What is it with Vocaloids and Hatsune Miku? They're horrible and butcher the original music. I don't think there should be a computer signing songs and can't make it even sound sorda decent.
The Character Vocal Series 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.
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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.
Hatsune Miku
The cover of the first release.
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク,
Hatsune Miku?) is the first installment in the Vocaloid2 Character Vocal Series released on
August 31,
2007. The name of the title and the character of the software was chosen by combining
Hatsu (初,
First?),
Ne (音,
Sound?), and
Miku (未来,
Future?).
[8] The data for the voice was created by actually sampling the voice of
Saki Fujita, a
Japanese voice actress. Unlike general purpose
speech synthesizers, the software is tuned to create
J-pop songs commonly heard in
anime, but it is possible to create songs from other genres.
Nico Nico Douga played a fundamental role in the recognition and popularity of the software. Soon after the release of the software, users of Nico Nico Douga started posting videos with songs created by the software. According to Crypton, a popular video with a comically-altered Miku
holding a leek, singing
Ievan Polkka, presented multifarious possibilities of applying the software in multimedia content creation.
[9] As the recognition and popularity of the software grew, Nico Nico Douga became a place for collaborate content creation. Popular original songs written by a user would generate illustrations, animation in 2D and 3D, and remixes by other users. Other creators would show their unfinished work and ask for ideas.
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On
October 18,
2007, an Internet BBS website reported Hatsune Miku was suspected to be victim of
censorship by Google and
Yahoo!, since images of Miku did not show up on the image searches.
[11] Google and Yahoo denied any censorship on their part, blaming the missing images on a bug that does not only affect "Hatsune Miku" but other search keywords as well. Both companies expressed a willingness to fix the problem as soon as possible.
[12] Images of Miku were relisted on Yahoo on
October 19.
A Hatsune Miku
manga called
Maker Hikōshiki Hatsune Mix began serialization in the Japanese
manga magazine Comic Rush on
November 26,
2007, published by
Jive. The manga is drawn by Kei, the original character designer for Hatsune Miku. A second manga called
Hachune Miku no Nichijō Roipara! drawn by Ontama began serialization in the manga magazine
Comp Ace on
December 26,
2007, published by
Kadokawa Shoten.
Her first appearance in an
anime is in
(Zoku) Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei, where she (and various other people and characters) try out to be the voice of Meru Otonashi. For online multi-player games, the Japanese version of
PangYa started a campaign with Hatsune Miku on
May 22,
2008 in which she is included as one of the characters.
[13][14]. Her first appearance in a
video game is in
13-sai no Hello Work DS (13歳のハローワークDS,
13-sai no Hello Work DS?) for the
Nintendo DS where she is included as one of the characters.
[15][16] Hatsune Miku will be given a
PlayStation Portable game called
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva to be released in 2009 by
Sega.
[17] Hatsune Miku made a
cameo appearance in the
Lucky Star OVA in the form of Kagami's cosplay in her dream.
The Hatsune Miku Studie Glad BMW Z4 competed in the
2008 Super GT season.
Hatsune Miku's color scheme and image was used by a
BMW Z4 from Studie (a tuning shop for
BMW), which participated in the GT300 class of the
2008 Super GT season. The car was named "Hatsune Miku Studie Glad BMW Z4" and had its debut in the sixth round in the
Suzuka Circuit.
[18] Hatsune Miku received the 2008
Seiun Award in the free category.
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On
August 27,
2008,
Victor Entertainment released the album
Re
ackage which contains a collection of songs performed by Hatsune Miku and composed by
dōjin artist Livetune. The album sold over 20,000 copies in its first week and successfully broke into
Oricon's charts by placing fifth for the week.
[21] A song created with Hatsune Miku, "Stargazer", is featured in the soundtrack of
FIFA 09.
HaHA! I finally found a reliable source of which I am able to watch Chobits from without worries of getting enough spyware to make the FBI look for me.
FBI don't look for spyware, they look if you get the file.
->
^ Heh, heh, you will like
Chobits, it is both cute and heartwarming. You will like it.
👍
~> Nya!
I will remain quiet on this one.
Muzaffar Musa
I'm lost.
Anyways, I managed to get myself that Vandread OST. Haven't listen to the entire album yet, but was sad to find that they don't have the songs from the Second Stage. I know there are torrents out there that said they have the First and Second Stage OST together, but I read somewhere that the Second Stage OST was just some Taiwanese rip off.
So anyone here can actually confirm that Vandread made a Second Stage OST? I really want to listen to Yes, Together for some reason......
As of 2001, yes
