Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20160202181457/@comment-26427856-20160414094650

Despite the fact that Sonika is my favorite Vocaloid, I most certainly won't deny that she is the lowest quality Engloid (not including V1s, but even if we did include V1s that'd be debatable.  Hell, I'd say that Miriam was higher quality than Sonika.  One could debate if Leon and Lola were of better or worse quality than Sonika). It is true that she had additional phonetics for her time, which theoretically should give her an advantage over/make her "better" than other V2 Engloids from around that time. However, her voice is infamously muffled due to the fact that all her samples were processed beforehand. And apparently CFM does this too now, but again with how old popularity affects new products, all the old versions of their Vocaloids were popular, so of course their fans are going to continue liking Crypton's Vocaloids. This is most of what people talk about when saying that she's lower quality, but I also get the sense that some of her samples had some noise in them that wasn't fully removed, because when I'm using Sonika I sometimes get a little bit of strange sounds mixed in there that are definitely not vocals and even a rare beep, but most of that went away now that I use her in the V4 Editor. Despite all this, she's still my favorite Vocaloid because I just love her tone, even if it's not the easiest to understand. She has definitely become outdated now. I'd absolutely LOVE IT if there were a Sonika V4 or even V5 eventually (presuming her tone were similar to her V2), but I know that that will never happen.

In a comparison of the V4 Engloids, I'd say that it seems like (theoretically) Ruby and Fukase are the best. Cyber Diva didn't have the updated script, Luka English V4 didn't have the updated script either, Dex and Daina have a few phonetics missing compared to Ruby but have more than Cyber Diva (and also Dex's and Daina's tones can get a little gravelly at times, but tone does not determine quality and vice versa), Rin and Len English just don't have good quality, and Gumi English V4 isn't out yet. Of course, it's always possible that other Engloids may come out in the near future, and they might be even better. cough Gackpoid English cough