VY2 (VOCALOID2)

VY2 software for the Vocaloid2 engine.

History
VY2 was confirmed soon after VY1 and as part of the "VY" series. VY2 shared the same intention as VY1 of being a Vocaloid without set gender, face or voice. Similar to VY1 being confirmed "feminine", VY2 was confirmed to be a "masculine" voice type. Its release date was set for late 2010.

However, on December 24th, 2010, VY2 was delayed while quality was improved, it was also specified to be a "young masculine" voice. A 15 second demo of the VY2 voice was featured at the Y2×VOCALOID CAFE event in March 2011. On 4th April, 2011 a demo song called "Asadoya Yunta" by Re:nG was uploaded to Youtube featuring VY2 as the main singer and VY1 as the chorus. On the 14th April, 2011 another demo called "Anatani Hana Wo Watashi Ni Uta Wo" was released, made by the same producer. Later the song "Toki no sugi yuku mama ni" (時の過ぎ行くままに, As Time Goes By) by Sawada Kenji (沢田研二) was released. On the 19th April, 2011 a demo of Cendrillon featuring the singing voices of VY1 and VY2 was released.

VY2 itself was released on 25th April 2011. According to the details of the Vocaloid, the Vocaloid is an attempt to make the vocals sound more realistic and stable. VY2 was also designed to define what a male vocal was and has husky results. VY2 is the 4th Japanese male vocal in Vocaloid2 following Kamui Gakupo, Hiyama Kiyoteru and Utatane Piko's male vocals (Kagamine Len and Gachapoid were excluded from this by Bplats due to their vocals being provided by female vocalists). The voice provider was the youngest male vocal sampled at the time, but Bplats did not wish the voice provider to be known.

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Voicebank Libraries

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Demo
A trial version of this software was featured in VOCALOIDをたのしもう Vol.7 along side trials of VY1v3 and Vocaloid 2 vocal Hatsune Miku.