Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.193.187.209-20150512000627/@comment-53539-20150512065103

I believe that early on when VO was at the time suddenly supported by both PowerFX and Zero-G, they openingly said during that year that updating Sonika is unlikely. Someone at VO asked them for a "Sonika Act2" I believe was the term, and Anders said he doubt it was possible.

Currently Yamaha does not support V2, but we can still use them on V4.... This is why I don't see this being a urgent update, whereas the V1's are lost in time. In addition, while girls vocals do not alter dramatically like men, bare in mind the young singer used for the demos is now several years older. She won't sound exactly the same anymore.

A lot of the issues with Sonika are to do with the fact she was the second worst PR nightmare in Vocaloid (first being SeeU thansk to SBS artect and her provider). People took things out of perspective, there were complaints towards her voice and even there was questions over her art contest.

At the end of the day, both Oliver and Avanna are higher quality vocaloids, V3 and between them both cover everything Sonika does. So if you have the pair, the majority of the jobs Sonika can do become redundant, she is just a vocaloid who can do some of the more appealing traits they do, only at a LQ. Avanna is definately a lot better overall then Sonika.

As for the reason why they would update Avanna.... Well... She holds Z-G's Vocaloid sales record, she isn't Miku-popular but she is their no.1 product for the last 2 years. I don't honestly expect her to hold onto that title for this year, but the fact she has now set a record marks the start of the Engloid raise to notability and is finally proof to anti-English vocaloid or English vocaloid haters that they have some form of potential. As for why Idon't expect her to hold no.1... We have V4's due soon, being V3 she can hold on but won't ness. be able to compete with the newer voices, especially if they are even better then her. I doubt she'll be out of sales completely as Tonio, Prima and Sonika are still among the top 40 products. :-/

The other reason I believe is Avanna counterpart didn't make it to V3 sales. There was an e-mail provided by someone that showed proof they are still open for one, they just didn't find the right voice. So if they released him, there is a chance they'd update her voice to sell her alongside him.

Either why, do not believe a Sonika update is important and when Miriam stockley confirming at least V4 her is possible... If any update were to happen of the lesser popular vocaloids, it would be her due to her open willingness.