No.20450
Cute promo image.
>a gathering of vocal synth enjoyers
Has it really gotten to a point everything is meme speak? Nothing wrong with the term "fan".
No.20451
>>20450People used 'enjoyer' before it was a meme but i get your point, fan rolls off the tongue better
No.20453
>>20451Yeah though it was used more naturally in a sentence. It sounds quite odd sometimes how it is used now and yeah "fan" is just smoother to say.
No.20454
How long has this been a thing for? Because i recall hearing about Vocagathering a couple years back or maybe it was last year. I didn't know what it was and assumed it was an Eleanor Forte event for whatever reason. I'll probably make something for it next year i like the idea.
No.20456
>>20451I mean it's not particularly wrong
Enjoyer just means you enjoy something
No.20504
>>20454since 2025 if their website is any thing to by
No.20549
>>20504I thought it had been around for longer
No.20638
Here we go
No.20643
Did any of /leek/'s VocaP's join?
No.20644
>>20643Not really, had i known the date beforehand i would've made something but i'll have to wait til next year
No.20645
>>20644hey meat this is probably the only chance i'll have to ask this so what vocap's influence you (and non-vocaloid artists if any)
No.20648
>>20645I don't have a definitive answer but i've been listening to Qu-P, dead space cadets, rusino, beat_shobon and MonochroMenace recently
>and non-vocaloid artistsSame as above but Café Tacvba, Sneaker Pimps, Antihoney, Kanye West, ROUND TABLE, etc to name a few
No.20653
>>20643I would, but what I'm working on is nowhere near done and wouldn't qualify on a technicality since I composed the base melody in 2020 and foolishly released an ancient version in 2021. Still, the instrumental (6 minutes long!) is finally done though I may revise it later, now I just have to think up the lyrics. Which might take me awhile admittedly, then I have to work on the PV and draw. This time I want it to ACTUALLY LOOK GOOD.
As for the vocalist, I'm torn between a few, but definitely either Yohioloid, Kiyoteru, HXVOC, or a whotau.
No.20678
I think vocagathering has started
No.20685
>>20681i saw this and liked it but didn't know someone from here had made it
very cool
No.20697
>>20681i don't think ive ever listened to your music before so this is a nice introduction
No.20698
>>20697This is actually quite different from what I usually make, but I'm glad you like it regardless!
No.20731
Are you only able to vote on the discovery page?
No.20738
>>20731Yeah, I plan to mention that they need to put another way to vote on the site when the feedback survey goes up. The number of songs submitted this year is 3x last year's already. The discovery page also seems to have some sort of caching problems because some people have reported not seeing a select amount of songs in it either.
No.20740
>>20738That does seem to be an issue since if you heard it outside the site then you can't just find the song and vote for it. Though I suppose it is possible it is done this way in attempt to avoid people trying to use social media to ask for votes. Im not sure.
No.20741
>>20740I assumed they did that to prevent vote rigging
No.20757
>>20741You can only vote once so there’s already something in place.
No.20758
>>20757Cookie based or IP based?
No.20779
>>20758Might be cookie-based.
No.20790
Post faves NOW
No.20803
>>20790Honestly, I was pretty disappointed by many songs this year, but here's a few that stood out.
https://youtu.be/Mokev46ZjKQ?si=xda8GmOrWnv9MuIAJust Spiraling - K.A.I.N. ft. Teto & Yi Xi
https://youtu.be/hpmhAmzoWjs?si=RJoy0thIGtvZRfHPThe Highlander - StardustLegend ft. Solaria
https://youtu.be/kx0AGRLV89Y?si=T9EcAZVYUTsbaGf5Saints of Sacrilege - Rai ft. Yi Xi
https://youtu.be/jAb04wkRTa4?si=OlmXlZkwMlPfAuEeNew_Project (Roots of Sidr) - Carbon Monoxide & RIProducer ft. Solaria
https://youtu.be/z5CerLxBIkI?si=ulY5ap6meUX02JWXCan You Stand It? - Undecided ft. Solaria & Saros
https://youtu.be/-xm61Z8zER0?si=yLf-gu8YL2_hjIR-Stickman - Takoyaki Donuts ft. Utatane Piko
I've only seen a couple songs using Vocaloid, but outside of TD's Stickman, they either weren't mixed well, or circumstances put a bad taste in my mouth. Still, they work as honorable mentions.
https://youtu.be/4-QtK09Lfdk?si=RgzbZgpNvb21wz2lFeedback - MonochroMenace ft. Megurine Luka (This one actively makes me mad despite liking the song because it comes off like cheating, only allowed to submit due to a loophole)
https://youtu.be/Ff_ppNRkcMo?si=-nCH9F9gyY6gaTOUExist - Null Akuma-P ft. Utatane Piko (Probably my favorite type of Vocaloid song, however the mixing leaves a LOT to be desired. Still, the melody is really good)
No.20806
>>20803>only allowed to submit due to a loopholeAnd it was made by a huge producer too.
I'm not saying big producers shouldn't be able to submit but when the idea of the event is having small producers be noticed it becomes a problem.
No.20808
>>20806It's a very aggravating part of the rules that was overlooked. Next year I hope they have separate categories for big & small producers, or at the very least have either a time limit on submission start times or a ban on submitting anything from another contest as a way to prevent this from happening a third time in a row.
>>20807Still got second place, which is very aggravating but better than last year. I actually haven't heard the number one song, good for that producer though.
No.20809
I thought the winning song was good but I don't know if I'd call the producer a whoducer, their most popular song has 1M and they've collaborated with another big producer on a cover.
That being said though my actual favorite song this year was Gaizer's. It feels like the EN scene's take on 2010's J-rock and I love that about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytsiZFwBtI No.20810
>>20809Second favorite was Stickman. Not /leek/ducer bias, I just love 80's post-punk and this song sounds a lot like it.
No.20812
>>20809>Russian RouletteThis is actually pretty good and I'm glad a Teto song didn't win, even if my favorite song was easily Just Spiraling this time around.
>Girl FailureThe instrumental is fine but honestly I hate the tuning. I do have a negative personal bias though so YMMV
No.20813
>>20808I know some of the VG team so I could forward this to them, though at this point i feel like they're already aware since everyone complained about it
No.20815
>>20814>Yi XiWholoid win?
I'm gonna be honest I don't like her, but seeing a wholoid like her in the top 5 is amazing
No.20816
>>20814Not a single Sonika song
No.20819
>>20813I'd be surprised if they weren't aware honestly.
>>20814>Nobody used Yohio>Nobody used Big Al>Nobody used Galaco>1 person used Miki (and probably just her SV)>2 people used HXVOCI really should have worked on a submission so I could use one of my many wholoids. Perhaps several.
No.20820
>>20819You're gonna have to wait til next year, unless they do another this year which I really doubt
No.20821
>>20648Have you ever collaborated with any of the VocaP's you listed or have any plans to collab?
No.20822
>>20821I'm mutuals with one of them and the rest I've never interacted with. I'd love to, but I don't see it as a possiblity at the moment. I don't think they're even aware of my existence honestly.
No.20823
>>20820I know, ironically that's probably how long it will take for me to make something passable. Rarely it'll take me a month or less, but on average my originals take a year for me to make.
No.20826
>>20814There's two Nurse Robot submissions. Which is not a lot but I like that we're slowly starting to get more English originals with her.
No.20831
>>20803>>20806Ahh, so this is why people were mad at MonochroMenace?
No.20833
>>20831Yeah, technically speaking she didn't break any rules, but she ABSOLUTELY went out of her way to get as close to breaking them as possible.
No.20834
I don't care if this year's VG was rigged. It gave us
>>20824 No.20836
>>20833What rules are we talking about? I’m not seeing anything that would signal a loophole or nearly breaking anything.
No.20837
>>20836Basically, people are mad because she clearly made the song way in advance for Miku Expo, then when it didn't win, she submitted it for VocaGathering. She still posted the song earlier, but it wasn't to YouTube so it technically didn't violate the rules.
No.20838
Guess i'll start working on my entry right now, then wait for next year's vocagathering
No.20840
>>20806I didn't really care for the popular producers winning either year, but it's just what normally happens with rankings. Vocacolle is usually dominated by the same 20-ish popular producers, too.
No.20842
You WILL use Toriko DiffSinger for the next Vocagathering, right /leek/?
No.20843
>>20842if the 1.2 comes out during my lifetime sure
No.20844
>>20841Engloid community found dead in Miami
No.20846
>>20845Better English than Miku and it's not close
No.20848
>>20841I really hate how homogenous the modern vocal choices have become, yet when I bring that up most people get mad and insist it's not happening
>>20842If she gets English and OpenUTAU stops taking years to render Diffsinger, sure.
No.20849
>>20848My PC can't run any games made after 2018 but it renders DiffSinger audio pretty quickly
No.20853
>>20847I was not expecting a revival of the Spanish side of the Vocaloid scene but it's cool that it happened and I'm glad it's not just English and Japanese that get all the attention now
No.20854
>>20850Be glad you got 2 unlike Lilybros
No.20855
>>20854Lily is dead, dude
No.20857
>>20848No, it's definitely happening, but i don't think it's a problem exclusive to the English community. It's true that ENs have a preference for the red menace but plenty of JPs do too. If it's not Teto, it's Miku, and if it's not Miku then it's Rei.
I have no idea how Yi Xi made it this high as a faceless vocal but good for her.
No.20859
>>20854I'm sure if Lily had an English bank she would have had at least a few.
No.20861
>>20860I don't think anyone would bother especially if it's someone unpopular.
No.20862
>>20859>>20861NTA, but I prefer making Japanese banks sing in English most of the time, very few are actually that painful unless it's a V2. Piko, ironically, is one of the easiest.
Switched to PC just to show some screenshots of the method I use for it, in order to make the consonants stronger.
The [M_0] phoneme is extremely important for making JPloids sing in English.
No.20865
>>20862>[M_0]what does it do
No.20868
>>20865It's basically a silent "M" that forces Japanese Vocaloids to enunciate a consonant they normally can't on its own. While it works back to V2 voicebanks, the earliest editor it works in is V4.
No.20898
>>20837This is a thing multiple people did though. I’m not sure why Menace is being singled out. I believe even TD mentioned on Twitter her song was a year or two old.
No.20903
>>20898The biggest problem people have is that she submitted it to Miku Expo first. I personally like her music and don't want to judge her too harshly but that's not a good decision to make for sure.
No.20905
Not defending Menace although I like her music but I don't get why people act like FEEDBACK being #2 means that those smaller producers got no attention. The site has a bunch of pages to discover new music and the Vocagathering hashtag helps too.
No.20919
Bullshit aside i really liked Feedback even if it was cheating. I'm personally more disappointed that it didn't win Mikuexpo.
No.20952
>>20857Now that i think about it i feel like the reason Yi Xi has blown up this much is due to Butcher Vanity and Vimalion
but also Roblox as weird as that sounds, because I was told that they added a skin based on the music video and the kids seem to like it No.20953
>>20952Yeah, Butcher Vanity got big even outside the vocaloid sphere
No.21023
>>21022this one feels old school with the static image and production choices, idk if thats intentional or not
No.21057
>>21022I really like this, thanks for showing it to us, anon.
No.21241
Alright I guess I'll start working on my 2027 entry now that it's officially over
No.21242
>>21241You've got a lot of time to work on it lol
No.21515
>>20814How did Teto get more songs than Miku
No.22179
Any clue when they will announce 2027 so I can save my entry for when the time comes?
No.22213
>>22179Early 2027 probably. Previous VGs were in April and March respectively.
No.22337
>>22179march-april 2027 probably
No.22455
>>22179do we get to hear it early
No.22456
>>22455Probably not, i tend to release snippets early but with this song i want to have a full animated music video and multiple contributors on the same song. I also want it to premiere for VG.