Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-111.94.78.190-20150310143303/@comment-53539-20150311095948

I'd overall debate on Gumi, in V2 Gumi was a beter singer, but Miku was the better vocaloid. Gumi had "problems" that made her difficult to use sometimes, top it off there wasn't much flexibility to the vocal itself. Miku was a easy vocal to use whose vocal was highly flexiable with lesser technical difficulties.

to be honest... Both were fairly LQ.

At this stage, its harder to tell;
 * In regards to extra vocals;
 * Gumi's extra vocals are natural and changing mid-song is less noticable - there isn't much variation though
 * Miku's vocals are expressive and changing mid-song is more noticable, though they offer much more options and there are more of them.
 * In regards to English;
 * Gumi has overall the better English vocal, despite her choppiness she is "easier to use" then Miku.
 * Miku is a "standard" vocal with a stronger accent but smoother results.
 * In regards to V3;
 * Gumi V3 was a overall rushed out project, resulting in it being incomplete and 2 further vocals were released. Initially the "native" vocal wasn't released so there was no core vocal for the V3 range for a while. :-/
 * Miku was more "balanced", though two vocals were also released afterwards, they weren't a great loss.

Overall... I'd say Gumi remains the better singer but Miku still is the better Vocaloid. However, I'd argue other issues here that make Miku the weaker product despite her strong entry. Her company manipulate their products so much that I think everything lacks *something* and their getting more and more "boring" over time. However, saying that, Gumi is pretty much the basic vocal for Internet co and we've had two other vocal-clones since Gumi's V3 update. So I don't think there is much to say.

I think the only thing that really stands out that gives Miku the BIG pull ahead of Gui is the XSY feature of V4. The weakness of Gumi's vocals all being *similar* to the original means that there isn't much variation between XSY-ing any of them overall. Whereas Miku has greater variation and XSYing her vocals offfers much more options. But considering XSY isn't the greatest tool in the world... Honestly... Is it a good thing?

IA's only weakness is her lack of content right now. With only 2 vocals, she doesn't have the millage to compete with either vocal alone. Core vocals alone, yeah, IAs much better then Gumi or Miku, but the "2 vocals versus many" situation means IA has issues at hand. :-/