Board Thread:Japanese VOCALOID discussion/@comment-27435761-20160604211934/@comment-53539-20160605202843

Note In the case of Meiko she always was a common-esque female type.n Ergo, it doesn't take much to end up sounding like her even in RL. Its the issue with her, her type is "common", its something people don't always want to hear. There are several reason why, such as her being mid-tone, a common tone type, her tempo handling being set for genres that are easy for vocaloids to cover.... Professional vocal, therefore anyone with similar training will end up sounding similar to her. All of these ran up.

Even the things that Meiko once excelled at like Rock are now bested by Vocaloid like Ia, VY1, Flower, etc. This goes even more against Meiko as when you start comparing her vocal, she becomes less impressive overall, as a result you get a voice that can risk being "dull" as some other vocaloids you find medium in impression. Imagine her as a sports car that rolled off the factory line in the 1980s, which sounds great until you compare her with one rolled off the line today. She still is impressive, but the newer models are going to out do her.

So you have all these things that can come into play when you compare vocaloids, especially when you tread on the common mid-tone range that V3 overstaturised. Its easy to think as Merli like meiko because of how your own opinion of her when comparing their vocals, plus their shared traits.

Though as others have stated, little things make an impact on the voice. Remember what I explained with the Engloids, how a slight variation of sample sound can impact an voicebank? Well even in Japanese, no two vocaloids ave identical samples sets so this can be at play also. So no matter how close the pair get, they will ever be 100% identical either way. :-/