Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20160202181457/@comment-53539-20160314184324

Chorvaqueen wrote: idk where to post these but it's been bothering me

since Fingersnoop brought up the possiblity of V1 Big Al, it made me remember this mysterious V2 vocal called RONIE2. There's a screenshot of RONIE2 in the V2 manual. Now since JODIE2 exists and there's also a JODIE (for V1), perhaps there could be a RONIE before?

Probably doesn't make any sense and perhaps it's not the same vocal. RONIE/JODIE could have been a generic placeholder name for male/female vocals.

Also, who is Julianne?

http://imgur.com/a/DYZpf Jodie is a blunt referene to "Jody" Ann's provider, so it could well be "Rodie" was one of those match-made names like Leon/Lola and Meiko/Kaito. This is a tradition and pairings often names that sound good together in Vocaloid. So "Rodie" was indeed likely going to be the original partner vocal for Ann. When they changed Jody to "Sweet Ann" they likely changed Rodie to Big Al to keep the match.

From what I've been told, Julianne was Prima's codename, but I've never asked Zero-G to confirm this, so don't quote me on this one... I sort of don't trust it. A lot of the Vocloids go through changes, heck don't forget once a choir boy was planned for Zero-G, then along comes Oliver who is a choir boy, but he gets released for PowerFX instead. Other plans include V2 Oliver (which I haven't ever added as I keep forgetting to get confirmation this was true) and Avanna's missing partner whichas we were told by Zero-G never happened because they couldn't find the right vocalists for the job. :-/