No.1367
I had the idea to make a song about food w/ Sonika
No.1412
>>1409Sonika is just one of many sadly
They're letting all of their vsynths rot ever since V4 Sonika was cancelled
No.1413
Can someone explain to me why people are suddenly trying to meme sonika into relevance again? not that im against it she absolutely deserves it but this site isn't the only place, a minority of vocatwt is suddenly talking about her too and she sometimes gets brought up on the /jp/ threads in a sort of ironic way
No.1414
>>1413Sonika has cute design and voice…
and after she had her voicebank cancelled people realized her wasted potential
now will producers make something with her? it is unlikely, perhaps CircusP might if we are lucky, but the rest will stick with Miku or the EN SVS
No.1415
>>1413I think if she got popular again it could prove to vocal synth companies that cute girls can sell in the West too, instead of constantly giving us boring professional vocals with stock photo boxart, since she was inspired by the Japanese Vocaloids. I really wish Sonika V4 was a crowdfund
No.1420
>>1413Her voice and design are cute and she can sing in multiple languages
No.2166
aiSeNMa daughter or MTC2 son?
No.2167
I actually fear the day Sonika gets discontinued. She's already incompatible with V5/6 and Zero-G doesn't care for their loids anymore since V5.
No.2191
Why does Sonika have a lisp
No.2243
>>1413Because she was meant to be the english equivalent to Miku but Zero-G doomed her by recording her voice samples on a calculator and the western producers too by not making any songs with her.
(except Circus-P but at this point i dont think he cares about her anymore)
No.2244
>>2191It's not a lisp, she just had the disadvantage of being born in the United Kingdom
No.2997
Why did Sonika of all voicebanks become this site's memegirl?
No.3004
>>3000she really doesn't look british
No.3714
>>3713What does Skype have to do with sonika
No.3715
>>3714For years it's been a bit of an inside joke that sonika was recorded during a skype call with zero-g due to the low quality of the voicebank and how you can supposedly hear skype noises when she sings certain notes. It's been debunked already but people still refer to her as the Skype vocaloid.
No.3716
>>3713Skype was dogshit anyway. People could easily figure out your IP by typing in your username onto a website and the streaming quality was awful. I still prefer it over dicksword though.
No.3723
>>3717I don't think we should worry about Sonika yet. PowerFx died because it became Soundation and i assume Vocaloid was seen as unprofessional. Zero-G as far as i know hasn't pulled any stunts like this and out of all companies they seem like the one that was most in touch with fans. Again, they quit vocaloid following the cancellation of Sonika V4 and they haven't really touched any of their vsynth stuff since. They did discontinue LEON and LOLA a while back though so maybe I'm just coping and Sonika'a days really are numbered. But i dont see it happening this decade if it happens at all.
No.3728
>>1342I would genuinely consider buying her VB if I ever went back to legal
>>3723The V1s were canned due to lack of V2 cross-compat. V2s are waiting for all their codes to run out before nuking everything, but no new codes are being made. Zero-G is one of my favorite Vocaloid companies and they've made a lot of my favorite banks (Sonika, Miriam, Tonio, Leon, etc) and they still engage with fans, despite not wanting to return to synths. Maybe one day we'll get Zero-G to work on VSynths again, though I doubt they'll work on an actual Vocaloid. Maybe SynthV, or a meme tier competitor like Maghni.
No.3729
>>3728The only western company i'm aware of that develops synths for SV is Eclipsed Sounds, the rest are all Japanese or Chinese, so a SV upgrade for any of those banks seems highly unlikely. Developing for SV also costs a lot from what i've heard. As much as it hurts i don't think anyone would be willing to invest that much money onto something like Tonio SV. Now, Maghni on the other hand…
No.3734
>>3729Yeah, I was thinking they may do Maghni because they nabbed all the PFX banks (except Yohio, understandable but he's still one of my favorites alongside Big Al) but until Maghni releases to the public, I worry about the quality. The demos sound great, but I'm not risking anything after SV2
No.3736
>>3734Even if he hadn't said anything controversial i feel like a Hio update still wouldn't have happened. Heard the guy's a dick and recording the original voicebank was a pain in the ass.
No.3737
>>3736Ruby's VA was also a dick and made PFX quit Vocaloid so I'm shocked they got Ruby back. Maybe she grew up, whereas Hio didn't
No.3747
>>3743She is, I love her voice and design.
No.6421
>>1413She's was made in response to the success of Hatsune Miku. Zero-G wanted to make a cute idol girl for the English side of the community and that's how Sonika was created (that was, of course, before an actual English Miku voicebank had come out)
Unfortunately she never achieved much success even back when she released, so we kinda turned her into an unofficial mascot. You need to like Sonika to post on this website.
No.6426
>>6424yes, without question, but please don't do this AI slop stuff on my wife
No.6432
>>6424If she wasn't British i wouldn't think twice
No.6435
>>6422The notification sound being in Sonika's recordings was debunked a while back sorry anon
No.6436
>>6423I was the one who linked Fall Semester Dread in the original /rvr/ thread, it's a great song man
No.6452
the only person i've seen who knows how to tune sonika is unironically local vocap meaty
sad that he hasn't been making music recently though
No.6512
>>6490I’m so proud of her
No.6524
Everybody here wants her to succeed yet no one makes music with her? I don't get it
No.6537
>>6536I’d give it a shot but cannot guarantee success.
No.6634
Does sonika sound okay in the v4 editor? I’ve heard some v2 banks become thin-sounding.
No.6664
>>6634I have her and she sounds fine in V4
>I’ve heard some v2 banks become thin-sounding.How so?
No.7266
>>7264Wasn't it Aisenma by Circus
No.7304
>>7264Imagine being her voice provider
No.7305
>>7304Oliver had had it worse
No.7314
>>7264crying at the most recent comment
No.7373
>>7371Makes me wonder if the design contest had any rules regarding how Sonika should be drawn since a lot of the entries are based on her CGI draft but then you have a few of them that completely redesign her like this one.
No.7375
>>6651Aw this one is rly cute
No.7399
>>7371Can we repurpose this into a fanloid or something? The design is too good to go to waste
No.7400
>>7399a sonika fanloid sounds cool i'd be down
No.7402
We'd probably have to redesign it a bit to not make it identical
No.7404
>>7400How would you even make a fanloid based on sonika when you can barely modify v2's
No.7433
>>7404Low pitched Sonika with high clearness maybe?
No.7438
Can someone here who owns Sonika post the "Sonika Says" VSQ that comes when you install her?
No.7484
Sonika's birthday is in 4 days. A lot of SV voicebanks have been getting announced on the release dates of their Vocaloid counterparts this year so maybe we'll get lucky with Sonika. Start praying for an update.
Note: This post is pure copium
No.7538
>>74842 days left
Praying to manifest this for us anon
No.7539
>>7538Nothing ever happens
No.7608
>>7601Praying that we get something
>inb4 nothing No.7609
>>7608Best case scenario Vocatone purchases the rights to the ZGloids and we get Sonika on Maghni AI... if that's still being worked on
No.7613
>>7610maybe if we r lucky an anon here will do something for sonika on her birthday
No.7614
>>7613Not like we have any Zero-G employees lurking on /leek/
Or do we?
No.7615
>>7614I meant more-so a cover or some art from a drawfag, but that would be very cool
Much cooler than anything I could come up with in my brain lmao
No.7616
>>7615It would be cool to have a VCV UTAU with new Sonika art voiced by someone who sounds similar to Sonika but if that gets made you're in for a bad time like the guy who made the Miriam UTAU.
No.7617
>>7616Alternatively, you could do this exact thing LEGALLY by taking the design from a contest entry like
>>7399 suggested and turning it into an UTAU then naming it something different that isn't Sonika. At that point it's almost a fanloid of sorts though.
No.7618
>>7617This would be cool but good luck finding someone who sounds like Sonika
No.7624
>>7623I wasn't there when it happened but from what i could fidn: in 2019 some guy with a reputation for making illegal voicebanks and selling them was upset that Zero-G wasn't updating Miriam so he got in contact with Miram Stockley herself to ask if he could make an UTAU using samples taken from the original voicebank and she allegedly said it was okay. Then he made a shitty CV and started distributing it. He was apparently also a big douche who couldn't take criticism, stalked and attacked people. Zero-G eventually responded but I'm not sure if action was taken.
https://x.com/ZERO_G_LTD/status/1154348356547858432 No.7633
Happy birthday to the green one.
As expected, nothing happened.
No.7644
>>7633What did you expect to happen
No.7666
>no sonika announcement
sad
No.7674
>>7673
Why is this in the Sonika thread
No.7677
>>7674He's a misogynistic crossposter from 4/jp/, unfortunately. Spams the board with anti-woman shit every few days. Looks like he found us.
No.7679
>>7673
meds
No.7707
>>7696I wish Zero-G had done something with this design.
No.7824
>>7438bump, i still need this
No.8071
>>7617I would love this but we ran out of voice providers and drawfags as you can see in the new "/leek/ makes a voicebank" thread.
No.8191
>>8159Damn, rest in peace.
No.8192
>>8159Rest easy big guy. Thanks for giving us *the* Sonika theme song and Luan and Lucia even if they were never officially released.
No.8435
Thinking about sonika and the wplace thread and how she was actually going to get a new voice but Yamaha never went through with it and I’m confused because they even chose a voice provider… so what went wrong?
Also, does this mean if someone had rachie do a vcv voicebank for utau we could get some form of equivalent of how a v4 sonika would sound, since they wanted to have her voice the newer sonika?
No.8436
>>8435Yamaha cucked Zero-G by dropping V5 out of nowhere basically
No.8437
>>8436Yeah but why? Clearly they’ve made voicebanks with the company before so what made the newer sonika get dropped
No.8438
>>8436And then nobody liked V5. A classic tale.
No.8441
>>8438On top of that V5 barely had any voicebanks (though the ones it did have were good) and came out around the same time as SynthV
No.8444
>>8436What was even the point of V5 anyway
No.8445
>>8444The V4 engine was outdated in various aspects by the time it released. It came out in 2014 yet looked visually indistinguishable from V3 and V2 and it functioned pretty much the same way too. So I assume V5 was them trying to rush out a "better", modern version.
No.8446
>>8439Am I stupid? Is Gynoid not third party
No.8450
>>8444Rush job to try and compete with realism/AI engines. I would consider it failed.
No.8451
>>8450Isn't that what V6 is? V5 was before the AI era i think but i could be wrong
No.8879
The @vocatone_oliver Twitter account recently followed the inactive Sonika account. I don't think they were following it before. It's probably nothing but I want to believe...
No.11469
July 2026. Trust.
No.11474
damn i kinda miss when this site had an obsession with sonika
No.11478
>>11474>HadShe's literally in the banner
No.11520
2026 will be her year for sure
No.11708
Reminder that we could've gotten Rachie as the VP of Sonika V4
No.11729
>>11708Kind of petty but I still have some grudges towards her cause of the Hazuki no Yume drama kek
No.11730
I know nothing about rachie
No.11731
>>11730Vocaloid cover artist. Her and Jubyphonic used to be huge in the 2010s. No idea if either of them are still active.
No.11736
>>11731yep, both are active. juby's last cover was a week ago and rachie's was a month ago.
to my surprise, a couple years ago i learnt that jubyphonic does professional voice acting for stuff like anime dubs. it was strange to me because i only knew her for her english covers lol
No.13399
2026 will be her year
No.14987
>>2166MTC2 is funny but Aisenma is genuinely good
No.14988
>>6490Lol you can see /otn/ in this screenshot
No.14996
>>14988Maybe one day we'll see /otn/ again
No.16209
>>6536We should do this or something like it. Maybe as a contest?.
No.16262
The "potential man" of Vocaloids
No.16267
>>16266Unfortunately accurate
No.16270
>>16266The V4 one might unironically be true when you consider that Rachie was meant to be her voice provider and she was extremely popular during this era of Vocaloid
No.16271
>>16269Aisenma is somewhat known but I think the hentai song might be her most popular lol
No.16273
>>16270Still funny to me that we could've had Indonesian Sonika when V2's whole thing is that she's a Brit
No.16275
>>16269that song is more than 10 years old at this point. i love it dgmr, but we need new shit.