Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-73.47.41.114-20150301205829/@comment-46.176.101.103-20160617203000

Hmmm... I'm gonna say my very first encounter was either one of those little Rolling Girl PVs in which a bunch of random chibi characters roll down a hill (maybe the Madoka or the Ib version) or that one extremely popular Hitobashira Alice utaite cover that has like 1.000.000+ views on YT. Like everyone else, I didn't really pay attention to the voice or the source first time watching, tiny me was probably more focused on rolling chibis or random colorful people dying lol. Then I started occasionally bumping upon other songs and learning about the whole synthesised voice deal, but I really didn't like the way the voices sounded that much (Producers really didn't bother tuning their originals back then lol), so I just listened to covers and got into utaite. What really got me interested in VOCALOID itself was CLAMPFANBOY's Circus Monster using CUL, I recognised her voice provider from a few anime, but my initial reaction was something like "Whoa, that synthesizer thingy can sound _that_ good?!". I still love that cover today ^_^ Then I started looking up videos and getting into the new VBs that were popular in the V3 era, IA, Yukari, CUL, MAYU, Lapis ect. Yukari had a huge impact on me 'cause back then, and even now, I think that if you tune her correctly, she's probably *the* most realistic JP bank. And I also got into KagePro through IA lol  The point is, CUL ended up being my favourite Vocaloid and I still really love CircusP to this day.