you're right about the current version of Piapro only supporting V2-4. Per the posts starting here in the Cryptonloid voicebank updates, collabs, & concert news (crypton_wat Twitter translations) thread, it looks like CFM is moving away from Yamaha and to a new engine they'll be developing, which will be a standalone version of Piapro (in the same vein as the standalone they already have for Miku Chinese). So they apparently won't be supporting V5 at all.
About that, there is no proof that Piapro Studio support V5 voicebanks.
For that, you would get Vocaloid4.5 Editor for Cubase. It's mostly the same as V4 Editor for Cubase but you could use actual V5 voicebanks alongside V2-V4 voicebanks.
You could get it when buying the either versions of Vocaloid5 Editor.
I'm a broke college student so I think I'll just stick to the external disk thing for now lol. But thanks much for your suggestions <3
There is also the option of someone lending you their laptop/pc with a cd drive allowing you to make an iso that you could put on usb and install on your pc
True!
My birthday recently passed though so I just asked for an external drive. Now Vocaloid is on my computer and all is well!
Thank you everyone for your help.