Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-4627299-20130906014313/@comment-53539-20150219085403

Macne Nana still has her old vocals and her old vocals were offered alongside the new Vocaloid vocals when she went on sale. This factored alone means I don't ness believe it, why should Nana be a special case. The licensing related to only Vocaloid itself, characters can have a different license (this is why XSYing Miku and IA is iffy as both have slightly different licensing behind them) in regards to the character as oppose to the vocal.

This is why CFM uses the name of "Hatsune Miku" to promote its products, rather then "Vocaloid", because to use the name of "Vocaloid" means shelling out to Yamaha, whereas the name "Hatsune Miku" is their own product. This is also likely why they developed Piapro studio and are selling more Luka vocals on that then with Vocaloid, they'd have to give a lot heftier licensing to Yamaha most likely to sell more vocals they offer on Vocaloid...

In the case of Nana as well, there have been sales because of the HQ vocal, despite there being a cheap version of her vocal so quality is selling her, and vice versa. Teto getting a Vocaloid vocal doesn't mean that she has to get rid of her UTAU vocals, because they were made under the "UTAU licensing" as per say (though its free, it still has its own guidelines). People would go after Teto for the HQ.

At the end of the day, having to fork out license fees to Yamaha to make a vocaloid vocal, plus the fact that there would likely have to get a 3rd party development team involved (see PowerFX and Zero-G), would be the main reason for a reluctance to go forward with a Teto vocaloid. Its not cheap to make a vocaloid and Macne Nana's production team had skills in recording and producing software of sort (as evidenced by the fact she was made for Reason/G.Band originally to begin with) of a notable quality (which is why Nana got favoritism for her sample quality against other UTAUs at a time). Even down to having to resort to using a studio set up costs money as record equipment isn't ness. cheap.