Vocaloid2, the cutey j-pop style singing program.

[wao]

Oh my god, yeah. I just died laughing at that re-translation of Melt! Or rather, I'm going to die in a short while... man, re-translations are always win but it's especially nice when you try to squeeze them in Reminds me of that time someone re-translated those Pokemon names, comedy gold...

And I couldn't believe SPAM's lyrics were representative of Japanese SPAM (the only one I get on the family account is mostly what... "I found sexy oba-sans living in your area") - not really the content, but the way it's written.
Until the end when I realised that yeah, it's actually possible (I loved how someone added a "-> CLICK HERE <-" thing)

Also now tha I listen to other Naoto vids, yeah, his voice isn't usually that low. I had only listened to that sentai show ED once a long time ago but I went to relisten to it and Kaito's vibrato sounds exactly like his as far as I can tell. Cool.

[Heresiarch]

This song really brings me tears...if you're into 5cm/second stuff, then definetly don't miss this. (I didn't cry at 5cm/s, but this song almost made me so)

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2736134

or

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

[w00tness]

Originally Posted by Heresiarch

This song really brings me tears...if you're into 5cm/second stuff, then definetly don't miss this. (I didn't cry at 5cm/s, but this song almost made me so)

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2745955

or

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

think you meant to link to this

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2736134

[Asamidori]

I perfer this when it comes to 5cm PV and Miku songs. =X


[ニコニコ] 合唱 初音ミクオリジナル 「白の季節」 「桜の季節」 / Chorus　Hatsune Miku Original "Shiro no Kisetsu" "Sakura no Kisetsu"

Spoiler for YouTube:

白の季節 / Shiro no Kisetsu
桜の季節 / Sakura no Kisetsu


ゆうゆP~ It's almost April~ Sakura no Kisetsu update~ And yes, upload it to Nico!!

[Onniguru]

New stuff found on nico:

Spoiler for youtube link...:

Original link: http://nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2842298

Another one:

Spoiler for youtube link...:

Original link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2842838

BTW: I've taken to adding comments to nicovideos lately. I only put positive comments, and I'm sure by the way I write, they know I'm a Yank (such as deliborately putting in spaces, which they would not do). However, I hope at least I'm not writing mere gibberish. Example of latest comment added to a video:
すごい！　びじ　うた　です。　そして　わたしは　アメリカじん　です。

Edit: Ok, one more: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm2842999

Edit: Still one more. This next one is not really to my tastes (its a little too...happy...), but it seems to be real popular on nico, so I thought I would post it:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2843943

[Asamidori]

No need to state you're an American. No one would mind (or care, really).


...What's a "biji"? >_>



Not sure if I wanted to introduce this video since the encoding was pretty bad, but seeing how MadaoP doesn't seem like he/she's gonna do an update anytime soon...

[ニコニコ] 【替歌】( ﾟ∀ﾟ)卒業ｳﾏｳﾏ(ﾟ∀ﾟ )【KAITO】

Piano altered lyric version of Umauma (CaramellDansen). Lyric = graduation stuffs. (March was the graduation season in Japan.)

Touching lyric. But yea, the encoding was pretty bad...



...IGASIO chara song. xD

"Shion KAIKO no Bousou"

Original: 「始音KAIKOの暴走」を捏造してみた（歌詞だけ） - Lyric by 喪フラーP

【KAIKO】｢始音KAIKOの暴走｣を歌わせてみた - CreaP ver.
【KAITO】「始音KAIKOの暴走」を歌わせてみた Ver.IGASIO【KAIKO】 - IGASIO ver.

[Onniguru]

Originally Posted by Asamidori

No need to state you're an American. No one would mind (or care, really).


...What's a "biji"? >_>

.

ettou..

ah crap...I knew I would screw it up.

I meant きれい (pretty), but instead remembered the wrong word,
びじょ (beautiful woman)
...and managed to spell that wrong, even
...also, don't I need a は after the きれい? as in: きれいはうたですか? (the ka is for you, it wouldn't go in the comments).

[w00tness]

Originally Posted by Onniguru

ettou..

ah crap...I knew I would screw it up.

I meant きれい (pretty), but instead remembered the wrong word,
びじょ (beautiful woman)
...and managed to spell that wrong, even

bijin? 美人
bijo? 美女

mm. I would think that Miku is more "kawaii" than "bijo" though, but tastes differ

EDIT: Oh, you were referring to her voice xD my bad my bad. scratch everything I said.

[Asamidori]

Originally Posted by Onniguru

ettou..

ah crap...I knew I would screw it up.

I meant きれい (pretty), but instead remembered the wrong word,
びじょ (beautiful woman)
...and managed to spell that wrong, even
...also, don't I need a は after the きれい? as in: きれいはうたですか? (the ka is for you, it wouldn't go in the comments).

"kirei wa uta desu" would literally translates to "pretty/beautiful is song".

You're probably looking for きれいなうた. =X

[Onniguru]

Thanks for the help , but...alas its too late, I already posted again

(Took me a couple minutes to upload this image to my website):


I hope I'm at least entertaining them...

Edit: Ok! More stuff: In the following video, you get a song AND a story
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2844610 ... heh.

[Asamidori]

orz

I never posted this here?

[ニコニコ] 「恋は戦争」をリミックスしてみた　song by 鏡音リン

Spoiler for :

Ugh, need to find a tool that CAN download nm files. Argh.

[w00tness]

Originally Posted by Onniguru

Thanks for the help , but...alas its too late, I already posted again

(Took me a couple minutes to upload this image to my website):


I hope I'm at least entertaining them...

Edit: Ok! More stuff: In the following video, you get a song AND a story
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2844610 ... heh.

Actually, I dont think its that bad to post in english or whatever on niconico. At worst, people flame you like crazy and the uploader deletes your comments. Most times I think people dont care. But I mean, there will always be haters, dont need to worry too much about them.

My thoughts.

[Asamidori]

Quoting Hatsune Miku Miku:

Originally Posted by 初音ミクみく

情報によれば、最終回が放送されたテレビアニメ「俗・さよなら先生 第13話」に、なんと初音ミクが登場したそうな。しかも、ミクっぽいキャラクタではなく、キャストにもしっかり「初音ミク」となっているという。また、声は初音ミクの中の人「藤田咲」（VOCALOID？）となっているもよう。その他、MEIKO、KAITO、鏡音リン・レンらしきキャラも登場しているという。

Quick translation:

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Ep. 13 Cast:

- Hatsune Miku

Chara similar to MEIKO, KAITO, Rin and Len also make apparence.

Raw for the mentioned episode on YouTube, search for "俗・さよなら絶望 13".


Rin / Len - 2/3 ~3:20 | Appared earlier too but can't catch it 'till 3:20.
MEIKO / KAITO - 2/3 ~3:22 | 2P color... xDD
みｗｗｗくｗｗｗ - 2/3 ~4:18 | Original color.


Mmm, yea. Fujita doesn't sound like Miku. >_>.

[w00tness]

Originally Posted by Asamidori

Quoting Hatsune Miku Miku:



Quick translation:

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Ep. 13 Cast:

- Hatsune Miku

Chara similar to MEIKO, KAITO, Rin and Len also make apparence.

Raw for the mentioned episode on YouTube, search for "俗・さよなら絶望 13".


Rin / Len - 2/3 ~3:20 | Appared earlier too but can't catch it 'till 3:20.
MEIKO / KAITO - 2/3 ~3:22 | 2P color... xDD
みｗｗｗくｗｗｗ - 2/3 ~4:18 | Original color.


Mmm, yea. Fujita doesn't sound like Miku. >_>.

You missed the kumabear

[orange.wk]

well, I'm from japan, glad to see you all.


well,mmm,
may I ask you a quetison?
Is there any bigger English vocaloid fan community than this forum is?
Or here is the biggest?

[w00tness]

Originally Posted by orange.wk

well, I'm from japan, glad to see you all.


well,mmm,
may I ask you a quetison?
Is there any bigger English vocaloid fan community than this forum is?
Or here is the biggest?

mikumiku.info has a few (very) active members and a forum board dedicated solely to vocaloid.

mikufan.com is a fansite, but not a community

Uhh... I guess either english speaking vocaloid fans dont feel the need to build a community, or they dont know of these sites, or there just isnt that many of us D:

[Asamidori]

Originally Posted by w00tness

You missed the kumabear

Kuma is not a vocaloid, though. >_> If you talk about pure cameo apparence I found the Sen no Kaze guy more amusing. >_>

Originally Posted by orange.wk

well, I'm from japan, glad to see you all.


well,mmm,
may I ask you a quetison?
Is there any bigger English vocaloid fan community than this forum is?
Or here is the biggest?

We're scattered all over the place I think. There's no central ground for majority of the fans, so it's either this topic or mikumiku.info, I think.

ってええぇぇぇ！？

The person that wrote the lyric for 10 no Yakusoku!? For real!?

[Onniguru]

Originally Posted by Daniel E.

That's pretty neat.

With a bit of patience and skill, some cute sequences can certainly be created.

Not by me, though!

I will be using an accessorized version of this psd for a background image for one version of the chobits OP I've been working on.

PS: Whatever happened to Chama, anyway?

Originally Posted by Asamidori

Quick translation:

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Ep. 13 Cast:

- Hatsune Miku

Chara similar to MEIKO, KAITO, Rin and Len also make apparence.

Raw for the mentioned episode on YouTube, search for "俗・さよなら絶望 13".

Thats just awsome . I watched the episode...yup, there she was

Originally Posted by w00tness

mikumiku.info has a few (very) active members and a forum board dedicated solely to vocaloid.

mikufan.com is a fansite, but not a community

Uhh... I guess either english speaking vocaloid fans dont feel the need to build a community, or they dont know of these sites, or there just isnt that many of us D:

Sadly, I think its the later . On nicovideo a dozen new vocaloid-related videos appear every hour (most are just rehashes of songs already done, with new animation, but stilll). On youtube, there seem to be only one or two per hour, and 98% of those are copy-pastas from nico. Leaving maybe an average of only one or two new per DAY that are from non-Japanese fans.

When I visited the Cakewalk forums, a search there only found a few very old comments about Lola and Leon; no mention of Mirium at all, yet alone Prima or any of the Japanese Vocaloids. They also apparently thought that Zero-G created the software itself (and not just the voice font), lol. They were completely oblivious to the popularity of this program overseas. Meanwhile, Wired magazine did an article about the popularity of Hatsune Miku in Japan, then proceeded to give a condescending view about the whole thing, and then they chose for some of their examples from youtube some of the more annoying and trollish videos out there, bypassing (deliberately?) most of the better work. I think they had a couple good ones, but made them like 8-9 in the list, and put at the front of the video examples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHabtGz33v8, which, while cute, would to most westerners sound annoying as hell, if that was the first vocaloid video they were to ever hear.

Based on the comments by users on the Wired article, I don't think most wired viewers bothered to watch past the first or second video.

[Asamidori]

Vocaloid Album 7

Theme: Cover songs



[ニコニコ] 週刊VOCALOIDランキング終了のお知らせ

Announcement for the ending of Weekly Vocaloid Ranking.














Died laughing.

[wao]

Well from the stuff I've read here and there from DTMers outside of Japan and other tech geeks (who aren't necessarily fond of Japan), it seemed to me like Crypton's Vocaloids are just "child's play" or "nothing much" - nothing new, anyway, something that's been achieved before (really?) and doesn't seem amazing. I remember people saying that in the first place Vocaloids shouldn't be used for anything more than back vocals...

Mind you I don't go often to DTM/DAW support forums; these are merely very shallow observations from a few cases. I do think there are a number who strongly oppose the personification of software into cutesy kitsch icons because it makes it look like a toy; I saw a few people quite annoyed by the introduction of FL-Chan for Fruity Loops Studio, for example. "We don't need stupid anime mascots in a professional program" - that sort of feeling. One understands why Crypton would be careful about Miku's image (I think the dakimakura killed that though).

Eh, I don't make music or have any musical sense but personally I still think the best Vocaloids are Meiko and Leon, not the newer stuff Maybe I just like mellow voices.