Talk:Kagamine Rin & Len (VOCALOID2)/@comment-38651248-20190227010401/@comment-53539-20190227094324

Several people do particularly because aspects of their vocals changed in all future voicebanks, with Len being the most notable. In this version he barely sounded anything but female so they made sure he sounded more like a boy in future versions (they messed up for English, though the theory was the same for Miku that voice acting and a language you don't know are hard).

This vocal represented the opening hand of the pair, how we were expected to receive them. If they had resolved the technical issues, i.e. not rushing out two voicebanks in 2 months (the length of time they'd spent on Miku's voicebank) they might have been better when released. The Kagamines were the most problematic of the Japanese vocals overall in V2 and very few can make them sound good as they tend not to sound natural at all. CFM learnt their lesson and until V4x none of their releases were met with major problems, with generally the biggest complaints being how their English voicebanks sounded or how the Miku append voicebanks didn't sound like Miku at all at times. If not for issues with Piapro Studio with v5, we'd have things left at that also, but Piapro Studio doesn't fully work with V5 so Luka V4x has issues.

In addition, when Meiko V3 Power had problems in the unreleased V2 version they even stated they'd shelved it. Thus, CFM has basically been afraid of release voicebanks with the Kagamine Act1 issues since. Meiko Power returned as a V3 though, generally only because the engine in V3 was better then V2. I've seen people say Act1 sounds better in V3 a lot, but... So do Luka English V2 and Sonika, the worst 2 English vocals. Generally V3 makes most vocals sound better from V3 (though not all).