Talk:VY2 (VOCALOID5)/@comment-70.69.5.245-20180712204812/@comment-53539-20180712214413

One of the reasons Yuki's vocal can't be updated fully is the original girl (or "girls", there is some translations that hint there was 2 girls used for Yuki) were now at highschool. Their vocals were completely different and even if AHS hadn't lost contact they'd be useless for updating Yuki. Adults tend to be far less impacted then children in terms of change of vocals, but after a decade change is often notable. ITs just if you compare recordings one year to the next, you don't notice it as much as a decade change.

On the other hand, change can be good. Iroha's "Soft" vocal represents basically the vocalist being trained over time to sound more female-like. As a transgender, the original vocal had trouble with not sounding boy-ish at times, due to the situation with the vocalist changing genders. So she had training, which is pretty normal for transgenders, to sound more like the other gender. The male voicebox is mostly the issue as it never shrinks it only grows when you receive male hormones, so being original "male" and going female presents a issue and the result is normally to train the person to talk/sing in falsetto. In this case years of training likely allowed the Iroha VA to produce a more female result to help Iroha a great deal more, as Soft is basically a "Falsetto-like" vocal.

This is without taking in mind as the vocalist matures their vocals can get better due to training. But regardless, a old vocalist can struggle to give as lively performances as a younger one, so there sometimes is a cut-off limit.

I can remember brining up the fact most singers have a career of 4-8 years to my mother, who said "Yeah but why doesn't..." then asking about some old rockstar from the 60-70s who is still around. I basically had to explain there is a difference between big famous names and the factory-produced singers of today who are hired for a contract of 4 years or more then tossed aside for the latest model. So some of the older generations don't get this. I mean, there is no doubt Gackt is still going. But not everyone is Gackt-famous even in Japan. :-?