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WHAT IS VOCALOID?

Vocaloid, a program for synthesizing voices for songs was first a program initiated by Yamaha with little success in 2004.

The First Vocaloid run, consisting of four major sounds (English, Japanese Male and Female) came together that year, beginning an initial spread of fever for synthesized sounds on music floating in the internet realm.

However, it wasn't until VOCALOID 2, featuring the ever loved HATSUNE MIKU, that the word soon spread into the Japanese and soon the world's internet community. The first true Internet Idol was born, entirely synthetically off the webspace.

With popularity in the last few years, YOUTUBE now hosts at least 4000 results on searches based on "Hatsune Miku" and "Vocaloid" with hundreds of users from various video communities such as NICO NICO DOUGA coming and pouring in hundreds of fan made videos, songs, from english to just about any language, even PUNJABI

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The Character Vocal Series

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is a computer music program that synthesizes singing in Japanese. Developed by Crypton Future Media, it utilizes Yamaha's Vocaloid2 technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors. To create a song, the user must input the melody and lyrics. A piano roll type interface is used to input the melody and the lyrics can be entered on each note. The software can change the stress of the pronunciations, add effects such as vibrato, or change the dynamics and tone of the voice.

The series is intended for professional musicians as well as light computer music users. The programmed vocals are designed to sound like an idol singer from the future. According to Crypton, because professional singers refused to provide singing data, in fear that the software might create their singing voice's clones, Crypton changed their focus from imitating certain singers to creating characteristic vocals. This change of focus led to sampling vocals of voice actors.[4]

Each Japanese Vocaloid is given an anime-type character with specifications on age, height, weight, and musical forte (as in the type of music, range and tempo). The characters of the first two installments of the series are created by illustrator Kei.

Any rights or obligations arising from the vocals created by the software belong to the software user. Just like any music synthesizer, the software is treated as a musical instrument and the vocals as sound. Under the term of license, the Character Vocal Series software can be used to create vocals for commercial or non commercial use, as long as the vocals do not offend public policy. In other words, the user is bound under the term of license with Crypton not to synthesize derogatory or disturbing lyrics. On the other hand, copyrights to the mascot image and name belong to Crypton. Under the term of license, a user cannot commercially distribute a vocal as a song sung by the character, nor use the mascot image on commercial products, without Crypton's consent.

Other Vocaloid Trivia and Characters!

On Kagimine Len and Ren (VOCALOID 3)

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Released on December 27, 2007, Kagamine Rin/Len (鏡音リン・レン, Kagamine Rin/Len?) is the second installment of the Vocaloid Character Vocal Series, a brother (Len) and sister (Rin) twin pair. Their family name was chosen by combining Kagami (鏡, Mirror?), Ne (音, Sound?), with the first syllables of their given names a pun on "Left" and "Right". According to Vocaloid's official blog, the package includes two voice banks: one for Rin and another for Len, both provided by the seiyū Asami Shimoda. Despite the double voice banks, the package still sells at the same price as Hatsune Miku.

On June 12, 2008, Crypton announced the updated edition, named "act2", will be released in early July 2008. Users who had bought the old version will get an expansion disc free of charge. On June 18, 2008, beta demonstration songs using the new version were released on the company's official blog.

On VOCALOID 1's Characters

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Yamaha announced Vocaloid in its development in 2003 and on January 15, 2004, Leon and Lola, the first application software product, were launched. It was not released as a Yamaha product, but a software package of Vocaloid Singer Libraries was developed by third party licensees which included Yamaha's Vocaloid software. Leon, Lola, and Miriam have been released from Zero-G Limited,[1] UK, while Meiko and Kaito have been released from Crypton Future Media, Japan

Vocaloid
Leon: English male
Lola: English female
Miriam: English female
Meiko: Japanese female
Kaito: Japanese male

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