Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-24.26.54.145-20181120230840/@comment-53539-20181121001528

CFM merely distributed her (they also distributed Leon, Lola and Miriam in Japan, as well as rival software Cantor), it was Yamaha who made Meiko. Likewise, Yamaha made Kaito and CFM sold Kaito. At this point when Meiko was released, CFM was basically a small distribution company that nobody had heard of and Yamaha used them to promote and distribute their software, as well a find English studios to make the English version.

CFM did make their own stuff but had limited resources and were not yet ready to make their own Vocaloids at the time of Meiko and Kaito. Miku *is* their first Vocaloid, and you can find references to their history on MEIKO and KAITO as well as other pages.

It is, however, a common misconception that Kaito and Meiko V1 were made by CFM.

Lola and Leon, as well as Meiko and Kaito, were all worked upon at the same time in 2002-2003, the release dates are the only difference between them all. Their not even the first Vocaloid voicebanks as the Spanish university that made the engine had prototype "dummy" vocals built for testing that barely had any singing capabilities and were quite limited in their speech. At this time, all 4 of the V1s were going to be released for a software called "Daisy Project", but it was renamed "Vocaloid Project" because there was copyright issues with "Daisy". Miriam is the first true "Vocaloid" in this sense as she was the first actually made for Vocaloid and not Daisy.

This is followed by Sweet Ann V1 or "Jodie" as she was known at the time, which was never actually released due to V1's engine being crap and Sweet Ann wasn't compactable with it. Likewise, "Rodie" V1, Ann's partner was planned for V1 and would have been the second ever made for Vocaloid vocal, but there was a change of provider somewhere between V1 and V2. We know Rodie as "Big Al", who had a second change of voice to F.Sander before finally being released.

If we take a step back further from Daisy... We then have the first project "Elvis PRoject" which pre-dated Daisy and is the first vocal for what will become Vocaloid. This vocal, however was not practical at all and was a large library which needed a re-recorded every single performance to allow the "singer" to sing that song in that style. It had a lot less flexibility then Vocaloid does now as you had to record every sound and every single note for the entire lyrics of the song. This was finically not possible to do and was time consuming. So Vocaloid is actually a watered down version of "Elvis Project" in a way.

The events of V1 are fairly well documented with a handful of missing data and are actually much better documented then some V2s and latter versions of Vocaloid.