Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-89.144.193.214-20150305164351/@comment-25521131-20150323173711

Angel Emfrbl wrote: Just a note, CFM re-records their Vocaloids, since the CV series is voice acted there is no problems for them. Kaito and Meiko aren't voice acted, but their "Straight" vocals still were recreations of the V1 voice int he same tone... So are "kinda" acted in a way. either way they did not use the V1 samples either. :-/

Internet co cleaned up old samples.

Who knows what Bplats is doing with their VY series, if they are doing their updates like either studio... They've not said. Well as far as the VY series goes, it's more than likely they're re-recorded, once you acknowledge the considerable change of tone from VY2 to VY2v3_Standard, and that VY1v4_Natural has a much lighter tone of voice than VY1v3. Of course, this doesn't eliminate the possibility that they weren't just edited, but considering both VY2v3 and VY1v4 have additional vocals, it isn't too much of a stretch to assume that at least the main vocals for VY1v4 and VY2v3 were re-recorded. For VY1v3, it's hard to say, but if Yamaha was following the same procedure as the vocals after her, it's more probable than not that VY1v3 uses new vocals as well, but again, it's hard to say.

As far as Crypton Vocaloids go, you need to consider that the original MEIKO and KAITO vocals are 10-11 years old now, and that the original V1 engine is severly outdated, so it's hard to say whether the original V1 vocals would've been very good quality in future engines. The microphone quality probably wasn't as good that long ago as they are now as well. There's also the matter that Crypton probably wanted to add triphones, which apparently companies can do with V2 vocals, but it's hard to say whether or not that can be done with vocals from the V1 generation. On top of that, the MEIKO and KAITO vocals are from a different series of vocals than the Character Vocal series, so Crypton is of course going to handle them differently; i suppose what I'm trying to say is that just because MEIKO and KAITO's voicebanks got re-recorded doesn't necessarily mean Miku's were as well, and the fact they blantently stated MEIKO and KAITO's vocals were re-recorded, but didn't really talk about how Miku V3 was developed leads me to believe her V3 was imported from the V2 software. Which if this is the case, chances are Kagamine V4x will likely also be imported from V2. If I am wrong though please do correct me.