User blog comment:CykeP/And Now I'm Torn/@comment-26116982-20151102121600/@comment-53539-20151105100933

Most of the criticism was thrown at EVEC, and the limitations of appends. The English "Soft" vocal in particular I saw someone on VO basically say "you can create this with the breath parameter". Otherwise, the English ws mostly praised.

Funny thing is... This was also similiar to some of the V2 appends.

A lot of people kept wanting a uber "powerful" voice, but none of the EVEC power colours are strong enough. I kept saying "but this isn't the pont of Luka". Luka's voice has always been based on the strength of "breath" of her providers voice. The Kagamine were the ones designed for Power, and they do this via tension of tone. So there was always going to be a "limit" on how much power Luka would have, given it wasn't her vocals main focus.

The focus wasn't on the English side of the package and it kinda noticed no matter how much the English vocal overall improved.

Also... While its true people are slowly going for quality, the biggest concern I have always had is based around the reaction to the VY series. Unless you tell someone the quality level of a product, they don't seem to know how good a vocaloid is. True all Vocaloids are HQ products, because Vocaloid is itself HQ, but not all Vocaloids are being created to be equals. It used to amuse me about people using Japanese Vocaloids for English, yet complained about English Vocaloid being LQ (Luka V2 got this thrown t her a lot)... Because you can't get a HQ result from using a vocal built for another language to mimic a language it wsn't built for. Even Miku English, still produces a much HQ result then any of her Japanese vocals. Heck, they told fans Maika can't sound like a native yetsome still want to praise Maika's language attempts even at their worst.

Even then, sometimes I also find there are certain situations where you pound the quality of something into someone and they refused to believe it... English Vocaloid being the subject of this. In opposite direction, people who believe something is HQ don't want to see it is flawed. Megpoid V2 was a LQ-MQ vocal compared to her V3 version, her V4 even HQ. The fat you can re-release a vocal "with improvements" pretty much alone says something about the fact a product had flaw in its previous incarnations.

And if you're not going to use a vocaloid for what its built for, quality means moot.

I think a lot of the increased sales has more to do with the fact people re starting to be familiar with English vocaloid, rather then the quality issue. A lot of people in early V3 didn't even know there had always been English vocaloids. Sites like the wikia, youtube, Deviantart, Vocaloid Otaku forums, all contribute to the slowly growing popularity of English vocaloid. Heck, jut updating wikipedias vocaloid page has lead to increased familairity. And with 3 new languages from V3's era on board, the vocaloid franchise can reach out to more fans.