Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-92.10.102.219-20120330164946/@comment-53539-20181008085300

Original Miku V2 was LQ, while great range and tempo for its time was there, she had problems all around. Pitching, at times not sounding like she was singing, pronunciation, unsmooth sounds, etc, generally low quality sound. Half was, because for the time expectations were low and she was low budget. She was higher then the Kagamines, but all vocals prior to Luka V2 were pretty problematic. Miku was easy to use because she was flexible and could fit a variety of roles and styles despite being bad. It was a similar theory with V1 Kaito versus V3, the original V1 was awful compared to later V3 version, but had a lot of "give". One of the problems with the HQ vocals is sometimes their too good and they are locked in. One presumes because something is LQ, thats its bad and can't be used, but in Miku's case it wasn't so. If this was the case then Chipspeechs vocals being old tech based would not have a niche market to fill. Reality is, LQ is not always a problem, and in Vocaloids case...Because Vocaloid is a HQ software to begin with, LQ for Vocaloid is still considered HQ as per say. Plus in addition, Miku had no comparisons to be made against except V1 vocals. Engloids were unknown and there were two Japanese vocals from a bad version. She was already super popular and exceeding expectations. Gumi and Gackpo were also bad and LQ, but the thing is prior to 2009 this was the growing period wherein a lot of progress occurred. By the time V2 was at the end, it was producing better voicebanks all around and even the MQ vocals were generally better. This is also why less LQ vocals appeared later on. Plus since Vocaloid was bringing in more money there wee slightly bigger production budgets.

"MQ" means "Standard" or "average" and it does pretty much exist, their quality is not bad but not standing out, their average and meet expectations... In short they do the job but aren't exceptional vocals in either good or bad ways. Most Vocaloid are in this group for this reason. The reality is there are very few HQ vocals at times and very few LQ in addition, most just are in the middle. They do the job, but V3 has a problem with this in general. There were a lot of "okay" vocals and very few stand out. The studios know this was the problem starting with V3, since in V2 it was obvious what quality everything was. its caused by too many sound alike vocals and too many vocals, plus the overall standard being higher in V3 then V2. Vocals had trouble standing outlet for how they sound let alone, so quality wasn't the big issue of V3. This became acknowledged so is all legit stuff. If the vocal doesn't stand out, it doesn't matter how good or bad it is nobody is going to buy it. In fact most of the time quality isn't the reason producers buy Vocaloids, they buy vocals they like. Its true even in Japan, because even when the VYs came along,

AAAAAiiiii alright said some of this but it just was just how things went I can rewrite it all in a different way but neither of us is going to get the point we're making about the situation.

Miku's never been the best quality vocal, its just the most famous and if you like it thats fine but reality is what it is. Is that a surprise? No. Is Mario the fastest gaming mascot? No. Is Pikachu the most powerful Pokemon? No. Its all the point of things that whats popular is not always the best and whats the best is not always popular. Miku fits into this role. Miku's major problem is she still has a V2 vocal range for all voicebanks at a time when things are better in range and tempo. Ia, Kokone, Nana and several others can do things Miku can't with 1 voicebank and produce better results.

While opinions are just that... Bare in mind, they aren't ness. correct. "In my opinion the sky is not blue, its red" would be an example... Except the sky is blue regardless of what I say. Even if I'm colour blind, the sky is blue I just can't see it. I'm not colour blind bare in mind, but the point is what it is. Our senses can be deceived and our POV wrong for this reason. Its why some people believe the Flat Earth stuff when its widely acknowledged the world is a globe.