Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151012162920/@comment-53539-20151027101530

I want to shoot anyone who seems to think that V4 is just V3 wearing a mask. This is partly true, but not completely.

Everyone seems to have such high expectations when it comes to Vocaloid. They EXPECT godly voices by now and seem disappointed when they can't "hear" the differences even when there is them. Vocaloid is still a long way away to completely replace singers... Heck.. Its only been about 15 years since the project began and over 10 since Vocaloid was released. The most major developments take time to show. In due respects, a lot of th problem falls upon the fact Vocaloid, like many syns, is a product of mathematical equations it seems. We're always waiting for the science bit to come along and make a difference.

Sometimes progress is slow and people aren't willing to give things the time of day. Vocaloid had to be adapted to house new functionslike XSY, which is V4's big deal. And not every Vocaloid will have access to it. Despite there being 3 new languages for V3, we only got about new vocals out of the deal. Considering there was 69 V3 vocals, that means there were 6 voices for the two lanuages we already had. And at this point, XSY has lead to the create of 13 voicebanks or so related to it. We've more then doubled the mount of vocals related to a new vocaloid function. And outside of SeeU, who I'm not counting because she is Korean to begin with, there were basically no Vocaloids traditional studios taking advantage of the 3 new languages. Everyone that did produce a new langauge went into the already establish English language, or in SeeU and Yohioloid's case Japanese.

Aside from the introduction of triphones and nearly having double the amount of voices released from it... The new functions of V itself were only really minor. Sure some vocal types like Meiko Power could now exist, but this was down to the engine improvements and not really the new features.

I don't mind new features added, they excite me, but honestly I consider most of V3's functions went to waste... :-/