Talk:SONiKA (VOCALOID2)/@comment-68.170.176.241-20150123195231/@comment-53539-20150123221403

Personnel experience has lead me to the conclusion sonika is best as a duet partner or backup singer. With the weight of another vocal, she tends to be easier to understand. So as a second vocaloid, this is a better option if you bent on getting her.

Otherwise she is not a great solo vocaloid and is often regarded as one of the two worst VB's in V2, Luka English being the worst for the lack of sounds.

The ranking I give them are;
 * 1) Prima (better singer then she is a vocaloid)
 * 2) Big Al (better vocaloid then he is a singer)
 * 3) Sweet Ann
 * 4) Tonio
 * 5) Sonika
 * 6) Luka

I can vouch for Prima and Big Al as the best of V2, but Prima is really hard to use. Both Sonika and Tonio are vocaloids that could have been great but weren't. Others have said Sonika is greatly improved in V3, and even more imported into V4 (don't forget you need V3 to get her in V4), so this is worth noting if your planning more then one vocal.

Oliver and Avanna are much, much better then Sonika and users ofeither of the pair and Sonika both say they are much easier to use then Sonika. I can't make a say on yohioloid... His Japanese is weak but the English strong. With bilinguals, the language they are native to usually end up better, but in this case he isn't a native English speaker nor a Japanese. PowerFX's devs worked on Ann, Al and Oliver so I imagine he is pretty decent.