Talk:VOCALOID5/@comment-71.179.60.13-20190521012251/@comment-53539-20190522101251

Waiting is always the best idea.

@Queen, the V5 vocals aren't too different from the V4 voicebanks. Long story short at this point in time, the difference between V3 and V5 vocals is:


 * Technology has improved for recording voices
 * A new recording technique came in from Chika onwards, mostly debuting in V4
 * More triphones

Thats it. Their quite minor overall. The last major difference in Japanese Vocaloid voicebnaks was between V2->V3, wherein we had a huge and noticeable leap in quality. For the time being, the quality improvement each generation isn't jumping as much as it did then. But V2 was the generation wherein the late engine vocals were noticeably better overall then the earlier vocals.

The V5 engine is better sounding overall and that makes a difference to V5 voicebanks overall as usual, no matter what the language. The bugs and missing XSY are what is putting off people and for the first time consumers are somewhat reluctant to move forward to buy. Personally, I think they should have refined the engine and waited until Jan earlier this year and did some quick minor testing. Vocaloid has not seen private testing since V1, since V2 era they've been releasing to the public without trial. The issue is... We're living in the "release and patch later" era so this is going to happen a lot to a lot of software going forward. Its sad to see it happen to Vocaloid, but its likely someone got desperate/greedy and released it too soon.