カッコイイ年長組! by Renta
Winter is birthday season in the Vocaloid world. 2/3 of the current roster (12 of 18) celebrate in December, January, or February, with the most relevant to this week’s column being the birthday of KAITO. The character made whole by Naoto Fuuta’s voice is celebrating his 4th anniversary this week. He’s a [...]
Source: sakurapanda
Though my time with Vocaloidism has so far been very short, I’ve been very busy analyzing the rankings each week, making charts to compare and contrast the methodology of the countdown. With the addition of the new multiplier for the Mylist points, a lot of questions come out about how it will affect [...]
(Portions have been edited for cleanliness. Also, I didn’t know this was vetted so quickly.)
…the article I wrote, that got deleted, got me and everyone else a bunch of flak, and the article for which I have written this very apology.
Here’s the short version: I wrote something that was haphazard, over [...]
VOICEROID – Tsukuyomi Ai
After AH-Software announced the upcoming arrival of the three new Vocaloid, it seems they aren’t completely done yet. Information from their official website has pointed out that they are also planning the release of a new speech synthesizer software called VOICEROID which will be out on December 4th, the same day [...]
Oh hi. Thanks for donating, but we’re not done with you yet. Vocaloidism, as with most blogs, is always a work in process. This time, we’re working on our image. Literally.
We don’t have a shiny logo yet, but several of our forum patrons have provided some very nice options. Go to this thread and choose [...]
If you’ve visited our site recently, you’re probably wondering why there’s now a donation button on the side. Well, it has to do with our forums. Vocaforum ran on leased vBulletin technology, and that lease has expired, so there is currently no forum. A year’s lease is $95, but Kevin (the site owner) is looking [...]
Who's reaching out to capture the moment?
MikuMikuDance has been updated to 5.13 on both the English and Japanese versions. (The one you want is dependent on your regional setting. Just setting your non-Unicode setting to Japanese doesn’t work anymore.) This is all well and good, but there’s something better on the update [...]
Source: Murakami
One of the neat things the Vocaloid community does is the semi-annual MikuMikuDance Cup. For those who don’t know, it’s an Iron Chef-style MMD video contest with the winners determined by the fan community on Nico Nico Douga. The qualifying round for the 3rd meet is now in the books, and with 86 [...]