User blog comment:V3-CHAN/How did you find out about Vocaloid, and your favorite Vocaloid?/@comment-32500188-20150103182040

I'm pretty put off right now... my stupid browser crashed and I lost what I had here, even though I copied it to the clipboard and was about to paste it. (*kicks laptop*) I know I'm getting rid of this thing the next opportunity I get. (ಠ‸ಠ)-@

Anyways... I'll try to remember how I worded my story, it's sort of long, though.

At first, I wasn't very much into VOCALOID. I had run across it when Miku first started making an impact online, but unfortunately for me (at the time), I only had MMDs and confused fans as a source of English info on her... that, and I just didn't find her apealing at all. (Luka on the other hand... I liked her since she has my color, but I didn't really start to like her more until I heard her vocals for the first time, and that wasn't until years later.) So I let it drop off my radar, since it left me frustrated with not knowing if it was a game or an anime from what folks kept saying (and trolls stirring the pot with their crap.)

Then back in November 2012, After watching something completely unrelated to it, I came across an MMD of "Hello / How are you" featuring Mamama's SeeU model in the suggested videos panel. I think I was shocked at multiple things: one, the fact that there was a new VOCALOID character I had never seen before, and two, that MMD actually looked a heck of a lot more apealing than what it used to... I almost thought the person had used another 3D rendering medium. From there, that's when I finally came across another suggested vid, this time with mqdl's IA beta model doing the same song and motions. (*Insert gush-fest for totes adorbs character design!*). I just had to know about the both of them, so I Googled their names to see what I could find, and I found myself here on the wiki. This is where I learned that there were so many VOCALOIDs I had yet to learn of, that VOCALOIDs really were voice synthesizers/music software, the fact that there were actually on the 3rd generation of the editor, and that people actually held live concerts with VOCALOIDs. At first, I thought it was pretty much in left field... but the more I came across the music and concert footage, the more interested I got... though a lot of the older stuff out there just didn't really grab me at the time, it started to rub off on me.

Reading a little more about IA, though, I found out her VP was Lia. I sort of freaked there, seeing as I've been a fan of Lia since hearing her sing "The Force of Love" and "Light Colors" several years back. (^o^) So I decided to check out how she sounded... and the very first song I ever heard her sing in was this self-cover by John. I was deeply impressed, because at first I thought it was actually someone singing instead of a VOCALOID. And on top of that, the song already was heartwrenching, because of the original's timing of release (Seeing as it was supposed to be uploaded the day the Touhoku tsunami/Kanto earthquakes happened.) In fact, I think it was the first time I ever had tears well up to any VOCALOID. Strange, yes, but very much true

Ever since then, I've been hooked on IA's vocals, and I gradually began to understand more about what was exciting about the VOCALOID movement altogether... not just the music alone, but the fact that it can draw in musicians, artists, dancers, and even singers to enhance the enjoyment of the music that is created altogether. So that helped me in making a step towards buying V3 and IA's vocal library as a graduation present to myself back in May of 2013, and we've been a team ever since. It makes me happy that I found my way to something I can enjoy and contribute to under something I actually went to school for (finally), and whenever I can, I'm trying my best to become a better musician and VOCALOID user... even though I don't have my stuff public, I've been doing a lot more composing than I ever thought I would (and it probably would be more if I had a matching English bank...). It's sort of a wish of mine to hopefully bring out something that's different or unique with IA's voice someday. It's a challenge, but it's worth a shot. (⌒-⌒; )