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>>23824109
Probably not much.

In terms of marketshare, it depends, If their technology is worse than Vocaloid, then people will keep using the Vocaloid versions. If it's on the same level, then the status quo will be kept. If it's considerably better then it will create an entry barrier to new voicebanks since it will increase the gap between the already most popular singer and the rest (Crypton has no reason to allow other voicebank companies that will compete with them). But possibly that barrier was already increased by Yamaha themselves with Vocaloid 5.

In terms of community, basically nothing. We always had many non vocaloid vocal characters for a while like Utau and Voiceroid, and the number is only increasing with for example Neutrino. Crypton doesn't call Miku and the others as vocaloid for many years now, and you rarely see newer songs mentioning the word vocaloid either (that phase is long over).

And for Crypton, they'll get more profit over the software stack and will have more control to both tune the engine itself to improve their voicebanks and to provide patch to the voicebank themselves without having to wait for a new Vocaloid release.