Talk:CUL/@comment-172.56.26.35-20150314005840/@comment-53539-20150314091903

unfortunately a vocaloid may not 100% sound like their provider when the samples are transferred into vocaloid.

Several reasons exist;
 * 1) The engine itself alters the way a vocaloid sample sounds, it was confirmed in V1 that that particular engine made voices more harsher. this is also why some vocals become only possible as engine improves... Meiko V3 "power" being such a vocal.
 * 2) The vocaloid only has X number of layers of the vocalists voice, it is mono-toned because expression cannot be captured in a single vocal (hence why extra voices for the same vocaloid exist). So a single vocal doesn't show all of the capablities of the provider.
 * 3) then there is the samples themselves... Its amazing what a few samples being off can do to the entire vocaloids sound. It can make the voice sound too solid or too soft, etc.
 * 4) The other big issue is presented with Lily's V2 vocal, where one of the layers was too high pitched. The result was the entire Lily vocal had pitching issues and her V3 more vivid vocal was designed to address and fix this issue.  True they also updated the V2 vocal, but the core vocal itself had fans at that point. Which leads to the last point...
 * 5) the design of the vocaloid itself doesn't always reflect realism. Miku, Gachapoid and Kaito V3 are 3 examples.  Miku was just meant to be a character and sounded "cute", ditto Gachapoid was just designed to sound like Gachapin's most classic voice. Kaito V3 was designed to sound like Kaito V1 despite the fact Kaito V1 was designed to be a realistic voice,so the V1 vocal was designed to be more "true" then the V3 vocal.

There are so many factors at play... and honestly... producers don't always use a vocaloid as intended anyway. Its best to treat a vocaloid as the voice presented in the box and not necessary "the voice of Gackt"(example). Sad Machine's use of Avanna is a example of a producer not using the vocaloid as intended, plus he made her sound more robotic.