Talk:VOCALOID5/@comment-130.105.8.183-20190327053236/@comment-53539-20190417091251

ITs because CFM has done nothing new since 2009 in terms of new releases. People get eventually tired of expecting every generation a new Miku vocal and they want CFM to do something new. Basically, CFM are stuck constantly reinventing the wheel and not trying something entirely new.

With vocaloids like Piko its because they can't use the vocal at all in V5, so they want the vocal renewed for this reason alone. If I compare this to Miku V3 and V4... Aside from some slight tweaks and EVEC, the packages are basically the same. If you already have V4 you have access to XSY and you can get a lot of things from it. Yes, you can XSY V3 Miku with V4xs version of her, but you don't achieve much from it. If not for Chinese Miku and a big improvement on the English, Miku would have done nothing new in V4 except EVEC, which not everyone loved or used.

One of the things about Ah software is that when V3 was released they didn't instantly update all their V2s, they waited until V4 to update them. The only Vocaloids updated that soon from V3 to V4 were Yukari, who had 2 new voicebanks and Zunko, whose a 3rd party owned product using Ah software as a distributor. Of the two, Zunko's update is a waste of time and she could have gotten away with waiting until V5.

One of the sole reasons for constant updates is just to keep Vocaloids relevant and competitive, which is why Miku needs an update every engine alone as does Gumi and other Vocaloids, but there honestly is no need to update every engine version for every Vocaloid. Every other version... Is fine because the risk you have with constant updates is that they seem to prevent studios as well from doing new things. For the Japanese Vocaloids... Aside from technology improvements, aka better micros or techniques to record with every 4 years, there isn't much difference between a V3 and V5 vocals. Yes, the V5s are supposedly higher quality but thats due to part age and experience changes and part because the V5s are on a better sounding engine to begin with and standards for v5s are higher then V3s. But their build is the same. Though English Vocaloids are much better in V4 then V3, so its not the same for every language, this is just because improvements were made in 2010 that impacted in V4 for the first time.

So yes, I crave CFM doing a new vocaloid. Its boring to seeing it all be Miku. To top it off, Miku's popularity has cancelled projects like Project if..., thus her overwhelming popularity has stopped CFM doing something new.