Vocaloid2, the cutey j-pop style singing program.

[nikorai]

ayu-smepai
Thanks for sharing 愛言葉. I greatly enjoyed the song, and the lyrics are easy to understand.

[Chaho-Chi]

Heres another from this weeks vocaloid rankings I forgot to mention.

【初音ミク】Catcher FOr U【オリジナル】

@ nikorai Glad you liked it. ^_^

[NekoCharge15]

Kagamine Rin PV - The End of Solitude

[Chaho-Chi]

OUR WORST REALITY FACED D:

Spoiler for BEHOLD!:

Although this version is better =/

[starblood]

can you up link mp3 of this

[NekoCharge15]

Disappearance of Miku Hatsune 【VOCALOID Anime PV】*complete ver*

Made by HOMBRE.

[CMSensei]

Subscribed and found it today..

PENGUINS PROJECT feat. Hatsune Miku「Nemuri Hime」

[Da~Mike]

I recently bought the Project Diva Hatsune Miku game from Play-Asia and now I've succumbed to the vocaloid following!..

I've particularly liked the songs done by Ryo(supercell?) and kz, especially kz, as I found the synthesised sounds suits the synthesised voice very well.

I also liked a few Megurine Luka songs that I chanced upon on you tube, that being "RIP=RELEASE" and "Just be Friends".

Does anyone know if they've released albums for sale? (I know supercell has so I'm buying it).

[Chaho-Chi]

For last weeks and this weeks vocaloid rankings.

Spoiler for VR97:

Spoiler for VR98:

Originally Posted by Da~Mike

I also liked a few Megurine Luka songs that I chanced upon on you tube, that being "RIP=RELEASE" and "Just be Friends".

Does anyone know if they've released albums for sale? (I know supercell has so I'm buying it).

I don't remeber seeing any vocaloid albums on those songs. There might be doujin albums but I don't have much information, sorry.

[Da~Mike]

Originally Posted by ayu-smepai

I don't remeber seeing any vocaloid albums on those songs. There might be doujin albums but I don't have much information, sorry.

Cheers for the reply.
Doujin albums huh? Oh dear...
I'm averse to traversing the net for things that are obscure...

I have heard about that comiket thing that occured in Japan a while ago but then, getting imported doujin cds from Japan... I'm not going to bother trying...

Now... I wonder how I buy songs from nico douga...

[Chaho-Chi]

Originally Posted by Da~Mike

Cheers for the reply.
Doujin albums huh? Oh dear...
I'm averse to traversing the net for things that are obscure...

I have heard about that comiket thing that occured in Japan a while ago but then, getting imported doujin cds from Japan... I'm not going to bother trying...

Now... I wonder how I buy songs from nico douga...

You don't even need to buy them, They have this free branch of mp3 file sharing called nico sound.
You just type up the song you want them put nico sound, and BAM. The site is in japanese but all you do is click on the blue button called "PC"

[Mirimar]

A new Hatsune Miku original PV - Lots of Laugh

[AnimeTheme]

Originally Posted by Da~Mike

I recently bought the Project Diva Hatsune Miku game from Play-Asia and now I've succumbed to the vocaloid following!..

I've particularly liked the songs done by Ryo(supercell?) and kz, especially kz, as I found the synthesised sounds suits the synthesised voice very well.

I also liked a few Megurine Luka songs that I chanced upon on you tube, that being "RIP=RELEASE" and "Just be Friends".

Does anyone know if they've released albums for sale? (I know supercell has so I'm buying it).

lol I love the Miku songs from kz as well. I don't really listen to Miku songs much, and in fact I don't really like the majority of them, but those from kz are some of the few that I really like.

Talking about albums, the following may get your interests.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...h-70-2uin.html

There is a remix version as well.

[Ice Block]

[Miku, Luka, KAITO] Acute - by White Flame

Apparently, this was #1 on the 99th weekly rankings.
Short description: Nice Boat

From YouTube uploader:

Made by Kurousa-P

Guitar by a2c
Character Graphic by HitohaMoka
Movie by Mieno-hito

Other sources state that the original song was from an album by Usacolony.

[Da~Mike]

Originally Posted by ayu-smepai

You don't even need to buy them, They have this free branch of mp3 file sharing called nico sound.
You just type up the song you want them put nico sound, and BAM. The site is in japanese but all you do is click on the blue button called "PC"

Thanks again, though I wish it were that easy for me to navigate in Japanese..
I'll give it a shot one day though.

Originally Posted by AnimeTheme

lol I love the Miku songs from kz as well. I don't really listen to Miku songs much, and in fact I don't really like the majority of them, but those from kz are some of the few that I really like.
Talking about albums, the following may get your interests.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...h-70-2uin.html
There is a remix version as well.

Cheers for the suggestion, and in fact, I recently bought both the livetunes albums available from Play-Asia.

And I most certainly share your opinion on the vast majority of Miku songs.
I think it's largely due to the synthetic sound of the synthesised voice, though the vocaloid2 sound MUCH better than the original vocaloid samples I've heard, most likely due to the vocaloid2 relying more on the actual voice samples (or something like that).

One thing I definitely agree with now is how the vocaloid2 "instruments" actually helped propel some talented but otherwise underground composers into the mainstream, or more mainstream. Supercell (ryo) is probably the best example I can think of so far, and his songs definitely benefit having a live human singer (and not a programme) doing the vocals. Even kz's songs would sound better with a live singer.
Though the exceptions would include physically impossible songs like "The disappearance of Hatsune Miku" song.. (which was done by someone else whom I can't quite remember...)


I've heard a few covers of the existing Miku songs, and by and large they do sound better.

What I'd love to hear is an English translation of "Love is War/koi wa sensou" sung by Amy Lee from Evanescence. That would be good.

And I should actually read this entire thread someday...

[denshaotoko]

Wow thanks guys this is a great thread when you are looking for new Jpop and dont want to shift through alot of crap too find the good stuff!

[NekoCharge15]

Miku Hatsune's 18th Birthday & 2nd Anniversary Special Anime PV - VOC@LOID in Love

[othera]

So can you guys actually understand the english ones? i can only understand like 1/3 the words...

[Da~Mike]

^ As far as I know, The Hatsune Miku Vocaloid only possesses Japanese kana for speech. As a result, whatever English she's supposed to be singing very much sounds like Japlish, or more like katakana converted English really.

I think the later Vocaloids (e.g. Megurine Luka) seem to possess multilingual (or just English perhaps) speech capability. Though that makes me wonder whether the VAs behind the voices could actually speak English coherently...

[Edit] I just heard two songs sung in English using Luka (Sukiyaki and Scarborough Fair) and well, it sounded rather much like Engrish to me... I wonder how much better (if at all) the newer vocaloids are at this, considering the sample is still from a Japanese VA (e.g. Megumi Nakajima).

[Mirimar]

agh, on new page