OLIVER (VOCALOID3)


 * This is an informative article about the OLIVER software for the VOCALOID3 engine.

History
Oliver's production began a year before his release, his voice was recorded by a (then) 13 year old British boy. He was recorded at a London studio. According to a interview in 2013, the boy selected for the role of Oliver's voice was able to concentrate better then some of the adults they had used in the past. The boy was chosen from a Childrens' choir, the choir leader was known by a friend of Anders and was asked for suitable candidates. Oliver's provider was chosen for their ability to read the Vocaloid English script clearly and maintain maturity despite the young age.

Oliver was originally announced on a blog as having a release date set for October 1, 2011. VOCALOID 3 was not set for release until October 21. Certain members of the VOCALOID community were leaked details about him by PowerFX, including to editors of the VOCALOID wikia, such as that their next VOCALOID was male and a VOCALOID 3. Meanwhile, members of the community, had secretly been aiding Anders in Oliver's fine tuning. As it was their first VOCALOID, PowerFX agreed to release the product for VocaTone, with Anders sorting out most of the legal issues and aiding the group with any issues they faced.

Finally, a fan announced that information had passed to them of Oliver's name and Anders' confirmed that their information was correct. The voice was revealed at an anime convention, Anime Banzai, but it will not be released as an official demo. His first demo (More of a teaser really) will be put up on YouTube and NicoNicoDouga sometime in the near future.

On Halloween 2011, a song featuring Oliver, Sweet Ann and Big Al singing was released on YouTube, the song was a parody of the Addams Family theme song ("The PowerFX family"). Oliver's official demo song was released on YouTube and is a cover of Circus Monster originally sung by Megurine Luka. A second demo, Scarborough Fair, was also released alongside it. The third demo is "Dinky Dink"; composed by So-Pop and originally sung by Sonika, it focuses on his lower range and his English. His next demo, Going Home, focused more on his choir boy skills. Recently, his demo of Lonely Flight was reported by Vocatone as focusing on his lower octave. On December 20, a Vocatone member reported that Oliver was to be released the next day and hinted that VocaloidOtaku forum members might get something "special". This later was revealed to be a 25% discount for VO members that will last till the end of January.

It has been confirmed that Oliver will have a physical box product as well as be available for download online. Progress-wise he is said to be complete. Voice and art were completely finished, and there are activities planned for his reveal and release. According to VocaTones they are pushing for a 2011 release but the holdup is Yamaha. On December 6, PowerFX's website was updated to include a product page for Oliver.

Finally the announcement of his release came a day before it was due. For members of Vocaloid Otaku forums, a 25% discount is offered to the downloadable version (offer will extend to boxed version in the upcoming future) of Oliver for users who sign up to the forum. This e-mail will be sent out as a bulk e-mail. This offer ends on January the 31st 2012. Currently only the lite version can be bought from PowerFx. The VOCALOID3 editor having to be bought from Yamaha themselves separately, although this will change in the future according to Anders.

A DVD release was eventually made for sale. On the 28th of Feb, 2012 a physical hard copy of Oliver and VOCALOID were released together.

Recommended

 * OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
 * CPU: Celeron Dual Core 2.1 GHz or more
 * RAM: 1GB or more
 * HDD: 1.5GB free space or more

Voicebank Libraries

 * Making Oliver clearer

Oliver was the first English capable VOCALOID to be released for VOCALOID3 and the first English voicebank to feature the vocals of a child, with past English vocal providers being a mature or young adult age.


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