Hatsune Miku (VOCALOID2)


 * This is an article about the Hatsune Miku software for the VOCALOID2 engine.

History
The first release for the the Vocal Character series. The Vocal Character Series was designed to be a set of vocals with specific characteristics to them; her software allows for manipulation in a variety of ways while maintaining a 'cute' sounding voice. In 2009 she was also offered alongside the Sonar8 software package.

The idea behind her was first established as being "a cute female vocal that professionals can create with", part of the "CV" or "Character Vocal" series who were designed to combine recognisable characteristics in their voices and clear colour schemes. Immediately after VOCALOID2 was announce, the idea for a bilingual Vocaloid called "Hatsune Miku" was put forward. However, the original concept for Miku later became the Megurine Luka vocal, Miku at first only receiving a Japanese voicebank.

Hatsune Miku was unveiled on the 06/25/2007, at which time only the name, "Miku" was known. Her voicebank was at 90% completion at the date of her unveiling and was the first of the CV vocals planned for the VOCALOID2 software. According to Crypton Future Media she was worked upon for more than 10 hours a day for 2 months. Her last name, "Hatsune", was unveiled on 07/12/2007 after a 12 hour journey to Yamaha to gain permission to release the "CV01" voicebank. Due to problems with schedule, her VOCALOID2 software did not have time to go to public beta testing unlike most past VOCALOID vocals, although the same had happened to Sweet ANN released prior.

Her voicebank has received numerous awards:
 * She was nominated for and won an award in the "All About" awards of 2007.
 * Crypton Future Media picked up an BCN award in 2008 for their productions, with their sales reaching a 211% increase thanks to several products (One of which being Hatsune Miku).
 * In March 2008, Hatsune Miku won the "Digital Content" AMD award.
 * In June she picked up the MM総研大賞2008 award.
 * At the DaiKon7 in August 2008, she recieved another award.
 * She was awarded the "Good Design Award 2008".
 * She won the Grand Prize at the BCN AWARD 2009.

Recommended

 * 2000 + more than Pentium4 2 GHz / Athlon XP
 * (Recommended 64 2800 + or more Pentium4 2.8 GHz / Athlon)
 * Windows XP (32bit) / VISTA (32bit) / 7 (32, 64bit)
 * Operation 32bit compatibility mode (WOW64) in 7 (64bit)
 * 512MB or more RAM
 * 1GB recommended
 * Real-time VSTi is recommended when using more than 2GB
 * VST2.3 (32bit) / ReWire / スタンドアロン

Voicebank Libraries

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