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DTM MAGAZINE (Desktop Musican MAGAZINE).

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The magazine had been vital in much of the promotion of VOCALOID. This was particularly true for VOCALOID, VOCALOID2 and VOCALOID3 engines lifespans, with many details making their way into the magazine. In fact, a large proportion of its readers were VOCALOID producers and thus contributed much to the impact on VOCALOID for more then a decade of its existence.

Especially in VOCALOIDs earliest days, there was limited promotional methods or funding for promotion, so the earliest Japanese VOCALOIDs had relied upon the magazine to sell them. One of the earliest examples of its impact was even found in the way it influenced sales. For example, the original release of MEIK and the original release of KAITO both were impacted by the magazines readers. Because of the 85% male audience, KAITO failed to sell well, this was pinned onto the readership of the magazine, since 85% of its readers were male. Hatsune Miku was mostly expecting to interest only the readers of the magazine and thus was advertised in the magazine for her original releasemostly only via the magazine. The first sneak peak of Nekomura Iroha was issued in the magazine while the CGi model of Hatsune Miku Append was also featured in its pages as well.

It covered the VOCALOID3 engine heavily, focusing on particular VOCALOIDs such as Yuzuki Yukari and ran general guides from time to time on how to use VOCALOID. DEMOs such as Lily's original vocal were released with the magazine in addition.

The Magazine no longer is printed, and exists via electronic form only. This move was due to the trends of modern times with printed media seeing less sales and electronic media taking over much of the markets focus.