Talk:Aoki Lapis/@comment-25352448-20141023210948/@comment-53539-20141024084420

This depends.

For starters:
 * Are you musically knowledgeable?
 * Do you know Japanese?

If either of those two questions is met with "no", you need to consider that you need to change your plan to get into Vocaloid. You can get by with a minimum amount of music knowledge if your learning about it as you go along. If you can't speak Japanese then you've either got to bend phonetics to make LQ English (or any other language you speak) or be faced with just doing cover songs. Learning Japanese can be harder then music theory to be frank as one is more universally common then the other. Music theory doesn't tend to change or vary per country at least at the basics, but it is VERY hard for some speakers to learn Japanese. If you have any issue with language, you're better off with either a Vocaloid of your own language or, at the very least, a bilingual vocal who knows Japanese as well so the vocal isn't a complete loss.

Vocaloids tend to function more or less the same by each vocaloid has its own "personality" to its voice. For example, Hatsune Miku is cutesy with a lack of professional singing quality due to being from a non-professional singer and Prima is opera-sounding, mature and very much a professional vocal.

Next thing to note is that in order to find out if you CAN use Vocaloid, you need to try and demo. See Status about trial versions.

Other then that... Lapis isn't geared towards newbies in particular like Rana, nor does she have a rep for begin a newbie-friendly like Hatsune Miku.