User blog comment:Oiribem/Old vocaloids (V2)/@comment-53539-20170302073502

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Hi everybody, i was wondering, how it could be if Vocaloid producers make a "remasterization" of their V2 VB and bring it back to V4

This depends on a lot of elements. For Japanese, its easy enough to do so, as while the script has changed for recording the samples Japanese is more basic and can be recorded easily. For English, there have been a number of changes to the way they work in V2->V4, so while they use the same phonemes, they don't ness. use the same core layout. For example, the way Ann was recorded ended up with her containing a lot of errors and sounds she didn't even use inside the software. At this point, a completely new recording would have to take place possibly.

The other issue is, some providers don't ness. have their contact maintained. Oliver's provider, for example, has been lost. But bare in mind also that Oliver's vocal is a pre-voice break male, so the voice will be different now.

Sweet Ann who is my favorite femenine english VB, her voice is very soft, in the idea, maybe it would be great to have a power or an Rock Ann with Growl and a more powerfull voice like Meiko Power or Maika, revive MIRIAM maybe an Original VB, 

Extra vocals are currently off the table for English vocals, I do like Ann and wish she'd have an update. PowerFX couldn't afford one if they wanted.

In terms of the Spanish, things are more complex. Its not people don't want them its that the Spanish fandom is mostly nor./sou. American and not Spain Spanish. They were less tolerable towards the Vocals for that reason alone.

Japanese was considered at the time because its Yamaha's native, and English was natural because the English market is among the largest music market. 1 in every 10 albums sold is British alone, so at least 10% of the market is English, without taking the Americas into account. Korean was also logical because of the fact that the two markets that curtain the islands are Korea (left) and America (right). Its ultimately one of the first markets a lot of Japanese business men aim for, or at least South Korea is. Then there is China with its huge population and its marketing potential alone based on this.

Spain's reason for getting voicebanks pretty much amounted to the university who made them having people who could. I'm not sure what did worst, the Korean or Spanish start but we have a new Korean vocal and not new Spanish vocals. In addition, the Spanish fandom has now created a bad reputation over Luan and Lucia, fueled by their own developers ego letting him think he is bigger then the fans. The company behind the first 3 Spanish vocals are also working on other projects... Which again... Doesn't help.

Would it have changed if they had been around since V1? maybe, maybe not. I think we'd have more vocals, but half as many as the English ones this the Spanish music industry is a little bit more traditional then the English one from what I've read. But this extreme is hard to predict. But if it was the case, then the grounds for updating to V3 or V4 would be even less then the English ones.

every time you release a new vocaloid, you have to pay a license fee to Yamaha. To sell another vocal under the name of that previous license, would mean a renewal of the license. The price would go up. This makes it far cheaper to release new vocaloids then to release ones based on old ones an makes me think this was the mindset of creating Nemu after Rion V3 didn't do much.