User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Extra vocals XSY and all that.../@comment-27278302-20151205112512/@comment-67.8.143.20-20151205215642

Gumi v4 has the original 5 Gumi voice banks from her v2/3 for the people who want gumi to sound like how she was in her previous releases and then 5 new voice banks using new recordings that compliments the other voice banks. I don't understand why people are complaining about 10 voice banks when its gumi the 2nd most popular vocaloid and 5 of them we allready have. I would be angry if they didn't bring anything new.

Also gumi v3  extends  all have the same  suggested  range and tempo so that they could be used in the same song together and not be jarring like the Crypton's append series. The  extend  series wasn't made to  have  vocaloids in new  genres like the  append series,  it was to add different tones that can work together in a song that's why most of them had similar  suggested  range and tempo. So it completely understandable that they continue with having the  same  suggested   range and tempo in v4, when there is a bigger focus on using  multiple voice banks in the same song because of XSY.  Gumi has a Tempo: 60～175BPM and a  Range: F2～A4 which is huge. She has one of the best tempo ranges. There are only a few vocaloids that can go as low or lower than 60BPM and they can't go to  175BPM. Most soft banks have a  60 BPM so it's not like you are missing out anything there. Gumi's higher range is the only  issue where I could see the need for an expansion like gumi falsetto. It could be that  Megumi Nakajima's (gumi's voice provider) actual tempo/range could be around  Tempo: 60～175BPM Range: F2～A4 so they can't make anything out of that range. Tonality has a big play in what vocal fits in what  genre so gumi having so many different tones can with the genre  issue. The range is also just a suggestion and vocaloids can go beyond it so there might be some gumi voice banks that sound better in the  higher range than others.