Lily

Lily (リリィ Ririi) is an official mascot character of a singing synthesizer application software powered by Yamaha's Vocaloid2. Her basic databanks were jointly-developed by Yamaha and Avex Management Co., Ltd. Internet Co., Ltd will be her distributor and also provide her effective support for the users. This was also announced by t-kimura(Takashi Kimura), once a member and now a music producer of m.o.v.e, on his twitter. Lily was published on August 25, 2010 and her design is by KEI. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Yuri Masuda (益田 祐里, Masuda Yuri), a Japanese vocalist of the Japanese musical group m.o.v.e.

History
Originally Lily appeared on the cover of the CD "anim.o.v.e. 01" released on Aug 19, 2009 before the announcement of its Vocaloid development. The voice source is the lead vocalist of m.o.v.e., Yuri Masuda. The idea of the developing a vocaloid based on Yuri's voice was occurred, as one of the member was a user of vocaloid. Her trial version was given out free online before her release, but is no longer available. Her contests are closed and songs are now being released onto Youtube and Nico Nico Douga using the 30 day trial. Also, "anim.o.v.e. 02", m.o.v.e album which comes along with her anime movie, was released On Aug 25, 2010. Prizes for her contest were Lily-related promotional goods, also a copy of Internet Co. Ltd.'s Singer Song Writer 9 Professional software. Judges included DJ Lily and MOSH from anim.o.v.e, Masashi Kamibayashi and Kenichiro Yorozu of DTM MAGAZINE, and Hideki Kenmochi of YAMAHA.

On Dec 11th, 2010, the president of Internet Co. announced that Gakupo Kamui, Gumi and Lily will be distributed in Taiwan.

Usage for Music
Lily has a mature sounding female voicebank. She is good at singing in a low voice better than in a high voice, as the singer who offered her voice has a low voice.

Much of her early usage was owed to having the Vocaloid's voicebank being given out for free in various mediums.

Some users reported Lily's demo had pronounication problem that she could not carry the "i"s over two notes. Her "o"s could get distorted if followed by "n". Another reported problem was that her consonants could not be pronounced if left on the end. There were reported differences between full and trial version vocal results.

Trivia

 * Lily was introduced as "Code Name: Lily" on DTM MAGAZINE published in May, 2010.
 * Two official demos, "SUPER SONIC DANCE Lily Ver. With G" and "Gamble Rumble Lily Ver With G" have been released and also Gakupo Kamui is used in them. "SUPER SONIC DANCE" is one of the songs released by m.o.v.e.
 * Lily will become a figure and will be released in November, 2010. She also has a number of merchandise.
 * A digicomic movie(anime MV) titled "Schwarzgazer", which shows the world where Lily is, has been produced and it will be released with the album "anim.o.v.e 02". The song was sung by m.o.v.e., not by Vocaloids. Its short version has been officially uploaded on Nicovideo and Youtube. (Nico broadcast, Youtube broadcast) This short movie is unique in approach, as it provides an official English language version side by side with the Japanese version, hinting acknowledgment of the existence of overseas fans by the company. It depicts Lily and companion "Mosh" as fighters against a virus, equipped with music as their weapon.
 * Also a manga of the same name, which is written by Kei, was released together.
 * Since the trial version had enough vocal capablities to function as a normal Vocaloid, hackers were reported to have found out how to turned off the limit of 30 days for her 30 day trial versions.