Talk:Status/@comment-25159569-20150323123058/@comment-25159569-20150323164110

@Angel, lol I heard that Sonika was the "problem child" of the V2 era, much like Oliver is to the V3 era. Thought about picking her up once, but decided not to. Didn't you say once that you picked up Lola at some kind of music fair waaaaaaay before the Vocaloid fandom was even a thing?

I actually worked with V2 once before owning my first V3. I got my hands on Piko's trial a loooooooong time ago when I had no idea how to do anything. Then years later I was working with my first V3 vocal and was nervous about picking up the older vocals because they were "old". I still liked them, don't get me wrong, but I was a stupid young teen. In the past couple of years I was more open to getting a V2 vocal but actually had fears about it because they were glitchy and some were harder to get than others, etc. Then by sheer chance I came across a copy of Luka for like $50 and took a chance. So my worry about V2 was killed lol. Haven't had the chance to work with V4 yet, but based on how good Al and Luka sound in V3, not too worried.

I only really pick up the vocals I either really, really, like or want to support, the latter of which is why I picked up AnoKano. That also played a part in my buying of Big AL because I lost the Bruno/Clara song contest. Which to be honest I really just wanted a copy of Al or Ann. But I was okay with it because I ended up buying and supporting Al anyway, which I would've rather had done.

A lot of my work I show to people who have never heard of Vocaloid, and I usually only show them the stuff I do in English. Of the works I've shown, people like the newer vocals better, like Avanna. But the people I show my work to always put down the English vocals for clarity issues, realism issues, among others. Ironically, even though I still believe Avanna to be the best English vocal IMO, a lot of the people I've shown Big AL to liked him best of my group because they thought he was high quality and much more realistic. Though quite a few took a liking to CYBER DIVA when I showed them the demos.

To redirect the conversation a bit, I really do think that V4 is a good era for the Engloids and a possible game changer now that Yamaha has thrown Cyva out there. Plus Ruby and the two Zero-G vocals. The fandom is really too biased about the Japanese vocals though.

(Sorry, I'm a wordy son of a bitch.)