No.245[Last 50 Posts]
Here's a containment thread to prevent people from flooding /leek/ with news. Post Vocaloid, UTAU, SynthV, CeVIO and [insert any vocal-synth of choice] news here.
Other threads worth checking out:
>>4 - Recent Vocaloid Releases
>>23 - Music Sharing Thread
>>108 - Charts Discussion Thread
^ Don't use this thread for any of the above.
No.246
>>245That being said, seems like Hatsune Miku NT 2.0 early access is here.
https://x.com/PositiveVSynth/status/1849081499863093714 No.263
>>262Holy shit it sounds so good!!!!
No.264
If this is V6/NT2 then I have mixed feelings.
No.265
>>264People on Xitter are speculating that it might be either V4X with Mitchie M tuning, a new Miku bank for Vocalochanger or RVC AI.
No.270
>>262>>264>>265Deco has had this "new" Miku for a while now, even before the announcement of NT2 - its either V6 or RVC
https://x.com/DECO27/status/1822180149720137857 No.363
>Una, Miki and Kiyoteru on SV
what a time to be alive.
No.368
>>359Omg holy shit Miki
She’s been one of my favs I’m so excited for her
No.372
Aishite Aishite Aishite hit 100M views today
https://youtu.be/NTrm_idbhUkWith Kyoufuu All Back possibly reaching the same number soon
https://youtu.be/D6DVTLvOupE No.373
>>372kyoufuu all back is at 100M
No.442
>>441Development takes time, I'm still hopeful. Didn't they announce her only a few months ago?
No.443
>>442yeah she was announced a few months ago but unlike with sv miki/sv una there weren't any demos released or any further information. people have been speculating that DECO has access to v6 miku but its unconfirmed whether it's v6, good tuning or RVC.
basically
nobody fucking knows lol No.445
>>443I checked and it's only been 3 months since Miku V6's initial announcement (
https://x.com/cfm_sonicwire/status/1818876023746056380)..I think we will be fine lol. I know Japanese vocaloids take way less development time compared to Engloids due to the nature of the language but they can't pop them out overnight.
No.446
I'm admittedly worried about the quality of V6 Miku after the super pack. Miku sounds… acceptable… but everyone else was completely butchered.
No.447
>>446I'm biased because I'm one of the two people on earth who actually enjoyed Piapro SP, lol. I agree they butched Luka, Meiko, and Kaito though.
No.449
>>447Yeah, Miku and the Kagamines sound fine. Everyone else sounds terrible. Especially Luka and Kaito dear god. Luka is literally just another Miku voicebank and Kaito sounds like he was recorded off a laptop.
No.476
>>475If I'm reading this chart right..Kaito was the 4th most used vocal? Also higher than both Gumi and the Kagamines? Good for him!
No.478
Miku is in Monkey Ball.
Not having Len instead seems like a missed opportunity considering he's the banana guy but oh well, Miku is still the most popular vocaloid and that ain't gonna change.
No.480
>>476If i'm not mistaken it's Miku at #1 followed by Teto, KAFU and then Kaito. I'm not a Kaito listener
(i prefer the shotaloids) so i'm not aware of any Kaito songs that came out this year.
No.484
>>480I usually don’t like most KAITO songs, but I listened to his demo and it sounds surprisingly good? I think most people just can’t tune him well 😭
No.489
>>485Piko also has a good voice but he's discontinued and I could not name a song from him outside of the infamous Shota Shota Island lol.
No.558
>>546>Would appreciate a link Seconding ^^
No.574
>>475>>503It's hard to believe Kaito is that popular. Absolutely crazy
No.638
Miku was announced to be on Fortnite. But don't worry guys she has survived Kagerou and Sekai, she'll survive this one too.
No.769
Various sources and leaks are confirming that Miku will be added to Fortnite on Jan 14.
https://x.com/HYPEX/status/1869512834557886951I hope you guys are ready for another nuke to the Vocaloid community that might or might not hit harder than Sekai.
No.777
>>773Part of me wants to say this is a wholoid victory, VY1 getting into such a huge game in the West, but the other part..
No.778
>>777I don't think the average fortnite player will care to learn who VY1 is.
No.779
>>778That makes it even better
No.791
>Anamanaguchi - Miku ft. Hatsune MikuOf fucking course they're using this song
https://x.com/hypex/status/1870194361582969030 No.793
Mikoto Hime and Mikoto and flower are all receiving new Talk vocals for A.I.VOICE on March 3rd! Their Gynoid Talk vocals will be ending sales at the end of that same March, but any Gynoid Talk owners will be eligible to receive their new vocals for free
https://nitter.poast.org/PositiveVSynth/status/1870088336062226601 No.802
>>793I think it's just straight ports since it's the same engine internally? Still nice to have them in the same program as other talk vocals though.
Might grab their physicals while they're still available.
No.810
>>809What's the point of this? Why do we need a new sv?
No.811
>>810Honestly not sure, though I'm getting the feeling that this is more of a "2.0" than a "2" to be honest.
No.913
>>910They pick the last two songs EVERY time lol. You can tell they’re trying way too hard to be normie-friendly.
At least we got Magical Cure Love Shot this time I guess.
No.915
>>913If they wanted to go normie friendly they could've at least used World is Mine. Not a single song there is in Japanese.
No.917
>>910there was no possible way they weren't putting in the Anamanaguchi song
but
>>915 is right, World is Mine absolutely should be there
No.918
So v6 miku is releasing this year?
No.922
>>918If she doesn’t I’ll be extremely concerned lol
No.929
>Hatsune Miku V6 AI has been postponed due to "issues that are difficult to overcome," assuming to hopefully release just a bit later sometime in 2025It's over
https://x.com/PositiveVSynth/status/1872294253784907907 No.930
>>929The issue is probably that v6 sounds like crap!!!
No.931
>>910So wtf was
>>773 all about? fake leak?
No.965
omg why is she so expensive…… I wonder if there's a Miku mod for v-Pet simulator, since that has a lot more you can do with it?
No.973
>>966have they already released free pirated copies, lmao based
No.976
Stick to custom shimejis, they're much better and don't rape your RAM
No.1001
People on the /jp/ thread have been modding Desktop Mate to add other vocaloids. Also here's the tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqjfT6QzRLM No.1046
>>1044I don't personally see how she looks like a man but it's a bit disappointing how the style turned out. Other anime models in Fortnite look a lot cooler
No.1048
>>1046The wide face and shoulders just look weird on miku, its like they tried to give her "fortnite proportions", which makes sense considering it is a fortnite model, but it doesnt work for a character like miku.
No.1055
>>1054I wonder if majin still browses 39ch
No.1072
I saw Fortnite normies shitting on Miku and calling her "AI slop"
No.1073
New voicebank: Uge for Vocaloid6
No one gives a shit but still, this is the news thread.
https://x.com/vocaloid_yamaha/status/1879483673696747864 No.1078
>>1072Do they not know what AI sounds like…?
>>369I want this but doesn't she have two different voice providers? Would they go with the first one? They're presumably both adults now… So it could go either way…
No.1079
>>1078>doesn't she have two different voice providersif i'm not mistaken V4 uses the same recordings as V2: that anonymous little girl who is now probably in her early-mid 20's. the vocal used for the growl is a dude screaming like a serious sam kamikaze (you can decompile the voicebank yourself if you don't believe me).
No.1107
This is old news, from last month, but nobody talked about it. Clara and Bruno have been discontinued.
No.1134
[Announcement]
On Saturday, February 1st, I will be releasing a 40-page yuri manga by Zuntsum, which I worked hard on, at the "Seioto no Utage" event at the Ota Ward Industrial Plaza PiO. (J-28)
This is a self-comic adaptation of the song "Ii Ko" from the CD "Zuntsum Paradise" released last year.
Be prepared for this.
https://x.com/fuwacina/status/1881891207984697710 No.1144
SynthV 2's announcement made me realize that SynthV is probably going to become the norm now (it already kinda is). We're also probably going to get more versions of SV as the technology gets better like we did with Vocaloid itself.
No.1197
>>1055Which vocaP would be most likely to use 39chan?
No.1222
>>1203genuine question but why do people think this will save V6? are IA fans known for being as hardcore as Miku's or something? the voicebank does sound pretty good but so does galaco's, which no one ended up using despite all the hype surrounding it
No.1223
>>1222>why do people think this will save V6?Are there people who think this? I haven't seen any but I did make a joke tweet about it myself lol.
I do think Miku V6 will however..it'll at least make the Japanese fandom stop caring about how shit it is considering how many of my favorite Japanese VocaP use(d) V5 No.1224
>>1223I think DECO27 is already using a beta of V6
No.1251
>>1203IA is back
Vocaloid is back
Vocal synthesizers are back
No.1280
>>1197Not a producer but Minnemi has very /leek/ takes and it wouldn't surprise me if she browses this site. Majin is also a confirmed lurker according to some anon but i have not seen proof of this and i doubt he cares much for this site if true.
No.1317
>>1280He absolutely uses this site
>>>/mmd/103 No.1401
>>1055>>1198These two literally hate everything this site stands for, why would they use it?
No.1403
>>1401>These two literally hate everything this site stands forKio/Majin actually has posted here before though lol, which is surprising to me considering he seems like the exact type of people that would hate this site's culture
>>1340When's this happening?
No.1404
>>1393This isnt going to happen, the majority of the WVF either doesn't give a shit about 39chan or doesn't know about its existence and most of the redditors will flock back to /r/Vocaloid in less than a week
No.1405
>>1401These guys would NEVER post about miku…
No.1406
>>1405Anon, the post on /mmd/ went up before he posted it on Twitter. It's him lmao.
No.1437
[AHS official live broadcast]
The next official AHS live broadcast will be on February 20th from 8pm!
We would like to introduce you to the details of the Synthesizer V 2 series announced today! Look forward to it!
https://x.com/ahsoft/status/1889874145837756484 No.1467
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
UNI IS GETTING A SVS2 VOICEBANK ON MARCH 21ST
OUR GIRL IS BACK
https://x.com/STMEDiA_info/status/1890336583599173796 No.1468
>>1467UNI IN 2025…
VOCALOID REALLY IS BACK…
No.1469
>>1467I hope this implies a possibility of SeeU on the SVS2 engine. The odds of that happening are minimal, but if this UNI SVS2 release proves anything it's that the possibility, albeit small, exists.
No.1470
In other news: Kasukabe Tsumugi V6 is real and will drop on March 3rd. We can't stop winning.
https://x.com/KasukabeTsumugi/status/1890337688663797809Limited package here:
https://kasukabe294.booth.pm/items/6461918 No.1542
McDonald's did a parody of Tetoris. If only their burgers were as good as their marketing.
https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1891299023065149629 No.1583
This thread will definitely be interesting to look at in 5 years if both the site and thread manage to last that long
No.1691
>>1401These two definitely get nosebleeds from Len, they just act like they don't to not get crucified
No.1800
>>1794Nurse Robot in the Top 10 makes me happy. I hope people start making more UTAU originals, especially with lesser known characters.
No.1861
>>1860Amount of songs per character? Also Nurse Robot???? Etto…
No.1868
Eclipsed Sounds is releasing 2 new vocals for SynthV 2 soon! Hxvoc is a rock/metal vocal which seems to have a dedicated growl function, and Galenaia is an operatic vocal, like old V2 Prima!
I pre-ordered Asterian when he was released a couple years back and have enjoyed using him since, so I'm hoping he & their other vocals get an update too.
>>484Kaito took a very long time to grow on me despite now being my favorite for almost a decade for exactly this reason. His voice is beautiful, but many struggle with the tuning and mixing, either due to only being familiar with working with female voices, or not wanting to put in the extra time and attention to get a better result. Working with him over the years, I've come to find many quirks when using him, but almost all of them can be worked around, given enough creativity and determination.
Other male vocals struggle with the same user-level issues, but he seems to get it the worst. Even his voice preview snippets in Piapro Studio are horrifically out of his range…
Noel de Figaro by Nyanyannya is one of the best examples I've found of songs which showcase Kaito's versatility.
>>1048The proportions are okay on their own, but off-putting for Miku. She has the Jerma physique, lol. I've never played fortnite, but it always looks janky when I see screenshots.
No.1869
>>1868I have not seen a metal vocaloid since Hakaine Maiko so this is pretty awesome news.
The screams are pretty insane, i had no idea SynthV was capable of powerful vocals like that. I remember back then if people wanted to make vocaloids sing metal they'd put chorus and distortion on the vocals to make it sound like screaming.
Also Kaito is great indeed, i hate how he sounds in Project Sekai though, the SP (which butchered basically everybody but Miku) and the poor tuning does not do him justice.
No.1918
>>1917i really hope they do vbs for the other band vocalists… i love them so much
No.1923
>>1917I'm just glad they're not Project Sekai characters because that would probably start World War 3 in the Vocaloid community
No.1963
>>1958This is tragic news but thank you for sharing it. I was happy to see their products continue as digital sales for so long, and it's sad to see them go. I wanted to buy Big Al once my situation would permit. Rest in peace PowerFX
No.1964
>>1958So they shut down and killed 5 vocaloids including Big AL and Oliver who are beloved by the community? Holy fuck
No.1967
>>1964Kinda sorta but not really… From what I've heard, PowerFX was basically dead for years before this, and Vocatone already bought out the character rights. They're doing Oliver AI and have heavily implied that they're upgrading Sweet Ann, Big Al, and Ruby, too.
No.1968
>>1967I heard that none of the new AI voicebanks will be voiced by their original voice providers which has kinda killed my faith in them. Oliver already sounds pretty ehh.
No.1969
Does anybody know if PFX shutting down affects VocaTone in any way? As far as i know they're just a spin off company with some of the original members of PFX and they own the rights to every PFXloid (hence why we're getting AI voicebanks of them at all) but i've heard that people have tried emailing them recently and they've received radio silence which is concerning.
No.1970
>>1968Not sure how confirmed that is tbh, I think Ruby's VA is still affiliated with Vocatone and she's expressed interest in Ruby AI. Wouldn't be surprised if Sweet Ann and Big Al got recast though
No.1971
>>1970>Ruby's VAWell yeah she is part of the vocaloid community so this doesn't surprise me
>Wouldn't be surprised if Sweet Ann and Big Al got recast thoughFrank Sanderson was perfect for Big AL so it's hard to imagine a replacement unless it's Michael King (who i doubt wants to be involved with anything vocaloid after they butchered V1 AL). Same thing with Ann, i heard through the grapevine that they lost contact with Jody but take that with a grain of salt it's just a rumor.
No.1973
>>1958Sweet Ann was still purchasable via Sonicwire but it seems like they took her down, oh well
Seems like ERDK is the only way to get them now
No.2001
>>1999>>2000Finally some good news after yesterday's chaos
No.2004
>>2003Oh man
No.2008
>>2007>I hope it's Ted>It's gonna be Ted>Please be Ted>Ted SV when>Neru???>Imagine if it's NeruWhy are newgens so desperate for fanloids to have official voicebanks? part of their appeal is that they're just the original voicebank tuned to sound different. Neru is low pitch Rin/high pitch Miku, Ted is low pitch Teto. Haku got an UTAU that CAFFEIN doesn't even approve of, but do you think that's what people will think of when they think of Haku? No, they're gonna be thinking about low pitched Miku.
No.2013
>>2007she's just talking about Nakuru and Itsuki lol
No.2033
>>2028He's in good hands then, thank god.
I hope they still plan to release AL, Ann and Ruby on thr same engine though. They were teased but never officially announced.
No.2129
>>2000Forgot to write my thoughts about this. For a demo this is insanely catchy and i like how her voicebank sounds so close to her Vocaloid counterpart (same VP im assuming?). I'm hoping Korean (or even foreign VocaPs) pick her up and give her the love she deserves.
No.2199
Here's the McDonald's "shaka shaka ni shiteageru" video that for some reason is region locked in the US and other countries
https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1898509034237419695https://files.catbox.moe/t5z3r6.mp4 No.2228
>>2226I hope the SeeU curse doesnt carry over to her new incarnation if it ever comes out.
No.2234
>>22265 morbillion dollars to ST Media
No.2245
There's a McDonald's version of PoPiPo now. Regionlocked in the west though.
https://x.com/kzzrttt/status/1899024422419267889 No.2246
>>2245>kzzrtttHi again majin
No.2247
>>2246I'm not him i just saw someone else post it and decided to share since the McD's videos are regionlocked.
No.2248
>>2245>Gakupo replaced with LukaDon't know if i should laugh or cry
No.2348
>>2346Very cool Crypton, now let's see Miku V6
No.2352
More McD's shenanigans. Seems like we're getting a Fukkireta parody.
https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1902140461524938946 No.2354
>>2352I was wondering if they were going to use the UTAU voicebank or the SV for this one. They ended up using the SV but tuned to sound like her original UTAU which is honestly pretty neat.
https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1902291457773273431 No.2380
is it me or these threads have been slowing down a bit after the PowerFX announcement? i remember it was one of the most active threads on this site
No.2519
Recently found out that the silent "zzz" song Iyowa posted is actually meant to be a story in the format of… get this… thumbnails
https://x.com/igusuri_please/status/1906830027221807410 No.2520
>>2519iyowa is a fucking genius he's too good we don't deserve him
No.2529
>>2528holy shit, nice
Also her outfit is really nice! I mean, I don't care much for the midriff, but the colors and sound waves are cool.
No.2622
>>1958YOHIOLOID, Oliver and Ruby are still available on Sonicwire. I think AL and Ann are dead dead though. Still feels crazy to think PowerFX shut down like that, no announcement, nothing.
https://sonicwire.com/product/37281https://sonicwire.com/product/35161https://sonicwire.com/product/A0163 No.2624
>>2622These links seem to all be down now, at least on my end.
No.2628
>>2627Try setting the site to Japanese
No.2631
>>2628Ohhhhhh, yeah it works now! But now it makes me wonder why an english vocaloid is only available on the japanese page lmao
No.2665
Something tells me a big announcement is on its way. It's been too quiet lately. Way too quiet.
No.2961
>>2665Yeah it's gonna be Sonika for SynthV
No.3217
It's funny scrolling up and seeing the pre-announcement reactions to the Miku x Fortnite collab
No.3218
>>3217it really wasn't that big of a deal in retrospective. project sekai has done more damage to miku and vocaloid as a whole than fortnite.
No.3521
>>3500illegal vocaloid cocktails
top left used to be CUL but they had to delete it
No.3522
>>3521So it wasn't prostitutes?
No.3534
>>3521>>3522what I understood from the situation is that ROSA's VP had a bar and she was using zan-shin's funds for her own bar, mostly those related to whiteCUL's. this caused the company to not properly recognize the fuck up and instead tried to ban shirayuki (ROSA's VP) from using their IPs (which is the reason about why the CUL cocktail had to be "censored")
i'm not really good with financial topics, but you can find a twitter thread explaining the situation here:
https://x.com/TakoyakiDonuts/status/1917409242488922332?t=qtZgXkAJSbeaSgJQElh_aQ&s=19thus, all of this mess lead whiteCUL's VP to not get paid at all and she's planning on suing the company, even if she's getting threatened by zan-shin itself
No.3538
>>3534Will this affect RedCUL in any way? The cocktail being red makes me worry for her
No.3542
>>3538in my opinion, it all depends on how the situation with zan-shin goes. by itself, they are a small company with a small budget, considering that their last VBs were voiced by employees (and in ROSA's case, she was chosen through a contest). whiteCUL's provider is the CBO, while REV uses the CEO (if I'm not mistaken) as a voice provider. now, CUL has eri kitamura, a renowned seiyuu, as a voice, and they probably don't have the budget to work with kitamura again, let alone now with the financial situation they have.
if CUL doesn't come back for a while, it would be because of budget issues, what they did to shirayuki was to revoke the rights of the IPs related to CUL.
so, in short, it all depends on whether the company turns into something worse or not. if they manage to get out of it, CUL would be saved and maybe with enough budget they can re-record her (either with kitamura or a new VP).
that's my outlook!
No.3545
>>3542my bad, REV's VP is the CCO, not the CEO, but the point is still there
No.3546
>>3542Non-western Vocaloid drama is always batshit insane (and entertaining)
No.4088
>>4086I said i wanted kaai yuki on synthv god dammit AHS
No.4089
>>4087>same voice providerShocking honestly
No.4091
>>4090honestly i wouldnt rule it out completely. iroha was also thought impossible due to her vp going
trans and having a different voice now.
No.4679
>>4086We're literally getting everyone except Lily
At this point it wouldn't even surprise me if instead of making a new Lily voicebank they just decided to give Luna from Animove one.
No.4899
>>4896A fire nugget would be a burnt nugget
No.4951
>>41261TB of storage in those
No.5640
>>2306Why is she actually hot now?
No.5750
>>5748they announced 20 or something characters for post launch... so maybe??? Sega was involved with Blooming and Teto is really popular in the western community
No.5759
>>5752don't we all want something more then just Miku? She always feels so lonely in these collabs
No.6471
>>6470This engine has a nice blend of robotic feel and realistic feel. Gotta say I like this timbre better than chis-a though.
No.6472
>>6471When it comes to "unrealistic realism" i prefer Cevio
No.6715
>>6691Sick because I either had too much liquid IV or have a stomach bug, not sure which
No.6717
>>6715Sena hands typed this post
No.6840
>>6691Zerkin off n' playing games
No.7053
UNI's voice provider sued ST Media holy shit
No.7055
>>7054they killed eleanor?
No.7058
>>7057>>7056Schrodinger's voicebank
No.7060
>>7057>>7056>>7055Being an EN Vocaloid fan is suffering
No.7068
>>3501Eleanor getting discontinued just proved that anon's white hair 'loid curse is real jesus christ
No.7069
>>7053Why does weird stuff always happen with Korealoids?
No.7072
>>7069SeeU's curse attaching itself to other Korean vocaloids
No.7073
>>7057So is this confirmed or was it bs? I'm hearing reports that it was a prank and that Elly isn't discontinued
No.7077
>>7073Real, just confusing. I've heard people say AniCute is really bad at communicating with customers so I'm not surprised we have no idea what's going on
No.7078
>>7077Fucking hell man, I love Eleanor Forte, she's one of the few English voicebanks I do like. I hope this gets resolved as quickly as possible.
No.7097
Trustable JP news source is saying that the voice provider of UNI did indeed file a lawsuit and that she's looking to stop the software's sales (which likely means she will be discontinued)
https://x.com/SpeechSynthnews/status/1940261422761758909 No.7105
>>7098I get this concern from singers, but it seems pretty silly to record and release the whole voicebank before addressing realism concerns. Did they not review any demos before signing the contract?
No.7110
>>7105From the linked thread
>Lee says she was told not to worry as there would be some differences due to the nature of the program and it would not be the same as her voice. She also states that she thought it would create a new voice for the character (assumedly like her VOCALOID) but it replicated her singing style perfectly. She says it is difficult for the general public to distinguish between her and UNI easily, and claims that if it can replicate her to this level it threatens her livelihood in the industry. The company also acknowledged they sound almost identical. No.7111
o_o I got the exact same email from Dreamtonics that's been floating around about Eleanor, But also I'm hearing from people that they are able purchase her voicebank by emailing Anicute.
No.7112
>>7111The whole situation is a mess and no one truly knows what's going on.
No.7167
>>7164So she's back on sale via Anicute? This tweet is very vague
No.7168
>>7167seems like it, but you have to email them apparently
No.7190
They're distributing some of Hiki and Geki's UTAU voicebanks and updating their art
https://x.com/kuru2suuziman/status/1941130351298085375 No.7498
Miku and Teto appearing as playable characters in a upcoming puzzle rhythm game
https://x.com/qqqbeats/status/1943506280103969191 No.7508
>>7497I'm feeling how Teto fans probably felt after her SV was announced. My daughter has finally made it.
No.7509
The new Nurse Robot sounds very good for a V6
No.7720
Nurse Robot AI is on sale now.
https://www.vocaloid.com/en/news/news_24/Can anyone here who owns her confirm if she can sing in English? I have Gumi V6 and she can.
No.7725
>>7720What's up with UTAUs suddenly showing up on SV, V6 and Voicevox? I'm not complaining but I'm surprised it's been happening so much lately
No.7730
>>7725inb4 a leekaloid gets one
No.7731
>>7725Teto is what happened
>>7730We almost got TORIKO AI... almost...
No.7734
>>7720Don't all V6 voicebanks have the ability to sing in english?
No.7735
>>7734this is true
would be interesting to hear what it sounds like
No.7793
Rin/Len NT appear to have leaked on Crypton's website
https://ec.crypton.co.jp/product/detail/44100 No.7794
>>7793Holy shit
No.7795
>Rin and Len NT before any V6 Miku news
No.7798
>>7793Vocal synth companies are masters of leaking their own stuff on their own websites. How do they do it?
No.8057
>>8056Yeah, Desktop Mate's only selling point is that it has Vocaloid characters. They charge you like 15 dollars for each DLC and they recently removed mod support. Stick to good ol' shimejis or get Mate Engine off Github.
No.8225
Dreamtonics has released two new voicebanks, Amara and Archie.
Amara Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZnLGvdeymoArchie Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYUUyB6qW4 No.8228
>>8225I can tell Vimalion are gonna have a blast with these
No.8283
>>8279She sounds oddly squeaky in English. I really don't like it.
No.8323
GUMI SV2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_4M9Po-DjIKoto SV2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-idOhqnxMRelease Date: 9/12/2025
No news regarding SV2 Una but i would assume she too will release on 9/12
No.8401
We finally got an update on Maghni AI. The blogpost explains why they have been radio silent for such a long time.
https://maghni.ai/blog/update-aug-10-25 No.8406
>>8401I could be very wrong but it sounds like most of the original team were either not as interested in making Maghni as originally thought, or outright scammers unfortunately.
No.8409
>>8406Hurts to hear as an engloidfag
No.8417
>>8401I read the blog and they said the team has gotten smaller but that they're still working on it so there's hope
No.8419
>>8406I mean it’s been so long I would say that they were scammers in the sense that they kept failing to keep up with their promises but not in the sense it was their intention. Regardless it’s telling that whatever happened was pretty bad considering rewards were supposed to be delivered back in December.
Admittedly I think what gets me most is it’s weird that throughout this whole ordeal, it’s weird PFX didn’t acknowledge Maghni AI’s development when they stopped selling their vocaloids. Something smells.
No.8420
>>8419Don't forget that PFX itself shut down without notice. The Vocatone team was never informed and people had been speculating based on the fact that the site just went down one day. They were never going to acknowledge them when they themselves had been completely silent for a long time.
No.8421
>>8283She sounds dumber in english I like it
No.8429
>>8420That’s exactly the thing. If the teams were able to get rights back for Oliver, Ruby, and possibly Ann and Al too, why did no one know about the shut down? Why was Maghni not acknowledged. Maybe I’m reading too much into it but it seems weird for them to manage to get full rights back but PFX doesn’t even allude to it let alone for VocaTobe to not know about the full transition to soundation.
No.8430
I want Big Al's manboobs back
i miss him
No.8433
>>8429VocaTone left pfx on poor terms and multiple staff basically described their employment as child labor. Probably not something they want to advertise at all
No.8447
>>8433>basically described their employment as child laborWhat the fuck?
No.8452
>>8447The VocaTone devs were all in high school when they were releasing Vocaloids, afaik. Supposedly PFX got away with billing most of their roles as "volunteer work" and hardly paid them anything. Vivi and Rose V4 were also going to be made by random teenagers.
No.8457
>>8452I would've killed for the opportunity but also that's really fucked up.
No.8480
>>8452Don't know who Rose is but Vivi was going to be made by Zero-G and a related group. Shame we never got her.
No.8713
So for those who missed the PiaproTV stream we finally got to hear what Miku V6 sounds like as well as the new Rin and Len voicebanks
The Kagamines sound exactly like you'd expect them to sound. Miku basically sounds like V2 with Mitchie M tuning.
No.8883
Yohioloid is officially dead. You can no longer purchase him.
https://x.com/TakoyakiDonuts/status/1962713137809105148 No.8885
>>8884Because PowerFX as a company no longer exists so all of their Vocaloid are discontinued. In Yohioloid's case though, he did dumb shit on twitter and got himself blacklisted from the v-synth scene. There's no way in hell Vocatone will want to work with him again, especially considering he was allegedly troublesome even in the early 2010's when the original Yohioloid was being developed.
No.8895
>>8883Damn it, I was considering buying him on SonicWire JP but decided I'd wait for a physical to turn up. Looks like it won't happen either way, now.
No.8900
>>8895You could either buy him from someone or resort to piracy. But piracy is a bit taboo in the VOCALOID community, i remember a lot of western producers would get shamed for using POCALOID and other pirated VOCALOID adjacent software.
No.8908
>>8900I've been pirating since I lost my copy of Bruno due to Voctro only keeping the codes for 2 weeks and me accidentally deleting my repository of codes (but most digital copies keep the code forever, anyways) and I can't buy him again because he was discontinued.
That said, physicals have an appeal to me. I only have 3/19 banks as physicals but I wish I could have more someday. In the meantime, I'll continue pirating him.
No.8935
YOHIOLOID is the first vocaloid to actually be completely dead. His voicebank is discontinued and his voice provider is blacklisted + a pain to work with, so we will never see a new voicebank for him. Vocaloids like Piko might be discontinued but nothing's really stopping them from making a new Piko for V6.
No.9011
>>8900Also piracy in general is frowned upon in Japan (one person got arrested over a Let’s Play) so it could get you in hot water with the Japanese fandom too. Chinese fans are mostly fine with it though, a lot of the cracks came from them.
No.9012
>>9011>one person got arrested over a Let’s PlayIf you can get in trouble for that, how are those Zundamon and Yukkuri channels able to posts Let's plays?
No.9013
>>9012Probably their lisences, I’m unsure about AquesTalk but Voicevox is FOSS + was made with content creation in mind. It’s like the difference between Vocaloid and UTAU.
No.9015
>>9013I thought you were saying they pirated the game or something.
No.9019
>>8885For clarification PFX still exists, they just fully rebranded as Soundation and shut down sales on the old PFX site which included discontinuing Vocaloid products they made or distributed.
No.9020
>>8935There was an interesting comment from one of the Maghni devs months ago on Twitter iirc where it seemed they were potentially reconsidering the decision. It was only one dev out of the whole known team though so I’m not expecting much.
No.9021
>>9020I'm calling it now, if it does happen YOHIO will find a way to fuck everything up.
No.9022
>>8900On the western end these days, unless you’re profiting off a pirated voice bank I don’t think people will really care, especially if it’s a voice bank that you can’t even buy anymore. Piko fans don’t get mad at anyone who pirates Piko after all since the majority of his current active users don’t even own him in the slightest.
>>8908Does this even count as piracy if you already bought him? You’re just having to go through another method to use the bank you purchased.
No.9033
>>8929This is actually the 2nd run of it sadly. I only found out about it way too late during the Harajuku Cafe run a few weeks ago and didn’t get a chance to make a reservation. People didn’t start talking about it until now rip.
Interestingly for this second run in Osaka, they switched out the baguette they were offering in Harajuku for Takoyaki. They gotta get in the local faves I guess.
No.9075
>>9074DeepL translation
>due to organizational oversight on the part of the event organizers.What exactly does that mean? Visa troubles maybe?
No.9077
>>9074>>9075>>9076They've been real scummy lately. Never forget Mikuexpo 2024.
No.9078
>>9077Wasn't MExpo 2024 Crunchyroll's fault?
No.9079
>>9078I don't think anyone outside the event has a clear idea of who made the poor decisions associated with Expo 2024
No.9087
>>9080i'd drink kaito's water
No.9089
>>9088Ah this is a thing?
How do i become Japanese?
No.9225
>>9224An OP featuring a vocaloid and a vtuber? What is Gnosia even about?
No.9227
>>9225From what I can tell, it's basically Amogus with time loops. A bunch of people are in a space ship and need to figure out who's the alien.
No.9255
>>9250Thi is how I responded when Miku first started appearing in commercials, I'm so glad UTAU and VOCALOID etc have all gotten much bigger!!!!!!
No.9706
>>9699DaisukeP has always been great
No.10230
>>10229HOLY FU-
>Ace StudioDammit
No.10478
Context for whatever's going on with Maghni AI?
No.10479
>>10478Basically the people who ran the original indiegogo campaign left the company which ended up fucking over the remaining team and now they're doing what they can to finish the project. Some baseless claims about it being a scam are being thrown around as well.
No.10487
>>10479Technically the only "new" thing happening is the rando calling them scammers. Maghni and Vocatone breaking up into two companies was officially announced a couple months ago, and (unfortunately) the development problems have been happening for years. The old team didn't have much business experience and massively underestimated how much extra time and money it would take to build an entire engine.
The current team is more realistic, but that means their reaction to this was "yeah sorry we're like 5 guys and if we have to cancel it we'll dump it on GitHub" so uhhhh
No.10795
>>10794holy fuuuuck
the "something big will happen" anon knew something
No.10796
>>10794Mini style is literally just "Tiny Me" by Masarada
No.10798
>>10794Sounds okay, i still prefer the UTAU
No.10801
>>10794Low sounds great and Rock is alright. I can't tell what Mini is supposed to be unless it's the chipmunk voice effect.
No.10802
>>10794nothing ever happens anons btfo
No.11009
>>11006gonzo is still deleting jpbros making fun of them, huh
No.11011
>>11010they've been moderating the comments like crazy since most of their subscribers hate the NFT thing. the top comment on this the other day was something like "why would you make an ad for such an unappealing product?"
No.11014
>>11006hope this isn't schizoposting but the current state of gonzo (and the existence of GEMVOX itself) feel like a money laundering scheme
No.11019
Wild part is Gemvox still has 2 vocals on the way. Sapphire’s sister who releases on VoiSona next month, and a second vocaloid bank
No.11023
>>11019How much does it cost to make a voicebank anyway?
No.11024
>>11023Depends on the engine, but initial development fees vary from $30k USD on the low end to an estimated $60k-$70k USD on the high end, with additional fees accruing as development goes forward. This is before factoring in any costs it might take for recording and paying employees, too.
It's not cheap these days. During the V3 days, the cost used to be about $5k-$10k, which is why so many were made at the time.
No.11025
>>11024Really? I wouldn't have expected that when so much of the V6 library consists of random streamers and UTAU users. They don't seem to be selling as well either, so are they just producing a bunch of expensive voicebanks at a loss these days?
No.11026
>>11025A voicebank only needs to make ~700 sales to break even, so they don't need to sell well.
No.11027
>>11025The VXB ones and Robot Nurse were actually a result of Yamaha reaching out to the creators and not the creators reaching out to the company surprisingly. I’m not sure how much of the current V6 library is like this but GEMVOX, CFM, anyone who’s gone through Internet Co., and the Shiki Rowen are all paid up.
They’re not the only company doing this either of course. Juxer has a similar outreach program for ACE, so any popular UTAU getting an ACE bank is literally getting a cheap opportunity, and why wouldn’t you take it?
No.11059
Winter Miku confirmed for Fork knife apparently
https://x.com/HYPEX/status/1988290725562441988 No.11060
>>11030Vocaloid's been corpo since the beginning, especially in the pre-Miku era
No.11464
>>11463Good for her but why? The diffsinger is free and sounds identical
No.11465
>>11464literally just because they can
No.11466
>>11463Correction, the demo is a prototype for a V5 bank. The V6 bank happens if they reach the stretch goal
No.11473
>>11466No, it is a V6 bank, but it's not an AI bank
No.11479
>>11473V6 banks are only AI banks. Anything non-AI is V5 or below.
No.11480
https://camp-fire.jp/projects/897570/viewBasically is V5. The standard synthesis engine V6 runs is also just a slightly improved V5. (I like to call it V5.5 lol) Missile also said it could be comparable to V4 as well, but I'm pretty sure it's V5.
Regardless, we'll be able to tell for certain on release around May (that's when rewards are planned to be shipped). After install it'll be pretty easy to see which Vocaloid Editors pick it up. The V4 Editor was able to pick up the SP banks with no issue for example, so if it's V5 or lower, no updates will be necessary for it to run in the older editors.