Kaai Yuki

Kaai Yuki (歌愛ユキ) is a Japanese Vocaloid released in December 4, 2009. She is developed by AH-Software. The characters of her name, "歌愛", mean "song" and "love" respectively.

History
Her voice is taken from recordings of an actual elementary school student. However, the name of the one who offered the voice for Yuki is still unknown.

She has three demos released, "±", "Vocaloid Grade School Student", and "Try again".

Vocaloid 3; starter pack
AH-Software is releasing their Vocaloid 2 era Vocaloids with Vocaloid 3 starter packs. However, there have been no updates for the 4 voicebanks and although they are sold with Vocaloid 3 they are all still Vocaloid 2 voicebanks.

Concept
She is meant to be portrayed as an elementary school student, officially she is a student of Hiyama Kiyoteru and what is in her red randoseru is a motif of Yamaha's wind controller, WX5.

Marketing
She, along with SF-A2 miki and Hiyama Kiyoteru were introduced to expand the Vocaloid market and give Producers more choices.

Until May 2011, all AH-Software Vocaloids were banned from Karen-T.

Global Exploit
AH-Software recently announced that they would be selling their Vocaloids in Germany, with Yuki being destined to be the first sold there.

Kaai Yuki

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Demo
A 14 trial version of the Vocaloid 2 engine for this Vocaloid was made able to be downloaded in March 2012 from Ah Softwares website. This does not allow .VSQ saving but .Wav files can be saved.

Popularity
The three AH-Software Vocaloids were slow to gain popularity and for a while were amongst the least popular Vocaloids. Kaai Yuki was noted in 2010 as the second most popular of the trio.

A independant Vocaloid search on Nico Nico Douga revealed that most Vocaloids had less then 1,000 videos uploaded on Nico Nico Douga in between July 1 and December 15, 2011 with Yuki falling into that category as well.

Trivia

 * Yuki and Kiyoteru's announcement came in November 2009. Interestingly enough, at the end of the previous month Crypton Future Media had just made their own announcement of a series called Project if… which was set in a elementry school setting.

Notable for...

 * One of the first 3 AH-Software Vocaloids
 * One of the two first female AH-Software Vocaloids
 * First vocal to be provided by a child

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