Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-77.104.247.254-20141101133815/@comment-53539-20150611164601

@76; Meiko is most certainly not as unique as people think. At this point several vocaloids cover both her range or tones. Also outside of Vocaloid, Meiko's vocal is fairly common across the world. So this is the difficult position Meiko is in. On the one hand, her voice does everything you want it to do, on the other hand... You can find Meiko-clones very easily at this point.

I get annoyed whenever someone tries to say Meiko's voice is unique because, its a little ignorant on the person's part to the other vocals and the vocals in the real world. That is not to say no other vocaloid suffer the same problem... I'm afriad with so many female releases we're slowly getting a lot of common traits among the vocaloids that its becoming a matter of "which combination of these traits suits you best".

There is plenty of opera Singer like Prima, however, not every singer can do opera as it often requires vocal training to achieve the opera style. So you may not get hold a Prima voice without a steeper price, but you can easily get hold of a Meiko voice... Not only that... *sigh*... But to the producers in Japan there are a lot more appealing voices to them, so even though she is a member of theBig 8, don't be shocked to see whythe same few vocals end up much more popular overall. :-/

In contrast, Kaito her counterpart got a lot of attention for being a much sought after voice for various reasons... Its capablties as a voice let it fill so many vocal roles it has been a lot more unqiue as a vocal for a long time. :-/

But None of this is a surprise because originally Meiko was Vocaloids "VY1" vocal... A standard vocal of decent-high quality that does want you want and is a professional vocalist. Kaito being the same also. this she is no longer designed to be to the tee, but she is still the only really professional CFM female vocalist, despite them have 4 others. Don't know reliability.