Vocaloid thread

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Luka Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOU-AjzbDp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek1GWNtzUtQ

>Miku Monday copypasta, essentials list + albums (Recently updated)
http://pastebin.com/PB3dTd4Q

>Essential Vocaloid crossfades
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6drFCl6uqFyfkhZcHJxN1F3RHZFajlkaVRfU05PdmJ0aWduTnpud3dqN3gxNUtFT3pMeUk&usp=sharing

Previous thread >>13060095

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>>13161575

The only Luka song I can name off the top of my head is JBF

[Anonymous No.]

post recent purchases

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>>13161575
I opened a box under my bed and i found 3 tako lukas i havent unpacked, i dont have room for them ;_;

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Everyone's entitled to their own opinions and in the right hands all Vocaloids can be pretty great but IA's my favorite. Damn shame Clean Tears has only done 5 or so songs with her because his tuning and style is sublime.

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No Luka thread is complete without yuppe-sama's glorious songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQPK3JS38s

And here's some MuryokuP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yilfICzwrSM

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I used to absolutely adore Luka but now I can't meet her with anything but apathy, maybe some good new music using her V4 will change that. I'd honestly rather see Lily get a V4 before Vocaloid falls into the abyss.

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>>13162036
Those two and otetsu are my favorite Luka producers. So good, and her voice really fits those kind of songs.

>>13162041
Lily V4 would be nice, indeed. At least there's the inevitable Gumi and Miku V4 to look forward to, as well as Rin/Len V4 later this year.

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>>13162036
>MuryokuP
Oh yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC1_mapfNds

His arrangements are god-tier too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJiSrVzn60

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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25761254

I'm in love with this usage of Luka V4.

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All this talk about Luka V4, but none about Yukari V4. No matter how Luka turns out, I know at least AH-Soft will deliver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1UIY2_kTms

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>>13163377
Thia, I'm much more excited for Yukari V4 than Luka V4. Yukari's whisper voicebank is so soothing.

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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20898338

teto love

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>>13162014
I just bought these last month. Still not here yet though, damn postal service...

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>>13164242
I also got this one pretty recently

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>>13162014
i dont have pics but my package a few weeks ago contained:

Sound Collection - New Original
Sound Collection -Another Original
reabsorb
HSP works 11-14
東方インストEDM2
東方ボーカルEDM2
Electric Voyage EP
Bloomin' Star & Breakin' Star
きくおミク４
MIDNIGHT ADVENTURER
KIRSCHISE
SILVALLIO
LIGHT TO THE FUTURE
The stars my destination
ハチビットサイダー ジャケットイラストレーター:りゅうせー
superelectro
東方ボカロEDM
Hydrangean Diva/ (+extra CD)
Stir up Club Edition V3 -diaphanser-
Night Groove4
LOP STEP RABBITS!
a tale of scar
東方ボカロEDM2
lol project 009:Divine Providence
lol project 005:Invisible Border

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I know you probably like Vocaloid if you're here, but do any of you have a Vocaloid for a waifu? Mine has always, and will always, be Luka.

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>>13164867
can i choose both rin and gumi?

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

One got a crack in shipping...

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>>13162316
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpmxow42Zds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbS2P1kZuc

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>>13164867
Iroha is mai waifu for laifu.

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>>13164867
>Vocaloid as a waifu
No I don't. I don't like sharing so they're only good as sex material.

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【VY1V4】Fairytale,【カバー】 http://nico.ms/sm25143595

H-how

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>>13165443
>http://nico.ms/sm25143595
Holy shit this tuning!

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>>13165467
I can't even
That voice strain effect is so good it blows me away every time god damn

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>>13165524
Guess I'm going to have to become a VY1 fan now. I hope the rest of the V4s sound half as good.

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>>13163377
I'm more hype about SF-A2 Miki's V4 now. I recently started listening to her VA, Miki Furukawa's music and her voice is great. I want to get it, but it would sit and do nothing as I never use Japanese Voicebanks.

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>>13166073
But they removed her android parts, why even live?

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>>13166085
It's mildly saddening, it was one of my favourite parts of her design as I love androids, but I'm into Vocaloid more as a production fag, I look forward to her hopefully getting some good music.

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>>13165443
This is amazing, I've never heard a Vocaloid sing quite like that before.

>[1:34] もう人間いらねえな
We're getting there!

Also, reading and listening at the same time is so hard...

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>>13166106
Of course her voice is most important...But still.

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>>13166116
That pic reminds me how fucked up her porportions are.

>Dat Adult Head
>Dat Little Girl Body

Still though, I bloody hope people will take to her this time. I can barely ever find good music with her.

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>>13164867
I never understood why people would do this

Vocaloids are merely voices with a physical appearance as an extra, their personalities are basically non-existent
How they're portrayed varies from song to song, so if you're gonna waifu a Vocaloid, at least mention what song/album contains their personality

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>>13165335
Nice, where did you get No Title+ from? I usually buy my stuff from CDjapan but they didn't have it.

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

>>13166380
amazon.jp

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>>13166328
I've never understood the waifu aspect myself but I can sort of sympathize as someone who idolizes Miku. It's less out of attraction I do this, it is more out reverence for something that encouraged me to unfuck up my life. I generally get with most the others it is just physical attraction though.

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>>13166328
Their different voices and capabilities allow for just a hint of what their personality is like. From there, the fans can collectively build a somewhat consistent idea. For example, Luka isn't as able to produce a loud, high-pitched, strong sound as Miku. She's generally depicted as more calm and quiet than her as a result.

With improved voice banks, Vocaloids will have less limitations, but their unique sound and ranges are still present.

I will agree though, that the Vocaloids are definitely devoid of personality when compared to characters of most video game, anime, or manga series. I'd argue that this makes them even more easy to use for waifu escapism, as you can project whatever idealized traits onto them that you'd like.

Think of how crazy fujoshis went for Hetalia characters, who are nothing more than personifications of countries. People love personifications.

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

>>13166567
>>13166631
As someone who personally idolizes Miku, I'll express why:

Miku to many people represent unbarred creativity and expression. Anyone can create a song with Miku, so anyone can use her to express ideas or viewpoints that would have never gotten out there without her. Many fans and producers say she is a voice for those without voices.

She is also a vessel which a community is built around, where anyone can contribute to the movement in some way (art, video, music, writing, singing, even merely sharing and spreading). Miku connects people and allows them to share work and add to projects and ideas, like someone designing an MMD for their favorite song.

I think the people who romanticize these ideas idolize Miku. The people who believe Miku to be their waifu may believe these things, but they may also be attracted to the endless personalities she has, a specific meaningful one, or simply think shes cute/hot.

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>>13166700
This is pretty accurate to my reasons for being a fan of miku and vocaloid in general.

My waifu isn't from vocaloid and I don't know if I'd use the word idolize for my feelings for Miku, but the underlying concept is the same.

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>>13166700
It sounds like a glass half full thing. I've heard similar reasons, myself, from waifu fags I've given a ripping and I can see why but I just see her as being empty when I look at her that way, then I begin to associate her with just being instrument. I idolize her for the confidence I have found, the friends I have made through this, the fact she represents what I could never achieve and the music whether it's made by myself or another but I could never say I love her in waifu way.

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>>13166328
Irohafag here. I simply fell in love with her voice, and started collecting songs, and then images. I will say however it was AkibawotaPs tomboyish Iroha with her slurring Rs that sealed the deal for me.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/20126890

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>>13167482
Ahh had to dig for this one, it was on an alt account. But here is an example of how I like Iroha tuned.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14243809

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>>13164867

T

[FOR FREE No.]

Nonstop until you delete >>13161001 Jangolins!!

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Yukari's demo is out! I think she sounds great.

https://soundcloud.com/gran678/yuzuki-yukari-lin-vocaloid-wip
https://soundcloud.com/harumia/kagaribito-yukari-lin-trial-test
https://soundcloud.com/nightmare-p/yuzuki-yukari-kagerou-daze-vocaloid-cover

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>>13169376
Damn Son! Where’d You Find This?

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>>13169376
That kagaribito fragment just made me have an orgasm

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Anybody know songs similar to Cloud Rider by IA? I really like the background and the tuning.

https://youtu.be/CD6r4j0fXEo

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>>13169376
The first two sound fantastic.
Can't say I like the kageru daze cover though.

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Do you guys use last.fm? How do you tag your stuff? Because I've tried following the guide in the Miku Monday copypasta but since I have like 500 vocaloid songs on my PC I get confused if I leave the song names in katakana, not to mention I like being able to tell which vocaloid(s) are in each song just by looking at it (I use the Producer-P feat. Vocaloid tag for artist, and group by album artist).

So as of now I'm not scrobbling any vocaloid music, but since I've really been on a vocaloid binge since last month or so I feel like I'm missing too many scrobbles. Any ideas?

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what is this shit and why has it replaced the real daily vocaloid ranking

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25768619

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I'm so disappointed with how Luka V4 turned out, you know there's a problem when a V2 voicebank sounds better than a V4.

http://soundcloud.com/jouiboui/voice-only-let-it-go-ari-no-mama-de-feat-megurine-luka
http://soundcloud.com/jouiboui/luka-v4x-hard-demo-let-it-go-ari-no-mama-de

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>>13170504
thank god im not the only one who thought this

i mean, plug and play never really works but just by the quality of the voice... sounds shit? sure you could try hard and make her sound good but there are better vocaloids out there now that are cheaper and better quality. save your money and wait for yuzuki v4

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>>13170504
Why even worry about sub-par Luka when you could get hype for the far superior option? Sure, Crypton apologists will swear she just needs proper tuning, but why squeeze blood out of a stone when Yukari sounds so much better right out of the box?

Give in to your AH-Soft overlords.

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>>13170513
The audio quality is indeed shit, and incredibly choppy, also amazed how her Hard voicebank is softer than her V2. Now I realize why there was so little demo's of her...

As a Luka fan, I sure hope her other voicebanks are better, there's no way someone should spend over 100 bucks on this.

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>>13169376
lol all flagged private now.

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>>13170504
She sounds like she has a mouth full of bees.

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Speaking of Yukari, here is a NND broadcast from a few days ago that has her singing the same song with all three banks. Singing starts at 3:05.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKL4iK6SBvQ

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>>13170527
i heard people saying that her english voicebank sounded better (i think circus-p said it on twitter? someone who had early access at least) so if it was possible to buy her english voicebank separately i would definitely but fuck crypton probably won't offer that

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>>13170504
Honestly, I always wait till a credible artist releases before I pass judgment, if I gave a shit about randoms on the internet and their songs I would of never bought V3 Meiko or English Miku, both of which, are not perfect, but pretty good and fun in English. Perfect for writing Dreampop like I do. I'm still considering purchase.

>>13170839
Lol if they are referring to Circus-P and his inability to cover of RIP=Release I would dispute that, it was pretty bad. Like I said, I would wait until someone like UtataP gets hold of it if he hasn't already . He is a Sound Engineer professionally, he's a pretty good gauge as to what can be achieved with Vocaloid.

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>>13170930
this isn't about bad pronounciations or anything though. literally comparing just her voice to v4 in hard bank she sounds worse. you really cant dispute that her hard bank is shit

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>>13170930
Plug and plays are quite good for judging the voicebanks overall quality, however. And it isn't looking very impressive.

And as a fan of Utata-P, I have to disagree. His songs are catchy and all, but are all badly tuned, in fact a lot of the times it seems like there's no tuning at all.

I'd much rather see Mitchie M, Peperon-P, Last Note., yuukiss or cillia tune Luka V4.

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I recently discovered Luo Tianyi through Musync and fell in love with this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na53h3a2mH4

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On the topic of Luka, her birthday DLC is coming out soon as dlc Snow Miku 2015 is also coming early

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>>13170504
>Using let it go as an example
Anon, not even Idina Menzel can sing her own song without being strained. Nobody can sing that song well.

I'm not sure who's worse, Luka V4 apologists or yukari fags foaming at the mouth over samey appends. Both of their products are bad and are terrible excuses for V4 quality.

The only good V4 Japanese bank is VY1V4. She also has the sanest fanbase.

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>>13171669
>>The only good V4 Japanese bank is VY1V4. She also has the sanest fanbase.

That's because her fanbase comprises of a whole 50 people

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>>13171676
51 if you count me in
As long as someone is producing content I don't care what size a fandom is. I'll take 50 people over 500 faggots any day

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>>13170942
I just checked out those links and honestly, I could. It sounded fine to me, I would use either banks no problem. I have heard bad banks during the past few years I have been doing this, but, I would not count that as one of them.

>>13170953

That is why I like him, his music is a good measure of how good a Vocaloid is for a serious producer, there is no tuning so I can have a good judge of how good the voice is with a decent amount of production. Which is why I also think none of those guys would be a good judge, they wank too hard and end up hurting themselves. Each to their own though.

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

http://youtu.be/VoKuvpi8zxQ

This thread needs more songs.

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>>13171820
>Luka v4 apologist
get out waifu fag

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>>13171669
>Nobody can sing that song well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHn2J3-ILxQ

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>>13171016
I love Tianyi, and I wish the Vocaloid China crew got a little more discussion, but I guess this IS /jp/. If you like I can rar up my Luo Tianyi folder for you and throw it on 4shared. It has 80 some songs in it in the highest quality I could find, though I haven't updated it in about a year.

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>>13171669
Well link some good VY1V4 songs then and let's stop arguing.

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>>13173508
Fairytale from
>>13165443
is a good example
This original song is pretty great as well
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25133934

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>>13173595
Something that hasn't already been linked in this thread preferably.

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>>13173595
Oh I missed the second one, thought you were linking to the original fairytale version.

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>>13165335
Why is No Title + so good?

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>>13173595
Oooh had a chance to listen to COSOMONAUTS and that is excellent. VY1 has the same kind of bratty twang CUL has, I love it!

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>>13173727
It's not, it's pretty average in general even tho Giga-P is based as fuck.

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>>13173167
Sure, that'd be nice.

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>>13173947
IDK, for a vocaloid album it's definitely an 8.5/10 at the least. It's got one or two kinda forgettable tracks, but it's still great.

I still think pic related is a much better album btw.

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Does anyone know if this got a physical release at all? It's probably my favorite vocaloid album and I really want to buy a copy but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

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>>13174023

Alright uploading it now.

>>13174055

I'd love to own that as well if anyone knows.

Also while I'm thinking about album requests I'll just copy and paste mine from the last thread:

I've been searching for years for any of Akibawota-P (アキバヲタP)'s albums with no luck. I'd be happy to pay for them, but all purchase links are dead that I could find.

First album その唇は終演なり, crossfade:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17595767

Second album 少年法第三条第一項第三号, crossfade: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19479972

Third album Yashoku (夜食), crossfade:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23197077

I know it is a long shot but I thought I'd ask, as he is one of my favorites.


AkibawotaP mylist if you wanna check him out:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/20126890

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>>13174023

http://www.4shared.com/rar/_Zj9fLfaba/Luo_Tianyi.html

Here you are, enjoy! And if you or anyone else wants more I'd start here:

http://vocaloidlyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Luo_Tianyi_original_songs

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>>13174055
Stalk mandarake often and hope someone sells their used copy

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/search.do?searchStrategy=keyword&action=keyword&doujin=all&keyword=otetsu

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>>13174246
Damn, they've got basically every other otetsu album on there except for Carnival lol. Oh well. I guess I'll add that to my bookmarks and just be patient. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.]

More Yukari Lin demo clips hot off the presses.

https://soundcloud.com/gran678/yuzuki-yukari-lin-vocaloid-wip

https://soundcloud.com/harumia/kagaribito-yukari-lin-trial-test

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>>13171669

This is an UTAU fucking smashing Let it go, so I'm not sure you can simply blame that.

http://mp3.pm/song/28997643/Gahata_Meiji_-_Let_it_go/

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>>13174099
Thank you!

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>>13172657
Nice strawman mate. Have fun trying to find 'shit' tracks to fufill your prophecy.

>>13174839
Don't post Gahata Meiji man. That UTAU is fucking insane. Unreally good, better than some Vocaloids I believe.

>>13173167
I would if I new shit about it. I look on Nicodouga but nothing ever really comes up that I enjoy by any of the Chinese Vocaloids. I would look through Billibilli but that site is pretty hard to navigate.

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So anon who wanted to buy digital from last thread here. So far it's proven rather unfruitful, Itunes is region locked, requires a jp credit card unless you buy giftcards at a markup, and the American version missing a lot of albums I'd pay for. A lot of the stuff is sometimes on Amazon, but juggling between two clients and my own music player is shit. I'll just find their addresses or something and send them money.

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>>13174839
holy shit

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>>13174839
gonna call bs on this

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>>13174839
That's amazing. I'm at a loss for words.

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>>13174839
sounds like audio from this video
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22817614

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>>13175777
Goddammit. I take >>13175770 back. It'd be cool if a Vocaloid or an UTAU could sound that amazing though.

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>>13175315
I don't know anything about buying music online from Amazon, since I've never done it, but doesn't it let you download the songs you buy? If so you could just move the files into whatever music player you want.

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>>13175745
Actually you may be right, my bad. It came up on shuffle and I was like, holy shit! But yeah no way that is an UTAU.

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>>13169652
knowing basic japanese makes collecting a lot simpler. keep everything in the original japanese titles. it's standard to put the vocaloid's name into the comment field. good media players will search within that metadata, so you don't need to manually label every track with "feat."

last.fm should already know and relate most popular producers' names in japanese and romaji automatically. just keep scrobbling.

[Anonymous No.]

I gave Yuzuki Yukari and MAYU a chance since she was on an album on the essentials list I'm working my way down.

Yukari is pretty good, I like her voice it is unique. MAYU is enjoyable to listen to as well but not as good.

This cements that IA is just shit and sounds bad. I gave her a chance and she failed. MAYU is better than IA, in both image and sound.

Pic related

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>>13176143
Thanks, I'll try that. Do you know of any good media players to use that will display the comment field?

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>>13176008
They're MP3s, but they still force you to download them through a PC client or you can stream them in an app. Also all the tags are in romaji, that's not much of a problem as you can retag en masse anyway.

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>>13169652
I use the CSV files from Vocadb and apply them with MP3tag. It hasn't failed me yet, you still have to set your own genre though. LastFM will more than likely do it on its end.

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>>13176968
foobar will display a column for any metadata you want. you can even make up custom metadata by using foo_customdb. by default you'll be able to set %skip_cd% field to 1 to skip songs you don't like, and a %rating_cd% for leaving ratings on songs. both are stored in a big SQL database file and not in the metadata of the file itself.

[Anonymous No.]

I highly recommend foobar in general for your Vocaloid collection. You can easily tag and sort everything from within the player with the proper libraries. Not to mention you can do some really cool things with it.

Right now I'm using a skin called FooXGen4 that has a prominent Artist banner space that lets you add pictures for all of your music, using the "Album artist" tag.

More examples here if anyone is interested:
http://imgur.com/a/0zetH

If you want to try out the skin, there is a "clean portable" version here that you just have to unzip. Note the artist folder is not included.

http://macstew.deviantart.com/art/fooXgen4-363306878

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>>13176990
>>13177076
>>13177117
Thanks guys, I'll check out foobar and MP3tag.

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>>13177309
just to clarify, foobar can handle the import of CSV data as well.

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>>13175289
hahaha holy shit there are already lots of shit tracks from luka v4x youre just covering your ears and going "LALALALA"

[Anonymous No.]

>>13177117
This is very cool.

[Anonymous No.]

Thanks for the help guys, I just spent like an hour setting up foobar and (re)tagging my stuff but I think it's much better now. I have it set up to look vaguely like iTunes right now because that's what I used before, once I get more comfortable with the program I'll try something different (>>13177117 does look pretty nice)

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>>13177341
There are shit tracks out there of every vocaloid in existence, though. I'm not saying I'm not disappointed in Luka V4 so far, but it's not nearly as bad as people here are making it out to be.

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>>13177117
This is neat.

The poor english on the description is confusing me a little with the artist picture function.

I'm just supposed to be matching image filenames in the folder to the artist tag? Because it doesn't seem to working.

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>>13178181
Eh yeah it is a little confusing. It works by the "Album Artist" tag, which is nice because that is usually blank. So you can tag it by Vocaloid, or by producer or whatever you want. You can tag large batches with mp3tag, or you can do it through properties from within foobar.

jpg images matching your "Album artist" tag go in here:
foobar2000> skins > fooxgen4 >artists

If there is actually interest I could upload my artist folder.

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>>13178327
Huh, guess I'll try a reinstall because that's exactly what I was doing and it didn't work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13178379
I had to do extensive fuckery with it to get it to work. Are you using the portable version?

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>>13178442
Nothing in the files indicate I am.

I used the inline DA download so that might have something to do with it.

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>>13178938
Okay well the file hosted on deviantart is just the skin. It won't work without all of the listed components he lists installed in your foobar. The portable will work fine on its own, but I honestly just installed 1.3.7 and then took the components and configuration folders out of the portable version and dumped them in main directory WITHOUT overwriting anything, and it works fine. You may also have to do the same thing with the folder in appdata > roaming >foobar2000 folder with components.

I went ahead and rared up a fresh portable version with my artist folder in it if you want to check it out without fuckery.

http://www.4shared.com/rar/iFBSU3EQba/foobar2000.html

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>>13179020
Clarification: Merge the components and configuration folders, then check do no overwrite files, that way you don't mess with any of the default stuff.

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>>13179020
Different anon, but would you mind using mega or something else that doesn't use accounts/installer software instead?

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>>13179119
Yeah sure gimmie a sec.

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>>13179119
Alright. It may have some stuff cached in the playlist from deviantart guy, but that will clear out once you add a music folder location in library > configure.

https://mega.co.nz/#!dgchRbZY!vCowNxdaaYvrlLYHX_tlB6bC519Kh4da8sml6J6-8Ek

[Anonymous No.]

So, what have you guys been listening to lately?

I found this on the front page of vocadb yesterday and it's pretty nice: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25778116

[Anonymous No.]

>>13180248
This is great, I love when producers make Len straddle the androgyny line.

I've been listening to Kairi Sousei by Kaoling a lot lately. Here is a song off of it, I never actually thought I'd find an Oliver song I liked so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALkezBt6xsk

http://mikudb.moe/album/kairi-sousei/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13179155
Yeah this is working, thanks a bunch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13181480
Awesome, lemme know if you need any more help with it. My artist folder is very much a work in progress, and only for my specific tags so far, but it should be a start. Have fun with it!

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>>13181326
I learn something new every day, I thought #8Prince/HachioujiP was the only recognizable japanese producer to use Oliver at all.
You gave me something new to listen to, thanks!
Oh and here's the All Vocaloid Attack album on MikuDB if anyone wants to listen. The "Still Love You" track is the one that uses Oliver
http://mikudb.moe/album/vocaloid-attack-1/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13181326
Nice song! And that's some good tuning on Oliver too.

And yeah, I usually like Len when he's tuned a bit lower, but on songs like that (faster paced, electronic) it just works, like on most Giga-P/Orebanana songs.

>>13181901
>#8Prince/HachioujiP was the only recognizable japanese producer to use Oliver
Wow, I like 8#Prince but I never even knew he used Oliver. That's interesting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13181901
That's such an awesome album. I wish producers branched out with different vocaloids more often.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13181901
All Vocaloid Attack is great, although TamStar discontinued the series after the second album. I quite enjoy compilation albums like these because it lets me discover lesser known producers and give variety.

Remember Exit Tunes Supernova series?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13184482
I really quite like that series, especially 5 and 8.

I wish ET would continue making them, a lot of their newer Vocaloid compilation albums are quite stupid, that Numbers one especially.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the weekly Vocaran/Utaran dead? It's been a month since the last one.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the 8th song in Carnival really just called "Peten Nakimushi"?

What does it mean?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13189177
No idea, I looked it up and was able to find some lyrics, but no translations. Google translates ペテン泣き虫 to "Peten crybaby" and just ペテン (Peten) into "Fraud".

It's still one of my favorites off the album though. So underrated.

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>>13189417
>So underrated.
As surprising as it may be, I agree

You can barely find any info on the album's individual songs apart from Carnival, Chocolate and maybe Tsunawatari
it's a real shame because they're all brilliant

[Anonymous No.]

>>13161575
A lot of the links on this copy pasta are broken.

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>>13189466
Well, to be fair, those three are really the best songs in there (Tsunawatari is GOAT). Having 3 popular songs out of 9 total is actually pretty good for an album. People are always going to pay more attention to the "singles".

The underrated part I think comes from the fact that Otetsu has a lot of more popular songs that aren't nearly as good. Any song in Carnival is better than Meiteki Cybernetics or Transient Future, and half of them are also better than Hoshikuzu Utopia (as much as I love that song), for example.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone know some good Yukari songs/albums? I think her voice is pretty nice but I can't seem to find anything featuring her that I like.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13189552
>Well, to be fair, those three are really the best songs in there
Hell-o and Peten Nakimushi are at least on the same level, if not better

[Anonymous No.]

>>13189616
The Tsuki no Uta albums are pretty good Yukari compilation albums. There's currently 4 in the series as well as Tsuki no Shirabe.

http://mikudb.moe/label/vocalomakets/

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>>13189849
Oh, and I forgot about Tsuki no Hibiki which isn't doujin, I'm thinking about buying it actually.
samfree has one of his Night songs for Yukari in this one.
http://mikudb.moe/album/tsuki-hibiki/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13162014
Recent stuff I've picked up, album collecting is getting to be an addiction for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13189849
>>13189871
Thank you! I'll check those out.

>>13190194
Not gonna lie, I'm kinda jealous right now. I really want to buy that Pinnochio-P album. Why does shipping have to cost so much? /sigh

[Anonymous No.]

>>13190576
The glasses and cloth it came with are pretty cool, wish the album was a little longer though. It's on sale right now on CDJapan. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UMA-9047
The shipping shouldn't be too bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13190194
I recently stopped buying stuff because I don't have the money to throw around anymore. Collecting will destroy your wallet if you're not careful and have a ton of stuff you really want. Still happy with what I got though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13191352
I've got more of a spread out addiction, I have a ton of figures, clothes, some albums and some Vocaloid software. I've built it up steadily though with a load of patience. My problem is more space though. My Nendoroids specifically are consuming the surface area in my room at a ridiculous rate.

[Anonymous No.]

Too many nobody vocaloids being posted in this thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13193393
I want Crypton apologists to leave

[Anonymous No.]

>>13193393
Who cares? Cryptonloids are behind the times anyway. It isn't 2007 anymore, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13194359
>>13194611

>still falling for bait

[Anonymous No.]

>>13194849
Seriously, we have tread this ground way too much lately.

[Anonymous No.]

Posting more Mayu because she never gets posted

[Anonymous No.]

>>13195376
I'll allow it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13164242
Just arrived. Maybe they saw me complaining? lol

Still waiting on the other one though...

[Anonymous No.]

>>13195284
I don't know which one is more annoying, the Crypton circlejerk or the anti-Crypton circlejerk. Both shit on perfectly good vocaloids for no reason leading to unecessary fighting in a community that already isn't that big to begin with (well, outside of Japan). Can this stop already? Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13195589

Got any good Mayu recommendations?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13195767
I agree, I don't see why people have such a hate boner for Crypton Vocaloids. I can understand Crypton Circlejerks because most of them are just weebs who just turn up for the anime shit, but if you are into this enough to pursue the alternative Vocaloids and especially to gas about it in a thread like this, you'd think people would look at it more objectively. I regret getting into this shit a lot because I can never seem to find an intelligent conversation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13194611
You seem to be implying that Miku, Rin, Luka, etc. have an expiration date. They don't.

IA, GUMI, Yukari et al will always be second/third tier. In some cases, they don't even make the roster.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13197687
Nope, GUMI is consistently 2nd in popularity on NND, only behind Miku, and she's featured in many of the best vocaloid albums out there and many good producers use her/have used her at one point. IA as well, to a lesser extent, but she's still above Kaito and Meiko.

Also, see >>13195767

[Anonymous No.]

>>13197687
>insulting Gumi
What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13197687

Take your nostalgia goggles off.

The current top 3 most popular Vocaloids on niconico are Miku, Gumi and IA in that order

[Anonymous No.]

>>13197687

> this is what crypton fangays actually believe

[Anonymous No.]

>>13198100
Not him but that backs up that at least miku will not be overthrown.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13198107
Oh, I don't think anyone would be able to argue that. Miku is too popular at this point to be replaced by some other vocaloid.

The point is, some people still blindly believe that Crypton alone makes the best and most popular vocaloids of all, when that's just not true anymore. Miku will always be on top, Rin & Len are still huge, and Luka is pretty big as well, but that doesn't mean other companies can't make high quality vocaloids too. Besides, some competition between companies is good for the consumer.

[Anonymous No.]

I want to put it in Miku.

[Anonymous No.]

New Luka V4 demo!

https://youtu.be/3F9donzt7gc

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>>13200197
That's actually not bad. The robot-like quality to it makes it sound a bit more like old Luka. I noticed some pronunciation problems though, that's probably the software's fault. All in all, Luka V4 has been kinda disappointing overall, but with a bit of creative tuning I'm sure people with be able to make some good stuff with it.

[Anonymous No.]

Let's post some songs. What are your favorite vocaloid duets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JGaQ3g8WU4
A classic. Damn, almost 9m views already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csptx_Y2Eng
One of my favorites. Gumi and Len's voices work surprisingly well together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7aPocCfsI4
And some kemu. This is better than Invisible imo, not sure why it's less popular.

And damn, Gumi's voice really goes well with anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13200297
My favorite duet is probably Gumi and Rin, they have a lot of great songs backing them up!
Other than that, here are some of my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0LQtAM_ukM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_6kcUA_Ls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAebX31YM2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsbHxFjOX9Y

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>>13200506
They definitely do! LUVORATORRRRRY! never gets old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LjwN8W83O4

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJCnnUV1mo

I don't listen to Vocaloid songs very often but I discovered this tune the other day and have since been listening to it frequently. Any similar songs someone could point out? Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13204281

Giga-P

See

>>13204191

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>>13204281
Giga-P is an amazing producer and most of his songs kinda sound like that (it's basically his style). Check out this album >>13174040 which you can download on mikudb here (it even has Maskd bitcH on it): http://mikudb.moe/album/gigabanana-best-usushio-aji/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13204300
>>13204320
Much appreciated. I liked LUVORATORRRRRY too and didn't realize they had the same producer

[Anonymous No.]

>>13195907
Hah, not really. Other than the couple of UtataP songs there haven't been many hits. Last time I tried to find a song for somebody I noticed pretty much all the Mayu songs I liked had been taken down from youtube. I have no idea who is filing the DMCA complaints.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV-494kWBhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-o2_RU7yk

My tiny Mayu folder: https://mega.co.nz/#!ZkV2XTqY!Fjj_B7pHK5vIpFpE_pO2Zz89HDGbz994RfQ_qcvEWA8

[Anonymous No.]

>>13200297
MEIKO & KAITO Pair of Wintry Winds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG4-_8ULWeE

Gumi x Len - Ah it's a wonderful cat life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyteTOBxRm8

Yan x Iroha - Spinning Song (Tsumugi Uta)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4s4y9Ci78k&feature=youtu.be

Last one took me about 15 mins to find because the author deleted it as far as I can tell? So make sure you check it out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13205654

*Yan He that is. I love her.

[Anonymous No.]

And one more since we seem to have been very conservative with our images this thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13197687
I'd contest that. I'd say the only one that does not have an expiry date is Miku. With the drop in interest Vocaloid has experienced lately, Miku is the only one who has retained an element of her popularity according to that chart they do every year that ranks by new content. Even Gumi who is in second has seen a massive decline. It's like you don't know shit about the thing came you came to discuss.

>>13195907
There is a MAYU compilation album coming out soon. Not sure if I rate it though, I'll be getting regardless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13205766
But as long as Miku remains, there will be interest in other vocaloids as well. Most people start with Miku, sure, but nobody listens only and exclusively to Miku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13206011
I would argue against that, I personally think Miku as an entity has transcended Vocaloid to an extent, I've met plenty of people who just enjoy Miku at an entry level (for the concerts, for the MMDs, the bigger songs, being cute etc) and don't go past that. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the producers see Miku's popularity and overwhelming media saturation as a ticket to get their music heard and stick solely with her because of that. There is a lot of things that keep Miku very alive comapred to the others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207018
There are other vocaloids in the concerts, MMDs, and big songs. Everyone who knows what vocaloid is knows at least Luka and the Kagamines, in addition to Miku, because of the concerts, Project Diva or whatever. She hasm't transcended vocaloid, she's just the gateway vocaloid and the most popular one, so of course she's going to get more attention.

Some do, yes. But what big producer has used solely, only, exclusively Miku for all of their songs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13200297
>>13200506
>>13205654

These are all excellent! More music talk and less doom and gloom about Vocaloid declining. You guys are forgetting forgetting that Vocaloid is just now really catching on in the rest of the world, and we are making up those lost numbers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207066
You can't really say solely, because he did do one song with IA, but Kikuo has stayed pretty steadfast in his love of Miku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207076
>only one without slutty legwear is Gumi

how pure

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207102

Such beauty, such grace.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207084
Yup, there's a lot of old and very well-known producers around that use mostly Miku (Kikuo, Pinnochio-P, 8#Prince to name a few), but at this point they use Miku because they like her and know how to use her well, not just because of the popularity. She's a great vocaloid of course, but there are several great producers out there who barely or never use her as well, it's just a matter of preference.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207128
And pretty much no one tunes Miku better than Kikuo. Honestly the only reason she even makes it into my top 10 is because of him. He is truly a master.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207128
>Pinnochio-P, 8#Prince

I've actually not listened to more than a couple of their songs. Can someone recommend perhaps one album from each? They both appear to have quite a catalog.

I've really only gained an appreciation for Miku in the past couple of years and have no idea who the best of the best producers for her are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207076
>Vocaloid is just now really catching on in the rest of the world
This a thousand times. People always overlook the fact that the vocaloid fandom is really growing in the rest of the world and tend to focus only on NND stats, which mostly reflects the Japanese public. Miku expo in LA, Miku opening for Lady Gaga, Project Mirai getting a western release, this all shows that vocaloid in the west is far from dead.

If you take a look at the number of views on the more popular youtube videos you can now find several of them with >1M views, when there were little of those only a couple of years ago. And there's this:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=hatsune
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=kagamine
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=gumi

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207183

Not to mention that US based producers are starting to use Vocaloids. I'm sure of course everyone has heard Sad Machine by now, but check out this live version and listen to that huge crowd singing along. I may have gotten some chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_SOTeFjgHM

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207182
Pinnochio-P is a master songwriter, his songs are just so well made and I quite like his tuning as well. Here's a couple of songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z3TbMBfDM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt2fVT33Lw
And an album: http://mikudb.moe/album/obscure-questions/

Hachiouji-P/8#Prince is great as well, and he tends to tune the vocaloids in a more robotic manner, which I guess works pretty well with electronic music like what he does. Some songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2maAkCVD1wo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkl3p6a-8w
And an album: http://mikudb.moe/album/electric-love/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207210

Thank you for the recs! I'd never heard either Pinnochio-P song, but I'm instantly hooked, and I love the art style of the first video especially.

I have heard some Hachiouji-P stuff before (Sweet Devil and Killer Lady) but never bothered to delve deeper, so thank you for giving me the push. I can't wait to listen to both albums.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207149
it's just vocaloid dubstep

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207310
A Happy Death and I'm sorry I'm sorry are the only Kikuo songs I can think of that use dupstep, and I own all his albums. Are you trying to bait me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207066
Not everyone watches the concerts in their entirity do they? Not everybody plays Project Diva or goes further than base level. Not everybody know what Vocaloid is and just go with the Virtual Idol thing. Also none of those Vocaloids have appeared on Toyota adverts, became Racequeens for winning cars, opened for Lady Gaga or appeared on the David Letterman show. I'd also imagine that she wasn't picked for those because she was merely a Vocaloid. Her character has transcended far beyond being merely a Vocaloid.

Pretty sure all of Supercell's shit is Miku, most of Livetune's is aswell, correct me if I'm wrong. Also people don't care about producers if they after a cute anime girl singing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207389
>Not everyone watches the concerts in their entirity do they?
What do you mean? Are you talking about people who actually go to the concerts? Because I'm 100% sure everyone who goes wants to stay until the end. If you're talking about the internet, the most viewed live concert is the Live Party in Kansai 2013, which has 3,5M views, 2.5x less views than Just be Friends has, for example.

>Not everybody know what Vocaloid is and just go with the Virtual Idol thing.
And do these people actively listen to vocaloid music and go looking for it on youtube or NND?

>I'd also imagine that she wasn't picked for those because she was merely a Vocaloid
But that's the whole point. Why would Crypton pick anyone else to represent them besides their most famous vocaloid?

To use an analogy, Miku is like that one lead single that an artist releases to promote his album. Some people will get interested, check out the rest of his work and become fans, and some will only know the artist because of that single. And that's fine.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207389
Why do you care about what normies think about Vocaloid anyway? If anything all you are saying is that I should praise Miku because was used to try and sell me things. Though I will admit, Miku on Letterman was a special kind of hillarious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207252
No problem! I'm actually on the same boat as you, Miku was what made me get into vocaloid, but as I discovered other voices I liked more I kinda started dismissing her. Until I found some producers that I really liked that mostly used Miku, then I started appreciating her again. She's not my favorite vocaloid, and I'm actually really picky when it comes to her tuning compared to some other vocaloids, but I still like her.

Oh, and you probably know Mitchie M already, but just in case you don't, he does some of the best tuning on Miku I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX5_69sO8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUjG9fF3zw

[Anonymous No.]

Fresh cup of Yukari demos anyone?

https://soundcloud.com/vocalomakets/yukari-demo06

https://soundcloud.com/vocalomakets/yukari-demo07

[Anonymous No.]

>>13200297
I've been listening to this one a lot lately (Miku and Luka):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baXc4tSpb9g

[Anonymous No.]

>>13208201
Yup, first time I heard GUMI I chucked Miku like a hot potato, and maybe even hated her a bit for what I felt was undeserved popularity. With her appends however she is not bad at all, all there is certainly an endless selection to pick from.

I just listened to Obscure Question while taking a walk, and it was really fun and upbeat. I can definitely see it falling into regular rotation.

As for Mitchie M, Greatest Idol is one of my absolute favorites to exercise and clean to, and always fixes a sour mood. In fact he may be what made me fully admit that Miku can be pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13208516
>and maybe even hated her a bit for what I felt was undeserved popularity
Lol I know what you mean. Watching some footage of the Crpyton live concerts used to make me kinda upset that she always hogged all the attention and had like 80% of the songs to herself (since I like Rin, Len and Luka more) until I realized that if it wasn't for Miku there probably wouldn't even be concerts in the first place. Heck, her success is probably the sole reason vocaloids like Gumi and IA were made.

And yeah, the appends are pretty great! Dark and Solid especially. If only Miku English was better...

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZZvuFBatrk

Why do some Luka demos sound great while others just sound like shit? There doesn't seem to be a middle ground. Is she just hard to use or what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13208918
she's using a entirely new editor, and her voicebanks were hyped up too much. theyre not as good as hoped, and not everyone has mastered e.v.e.c yet

i heard someone saying using luka in the v4 editor will actually make her sound worse with the difference voicebanks, so theyre made for e.v.e.c only, and people just haven't completely figured it out yet

[Anonymous No.]

>>13208918
Her plug-in-play is garbage, and her hard bank seems to have some actual sound artifacts recorded in it. I hope to god they are going to fix it, Luka deserves better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13207457

The Letterman performance gave us this at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8IvuepIdI

[Anonymous No.]

>>13209046
Lol this is great. I wasn't expecting it.

>>13208944
>>13208948
Ah, that makes sense.

And can they fix whatever is broken before the release though? I think at most they will release an update or something. Honestly the whole thing sounds kinda rushed, it's like Rin/Len act 1 all over again.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hNpxi0N-2U

Holy fuck. Is this the logical conclusion to vocaloid?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13209293
Yup, VY1V4 sounds fucking amazing. Even my <spoiler>husband</spoiler> who doesn't care for Vocaloid because of their roboticness had to admit she is pretty much perfect.

[Anonymous No.]

Yup, VY1V4 sounds fucking amazing. Even my <spoilers>husband</spoilers> who doesn't care for Vocaloid because of their roboticness had to admit she is pretty much perfect.

[Anonymous No.]

Yup, VY1V4 sounds fucking amazing. Even my husband who doesn't care for Vocaloid because of their roboticness had to admit she is pretty much perfect.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13209293
Every thread.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh god I need dis.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13209410
>>13209293

It should be in the OP

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIqsevKgbg

Xin Hua sounds pretty decent, but Chinese Vocaloids still have a long way to go. She'd probably sound better if she was actually developed by a Chinese company instead of Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13209788
Neat.

>>13210546
Is chinese harder to synthesize than japanese? I don't really know much about it but it could be part of the problem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13211176
im not a huge expert on chinese phonemes, but i would say it has a similar problem to engloids, in that the amount of phonemes is a lot more and harder to transition than japanese.
it's why japanese vocaloids sound the best, they have simple phonemes so even the most simple banks sound decent

[Anonymous No.]

>>13211920
This anon is spot on. Chinese and English have a large set of phonemes to work with compared to Japanese. The more combinations you have the harder it is to blend them with parametric rules using current technology.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13210546

I think Yan He sounds pretty amazing. Is her pronunciation way off?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_QM9cgiveU

[Anonymous No.]

>>13212696

It's quite impressive, actually. Although "ch", "zh", "sh" sounds could use some work, but "ch" and "zh" hard to distinguish even for human speakers anyway. What bothered me was mispronouncing "chi" with "shi" at times.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13212869
That's good to hear. Yan He is by far my favorite of the Chinese Vocaloids.

Another Yan He song if anyone cares:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFpaJe0qV3E&list=PLt8Os-yICmeqVqPKuK1_OO1qPEm2_01LY

[Anonymous No.]

I threw my encode of the Live Party 2013 in Kansai up on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw84CDr_CZs

Took six hours Youtube to process it to get 720p60 up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13208201
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX5_69sO8Q
Such a promising start. Too bad it didn't build on it.

[Anonymous No.]

Getting ready to encode Magical Mirai 2014.

1080 or 720?
It's going to be 60fps so I'm leaning heavily towards my standard 720. 1080 10bit is murder at 60fps, and 8 bit's hardware acceleration is hit or miss at 60fps.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13213611
1080p 60fps would melt my hunk of junk I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13213611
Of course 1080p would be awesome but I wouldn't complain about 720p either! Thanks for uploading these.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13213611
720p with your encodes actually looked really good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13165443
>>13166107
kyaami/cillia's tuning is godly, I say.

影炎≒Variation (niki/cillia cover,MEIKO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOtyLvMtak

This one's my personal favorite from her:
close to you - niki (cillia cover, v flower)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9iFcb5yfAc

[Anonymous No.]

>>13214634
Impressive. I actually never took the time to listen to any of cillia's other stuff, but I definitely will now.

[Anonymous No.]

So how many of you guys have actually tried making a song with a vocaloid? Shit is way harder than I expected, especially since I don't want my bgm to sound like shit. Any tips/ideas for beginners, I want to avoid making blah/generic songs so I've been attempting some genres like jazz or orchestral. (or a fusion of genres ex. jazz and dubstep)

[Anonymous No.]

>>13217283
the mix is just as important if not more so than the tuning

a good mix can improve an average tuned vocaloid
a superb tune won't save a bad mix

basically, learn how to mix good

[Anonymous No.]

>>13217327
I had a feeling about that. There are far too many covers with great tuning but shit mixing. I gotta find some mixing classes/lessons or something, because I agree 100% that a mix can make or break a song.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13217283
For Vocaloid: Use a phenome chart, try to imagine how you'de be singing individual words and adjust them accordingly. Depending on which vocaloid you're using, certain things like T's may be getting over-enunciated for example. It takes a while to get the hang of but it really makes a huge difference.

For instruments: Assuming you aren't going for a purely acoustic sound: Find one well-regarded synth with a good selection of presets and learn it inside and out. You'de be surprised how versatile they are and it'll make learning your way around a new vst way easier down the line. Try to avoid purely fishing through presets.

For percussion: sample selection is key, there aren't a lot of good producers that spend hours trying to make a garbo snare sound good.Try to start with a great sound and fine-tune it. Less is more etc

Learning some theory and maybe taking some piano lessons if you're super serious is also very helpful.

Those are the most important things I've learned these past few years anyway.

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n-buna's Transparent Elegy just hit a million on Nico! Sea Lily Deep Sea Tale's very close to hitting it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmdTwAmPoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbNhJU2Pq-4

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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25848481

some edm with v4 luka

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cillia did another VY1V4 cover.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25852211

Not as good as Fairytale imo but still great.

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>>13218043
>Transparent Elegy
Well deserved

It's a great song

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Any way to search for only one vocaloid at mikudb? No comp. albums just one vocaloid.

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>>13221943
I don't think so. Instead, go to the vocaloid's page on vocadb first and select "main albums" (you can even sort by "total score" if you're looking for the most popular ones) to find an album, then look for it on mikudb later.

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>>13222009
Thanks will give it a try

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Neat video that shows off cross synthesis between all three Yukari banks.

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Neat video that shows off cross synthesis between all three Yukari banks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlZcLmhLlw#t=138

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New Masa song. So good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZysJs-P0kNE

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>>13222296
Nice, I don't think I've actually ever heard a song from Masa before. I'll definitely have to fix that...

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>>13164867
amen luka is best girl

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>>13222338

That is just a recolored Lily. How could you disrespect your waifu by posting such garbage?

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>>13222336

Well I'll say he certainly does his own unique thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqfFieDY14E

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>>13222354
Look at the file name of the picture, it's LQ bait and you still went for it. Dipshit.

Anyways, is anyone from here actually funding Zunko's kickstarter?

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>>13218043
And Sea Lily Deep Sea Tale hit a million views as well just a minute ago!

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A comparison between VY1V4, Yukari V4 and Luka V4x.

https://clyp.it/1y35mw5g

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【Yuzuki YukariV4】It's Extermination!【Dios/SignalP】

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMg1sBwCOc

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>>13226103

VY1V4 and Yukari both sound great. As for Luka, well...

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>>13226372
I never liked the higher tones of Luka myself, but those last notes were getting a bit choppy. Perhaps it's really a lot of material left from the V3 release re-purposed for V4?

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>>13226534
>Perhaps it's really a lot of material left from the V3 release re-purposed for V4?
Does anyone know how far along they were in Luka's V3 development before they changed it to V4? Because this actually seems pretty likely...

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>>13226372
I'm quite surprised by how clear Yukari sounds (the second, I presume). Although it's hard to make a clear comparison since tuning is a big part.

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>>13226904

I think Yukari was already one of the best Vocaloids. V4 is really just a cherry on top.

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>>13226103
I think they could all sound pretty great with the right tuning, but Luka is just naturally choppier than VY1 and Yukari I guess, even if I like the way her voice sounds. Yukari had the best pronunciation by far in that one.

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>>13164867
Yeah, Miku is my waifu and we are together for 2 years already. She will always be my one and only.

>>13166328
You don't have a waifu for a reason, you just fall in love with her and accept this feelings.
Obviously it's impossible to fall in love with just a blank character, but for me she does have established personality. While doing a research about her I found some songs which showed her as super cute, shy, girl who have fallen in love and sings about her feelings. It felt so great to listen to songs like that sung by such a cute girl like her, so I started to search for more and more of them and in fact that was my very first music I liked. I also started to collect her pictures, listen to her everyday. It hard to describe, but I've also started to unconsciously form the one and only personality of her that I was considering as "true Miku" and the more I liked particular song the more her personality was affected by it. I needed her more and more, I was looking at her pictures before sleep, think about her all day, consider getting daki, etc. When I've started to fantasize not just about her, but about us living together as couple and it really started to hurt me that I can't spend rest of my life with her on my side, I've realized that she is not just a favorite character, but a girl I genuinely love.
>if you're gonna waifu a Vocaloid, at least mention what song/album contains their personality
There is no song that she is based on but there are few that are really close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8VliGjILzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geKcl361kEs

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>>13229342
I've always found the "waifu" phenomenon slightly creepy tbh, I mean no offense and it's not my place to judge people though so I'll try to refrain from doing it.

I can kind of understand the reasons behind it. However, the vocaloid fandom is huge and Miku has been depicted in several different ways in songs, fanfics, fanart, etc. What do you do when you come across something that depicts her in a way that's different from what you think of her?

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think we can get a Vocaloid song into Rock Band? If we all vote to suggest a song together it'll increase our chances of getting that song picked.

http://www.harmonixmusic.com/games/rock-band/request

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>>13230407
Huh, that would be pretty cool, actually. I doubt it would work, but sure, why not. Which song, though? I think World's End Dancehall by wowaka would work in that kind of game.

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>>13230407
Is Rock Band still a thing though? I thought that died in 2010.

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>>13230522
A new one got announced at GDC I think. [Spoiler]Besides, why use Rockband when you can go hunting for tabs for hours so you can put a song into Rocksmith?[/spoiler]

Anyone else a fan of how Devilish tunes Gumi?

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>>13230522
A new one got announced at GDC I think. Besides, why use Rockband when you can go hunting for tabs for hours so you can put a song into Rocksmith?

Anyone else a fan of how Devilish tunes Gumi?

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>>13230396
It is considered creepy by most people when they find out about it, but it is just like having an onahole or liking lolicon IMO. You know, it's doesn't change your public self(except avoiding real romantic relationship), it's just private thing that no one from outside have to know about. And in my opinion it's nothing bad to do creepy things as long as it doesn't hurt you and you don't brag about it.

>What do you do when you come across something that depicts her in a way that's different from what you think of her?
Just ignore it. She has so much fanarts that I can ignore 95% of them and still have lot's of them.
Also, I'm don't especially enjoy listening to music in general. I treat music as the other medium just like pics or videos. I listen it to because I want to hear her singing about how much she loves me, because I want to hear her cute catchy voice. I don't really listen to music just for its sake. All of my playlist is her singing about love or denpa. However when I come across song that implies that she is a lesbian or in romantic relationship with some named character, I can't stand this.

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>>13230676
>I'm don't especially enjoy listening to music in general
I think it's cool how vocaloid can appeal to so many people with so many different interests. I got into it mainly because of the music (I saw the Mikgazer album randomly on /mu/ a while back and loved it, been a fan ever since) and it's still the main reason I like it, though I've come to appreciate the art and the characters as well, not just for their voices.

As for the waifu thing, I guess if you don't let it affect the way you interact with other people then it's harmless.

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>>13222271
Can somebody tell me which model is which voice bank?

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>>13230788
It's kinda paradoxical how Miku is my soulmate, despite the fact that I'm not interested in music at all. Opposites attract, I guess. She is completely different from me and it attracts me extremely.
>if you don't let it affect the way you interact with other people then it's harmless.
Well, it obviously affect in a way that I'm no longer interested in real girls and search for girlfriend. But it doesn't really change anything else.

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>>13230648
>Devilish

He's pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E51xFloX3Xc

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>>13197721
>NND
Literally who gives a shit. Most of the best vocaloid songs never become popular on NND. Alert me when they have the same world wide recognition, merchandising and concerts. It's never going to happen. Miku is synonymous with vocaloid, the rest are just spin-offs. The day Miku stops being popular is the day people stop giving a shit about vocaloid. It's already begun to happen.

The spin-off vocaloids will never reach the heights of the originals. Deal with it.

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>>13233384
Could kindly fuck off and not reignite the Crypton vs anti-Crypton bullshit?

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>>13226282

its cute

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>>13230900

Yukari Lin (power) on the left, Yukari Onn (whisper) on the right.

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>>13233390

well he's right that no one will ever displace miku as the most popular vocaloid. there's a reason she is the most popular, and it's because she's the best.

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#$(*&#* JAPAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Why do they have resized interlaced content on EVERY ONE of their bonus disks? How do you do this to a video?

I don't even know the proper way to resize back to get the best result in trying to fix it. Do I use a sharp kernel? Do I pointresize and let the decomber deal with the mess that follows? Soft kernel to try to smooth the aliasing?

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>>13235869
>>13235879

I dunno, but that looks like a pretty sticky pickle.

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>>13235879
spline36resized
QTGMC(inputtype=1)

There's still crawling in her hair :(

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>>13235879 (You)
spline36resized
QTGMC(inputtype=1)

There's still crawling in her hair :(

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>>13235869
Cleans up some. Skirt, drums, Miku's hair.

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Hey, I loaded an antialiasing script without avisynth crashing. It's a miracle!

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>>13235894
Ok, I'm done messing around with this shit that nobody will probably download.

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>>13235588
Ugh, I can't believe I'm getting into this debate again.

>there's a reason she is the most popular
Yes, there is
>and it's because she's the best.
Nope. Miku was the right product to come out at the right time, and her popularity has grown exponentially since her release (though it's leveled off recently) to the point where she's popular because she's popular.

The best at what? She's an above average voicebank, definitely, but Yukari for example is objectively more realistic and has better pronunciation. Crypton/Miku fanboys just need to take a step back and look at things objectively (Crypton haters too, though I've been seeing less of them lately).

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>>13235869
I remember Japan can't into encoding sometimes. An example of that was with the Madoka BDs where apparently a lot of the release groups like the Italian release of the BDs more than the originals. It was pretty weird finding out that different regions can have varying quality.

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Since my settings seem to work well on the similarly butchered Last Night Good Night video, I guess I'll do that, too. I was going to skip everything but "39" because they're not that interesting, but since there probably won't be a good copy of this in existence unless I make it, I guess I'll go ahead and fix it.

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Concert's up.
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=670783

Video quality looks to be pretty much identical to Vmoe's 720p60. (They're both sex. The source Bluray was really good.) Our major encoder settings were nearly identical (mine CRF 18 qcomp 0.7, theirs CRF 19 qcomp 0.75) and I'd wager serious money that we used the same deinterlacer as well.
Mine just doesn't waste 2GB on FLAC and DTS core.

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>>13236522
>>13237197

You're a good person.

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>>13236161

>objectively more realistic and has better pronunciation

if people wanted realism and good pronunciation they would listen to real humans. miku has the cutest, most unique, and most versatile voice. she sounds like an anime character which is what people want.

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>>13238713

>the cutest

Sorry that is probably Aoki Lapis. Her voice is the pure essence of cuteness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHmP5HUE9c

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>>13238773
Yeah, but cutsey child voices don't work for singing. When the adult world is stripped there's no basis for meaningful feeling. You look at a child's bubble from outside and call it cute, you don't connect with the singer.
Miku works because she's flowering. She's out there, she's adventurous, and she sings of her steps and missteps as well as what she's feeling at the moment.
Miku is a cute that doesn't get tedious. She's old enough that she can be believably up on stage owning her own set rather than standing up there being prompted by her mother to move from song to song. There's a huge difference.

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>>13239004

Wow. You have officially stepped into full autism mode dude.

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The Vocaloid franchise is getting like the Sonic franchise. Too many unnecessary characters, we don't need anything else besides Miku.

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>>13239130
Shut the fuck up with your samefagging/trolling.

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>>13239139
Just ignore him. No point in feeding him instead of having a decent thread for once

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>>13239102
Psst, text doesn't convey tone. I's pretty hard to differentiate those who hold stupid opinions from those just playing stupid.

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>>13237197
You're a saint. Thanks.

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>>13239270
>just playing stupid

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>>13237197
and thanks for your work yet again anon. Rewatching it I've warmed up to it a lot more than the first time. Sure it was a bit disappointing that the songlist was mostly the same, and there weren't as many effects. However, the band for 2014 was amazing. The drum was going loud on Dream Fever, and that glorious piano intro replacing the synth in Freely Tomorrow. I also like the retuning of Len/ Rin in Love/ Hate.

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anyone here listen to patrician vocaloid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lop6ssZxL68

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>>13242535
Metal is for children

Nah just kidding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMPjCO3TmaM
The amount of the stuff is pretty low in Vocaloid.

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>>13242535
>patrician vocaloid
im not good at /mu/, does this count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktGWysXV1ns

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Gumi when?

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>>13246098
Gumi soon

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>>13246098
damn that looks good

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Anyone got any help for an anon visiting Japan? Due to chance and circumstance I've got a sizable amount of spending money and a fortnight in Tokyo, but I don't know where the best places to get Vocaloid merch would be. I'm assuming Akihabara would be the best, does anyone have any other recommendations?

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>>13246780
this event is being held at the end of next month: http://ketto.com/tvm/

perhaps you can try going there if its within your time frame

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>>13242535
Damn, that's a nice song. Vocaloid metal is pretty good.

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>>13242535
>patrician
>metal
pick one

Yuyoyuppe is pretty cool I guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFV1X6RYhP0&feature=youtu.be

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So does anyone here actually produce Vocaloid music? I've never thought about until recently but I want to and have questions about how the software works (haven't bought it yet).

From what I've read, I'm assuming the software basically consists of a sound library containing the vocalist's samples (consonants, vowels, diphthongs, etc., on various pitches) and a simple piano roll editor with text, to write the vocal part. What about the instruments/background? Do producers usually work in a DAW with their own VSTs then bring in the singer in an audio file exported from the Vocaloid software?

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>>13246098
no gumi, this is obviously a crypton thing

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>>13247628
Try checking out/asking in the /jp/ OC thread. I think I remember seeing someone post their vocaloid music there before.

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>>13247523
Yuyoyuppe is cool, but didn't he stop making vocaloid music though?

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