User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/English Vocaloid + realism/@comment-4042934-20150209033635/@comment-53539-20150210005729

Note; I was born in the 80s, when puppets and glitter formed the basis of everything with a hint of fantasy or sci-fi direction. But in those days they used to improvise stuff in the absence of good CGI. What CGI they did have looked like clay figurines. Also at least the puppets and glitter reacted to light and had to obey realistic physics and lighting. See "Legend" (that film with Tim curry in it as a big red devil) and "Labyrinth" (that one with David Bowie in).

But thats off topic....

I don't know whats worst about our fandom, the need to overstate certain vocals against others, or the need to overstate the capabilities of the software itself. When I showed Vocaloid to my mother and co, they didn't even notice the English capabilities weren't right for starters. To the naive who know nothing on Vocaloid, they are none the wiser. They know a machine is at play, but they don't understand the voice is the machine, they presume its edited by something like Auto-tune. Its kinda hard to explain their reaction, be it they weren't impress with the music and put it down to "modern music crap" (meh), but its still something I've come across even outside of my mother and the 3 I've showed.

I introduced a bunch of guys who were looking at Miku at college to other vocaloids. It was their first big introduction to Vocaloid. They found it overwhelming and basuically I ended up explaining what Vocaloid is. From the newbie point of view, they presumed all Vocaloids had the same flaws as English vocaloids after I played one video. Needless to say, I hooked in 3 more fans that day, regardless of their reaction as they were curious. (though I more or less converted them to One Piece so that was the next thing they talked about and I'm a huge fan of One Piece... Even in comparison to Vocaloid. And... I kinda sheepishly converted them from Bleach and Naruto somehow... *ahem*. :-D ).