Talk:Megurine Luka/@comment-37896274-20200111220511/@comment-53539-20200117024344

Its because when they made the V2 voicebank, they made more effort to match it to the capabilities of the Japanese voicebank. It was softer but its English... English vocals tend to be overall softer then Japanese so some tone change is always expected.

In V4 its another limited range vocal and a typical CFM lazy English voicebank. Well not so much lazy, I mean they produced the vocal but its pretty basic because English is made on the cheap. A lot of Luka V4x fans will try and say she has the best English of the CFM group even in V4x... But this was confirmed to be Miku V4 English... Long story short, a lot of new things came with the vocal that Luka V4 English never had. Bare in mind English "Soft" is a pathetic re-sampled version of her other voicebank in V4.

With CFM leaving Vocaloid, there isn't going to be any further improvements to English Vocaloid vocals from CFM either.

The main thing is no matter what... When it comes to English, CFM has never been the best Japanese->English effort. Thats Fukase and Nana, if you can live with Nana's accent. Fukase may also be a limited range, but the overall English quality was better for its range then CFMs English. If Gumi English had been less glitch-infested, it would have been there too. And if we're talking versus natives... Forget it as of V4 most are going to run the CFM English socks off. Diva and Songman alone could beat any of the CFM vocals.

Its the sad reality of English by CFM.

On the bright side... English voicebanks are superior to their Miku Chinese voicebank so... In my opinion? They should have perfected English more before jumping languages.