Talk:Misc Phonetics/@comment-2600:387:6:80D:0:0:0:58-20190909005621/@comment-53539-20190909105748

Breaths stopped being a standard in V3, since instead of assigning a phonetic data to it you could just now import it into Vocaloid directly. So some Vocaloids never had them at all. Those that don't often had their breath samples as files on the CD or download somewhere.

I don't know if this is helpful at all as I think Queen's answered it, all I'm doing here is explaining that this is a problem from V3 onwards.

They most likely didn't think Miku needed it repeated for every voicebank, especially since the majority perchasing English were expected to actually be Japanese who'd have the samples already.

On a side not... "@" can sometimes be used as a substituent, its a voiceless sound a number of Vocaloids skip this sound, but often its a breathy sample. Not 100% certain to work and it may interfere with phonetics (since it is one) of other sounds, but its been used as quick trick. You can isolate it to another track if need be if it is interfering with things.

English samples sometimes contain breaths naturally too, since English has a lot of breathiness to it at times. Sonika and Prima for example if you listen to certain samples, from playing with them, from time to time you here a quick breathing sound on a sample. Though who has time for that? In many causes, you can borrow samples from similar sounding Vocaloids besides Miku as there often isn't too great of a difference between some Vocaloids.

''Note of interest; I watched a documentary on the music industries habits. I think it was called "the history of the Guitar" or "The Joy of the Guitar Riff", I think, though its about the guitar they highlighted the problems of the music industry that was not only impacting the Guitar but music sound in general and how things changed and impacted music, though obviously the documentary didn't go on about things like the vocal sound, just mentioned things in passing comments sadly. But generally for decades the music industry liked this clean-cut sound with no annoyances and breathes were often filtered or cut out. ''