Talk:SONiKA/@comment-37896274-20191216013016/@comment-53539-20191217141943

There are very few HQ vocals in the entire V2 range, the V2 range is notorious for having huge differences between early and late engine releases especially. Its the era that Vocaloid took off in, so a lot of investment went into the software to improve the engine as much as possible by engines end.

Unless your a collector, There simply is no need to buy Sonika, as someone who owns her, I can faithfully say she shocked me the day I got her. Within an hour of having her I was "WTF?!?!". I bought her because I didn't believe that VO forum'ers were saying she was bad. Vocaloid forumers had a reputation for making bold claims that weren't true, but in this case... Actually... Sonika wasn't one of the things they got wrong. In this case Sonika was as bad as the forum'ers claimed. You have to remember that VO'ers are the same group that would claims things like "The English vocaloids aren't as realistic as the Japanese Vocaloids" at a time when it was still the other way around. Same group who would claim that Gumi was the most realistic Vocaloid in Japan when she lost her title to miki and Yuki. Same group who claimed that in no way did any Vocaloid sound alike. ¬_¬

So yes, Sonika is one of the few things the fandom has generally and universally agreed to be bad. I defend most English voicebanks, but Sonika is really hard to love and thankfully she is the only one whose got several modern alternatives Oliver, Avanna, Megpoid English and even Daina can fully replace her. With Luka you can say that the things preventing her being good are her missing samples, with Sonika... She has it all there for being a good vocaloid, she can do excellent English for a V2, she was the young sweet vocalist everyone wanted, etc. But this means nothing if you get stuck with LQ. And you have to accept that even the best tuner will be lumped with the same Vocaloid that a person who can't tune well will be.