[Hatsune Miku] Toyota Corolla Ads

Take a look to Toyota's new Ads for the new Corolla version! Featuring Hatsune Miku!

Dream Harmonic - Corolla + Miku: Big Dream

Corolla + Miku - Chitchat

Corolla + Miku - Hotdog

Corolla + Miku - Beauty Nap

Miku - Compact Flash Mob

Corolla + Miku - Render Room

[Happy Birthday!] Sonika and Tonio

Today we celebrate two Engloid birthdays:
● Sonika's second anniversary
● Tonio's first anniversary

Sonika is the fifth Vocaloid of Zero-G and the third Engloid released under the Vocaloid2 engine in 2009. She also has a Chinese version released on August 1, 2010 in Taiwan. The boxart shows Sonika in a different outfit.

Tonio is Zero-G’s sixth Vocaloid and has a professional male classical voice for opera. Tonio will also have a Tawianise release by E-Capsule, complete with a new design.Tonio has the software that offers the most up-to-date version of Vocaloid2 for English Vocaloids! Sadly, despite having a high quality voicebank, he has not received much attention among the Vocaloid community.

And a little present for all the readers!

[wowaka] 「Unhappy Refrain」 PV

2011年05月02日 19:00 投稿
Vocal: Hatsune Miku
Music: wowaka
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14330479

Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #197

This week's VocaRan has Gumi growing fast on the favorites and Miki is gaining ground on the chart too!

Like always, lots of Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin songs, which #23 is the new work of master wowaka 「Unhappy Refrain」, released on May 2nd!

Gumi and Miku's 「マトリョシカ」 is still pumping the ranking, hitting the #13 position.

Last week's #1 (Megurine Luka's 「魔女」) has droped to #7! That's a reasonable fall there, tuna lady!

Who doesn't remember the musics of the second Pickup? Such wonderfull songs!

And congrazzels for Len for owning the first place on this week's ranking!!

#3 - 「HERE」 - KEI feat.初音ミク
#2 - 「ハッピーエンドグレーテル」【初音ミクオリジナル】
#1 - 【鏡音レン】夢喰い白黒バク【オリジナル曲】

[wowaka] First Full Album 「Unhappy Refrain」

Vocaloid music master producer wowaka has his first full album, entitled 「Unhappy Refrain」, released on May 18th. Here's a crossfade PV:

Tracklist:
[Disc-1]

• 01 – 「アンハッピーリフレイン」 “Unhappy Refrain” (*New)
• 02 – 「ローリンガール」 “Rolling Girl”
• 03 – 「積み木の人形」 “Tsumiki no Ningyou”
• 04 – 「僕のサイノウ」 “Boku no Sainou”
• 05 – 「日常と地球の額縁」 “Nichijou to Chikyuu no Gakubuchi” (*New)
• 06 – 「テノヒラ」 “Te no Hira”
• 07 – 「とおせんぼ」 “Toosenbo”
• 08 – 「ラインアー」 “Lineart”
• 09 – 「裏表ラバーズ」 “Ura-Omote Lovers”
• 10 – 「グレーゾーンにて。」 “Grey Zone ni te.”
• 11 – 「ずれていく」 “Zurete Iku”
• 12 – 「リバシブルドール」 “Reversible Doll”
• 13 – 「ワールズエンド・ダンスホール」 “World’s End Dancehall”
• 14 – 「プリズムキューブ」 “Prism Cube” (*New)

[Disc-2] - ReMixes

• 01 – 「裏表ラバーズ」 “Ura-Omote Lovers” (reverse Edge mix by Captain Mirai)
• 02 – 「とおせんぼ」 “Toosenbo” (by acane_madder)
• 03 – 「ローリンガール」 “Rolling Girl” (by acane_madder)
• 04 – 「僕のサイノウ」 “Boku no Sainou” (dnb mix by Toku feat. Pagodes)
• 05 – 「積み木の人形」 “Tsumiki no Ningyou” (rnb mix by Toku feat. Pagodes)
• 06 – 「ずれていく」 “Zurete Iku” (postrock mix by whoo)
• 07 – 「ワールズエンド・ダンスホール」 “World’s End Dancehall” (dexholic mix by dixie flatline)

This two-disc album includes a collection of all his previously released material from NicoNico Douga/music CDs (all newly mixed) — as well as 3 album-exclusive tracks — and remixes from such producers as Captain Mirai and dixie flatline


「Unhappy Refrain」 went on sale May 18th from label Balloom — retail priced: 2500 yen (~22,16€).

[Vocaloid 3] New Voicebanks

AH Software:

They are planning on making voicebanks based on many singers. They also want to use Vocaloid to produce “different types of sounds”, not limiting them to only simulating singing. AHS plans to make Vocaloid “evolve”.

Crypton Future Media:

Crypton has enjoyed success so far with their current voicebanks, and are planning on keeping their existing voicebanks on Vocaloid2. There are no plans to re-release them on Vocaloid 3, but converting them to Vocaloid 3 will be free.

Internet Co., Ltd:

Internet Co., Ltd will be releasing a voicebank for VocaloRevolution’s CUL, who was voiced by VY1 until now. She will be voiced by famous seiyuu Eri Kitamura.

Gakupo, Gumi, Lily and Gachapoid will have a Vocaloid 3 update.

Internet is also releasing Megpoid Extend (tentative). Megpoid will have added four different types of voices: Power, Whisper, Adult and Sweet. It will be released on Vocaloid 2, but will also have a Vocaloid 3 version.

Power FX:

For Vocaloid3, they plan to release one new English-speaking Vocaloid.

YAMAHA:

The VY series will be updating to Vocaloid 3: Yamaha will sell VY1 for V3 and VY2 for Vocaloid 3. Both of them will be sold together with the full Editor.

YAMAHA will also be releasing a new voicebank based on Miu Sakamoto (daughter of legendary electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra‘s Ryuuichi Sakamoto).

Zero-G:

Zero-G has plans to release two new English-speaking Vocaloids.

[Vocaloid 3] New Features

Vocaloid 3 is coming this year at the end of September!


Features of Vocaloid 3:

• It will have better quality audio: longer samples will be used (probably similar to UTAU VCV voicebanks), sibilants such as /s/ will be less “metallic-sounding”, better /w/ sounds, smoother pronunciation including for fast-talking. The transition between different voice registers (low/high) will be smoother.
  
  
• It will be easier to use: there is an improved interface, with a new display of the different tracks similar to what can be seen on DAW‘s, audio files (for off-vocal tracks for instance) can now be imported, and it will now work as a VST host (it will be possible to add reverb and other effects).
• It will be possible to undo or redo any previous action in the Editor.
  
  
• It will be compatible with most of Vocaloid 2 voicebanks. However, there may be a price to import some of them.
  
  
• It will support these new languages: Korean, Chinese and Spanish (pinyin input for Chinese and hangul input for Korean possible). The Editor will also be localized.
  
  
  Vocaloid 3 works only on Windows XP/7, Kenmochi said they want to release a Mac version "as soon as possible" because it’s "very important to [them]". Also, he said that they could confirm it would work well, since they have already developed VocaloWitter (previously iVocaloid-VY1t), which runs on the iPad and iPhone’s iOS (which is derived from Mac OS X).
  
  Vocaloid 3 also features the Vocaloid Job Plugin. This is a function that will allow exterior plugins to control the Editor’s parameters and notes. At the moment YAMAHA is developing a Vocaloid Job Plugin version of Vocalistener, and will most likely sell it separately. They’re also considering making it compatible with English lyrics input, but they’re not sure they will make it on time.
  
  The price for Vocalistener hasn’t been announced yet. YAMAHA will also start granting licences for the synthesis engine itself so that it can be used in things such as PC games for instance. However, this awesome new VOCALOID3 Editor will actually be sold separately from the voicebanks, contrary to the previous versions. It will be sold on VOCALOID STORE; there is currently no price for it editor yet, but they think it will be around 10,000 yen (125 USD). A trial version of the Editor with limited features, called the “Tiny VOCALOID3 Editor”, will instead be shipped with the different voicebanks. Here are the differences between the different Editors (VOCALOID3/Tiny VOCALOID3).

[New Vocaloid] Ring Suzune and Lui Hibiki

The “Everyone’s Vocaloid Project” contest winners, as well as one of the voice providers have been announced at Vocaloid Festa 02. According to a tweet by raitori, two illustrations have been chosen. The following info come from the illustrators.

On the left:
VFS-01L Lui Hibiki (Original name: Lui)
Voice provider: N/A
Gender: Male
Age: 12 years old
Height: 155cm
Weight: 43kg
Observations: His arms and legs are very bright. Easily mistaken for a girl because of his graceful manners.

Lui's original illustration:

On the right:
VFS-01R Ring Suzune (Original name: the illustrator used the regular Japanese name ordering, but Yamaha changed it to a western one, given name first)
Voice provider: MiKA, vocalist of the band Daisy×Daisy
Gender: Female
Age: 17 years old
Height: 160cm
Weight: 44kg
Observations: Light-hearted, doesn’t have high aspirations, but she’s hard-working.

Suzune's original illustration:

Daisy×Daisy performed a Fairy Tail OP, “Evidence”.

[Vocaloid3] Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Korean Samples

It was announced by Ken Fujimoto, a jornalist for AV Watch and Digital Station, that the Spanish and Chinese Vocaloid3 samples were played during a secret party.


On of the features of the VOCALOID3 Editor is that you can make a full-fledged song by importing an instrumental track and applying reverb to the voice.

Please that neither the Spanish or the Chinese voicebanks have been announced yet and the voice providers who worked on these demos probably won't be chosen for the final voicebanks.

Click on the links below to watch the video samples.

Vocaloid3 sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STZUVYJjkfg&feature=player_embedded

Chinese Vocaloid3 sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9-JJG83Ahhs

Spanish Vocaloid3 sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-5GZLJNoXKw

Korean Vocaloid3 sample (voiced by Kim Tahi, developed by SBS Artech):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dWEgSWvgD9E

New Blog

Hello readers,

I have decided to start a new blog. The content will be the same of my old one, Ichigo's Cyber World.
If you are curious and want to check out my old blog, feel free to do so!

http://ichigo-cyber-world.blogspot.com/

This new blog will feature Vocaloid news and merchandise.

Take care.