Vocaloid

[drgenestarwind]

While it's not actually anime or game music, that's one of it's most well known uses. Vocaloid is a voice synthesizing program originally in Japanese. search youtube and there are plenty of videos dealing with it, not to mention the mascot Hatsune Miku (which is made of the sounds for "first" "sound" "future") who is a real cutie, especially with a leek in her hand.

[Dr. Ezra]

Yeah, I've heard of it.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

... love the songs, especially the Hatsune Miku original, "Finder" and "Melt".

[Jenny]

I've recently fallen into the Vocaloid fandom and so far, I'm in love! :wub: I've been keeping up with the weekly rankings and everything. LOL As for my favorite one, it would definitely be KAITO, with Len and Miku being tied for second. I'm not as fond of Rin and MEIKO, but still enjoy most of their songs.

[ZeroRyoko1974]

Is the Hatsune Miku manga out yet?

[GreatNekoKoneko]

Is the Hatsune Miku manga out yet?

...im still waiting, unless you want those doujins... not my style, but Hatsune Miku nonetheless...

[ZeroRyoko1974]

I got plenty of Hatsune Miku pr0n, but most of the doujins are just meh

[Ken-Ohki]

One of my favorites.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1783839

and for cuteness sake
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2321776

[RazialRizeda]

mangas out and i want music!!!!!!

[ZeroRyoko1974]

Miku Hutsune Po pi po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-2lzA7_Cg
Octopua Luka ver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6xDrhA6qM

[Soluzar]

I couldn't read the content, but tenshi_a and I saw a picture of Hatsune Miko on a poster outside the local Chinese supermarket. I have no idea what they were advertising. :lol:

[CrossboneGundam]

One of my favorites.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1783839

and for cuteness sake
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2321776

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2629116

Better.

[LuckyStar94]

I've heard about it but I haven't seen the Manga anywhere. T_T

[Bamby]

Manga is (or so I've heard) coming out already, but I didn't find it anywhere...

Does anyone know what skills do you gotta have to make your own music in Vocaloid?

[tenshi_a]

^ dunno. I presume midi sequencing skills, an ear for pitch, and the ability to read Japanese.

This is brilliant! It's KAITO "singing" Yuusha Reideen, and it's a brilliant impersonation of Masato Shimon! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltINBqvySo

I have no idea how anyone can program vocaloid to impersonate singers. It's a great display of skill!

[Soluzar]

That's incredible! It's got so many of the same qualities that made the original performance distinctive. It's not a perfect impersonation, but it's very effective. Whoever did this is incredibly skilled and really understands music.

[Undrave]

I recently founded some really cool Vocaloid (mostly Miku ones) videos on Youtube and I find them awesome.

This one is pretty frantic but I really like it. Miku is awesome in it, I believe the title translates to 'Take it Easy' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R1fs3PnX9M

There's this one with awesome animation style:
Love is War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcI7-MeyLX0

'Nebula', in pretty high quality animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tgZim3Kkg

and I also like 'Honey' featuring all the Vocaloids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reWEAbHvrRg

Sorry if any of those have been posted but I can't get Nicovideo to work :p

[tenshi_a]

This song is pretty funny and catchy. (English subs on the lyrics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbTHFJf6FE

[Broand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZNtYfErfE&fmt=18

This is pretty good too.

[magicalgirlj]

I love Miku Hatsune's version of Levan Polka, and I love Rin Kagihime's Fear Garden

[ZeroRyoko1974]

Vocaloid K-on op
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnmBOx4Yn4

[tenshi_a]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByqAiyaByDU&NR=1

A song about loving carrots. And Gakupo. :lol:

I :wub: carrot cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHu2d1Ws_8&NR=1
Gakupo's Birthday :lol:

(aw, no-one wheels in a cake with 700 candles blazing away...)

Vocaloids are so funny for dramas. :lol: I love the eyecatches too!

[Meson]

I'm indifferent on the vovaloids, If they use the software to make a new Gorillaz album, then I will take notice.

[Haro!]

I've only heard the vocaloid song "VIP Star". I'm not sure how I feel about it because I really like the original. (I was actually about to make a thread asking what the whole vocaloid thing was about, and I just happened to find this)

[tenshi_a]

Hatsune Miku doing a great cover version of an insert song from Konjiki no Gash Bell - "Chichi o moge!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaG7qWotCgk

WHAT are you getting this girl to sing??!!?? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It's funny, she really suits this song!

[Spike]

I love vocaloid. This one is my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oS1IU64KHE

[hiei_kurama27]

I think this thread just kick-started my interest in Vocaloids. -_-; I like Kamui Gakupo a lot. Part of it has to do with his voice being provided by Gackt. heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqvvHeVP4YM

[tenshi_a]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pulslDOjD3k

Len on his roadroller covering Nihon Break Kogyo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fum92uyJTGU), one of the oldest Japanese internet memes I remember to ever "break into" the English internet communities (the English Eurobeat version (http://dagobah.biz/flash/Japan_Break_Industries.swf), at least). :D

I think the company it advertised has gone bust now. :/

[tenshi_a]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9fbQzNpqA

It's strange, Hatsune Miku doesn't sound quite as off-key when she's singing opera.

It's fun to hear someone make her sing in such a radically different style, and hey, it's easier to work out what she's singing than it is with most proper opera singers, hehe. :P

[tenshi_a]

Today's theme; hero songs with numbers in English! ^_^

Daitetsujin 17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwSTEoezmw

Ultraseven English version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwJg5g7BNk

Akumaiser 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4si_RtJn0

Kamen Rider V3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG7dwSy9Mus

Kikaider 01:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ7LhzPaHnA

^_^

[The Million Dollar Prons]

What on earth is this, Japanese micorsoft song smith?

[tenshi_a]

What on earth is this, Japanese micorsoft song smith?

Welcome to 2008! :dance:

[KatayokuのTenshi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9fbQzNpqA

It's strange, Hatsune Miku doesn't sound quite as off-key when she's singing opera.

Hey, her German is pretty good. :P

Apparently, recently, 'Miku' had a live concert... that is to say they prepared an actual concert venue and somehow projected her onto the stage via some sort of holographic cgi wizardry.

I rather hope then named it Mikuros Plus.

Actually it was "Miku's Day" ...all the videos are already off Youtube.

[akiodie]

Has anyone ever seen this?

Its vocaloid live if I ever went to Japan this is the number one thing on my list of things to do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOt5tK1eZfY

[tenshi_a]

^ :lol: love all the leeks waving in the audience! :lol:

When listening to that I had one of those feelings... "Wow, it's really 2010 and I am living in the future!" :lol: Having a concert like this really brings home that Macross Plus feeling.

So is that Miku... some oddly proportioned dancer in an animated robot Miku mask, or... what? How? I was actually surprised to see a Hatsune Miku on stage that's really... well, it's Hatsune Miku! :w00t:

[Schadenfreude]

^ :lol: love all the leeks waving in the audience! :lol:

When listening to that I had one of those feelings... "Wow, it's really 2010 and I am living in the future!" :lol: Having a concert like this really brings home that Macross Plus feeling.

So is that Miku... some oddly proportioned dancer in an animated robot Miku mask, or... what? How? I was actually surprised to see a Hatsune Miku on stage that's really... well, it's Hatsune Miku! :w00t:

They have 3D projector technology these days that can be used. Gorillaz has done it before, and American Idol even did it once to have a duet between one of their competitors and Elvis on stage.

[tenshi_a]

They have 3D projector technology these days that can be used. Gorillaz has done it before, and American Idol even did it once to have a duet between one of their competitors and Elvis on stage.

Yeah, I saw a production of the musical War Of The Worlds (on TV) where the narrator was a huge 3D animated head (of Richard Burton) floating in the sky, and a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAfgarsODf0) of X Japan playing live on stage with their ex-member Hide who's been dead for several years.

Is this definitely what they've used? I've never seen a hologram that danced across a stage so much. I'm really impressed! The technology's come a long way! ^_^

This live vocaloid song is just... mental. It's like they're dancing to a data stream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnw-oLO5v0U

[Meson]

I'm still not a ig fan of pop music, Japanese or otherwise. They need to make rock stars with the software! And bands! I know there are software that can "play" with live musicians.

[tenshi_a]

I'm really into this song "The World Is Mine" today. The girl is a bit -_-; but it's an amusing song! ^_^

Subbed version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrN4vMRDZGM

Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biucdQN0Veg

Also, not quite related, my brother was saying that I should have made my "my brute" green-haired so it would look like a Hatsune Miku. It just levelled up and got a new weapon. Watch it beating another character with its superpowered leek! XD

http://teacup1978.mybrute.com/fight/2924454

[tenshi_a]

Street Fighter II, Miku style. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2PJ4_PO0WA

[chrono'shield]

I just started actually listening to this today. .....electronic + quality, synthesized, female voices = me probably getting addicted to this real fast X_X

[old hat]

I have been extremely tempted to buy the Hatsune Mike software even though it's at least $170 and would be a complete waste of money for me.

[SeannyB]

I already done bought that Megurine Luka and made a song (http://soundcloud.com/renzu/robogirl-megurine-luka) with it. It's the Vocaloid Character Series that has an alternate English sample bank, which in effect gives you a heavily Japanese-accented singer... lol

[tenshi_a]

That's a pretty cool song! :D

[chrono'shield]

I already done bought that Megurine Luka and made a song (http://soundcloud.com/renzu/robogirl-megurine-luka) with it. It's the Vocaloid Character Series that has an alternate English sample bank, which in effect gives you a heavily Japanese-accented singer... lol

nice track

[drgenestarwind]

I've been listening to a lot of Luka stuff lately, mostly surfing youtube and moving from video to video :D

[ZeroRyoko1974]

I'm really into this song "The World Is Mine" today. The girl is a bit -_-; but it's an amusing song! ^_^

Subbed version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrN4vMRDZGM

Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biucdQN0Veg

Also, not quite related, my brother was saying that I should have made my "my brute" green-haired so it would look like a Hatsune Miku. It just levelled up and got a new weapon. Watch it beating another character with its superpowered leek! XD

http://teacup1978.mybrute.com/fight/2924454

pwned http://tenchimisaki.mybrute.com/fight/47710899

[socal17]

u kno luka actually sings ALOT of lady gaga songs on youtube and they're really not bad at all ^_^

[ZeroRyoko1974]

Rin and Len trying to communicate with Luka in English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dx65lqDl78

[adadqgg]

Vocaloid = some of the greatest ideas in the history of mankind.

Vocaloid is as important to music fans as Touhou is to bullet-dodging fans.

[sandyyan]

I'm into Vocaloid greatly, i'm drool over the dress of Hatsune Miku ^o^

[Menos]

It's about ****ing time someone made one of these! Definite favorites include:

Hatsune Miku
Magurine Luka
Kagamine Lin
SF-A2 Miki

Yes, tough guy Menos adores Hatsune Miku!