Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20150119202849/@comment-5051846-20150305214347

EmbraceEvil wrote: i love all these complaints about plug and play covers. Not. Seriously, even tho the buzz for Luka was killed a bit for me after her release date was revealed, I still recognize that we aren't going to get a good idea of what she sounds like till actual producers use her. It's perfectly legitimate to judge a voicebank based of plug and play covers, I posted about this earlier. Here's a slightly revised version:

''The main reason people are complaining about plug-and-plays is because her V2 voicebank sounds better plug-and-played than her V4 does plug-and-played. Plug-and-plays are used to compare Vocaloids so you are not influenced by the producer's skills; it is unfair to compare good tuning to bad tuning, so the best way to compare Vocaloids is to compare both with no tuning. Plugging and playing Luka V4 and comparing her to other Vocaloid's plug-and-plays, is disapointing people, because base-Luka sounds worse than say, base-Luka V2 or base-Nana.''

''Everyone knows a Vocaloid sounds better with tuning, luckily no one's that dumb, haha. (｡´∀｀)ﾉ But plug-and-plays are a good way to get a picture of the base quality of a Vocaloid, although they should only be compared to other plug-and-plays, not tuned covers.''

Plug and plays are an excellent way to judge a voicebank. You can gain a lot of insight from listening to them.