Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140129130719/@comment-32500188-20140130001314

That's the funny difference between Japan and the Western front: the amount of professional musicians as users as opposed to the regular VOCALOID enthusiasts that are able to buy it. The pros will be the ones putting in the most financially, and as it stands right now, the west is heavily lacking in professional musicians and audio engineers using the software. In Japan, you have record labels dedicated not just to popular music but to Vocaloids as well, yet here in the western front that's unheard of in the industry.

The sad truth is the majority of pros in the west still don't see VOCALOID as a necessary tool, and the stigma that "computers are here to take over the world" and that "bright and colorful cartoons characters dancing on a screen" is a ridiculous concept is still very much alive in a lot of folks outside of Japan. It's going to take some big name musician or singer in the west to break down the barrier it in order to make more of an impact on the non-Japanese VOCALOID market in general. So far, the closest we've had is YOHIOloid... and he's struggling very hard at this point.