Talk:VY2v3/@comment-98.150.90.86-20191008193448/@comment-53539-20191009125534

The V5 version has higher quality but missing the Falsetto.

To be fair, Falsetto isn't that useful in Vocaloid and was basically made to help handle higher notes, male falsettos sound feminine which is why its useful to a Vocaloid without a gender, but its not that useful for XSY purposes. You can mishmash the two voicebanks together to get standard-falsetto and falsetto-standard, but their not as useful as some of the other XSY pairings out there.

Then again, I don't like how Fasletto was removed in V5 as well as VY1s other 3 voicebanks... Seems pointless to me. But XSY isn't a product of V5 so it doesn't matter an the 4 missing VY vocals are very weak vocals independently so things tend to balance themselves out.

One of the problems you may be having is that there were not may copies of his physical version sold compared to VY1.

https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/

I don't know if this is any help and you often need a forwarding service... But a lot of Japanese use this auction site. It can still be hard to find Vocaloid software as Japanese producers don't tend to re-sell their copies... They comply with the End User agreements to a fault sometimes and it says "do not resell".

https://www.amazon.co.jp/ref=nav_logo

So your next port of call is going to be somewhere like Amazon Japan, as there are copies often on there of unsold units of Vocaloids.

It is very hard to find copies sometimes in English sites of Vocaloids from Japan because they were aimed at the Japanese market. If you didn't grab them from Yamaha themselves it can be hard to find later. And thats without noting Yamaha went "Download only" on many of the products. And not may westerners buy Japanese Vocaloids as people sometimes think, when they do they focus on the CFM 6, and a lot of those who do are anime fans buying it as a toy for their amusement until they get bored. Then if your lucky, thats when they sell the product.

Which is annoying as VY1 and VY2 were some of the *best* voicebanks ever produced. Not ness. the most useful I'll add but all 4 of the VY series vocaloids are fairly good. VY2 tends to be better then VY1 as well because he has a lot of improvements, unless your talking about Vy2v3 versus VY1v4, but there was no VY2v4 so... Yeah.

Anyway I've waffled on a bit and gotten side track. I have no idea what the best forwarding service is, and I'm afraid your own your own there. Someone may suggest some. If your lucky with ebay it will work out cheaper... But if you can't find it on English Ebay then its the Japanese auctions for you I'm afraid.