Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.193.187.209-20150512000627/@comment-32500188-20150513030538

@Nick: Sometimes it's clear, but if you intend to direct it only towards a certain user, @ sign is the safest way to go... or if you know you're going to be posting directly after the post you're replying to, sometimes even the little carrat symbols ^^ works at the beginning.

To me, quotes should be reserved when you're replying to a post that's several posts or a conversation removed from the most current one... word/character counts tend to be the enemy for some mobile devices' page loading times.

And for the sake of steering back OT... although it would be nice for both SONiKA and Oliver to have updates, I'm not holding out any hope for either. Both Zero-G and PowerFX/Vocatone have their aims on other projects, and I'm on the fence with new providers taking over older banks... it's already quite noticable when even the original providers re-record samples for bank updates and people get antsy over those slight differences. (See all CFM VOCALOID updates thus far for reference material.) So you can only imagine the sort of reluctance some users of either would have if they were to get new VPs to revive the voicebanks to newer engine iterations.

Also, seeing Zero-G's track record, it's safe to say don't expect VOCALOID updates from them any time soon... just brand new VOCALOIDs altogether. Which technically isn't a bad thing, at least it would give more variety. (´･~ ･｀｡)

However, seeing as AHS is doing some sample pulling for Yuki in terms of growl and quite possibly a few other points of data that may be needed to bring her to V4, as well as Music Airport (the company behind UEKI-loid) taking this approach with using Hitoshi Ueki's son for additional voice samples needed to complete the initial private voicebank, it's not an impossible thing if they're able to find a similar sounding VP for Oliver. (And that is IF they ever had intentions on updating him for future versions of VOCALOID.) But looking at it from the angle of V4 being backwards compatible and not many users seeing the practicality of making a choir boy voice incorporate growling, I can see why it's not that much of a priority.

In short, with how I'm seeing it, we're more likely to see updates of Utatane Piko than either of those two.