Talk:MEIKO/@comment-217.28.13.13-20180305161159/@comment-53539-20180305172443

Actually there are a few things


 * 1) Meiko is the 4th vocaloid and came after Miriam, Lola and Leon so some bugs were already fixed by her. The only flaws would be related to the Japanese voicebank.
 * 2) V1 was robotic and unclear overall, its not her all 5 are the same. Some producers just got good at Vocaloid1 usage.
 * 3) Compactiablity of vocal types also effects Vocaloid and Kaito was a lot more compactable then Meiko.
 * 4) Kaito didn't have the same version of V1,he had a slightly updated version, 1.1, which meant he was by default better sounding.
 * 5) The V1 vocal is actually inferior to the V3 version overall, a lot of people claim the V1 is superior but this is not the case.

The V1 vocal had a lot of "give" due to V1's crudeness and this was also noted by Wat of CFM. It let him get away with a lot of things he can't in V3. In fact, his V3 vocal actually has a bigger vocal range which is often claimed otherwise. V1 didn't allow for large vocal ranges at all, but did make it appear they had bigger ranges as it was based on an analytical system. Though it had samples, those samples were used for reference to warp the synthiser and were not the primarily focus. We do not hear much of the Kaito voice at all, and V1 was actually hitting sounds much harder and harsher then V1.

So even though you may think V3 is the one hitting harder and harsher, he is not. His samples for V3 were made to match V1, meaning that if you hear the raws, not the voice inside the engine but the samples themselves, they sound appox. the same. It is not possible for a 100% match and Vocaloid itself has some impact on the voice. Technology means modern samples can be recorded in a high quality then what was offered in the early 2000s. V3 was recorded, for example, with a digital mic, while the V1 was recorded with the previous generation of mics (forget what they were called).

Also, Yamaha handled Kaito V1 while Crypton handled V3. A change of studio also results in some differences due to practices.

Even if you still think after that V3 is worst then V1... Consider that V1 lacked things like triphones and was recorded with a worst mic, the quality alone makes it worst if no other things are taken into account.