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The Vocaloid software has also had a great influence on the character Black Rock Shooter, which looks like Hatsune Miku but is not linked to her by design. The character was made famous by the song "Black Rock Shooter", [136] and a number of figurines have been made.
Kikuo (Japanese: きくお, born September 21, 1988) is a Japanese songwriter and Vocaloid producer. As an independent artist, he produces the lyrics and music for each of his songs under his own record label, "Kikuo Sound Works," often with vocals provided by popular Crypton Future Media voicebank, Hatsune Miku.
Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer and the first engine released in the Vocaloid series. It was succeeded by Vocaloid 2 . This version was made to be able to sing both English and Japanese.
Hatsune Miku was the first Vocaloid developed by Crypton Future Media after they handled the release of the Yamaha vocal Meiko and Kaito.Miku was intended to be the first of a series of Vocaloids called the "Character Vocal Series" (abbreviated "CV Series"), which included Kagamine Rin/Len and Megurine Luka.
The song is also the third and fastest song to surpass one million views on Niconico utilizing Synthesizer V, [7] and the second fastest among all Vocaloid songs. [13] On June 27, 2024, the video surpassed 50 million views. A commemorative illustration was made by channel the following day.
An example of usage of Kaito's unreleased Vocaloid 2 Append vocal is featured in the song "On the rocks", Composed by veteran Vocaloid music producer OSTER project. The song also utilizes the unreleased Meiko Append vocal as well. The results are noticeably smoother and more natural sounding compared to the original Kaito vocal.
August 5, 2012 (prize in the Vocaloid 3 music contest) VY2v3: Yamaha Corporation/Bplats Japanese Unisex ("masculine" sounding voice) October 19, 2012 MAYU: Exit Tunes: Japanese Female Mayumi Morinaga [57] December 5, 2012 Avanna: Zero-G English Female Rachael. December 22, 2012 KAITO V3: Crypton Future Media Japanese English Male Naoto Fūga ...
In March 2008, Ameya/Ayame released UTAU, a free, advanced support tool shareware software that was downloadable from its main website. UTAU (歌う), literally meaning 'to sing' in Japanese, has its origin in the activity of "Jinriki Bōkaroido" (人力ボーカロイド, Manual Vocaloid), where people edit an existing vocal track, extract phonemes, adjust pitch, and reassemble them to create ...