Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-117.0.165.21-20160725044732/@comment-53539-20160927074904

Anons; this is "the best one" not "your favourite one". If we're really taking this serious, then neither Miku nor Kaito are indeed the best... But I'm not going to explain why... I really have not become a fan of that sort of thing since the Kagamines, as when you say "Len is the best" or "Rin in the best" its a cringe for others having to explain what the issues with them are. Instead I'm going to take another approach. :-/

I'm not going to pin things down, but in my opinion this is a harder subject to say then need be. Take for instance in V2... For example, while Prima was the best at opera and is rated as one of the top Vocaloid of the engine for English, sh was not so good outside of it and therefore produce LQ results when otherwise she didn't. This echoes across all vocaloids to this day and even the HQ vocaloids have their limits.

With that in mind, its really hard to place the Vocaloids in an order and sine V2 its become increasingly harder and harder to do so. For example, a vocaloid that is HQ but lacks XSY compactiable vocals is limited compared to a LQ vocal with one (Sachiko + the Engloids, though the Engloid shav the equelvent of 5 Japanese voiebanks worth of content in their voicebanks). But a XSY compatible vocal is not ness. improved by having lots and lots of vocals if it does not have anything they add that the original can't do (v4 Megpoid, the V4x range).

We also have the change of direction from being music-friendly to capturing the essence of the singer's traits of their vocal. We also have now 5 languages that, each with a set of rules it obeys that the other 4 don't. So unless you know the characteristics of each language you can't tell how good or bad that vocal is.

In short, while there are some obvious LQ voals, the definition of "the best" is now ever so unclear compared to what it once was. Back in V2 it was Luka (being the LQ of the best), Iroha, the VY's and the Appends for their tone repair capabilities, since all others experienced serious vocal collapse. And even though Gumi produced better results then Miku, her vocal had background issues and on top of that, resisted adaptation to changes made to how it sounded at times. This put it at a disadvantage compared to Miku, whose vocal easily could be adapted despite producing worst results.