Post by Ark on Aug 31, 2009 21:22:32 GMT 8
Anyone else listens to Vocaloid songs here? To be exact, the Crypton Character Vocal series (Hatsune Miku & friends) and Gakupo & GUMI, not the english vocaloids.
Here's a pic since there are quite a number of people who have probably seen this character somewhere before but may not know exactly what she is~
Miku <3
Some background info for those who are interested to know more:
Vocaloid is a voice synthesis program created by Yamaha, which other companies use by creating a voicebank (In Crypton's case, using the voice of various anime voice actors) and selling the product to aspiring music creators to allow them to make their own custom vocals in their songs.
Crypton has successfully packaged their Vocaloid products with mascot characters for each voice and thus giving a new "life" to the digital voice, which has developed into a rather large following in Japan.
www.nicovideo.jp/ & www.piapro.jp/ are sites which vocaloid users upload their creations for the public to listen/view (the former is a youtube-ish video site while the latter is specific for Vocaloid related songs and artwork, all free for downloading).
Depending on the user, quality of songs can range from downright crappy to professional sounding songs. Running a search on youtube should turn up some of the more famous songs, so do check them out if anyone is bored.
Here's a pic since there are quite a number of people who have probably seen this character somewhere before but may not know exactly what she is~
Miku <3
Some background info for those who are interested to know more:
Vocaloid is a voice synthesis program created by Yamaha, which other companies use by creating a voicebank (In Crypton's case, using the voice of various anime voice actors) and selling the product to aspiring music creators to allow them to make their own custom vocals in their songs.
Crypton has successfully packaged their Vocaloid products with mascot characters for each voice and thus giving a new "life" to the digital voice, which has developed into a rather large following in Japan.
www.nicovideo.jp/ & www.piapro.jp/ are sites which vocaloid users upload their creations for the public to listen/view (the former is a youtube-ish video site while the latter is specific for Vocaloid related songs and artwork, all free for downloading).
Depending on the user, quality of songs can range from downright crappy to professional sounding songs. Running a search on youtube should turn up some of the more famous songs, so do check them out if anyone is bored.
