Talk:VOCALOID/@comment-37896274-20190106233404/@comment-53539-20190107021303

While I do agree these technologies are often the antiques of the future... I doubt it. We could compare them to the Chipspeech software. There are so few people after these vocals synths and such short supply that a product can gain value, or be seen as ancient junk, or not see sales as a result because no one has heard of it. There is more likely going to be forever interest in the songs then the software. However, the software is more likely to be held as a technical value then actual copies of it. In other words, going forward it will be referenced by future technologies.

However, it is hard to predict the future. I honestly dont' think the original Vocaloid software is going to do much at all.

There is also a note that the trouble with software is you can copy it so the physical versions are not needed. And in some cases a set back as physical copies decay a lot faster then we can loose the digital versions. The biggest fear comes more from the devs loosing the master recordings, as they are the recordings that all Vocaloids are made from. IF they've already lost them, then V1 is technically also already "lost".

I don't know how to explain this. That may not seem like much, but its more worst to take a recording and tweak it, instead of using the recordings and tweaking those because each master will have each instrument separated by itself. And that isolation of each instrument is important, plus the original masters are on a medium which is a lot more tolerable to time then a basic CD or DVD.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15064243

Basically the value of this unused master track cannot be imagined by us, but to a sound engineer, having that violin track means everything as you can add it to the original track and carefully master it in.