

His company provided the voicebanks for Hatsune Miku, the Kagamine Twins, Megurine Luka, Meiko, and Kaito. Regarded as the “father” of Hatsune Miku. Hiroyuki Itoh: CEO and founder of Crypton Future Media. (Just saying, -P is often added by people as a way of an honorific, rather than actual name themselves.) Prominent Figures in Vocaloid Fandom It is not uncommon for Vocaloid Producers to add a capital “P” to the end of their name. Someone who makes music using the VOCALOID software.

Especially well-tuned songs are labeled 神調教(Kami Choukyou), when the expert tuning makes the Vocaloid sound practically human. Taming/Tuning: When applied to Vocaloid, both taming and tuning refer to the adjusting of the voice. Sang_it: Tag on Niconico for Vocaloid songs covered by human singers. Played_it: Tag on Niconico for instrumental covers of songs. Piapro: Short for “Peer Production,” a website managed by Crypton Future Media which acts as a platform for users of Vocaloid to collaborate with various forms of media, categorized into Music, Illustrations, and Texts. KarenT: Major Vocaloid record label, managed by Crypton Future Media. 踊ってみた(Odottemita)ĭrew_it: Tag on Niconico for fan drawn/animated works usually attributed to a song.

Hatsune Miku (LIfe Extension Mix)ĭanced_it: Tag on Niconico for when people dance along to a song. 【初音ミク - Hatsune Miku】Till Tears Overflow【REMIX】 (PM me if you want anything changed/removed or add your name) Name (Art, PVs, MMDs, Songs, Remixes, YT Channels, Facebook Pages, Soundclouds, etc) Reddit Post - Vocaloid Songs in English by /u/orio94 (props to /u/vocauthor for listing 40+ of them).Reddit Post - Short Guide on Trance by /u/justindude006.Reddit Post - Vocaloid Guide by /u/erthkwake.Reddit Post - Basics of the Rock/Metal Genre by /u/zenoob.VOCALOID BEST from Nico Nico Douga【Red】.VOCALOID BEST from Nico Nico Douga【Blue】.Nicopedia - All Vocaloid Producers on Niconico.Niconico - A theatre of VOCALOID song history.Niconico - Weekly Vocaloid and UTAU Ranking - sippotan.List of Vocaloid Songs/Albums/Artists/Genres Tuning Vocaloids with Audacity/Audition.Google Extension for DL'ing Niconico audio/video.Guide to downloading high quality songs from Niconico.Nsen (24-hour Vocaloid broadcasting via Nico).
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This allows for a very collaborative environment, as described in detail in this paper (Note: Paper is somewhat out-dated, but is the latest free publication in a series of scholarly articles by Masahiro Hamasaki regarding Vocaloid). An important aspect of their website is their Niconi Commons Content Tree System, which, together with tags and links in video descriptions, allows viewers to easily find derivative works to Original content, and vice-versa. It is significant in the Vocaloid community as it is essentially the central hub where Vocalo-P’s first upload their songs to. Nico Nico Douga is a video-sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango. Usually consists of skits, or remakes of music videos. MMD is also a subculture itself, having events like MMD Cup championships. MikuMikuDance is a free, popular and powerful 3D animation software, created by Yu Higuchi (HiguchiM) for Vocaloid PVs. Most PV’s are made using CG, hand drawings, stock (i.e live-action, photography), or a combination. They are usually fanmade and uploaded onto video-sharing sites, such as Nico Nico Douga or Youtube in order to support the original work. Promotional Videos (commonly abbreviated to PV) is a short film or video used to attract listeners to Vocaloid songs. From the start this was never an easy task for the programmers behind the software, but from that beginning VOCALOID™ has grown into a worldwide phenomena, spawning new musicians, albums, figurines and even concerts. VOCALOID began from the simple concept of synthesizing the human vocals for singing. VOCALOID, VOCALOID2 and VOCALOID3 are voice synthesizing applications that have been sold commercially since 2004. I hope this guide will be useful for new and old fans alike in discovering new content and learning everything about Vocaloid! Yay Sticky!
