Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20160707115408/@comment-113.20.117.57-20160712194822

" Lets put it this way... I've never felt "generic" was a flaw in any Vocaloid... Just a concern it might let them down since they don't stand out " - Angel Emfrbl

Thanks for saying it for me, like really, when a new vocaloid is released, some people label that vocaloid is generic-sounding, they all make it become a VERY negative term. I know that more unique vocals will give more variety to choose and to feel the distinctive traits when hearing to recognize those vocaloids easily but having a generic vocal isn't all that bad. When it's generic, it is more capable of doing many genres, being more versatile than a unique vocal. An epitome here is that: Sonika, very unique vocal, for myslef I can't find other vocaloids that sound like her or very minor group of people say she is generic, but being too unique in my opinion that she has very muffle-spelling, strained tone of voice, I just hear that voice and I know that is Sonika, unlike Chika, who is desperately generic, gumi mark2 as it was said above, althought suffer from being unoriginal, she still give a very relaxing whispery vibes on lower range and kire power type on higher range. I know everything has its limited, when it comes down to too much generic vocaloids, producers are running out of types of vocals they want to choose for their music, but I feel like having more vocals with some generic traits shouldn't be that heavy problems, unless if they sound too identical (well again, Chika n Gumi, Rana n unity-chan). I guess it's just my bias, I simply cannot find a good reason to prove my point anyway, but not every vocaloids need to be excessively special, even real people share similar traits in vocals